Around 250 BC, Archimedes was commissioned by the king to find a way to check the purity of the gold in a crown, leading to the famous bath-house shouting of " Eureka!

* A book on the history of Haley's most famous recording, Rock Around the Clock: The Record That Started the Rock Revolution by Jim Dawson was published in June 2005.

* Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days ( Travel 1988 ; Programme release 1989 ): travelling as closely as possible the path described in the famous Jules Verne story without using aircraft.

Around 1450 – 1456 he painted his three most famous paintings The Battle of San Romano, the victory of the Florentine army over the Sienese in 1432, for the Palazzo Medici in Florence.

* March 20 – Evan Hunter's movie adaptation of the novel Blackboard Jungle premieres in the United States, featuring the famous single, Rock Around the Clock, by Bill Haley and His Comets.

is steeped with references to the 1960s popular music scene ( at one point a list of 200 fictional bands performing at the Walpurgisnacht rock festival is reeled off ( including a handful of actual bands of the 60s ), and there are numerous references to the famous rock and roll song, " Rock Around the Clock "), and has influenced many bands and musicians.

Around 1922, Ravel completed his famous orchestral arrangement of Mussorgsky ’ s Pictures at an Exhibition, commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky, which through its widespread popularity brought Ravel great fame and substantial profit.

To date, however, no one has discovered any alternative takes of any of Haley's most famous recordings of the 1950s, in particular " Rock Around the Clock " and " Shake, Rattle and Roll ".

Around 1769, the chess playing automaton called The Turk became famous before being exposed as a hoax.

Around 1917 the Marx Brothers family ( later a famous comedy team ) bought a chicken farm near Joliet Road ( Route 66 ) and LaGrange Road.

During September, Victorian Days Smethport relives part of its 1890s history by featuring its famous, “ Wheel Around the Hub ” 53-Mile Bicycle Race.

Although the appearances by The Beatles, Elvis and The Supremes are considered the most famous rock and roll performances on Ed Sullivan, several months before Elvis debuted, Sullivan invited Bill Haley & His Comets to perform their then-current hit " Rock Around the Clock " in early August 1955.

Around the postwar period, rōkyoku ( or naniwa-bushi ), famous during the war, declined in popularity mainly because their speaking lengths were considered too long.

" Swing the Mood " began with Glenn Miller's famous " In the Mood " ( a recording from 1939 ), followed immediately by rhythmic re-editing of Bill Haley and His Comets ' " Rock Around the Clock ", Little Richard's " Tutti Frutti " and the Everly Brothers ' " Wake Up, Little Susie ".

Around then, he became quite known by the mainstream Puerto Rican public, becoming one of the first boxers ever to be portrayed on the cover of Vea magazine, and dating a famous model.

Sometimes he would scat sing famous music to set up ambience for a joke: particular favorites were the gladiator's entrance theme from Ben Hur, the " And the Monkey Wrapped His Tail Around the Flagpole " section of the National Emblem march, and " Llegaron los Reyes ", a Puerto Rican Christmas song ( his version was titled " Friqui-tiqui-tiqui, Ay-ya-ya-ya-yayyy ", and performed to illustrate the bittersweet feeling of being broke after giving away too many gifts for Christmas ).

Their most famous songs include the Hot 100 chart topper " Wild Thing ", " With a Girl Like You ", and " Love Is All Around ".

Around 814, Louis the Pious brought certain writings attributed to Dionysus the Areopagite to France, and since then it became common among the French legendary writers to argue that Denis of Paris was the same Dionysus who was a famous convert and disciple of Saint Paul.

Around this time, they parlayed bartending jobs at famous Greenwich Village folk venue Gerde's Folk City into stage appearances, an experience they commemorated in their song, " Face Down at Folk City " ( from Another World, 1985 ).

Around 1830, Planche was introduced by the famous writer Alfred de Vigny to François Buloz, director of the Revue des deux mondes, and contributed to this journal until 1840.

Around the mid 1840's Daumier started publishing his famous caricatures depicting members of the legal profession, known as

The plot concept is predicated on a vast fictional conspiracy beginning with the revelation that Jules Verne did not merely write the stories behind his famous science fiction classic books Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth or Around the World in Eighty Days — but actually experienced these adventures personally.

Around the beginning of the 20th century, two Catalan composers -- Enrique Granados and Isaac Albéniz -- became the most famous composers in Spain.

