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

Around this time, he started to share a home with Heather Stoney, an actress he had first met ten years earlier.

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 1511 or earlier, he travelled down the river and south into the Alps, where the scenery moved him so deeply that he became the first landscape painter in the modern sense, making him the leader of the Danube School, a circle that pioneered landscape as an independent genre, in southern Germany.

Around the same time, in France, Charles-Louis Havas extended the services of his news agency, Havas to include advertisement brokerage, making it the first French group to organize.

That same year Dutch rapper Extince released his first record: Rap Around The Clock.

Around 1924 Whorf first became interested in linguistics.

He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets ( inspired by Halley's Comet ) and million selling hits such as, " Rock Around the Clock ", " See You Later Alligator ", and " Shake Rattle and Roll ".

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.

" 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.

Haley continued to score hits throughout the 1950s such as " See You Later, Alligator " and he starred in the first rock and roll musical movies Rock Around the Clock and Don't Knock the Rock, both in 1956.

Carson City's first modern bus system, Jump Around Carson, or JAC, opened to the public.

Around two million years ago the first of many continental glaciers of the Laurentide Ice Sheet moved southward from the Hudson Bay area, initiating the Pleistocene glaciation.

Around the late 14th century AD, European powdermakers first began adding liquid during grinding to improve mixing, reduce dust, and with it the risk of explosion.

Around 1439, Johannes Gutenberg, a citizen of Mainz, was the first European to use movable type printing and became the global inventor of the printing press, thereby starting the Printing Revolution.

Around 1820, Charles Xavier Thomas created the first successful, mass-produced mechanical calculator, the Thomas Arithmometer, that could add, subtract, multiply, and divide.

Around 1. 8 million years ago, Homo ergaster first appeared in the fossil record in Africa.

Around 1427, the name zu Gutenberg, after the family house in Mainz, is documented to have been used for the first time.

His second album, 1986's The Secret Value of Daydreaming was panned by critics, but reached number 32 on the Billboard Magazines album chart, and produced the single " Stick Around ", which was his first # 1 single on the U. S. Album Rock Tracks chart.

Around the same time the Derby-based clockmaker John Whitehurst became a friend, first of Boulton and subsequently of Darwin, through his business supplying clock movements to Boulton's ormolu manufacturing operation.

It was after the veteran TV globetrotter Alan Whicker and journalist Miles Kington turned down presenting the first of these, Around the World in 80 Days, that gave Palin the opportunity to present his first and subsequent travel shows.

( Exception: the first book, Around the World in 80 Days, contains some pictures by Pao but most are by other photographers.

* 1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets release " Rock Around the Clock ", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.

Around this time, Scott Miller of Apogee Software learned of the group and their exceptional talent, having played one of John Romero's Softdisk games, Dangerous Dave, and contacted Romero under the guise of multiple fan letters that Romero came to realize all originated from the same address.

Around this time, Shields contacted Gavin Friday of the Dublin post-punk band The Virgin Prunes.

Around this time World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) owner Vince McMahon contacted Piper, who insisted on serving out his contract with Jim Crockett.

Around 1620, the Dutch East India Company contacted the English architect Inigo Jones asking him to design a fortification for the harbor.

Around 5: 00 pm an emergency committee meeting was called, and when it ended at 7: 00 pm, several members contacted the regional Red Cross over the intended evacuation efforts at Armero, Mariquita, and Honda.

* Mike Mars Around the Moon

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.

Around mid-1998, Mike Cheng created LAME 1. 0 as a set of modifications against the " 8Hz-MP3 " encoder source code.

During the 1950s, American Decca released a number of soundtrack recordings of popular motion pictures, notably Mike Todd's production of Around the World in Eighty Days ( 1956 ) with the music of veteran film composer Victor Young.

With their star now conspicuously ascendant, the band brought in producer Mike Batt ( best known for his musical association with The Wombles and, more recently, Katie Melua ) to work on their eighth album, All Around My Hat, and their biggest success would come with the release of the title track as a single — it reached number 5 in the UK Charts in late 1975.

* Rights to Mike Todd's Around the World in Eighty Days and the UA-distributed Lorimar films are now with Warner Bros .. Warner Communications bought the rights to Days from Elizabeth Taylor, Todd's widow, and successor company Time Warner bought the Lorimar library after they bought out the company in 1990.

