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Around 1996 British American Tobacco merged their financial operations into a single operating unit, British American Financial Services ( BAFS ).
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*" Jump Around " is used in many television and cinema productions, such as in the 1993 film Mrs. Doubtfire, the 1996 film Happy Gilmore, Black Hawk Down, the TV series My Name Is Earl, and American Dad.
Around 1996 a company used genetic manipulation to extract certain genes from petunia and snapdragon flowers to produce a blue-mauve carnation, which was commercialized as Moondust.
The story Horsing Around with History in issue 33 of the second series won the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Award for Favorite Comic-Book Story for 1996.
When they supported Status Quo on tour in 1996, the latter had just issued their version of " All Around My Hat " as a single, and for their encore Prior joined them on stage to sing it with them.
*" Oh Yeah " was released on June 24, 1996 with " T. Rex ", " Everywhere Is All Around " ( Wheeler / Carr ), and " Does Your Mother Know " ( ABBA ).
In 1995, Wilson released the song " U " by the Contract Recording Company which became a chart hit in the UK and in 1996, Wilson's song, " Turn Around ", was released on Da Bridge Records, although Wilson never had a full recording contract with either of the labels.
Around 1996, a group of free and open source software developers started a project called FreeWin95 to implement a clone of Windows 95.
Around this time, Doom 2099 became the only 2099 comic to crossover with a present-day Marvel comic when he traveled back to 1996 and met Daredevil, the Fantastic Four, and Namor in a story partially told in Fantastic Four # 413.
Around 2, 000 vehicles were produced before the company ( Rodacar AD ) ceased production in April 1996 due to high import costs of the components and little demand for the cars.
Around 1996, the band's definitive line-up began to emerge ; that same year, they began recording the rock opera CD, Jesús de Chamberí, which was produced by Alberto Plaza and Mägo de Oz.
Around October 1996, while going to Orange County from San Diego, Jeena told travelling companions that she wanted to hurt or kill Sunny, offering them money and asking how to obtain a gun.
Arab Strap's first two albums, The Week Never Starts Around Here ( 1996 ) and Philophobia ( 1998 ), depicted the desperate decadence of post-Thatcherite Britain.
Around 1996, Hans Hagen coined the name ConTeXt meaning " text with tex " ( con-tex-t ; " con " is a Latin preposition meaning " together with ").
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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 same time, he appeared in two episodes of a twist-in-the-tale episode of the British TV series, Tales of the Unexpected, with Wendy Hiller ( 1979 ), and Gloria Grahame ( 1980 ).
At the same time British audiences were beginning to encounter American rock and roll, initially through films including Blackboard Jungle ( 1955 ) and Rock Around the Clock ( 1955 ).
Both movies contained the Bill Haley & His Comets hit " Rock Around the Clock ", which first entered the British charts in early 1955 – four months before it reached the US pop charts – topped the British charts later that year and again in 1956, and helped identify rock and roll with teenage delinquency.
Around the same time, earlier R & B was an influence on British pub rock and later, the mod revival.
Around this time, some skinheads became affiliated with far right groups such as the National Front and the British Movement.
Around this time, some suedeheads ( an offshoot of the skinhead subculture ) started listening to British glam rock bands such as The Sweet, Slade and Mott the Hoople.
Another notable album release entitled Rock Around the Clock was the 1970 Hallmark Records UK release Rock Around the Clock ( SHM 668 ) which was the first British release of a 1968 album entitled Bill Haley's Biggest Hits which had been released in Sweden by Sonet Records.
** Around this time, some British scuba divers start making homemade diving demand regulators from industrial parts, including Calor Gas regulators.
Around the time of The Patriot's release, comments in the British press challenged the American notion of Francis Marion as a hero.
Around that time, the coal mines that soon opened up in the area — around Harman, Bluefield, War, and Pocahontas — were known as the Pocahontas Coal Fields ; they helped drive the Industrial Revolution in the United States and fuel the US and British Navies during both World Wars.
Around the time he was developing the lyrics to " Get Back ", McCartney satirised the " Rivers of Blood speech " by former British Cabinet minister Enoch Powell in a brief jam that has become known as the " Commonwealth Song ".
Around the beginning of the century there were a number of major restoration projects on British castles.
* January 7 – " Rock Around the Clock " by Bill Haley & His Comets first appears on the British charts.
Examples of this latter group include British comedian Michael Palin who now presents programmes about travel ( such as Around the World in 80 Days ), and Alan Alda, who has presented Scientific American Frontiers for over a decade.
Along with Fairport Convention they are amongst the best known acts of the British folk revival, and were among the most commercially successful, thanks to their hit singles " Gaudete " and " All Around My Hat ".
In Britain, Motown's records were released on various labels: at first London ( only the Miracles ' " Shop Around "/" Who's Lovin ' You " and " Ain't It Baby "), then Fontana (" Please Mr. Postman " by the Marvelettes was one of four ), Oriole American (" Fingertips " by Little Stevie Wonder was one of many ), EMI's Stateside (" Where Did Our Love Go " by the Supremes and " My Guy " by Mary Wells were Motown's first British top-20 hits ), and finally EMI's Tamla-Motown (" Stop!
In 1994, Wet Wet Wet had their biggest hit, a cover version of the Troggs single " Love Is All Around ", which was a huge international success and spent fifteen weeks atop the British charts.
Around 600 students ’ unions are in membership, accounting for more than 95 per cent of all British higher and further education unions.
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