The joining together of the Union Pacific line with the Central Pacific line in May 1869 at Promontory Summit, Utah, was one of the major inspirations for French writer Jules Verne's book entitled Around the World in Eighty Days, which was published in the year 1873.

Around 1880, not only were railways serving the area, but this was the point where the tram systems coming north from the city, met the Hackney tram system, and so it became a busy interchange, with a depot opening in 1873 .< ref >< cite >' Hackney: Communications ', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 10: Hackney ( 1995 ), pp. 4-10 Date accessed: 1 November 2006 .</ ref > Electrification commenced in 1902 and by 1924 a service was commenced between Stamford Hill and Camden Town along Amhurst Park.

The date line appears as a plot device in Jules Verne's book Around the World in Eighty Days ( 1873 ).

Poe's story " Three Sundays in a Week " may have inspired Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days ( 1873 ).

Phileas Fogg is the main fictional character in the 1873 Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days.

Around 1873 – 1874, he made a striking breakthrough by rediscovering the technique of lustre ware ( characterized by a reflective, metallic surface ) found in Hispano-Moresque pottery and Italian maiolica.

# ( 1870 ) Autour de la lune ; English translation: Around The Moon ( 1873 )

# ( 1873 ) Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours ; English translation: Around the World in Eighty Days ( 1873 )

Around 1836, James Crawford and John Hayes saw that a town was springing up and donated ten acres of land, at a point where their farms met, to be used for educational and religious purposes.

Around the turn from the 19th to the 20th century, Scottish-American businessman Andrew Carnegie donated over $ 60 million, which was a vast fortune in 20th-century dollars, to build over 2, 811 free public library buildings in the United States.

Around 1970, Digital Equipment Corporation donated 2 PDP-11 minicomputers.

Around 1850, José Pereira Alves and his wife, Ignez Leite de Toledo donated a large area of land to the town, with the purpose of building a great church in honor of St. Benedict.

Around the same time, due to encouragement from influential speaker Themistocles, the Athenians also constructed the Long Walls connecting their city to the Piraeus, its port, making it effectively invulnerable to attack by land.

Around 60 BC, a group of Boians joined the Helvetians ' ill-fated attempt to conquer land in western Gaul and were defeated by Julius Caesar, along with their allies, in the battle of Bibracte.

Around 1800 the Catholic monasteries, which had large land holdings, were nationalized and sold off by the government.

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Around that time her half-sister Wynonna Judd gave her a historic farmhouse and some land in Williamson County, Tennessee, so she moved to Tennessee ; that house has been her primary residence in the US ever since.

Around 1509, under a land grant from the Spanish king, he became founder and governor of Castilla de Oro, in what is now Panama, one of the first two Spanish settlements on the American mainland ( different sources give dates from 1508 to 1510 ).

Around this time, as the English began to colonize Nyack and Tappan, the Native Americans began to leave Rockland in search of undisturbed land further north.

Around a third of the land area is the island of Mahé and a further third the atoll of Aldabra.

Around 1800, Europeans began settling the land east of the Mississippi River that was inhabited by the Chickasaw Indians for centuries prior to the arrival of Europeans.

Around 1837 local blacksmith James Woolfolk found an outcropping of coal on his land.

Around 1799, William Appling deeded a tract of land to the county for the purpose of building a courthouse.

Around 400 years ago the land was drained and converted to grazing marsh.

Around 80 hectares of wood and scrub were identified for clearance, all of which has now been removed and has opened up land to be reclaimed by the fen habitat.

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 the end of the 19th century, wealthy tourists from the eastern and midwestern United States began to buy land in the area.

Around the time of the Great Depression, he allowed tourists, who brought their trailers down from the North, to camp on his land.

Around that time, Paul Melancon purchased a large tract of land in the vicinity of what is now Parks in order to establish a cotton farm.

Around the IJsselmeer is an arc of boulder clay high areas of land, which formed during the Ice Age glaciations of the Pleistocene epoch: Texel, Wieringen, Urk, de Voorst, and Gaasterland.

Around the year 1000 AD, this area was land.