Around 1171 in Hisn Kayfa, Usama wrote the Kitab al -' Asa (" Book of the Staff "), a poetry anthology about famous walking sticks and other staffs, and al-Manazil wa ' l-Diyar (" Dwellings and Abodes ").

Around 60 million years ago, the region was volcanically active, with Ben More on Mull being the remnant of a volcano, and it was in this period that the famous rock formations of Staffa and the basaltic columns of " The Castles " on Ulva came into being.

Around the time of the marriage, Sir Michael ’ s nephew, barrister Robert Audley, welcomes back to England his old friend, George Talboys, who has returned after three years of gold prospecting in Australia.

In the fall of 1866, Seward joined Johnson, as well as Ulysses S. Grant and the General George Armstrong Custer, along with several other administration figures, on the president's ill-fated " Swing Around the Circle " campaign trip.

Around 5: 00 PM on November 9, 1988, he collapsed from a heart attack on the sidewalk in front of 2812 N St., N. W., Georgetown, Washington, D. C .. That evening he died at George Washington University Hospital.

Around 1955 Kelly was replaced as Chief Scout by George Darle from Drumcondra.

Around 1835 a monument to King George IV was built at the junction of Gray's Inn Road, Pentonville Road and New Road, which later became Euston Road.

Around 1970, before construction of the Parks Highway, Willow had a population of 78 until land disposals, homestead subdivisions, and completion of the George Parks Highway in 1972 fueled growth in the area.

Around this time George married Margery Kemp, of Spains Hall, an heiress, and the niece of Sir Thomas More.

Around that time, cow stalls, pig pens and corn cribs on the farm portion of Idle Hour were converted into a short-lived bohemian artists ' colony that included figures such as George Elmer Browne and Roman Bonet-Sintas.

Around the time of the French and Indian Wars, George Washington often came to McKeesport to visit his friend, Queen Alliquippa, a Seneca Indian ruler.

Around the fourth week of May 1968, The Beatles met at Kinfauns ( George Harrison's home in Esher ) to demonstrate their compositions to each other in preparation for recording their next studio album.

Around the same time, George of Trebizond made a full translation accompanied by a commentary that was as long as the original text.

Around this time, Henry Brown, George Coe, and Joe Smith slipped out of the McSween house to the Tunstall store, where they chased two Dolan men into an outhouse with rifle fire and forced them to dive into the bottom to escape.

Around the same time, Fox also remade some Zane Grey titles that they owned, with George O ' Brien as their star.

** Bill Champlin, Jay Graydon & Steve Lukather ( songwriters ) for " Turn Your Love Around " performed by George Benson

Around the corner, Major Archie Gates ( George Clooney ), a Special Forces soldier, is trading sex for stories with a journalist, Cathy Daitch ( Judy Greer ), when he is interrupted by Adriana Cruz ( Nora Dunn ), the television reporter he is assigned to escort.

However, the quality of the score convinced producer Harold Prince to hire them for their first professional production, the George Abbott-directed musical Flora the Red Menace, based on Lester Atwell's novel Love is Just Around the Corner.

Around 1800, he designed Woodlawn for Major Lawrence Lewis ( nephew of George Washington ) and his wife, Eleanor ( Nelly ) Parke Custis ( granddaughter of Martha Washington ), on of Mount Vernon land.

Around the time of his elder brother Prince Henry's twenty-first birthday, Prince George was granted the use of the Royal Arms, differenced by a label argent of three points, each bearing an anchor azure.

Around the same time, the question of Rothermere's general competence as Air Minister was brought to the attention of Lloyd George.

Around 1879 a few settlers led by Reverend George Roddick had begun to build their new homes about 10 miles south of Grand Valley, at the foot of the Brandon Hills.

Around 1992, Steinman worked with the punk band Iron Prostate, which featured guitarist and writer George Tabb.

Around the same time, a number of British surrealist poets were beginning to emerge, among them David Gascoyne, George Barker and Hugh Sykes Davies.

Around 1910, she became secretly engaged to Prince Christopher of Greece, a son of George I of Greece and Olga Konstantinovna of Russia.

Around the same time, Major General George Barnett, then Commandant of the Marine Corps, sent a board to find possible sites for a new Marine Corps base in the Washington, D. C., vicinity.

Around 1990, Russell sold the label to George H. Buck, who added it to his GHB / Jazzology Records group and began issuing the recordings on compact disc.