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Around 1820, a mestizo rancher named Augustine Machado began grazing his cattle on the Ballona wetlands and claimed a fourteen-thousand acre Mexican land grant that stretched from modern-day Culver City to Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica.
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Around 1820, Charles Xavier Thomas created the first successful, mass-produced mechanical calculator, the Thomas Arithmometer, that could add, subtract, multiply, and divide.
Around 1820, free reed designs began being created in Europe.
Around 1820 they had settled on the Zambian side at Feira ( now Luangwa ).
Around 1820 an estancia ( station ) was established a few miles north on the banks of the Santa Ana River to accommodate the Mission's sizeable cattle herd.
Around 1820, the two neighbouring villages of St-Arnoult and Crevon were joined with Blainville to become Blainville-Crevon.
Around 1820, the Japanese inventor Kunitomo Ikkansai developed various manufacturing methods for guns, and also created an air gun based on the study of Western knowledge (" rangaku ") acquired from the Dutch in Dejima.
Around 1820 the entire Zugspitzplatt was glaciated, but of this Platt Glacier ( Plattgletscher ) only the Northern and Southern Schneeferner remain.
Around 1820 a new loom was invented in Teufen, allowing embroidery in one go.
Around 1820 Samuel Budgett became a partner and the name became H. H.
Around 1820, William " Killymoon " Steward built one of the first tavern / inns in the area.
Around 1820 Bayre sculpted Hercules with the Erymanthean Boar, depicting Hercules during his third Labor, where he had to capture, live, a wild boar from Mount Erymanthos.
Around 1820 " General Geography " was established by Carl Ritter.
Around 1820, at age 19, Heber set out on his own.
Around 1820, it was known as Freeport.
Around 1820 the senior Rowland Hazard renamed the nearby industrial village to Wakefield after the town and family of the same name in England, who were friends of his.
Around 1820, Hicks made the first of his many paintings of The Peaceable Kingdom.
Around 1820 he tried to find a medicine to improve appetite and digestive well-being of the soldiers.
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Around 1805, Santana moved with his family to El Cibao, and later to El Seibo at the eastern part of the country, where he eventually became a cattle rancher for 2 years.
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Around the time that Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was named Shōgun ( 1368 ), the Southern Courts power weakened, and order was restored to Kyoto.
Around 1982, Pavel Curtis started work on a freeware clone of the Bell Labs curses, named pcurses, which was maintained by various people through 1986.
Around 1560, an Italian couple named Simonio and Lyndiana Bernacotti made what are likely the first blueprints for the modern, wood-encased carpentry pencil.
: Around this time, according to popular opinion, a certain outlaw named Robin Hood, with his accomplices, infested Sherwood and other law-abiding areas of England with continuous robberies.
Around 1815, Truth met and fell in love with a slave named Robert from a neighboring farm.
Around 613 an Irish monk named Gallus, a disciple and companion of Saint Columbanus, established a hermitage on the site that would become the Abbey.
Around 1978 Elbit Systems in Israel developed a CP / M capable microcomputer named the DS2100.
Around 1844, she married a free black man named John Tubman.
Around 1920, Diaghilev commissioned Ravel to write La valse ( The Waltz ), originally named Wien ( Vienna ), which was to be used for a projected ballet.
: For the movie named after the song, see Rock Around the Clock ( film ).
Around 3, 000 BC, the Neolithic Dapenkeng culture ( named after a site in Taibei county ) abruptly appeared and quickly spread around the coast of the island.
Around 1466, perhaps on the death of his father, Josquin was named by his uncle and aunt, Gilles Lebloitte dit Desprez and Jacque Banestonne, as their heir.
Around the year 390 a wealthy Roman woman named Poimenia financed construction of the original church called " Eleona Basilica " ( elaion in Greek means " olive garden ", from elaia " olive tree ," and has an oft-mentioned similarity to eleos meaning " mercy ").
Around 260 FE, a rebel leader named Gilmer attempted a coup, in the process sacking Trantor and forcing the Imperial family to flee to the nearby world of Delicass, renamed Neotrantor.
Around the same time as the “ law of the two votes ”, Louis XVIII began to receive visits every Wednesday from a lady named Zoé Talon, comtesse du Cayla, and ordered that nobody should disturb him while he was with her.
Around the beginning of the twentieth century, a gambler named John McCabe arrives in the town of Presbyterian Church ( named after its only substantial building, a largely unfrequented chapel ), in the northwest United States.
Around the same time, a registered nurse and fan named Yolanda Saldívar approached Selena's father with the idea of starting a fan club.
Around 1863, Nadar built a huge ( 6000 m³ ) balloon named Le Géant (" The Giant "), thereby inspiring Jules Verne's Five Weeks in a Balloon.
Around 1834, residents began to seek a new name for the village and, persuaded by a native of Scotland, named the village " Dundee ".
The county is named in the lyrics of the song Around The World, from the film Around the World in eighty days, which was an American top ten hit for Bing Crosby and UK top ten hit for Ronnie Hilton, both in 1957, although it was Mantovani's instrumental version which was actually used in the film.
Around 1833, a French-Canadian veteran of the War of 1812 named Ben Napier attempted to appropriate Cunningham Island and nearby Put-in-Bay as his own through squatters rights.
Around 1824, Lucas built a large brick house two miles east of Piketon, named Friendly Grove, which became an center of local political activity.
Around 1836, William and Edmund Munroe ( also spelled Monroe ) from Boston arrived and purchased the two mills and approximately of land around them to lay out a new village, which they named Munroe Falls.
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