Around passed through the Leicestershire coal field, and was heavily affected by subsidence, with the result that this section from Moira, southwards to Snarestone, was progressively closed in 1944, 1957 and 1966, leaving of navigable canal.

Around 1944, ties started to become not only wider, but wilder.

A third volume of her folksy tales was entitled Around the Hearth (), Tirana, 1944.

Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening ( 1944 ) is a surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí.

* 1941 – 1944: Around 148, 000 Bessarabian Jews were killed in Rîbniţa and other ghettos and concentration camps on the East bank of the Dniester during the Nazi occupation.

Around 20 May 1944, a relatively undamaged V-2 rocket fell on the swampy bank of the Bug River near the village of Sarnaki and local Poles managed to hide it before German arrival.

Around 10 am on the 7 February 1944 an Halifax MkV DK192 ( OO-N ) from 1663 HCU based at RAF Rufforth crashed on Garrowby Hill.

Around 1944, during World War II, they meet a mute inmate named ' Can't-Get-Right ' ( Woodbine ) who happens to be a talented baseball player.

Around 20 May 1944, a relatively undamaged V-2 rocket fell on the swampy bank of the Bug River near the village of Sarnaki and local Poles managed to hide it before German arrival.

Around this time, the Pixies struck up a relationship with the British producer Gil Norton.

* Around the same time, another unofficial GBA source port was made by Gil Megidish.

* Around 1010, Thorfinnr Karlsefni led an attempted Viking settlement in North America with 160 settlers, but was later driven off by the natives.

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 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!

Around 1831, when Anne was eleven, she and Emily broke away from Charlotte and Branwell to create and develop their own fantasy world, Gondal.

Around this time, he founded a group called Survivre ( To Survive ), which was dedicated to antimilitary and ecological issues.

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 same time, on the North slope, in a cave next to the one dedicated to Pan since the classical period, a sanctuary was founded where the archons dedicated to Apollo on taking office.

Around 1250 it was mentioned as Arowa.

Around the same time, his mansion in Wisconsin was destroyed by a nor ' easter.

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

" Rock Around the Clock " was the first record ever to sell over one million copies in both Britain and Germany and, in 1957, Haley became the first major American rock singer to tour Europe.

* 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.

" The song was ' Walk Around Heaven ' and in his last words he said ' I'm going to heaven.

Around the age of eight he was sent to a country school in Alphington near Exeter to recover from a life-threatening fever.

Around the turn of the 4th century, as Memphis was continuing to decline in importance, the Romans established a fortress town along the east bank of the Nile.

Around this time, the green conservative movement was sometimes referred to as the crunchy con movement, a term popularized by National Review magazine and the writings of Rod Dreher.

Around 500 million years afterward, the Moon's mantle was able to be extensively melted due to the decay of radioactive elements.

Around 190 AD under the leadership of the scholar Pantanaeus, the school of Alexandria became an important institution of religious learning, where students were taught by scholars such as Athenagoras, Clement, Didymus, and the native Egyptian Origen, who was considered the father of theology and who was also active in the field of commentary and comparative Biblical studies.

Around the same time, East Bay Ray had tried to pressure the rest of the band to sign to the major record label Polydor Records ; Biafra stated that he was prepared to leave the group if the rest of the band wanted to sign to the label, though East Bay Ray asserts that he recommended against signing with Polydor.

Around the 12th century AD, the Sultanate of Ifat was established in Djibouti and northern Somalia, eastern Ethiopia with its capital at Zeila in northern Somalia.

Around this time, toxicologist David Peakall was measuring DDE levels in the eggs of peregrine falcons and California condors and finding that increased levels corresponded with thinner shells.

Around this time, the county of the City of Dublin was established along with certain liberties adjacent to the city proper.

Around three million years ago, what is now the valley of the Jordan River, Dead Sea, and Wadi Arabah was repeatedly inundated by waters from the Mediterranean Sea.

Around noon Domitian, just one month short of his 45th birthday, was dead.

Around 1119, the French knight Hugues de Payens approached King Baldwin II of Jerusalem with the proposal of creating a monastic order for the protection of these pilgrims.

Around 1986, Bill Stephney, the former Program Director at WBAU, was approached by Sam the Assassin and offered a position with the label.

Around 11: 18 local time ( 08: 18 UTC ), a small craft approached the port side of the destroyer, and an explosion occurred, creating a 40-by-40-foot gash in the ship's port side, according to the memorial plate to those who lost their lives.

Around the same time, Microsoft approached Microware for acquisition of the company primarily because it was attracted by CD-RTOS, the CD-i operating system.

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 5: 30 a. m. on December 15, 39 police officers and four volunteers approached Sitting Bull's house.

Around the same time, sportswriter Leonard Shecter — who had befriended Bouton during his time with the Yankees — approached him with the idea of writing and publishing a season-long diary.

Around 10: 00 AM, they defeated Thierry ’ s brigade, forcing him back on Bachl as Lannes approached from the north.

Around this time, Ellis was approached by film director William Friedkin to compose the music to his film The French Connection.

Around this time, Berry was approached and signed by a modelling agency which led him to front campaigns for high profile brands such as Ted Baker, French Connection, Toni & Guy and Burton ( clothing ).

Around this same time, Nintendo approached Spectrum HoloByte on the prospects of developing a version of Tetris for the Game Boy, and a representative of Mirrorsoft, Kevin Maxwell, traveled to Russia to secure permission on their behalf.

Around the time the World War II began, Devol sold his interest in United Cinephone and approached Sperry Gyroscope to see if they were interested in his ideas on radar technology.

Around this time, Rhodes was approached by Haslingden Cricket Club from the Lancashire League, to play cricket for them as a professional.

Around 3 A. M. law enforcement approached the car and asked Moon for his I. D.

Around the same time, storyboard artist Peter von Sholly, approached Band with a concept about creating a movie about miniature dinosaurs.

After completing the instrumental track, the group were approached by All Around the World Records, who wanted to use the track for a song by Minogue.