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

Around 2, 700 students also attend Bachelor of Science engineering programmes, merchant marine and other undergraduate courses at Campus Lindholmen.

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

Around 5, 000 BP the waters of the Saimaa Lake penetrated Salpausselkä and formed a new outlet, River Vuoksi, entering Lake Ladoga in the northwestern corner and raising its level by 1 – 2 m.

Around 1977, the subculture began to diversify with the proliferation of factions such as 2 Tone, Oi !, pop punk, New Wave, and No Wave.

Around 2. 5 million men + woman were ' immobilized in the interior ' as part of reserve armies.

Around 2, 000 demonstrations were held during the eight months of the Second Republic.

Around 2 million years ago, Homo habilis is believed to have constructed the first man-made structure in East Africa, consisting of simple arrangements of stones to hold branches of trees in position.

Around 40 floats with more than 2, 500 participants parade in Sitges.

Around 20 minutes into the season 2 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, " Pen Pals ," the senior staff has a philosophical discussion regarding the Prime Directive.

Around 2. 2 million Africans died during these voyages where they were packed into tight, unsanitary spaces on ships for months at a time.

The tune knocked the Shirelles ' " Will You Love Me Tomorrow " out of the # 1 position, and it kept the Miracles ' " Shop Around " from becoming the group's first # 1 hit, holding their recording at # 2.

Around 60 % of Space Shuttle astronauts currently experience it on their first flight ; the first case is now suspected to be Gherman Titov, in August 1961 onboard Vostok 2, who reported dizziness and nausea.

Around the time the fruits reach maturity, the burrs turn yellow-brown and split open in 2 or 4 sections.

Around 2 am on the night of 10 February 1567, while Mary was away, two explosions rocked the foundation of Kirk O ' Field.

Around 2: 00 pm, the fleet sailed again, trying to make headway against biting winds, rain, and sleet.

Around the end of Block 2, it was discovered that a type of diode used in previous missions produced problematic gold-plate flaking in the conditions of space.

Around the circumference of the park is a 1 / 2 mile long bike path.

Around 2: 30 PM on April 9, 2012, a brush fire was reported in the Northeast area of Brookhaven National Lab.

Around 1873, Mathew Maclean donated land for the Presbyterian Church, and it was built at a cost of $ 2, 441. 01 with a membership of seventeen.

Around 1880 the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway attempted to build a line through Collins, which then had about 2, 000 inhabitants.

Around 1985, the U. S. Route 2 bypass was completed, allowing the traffic which had until then been forced to pass through the town to circumvent the city.

Around the same time, Guy Hands, CEO of Terra Firma Capital Partners, came to EMI with restructuring plans to cut between 1, 500 and 2, 000 jobs and to reduce costs by £ 200 million a year.

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 ".

" 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.

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

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 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 two million people visit the canal each year on pleasure cruises and related activities.

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

Around 15 million years ago, a collision between Australia and Southeast Asia allowed the varanids to move into what is now the Indonesian archipelago, extending their range as far east as the island of Timor.

Around 1. 4 million passengers and 15, 000 to 17, 000 tonnes of cargo pass through it each year.

Around 5. 9 million years ago, the connection between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean along the Betic and Rifan Corridor was progressively restricted until its total closure, effectively causing the salinity of the Mediterranean to periodically fall within the gypsum and salt deposition range, during what is known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis.

Around one million Australians walked the bridge in a symbolic gesture of crossing a divide.

Guinness consistently listed " Rock Around the Clock " as having the highest claim of any pop music recording, coming second in sales only to Bing Crosby's 1942 recording of " White Christmas ", which was also listed as having sold 25 million copies with a further estimated 100 million copies sold in other versions.

Sales of " Rock Around the Clock " started slow but eventually sold an estimated 25 million copies ( per the Guinness Book of World Records ) and marked the arrival of a cultural shift.

Around 10 million tourists visit the Gold Coast area every year: of 849, 114 international visitors, 3, 468, 000 domestic overnight visitors and 5, 366, 000 daytrip visitors.

Around 18 million francs were paid to the émigrés per year.

Around a million depositors were immediately affected by this action.

In October 1966, the song was released as a single, giving The Beach Boys their third U. S. number-one hit — alongside " I Get Around " and " Help Me, Rhonda "— and it sold over a million copies.

Around 70 million years ago, the kakapo diverged from the genus Nestor.

Around four hundred fifty million years ago, a chain of volcanic islands collided with proto North America.

Around four hundred million years ago a small continent that was long and thin collided with proto North America.