Other members of the Trotter family were rarely sighted, the exceptions being the woman they believe to be Auntie Rose ( Beryl Cooke ) in " The Second Time Around ", and cousins Stan and Jean ( Mike Kemp and Maureen Sweeney ), who attended Grandad's funeral.

He also hosted a local sports show in New York with Mike Francesa entitled Around the NFL.

* Mike McGee-additional drums on " Everybody Loves You Now " and " Turn Around " ( 1983 remix )

Around the time of the recording of March 16 – 20, 1992, Mike Heidorn had secured a steady job at a Belleville newspaper company and was dating a woman who had two children from a previous marriage.

Around the time of the release of Batman Detective No. 27, editor Mike Carlin noted that DC had scaled back the production of Elseworlds books in order to " put the luster back on them.

Mike and his wife Margie signed a contract with Channel Seven for 12 one-hour documentaries, the first of which aired in 1998 in The World Around Us slot.

Around the time the Gold Version was released, Nintendo of America's founder and former president Minoru Arakawa attended a boxing match featuring future heavyweight champion Mike Tyson.

He was an Assistant Director on Huston's version of Moby-Dick ( 1956 ), and Associate Producer and Second Unit Director on Mike Todd's Around the World in 80 Days ( also 1956 ).

The soundtrack includes five rock singles-the title song and " I'm Free ", both by Kenny Loggins, " Holding Out for a Hero " by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, " Girl Gets Around " by Sammy Hagar, and " Never " by Australian rock band Moving Pictures ( the song played during Bacon's solo dance scene ); three R & B singles-" Let's Hear It for the Boy " by Deniece Williams, " Somebody's Eyes " by Karla Bonoff, and " Dancing In the Sheets " by Shalamar ; and the love theme " Almost Paradise " by Mike Reno from Loverboy and Ann Wilson of Heart.

During his time in Venice, Granger renewed his friendship with Peggy Guggenheim, whom he had met during his earlier trip to Italy with Arthur Laurents, and he met Mike Todd, who cajoled him into making a cameo appearance as a gondolier in his epic Around the World in 80 Days.

In the summer of 1946, Welles was directing a musical stage version of Around the World in Eighty Days, with a comedic and ironic rewriting of the Jules Verne novel by Welles, incidental music and songs by Cole Porter, and production by Mike Todd, who would later produce the successful film version with David Niven.

The sports department has produced several notable alumni, including Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers announcer and baseball Hall of Famer Vin Scully, two-time Emmy Award-winning sports anchor for WPIX-TV in New York Sal Marchiano, Yankees announcer Michael Kay, New York Times sportswriter Jack Curry, USA Today sportswriter Malcolm Moran, Knicks announcer and " The NBA on ABC " sportscaster Mike Breen, Nets announcer Chris Carrino, Knicks announcer Spero Dedes, New York Giants announcer Bob Papa, WFAN's " Talking Baseball " host Ed Randall, who also is heard on MLB. com, and ESPN's Around the Horn host Tony Reali.

" Spinning Around " was written by Ira Shickman, Osborne Bingham, Kara DioGuardi, and Paula Abdul, and produced by Mike Spencer.

New singles include " Keep Coming Around " with Ron Carroll and Mischa Daniels, on Nervous Records, 2007 " come together " produced by DJ Mike Cruz, 2008, " People make the World Go Round "- nominated for a 2009 IDMA award at the WInter Music Conference in Miami, and " Change the World " 2009-all from the forthcoming Full length CD " wanderlust-the Soundtrack-due April 2009

#" I Get Around " ( Brian Wilson / Mike Love ) – 2: 12

#" I Get Around " ( Brian Wilson / Mike Love ) – 2: 13

Around this time the band's new demo ' War At Home ' was spot-played several times by BBC Radio 1 DJ Mike Davies on his Punk Rock show ' The Lockup '.

Around this time Mike Bowser decided to move to New York for a new job and after a guitar search that ended with Ed Lalli ( currently singing for The Welch Boys ) they returned to the studio for 2003's Digital Warfare ( I Scream Records ) followed by 2005's Tear It Down ( Thorp Records ), along with several more European tours.