Around 1843 an Eastern company conducted a search in this area of Missouri looking for land with valuable minerals.

Around 1710, early Palatinate Germans began attempting settlement in the town, but in 1716, the natives sold a portion of the land now in the eastern part of the Town of Amsterdam to Philip Groat.

Around 1818, a Cherokee chief known as Big Bear received a reservation of land immediately west of the confluence of Deep Creek and the Tuckasegee River, which included most of what is now Bryson City.

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.

Around 500 BCE, following the Achaemenid conquest of Mesopotamia under Darius I, Old Aramaic was adopted by the conquerors as the " vehicle for written communication between the different regions of the vast empire with its different peoples and languages.

Around 12, 500 Tasmanians recreationally fish for blacklip and greenlip abalone.

Around this time, Alcott also first expressed his public disdain for slavery.

Around 2000, an expedition led by the Japanese Daisuke Takahashi, searching for Selkirk's camp on the island ( juan fernandez ), found part of an early eighteenth ( or late seventeenth ) century nautical instrument that almost certainly belonged to Selkirk.

Around 500 BC the Ur-Parthenon was dismantled to make place for a newer and grander building, the " Older Parthenon " ( often called Pro-Parthenon, " early Parthenon ").

Around the dynastic Tang, Song, and early Ming Period, cuirasses and plates ( mingguangjia ) were also used, with more elaborate versions for officers in war.

Around 446 BC, they were given the authority to care for the decrees of the senate ( senatus consulta ).

Around 1503 – 1505 he produced the first seventeen of a set illustrating the Life of the Virgin, which he did not finish for some years.

Around the world today are a number of banks, companies, charities, and schools for developing co-operative forms of business using Steiner's ideas about economic associations, aiming at harmonious and socially responsible roles in the world economy.

( Around 1990, OS / 2 came out with " preemptive multitasking " of DOS, an alternative to DESQview for multi-node BBS.

Around the mid 1960s, boats made of glass-reinforced plastic, more commonly known as fibreglass, became popular, especially for recreational boats.

The anonymous sleeve notes accompanying the 1956 Decca album " Rock Around The Clock " describe Haley's early life and career thus: " Bill got his first professional job at the age of 13, playing and entertaining at an auction for the fee of $ 1 a night.

In 1953, a song called " Rock Around the Clock " was written for Haley.

When " Rock Around the Clock " appeared behind the opening credits of the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle starring Glenn Ford, it soared to the top of the American Billboard chart for eight weeks.

Lilith Sternin starts as a one-time character in the Season 4 episode, " Second Time Around " ( 1985 ), but then she becomes a recurring character since Season 5 ( 1986 – 87 ), although she is a permanent character for Seasons 10 and 11 ( 1991 – 93 ).

Around this time he began crafting the bases for his sculptures with much care and originality because he considered them important to the works themselves.

A deluxe digital version, available for download only, has 32 tracks including a rare 1987 live recording of the band's version of the Hunters & Collectors song " Throw Your Arms Around Me ".

Around 1909, Hilbert dedicated himself to the study of differential and integral equations ; his work had direct consequences for important parts of modern functional analysis.

Around this time, members of Devo appeared in the film Spirit of ' 76, except for Bob Mothersbaugh.

Around 2 am, a few boats were finally procured for the crossing.

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Around 200 AD, ten of the plays of Euripides began to be circulated in a select edition, possibly for use in schools, with some commentaries or scholia recorded in the margins.

Around mid-November he sent a letter saying that a man had agreed to take him to the mainland in exchange for a large sum of money.

The movie also featured a soundtrack of popular songs, including a cover version of The Troggs ' " Love Is All Around " performed by Wet Wet Wet that remained at number 1 in the British charts for fifteen weeks and was then the ninth ( now twelfth ) biggest selling single of all time in Britain.

Around the all-star break they made their second big trade sending OF Cliff Floyd to the Expos for RHP Carl Pavano, RHP Justin Wayne, INF Mike Mordecai, LHP Graeme Lloyd, RHP Don Levinski and INF Wilton Guerrero.