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

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 60 BC they clashed with the rising power of the Dacians under their king Burebista and were defeated.

Around the 8th century BC, a kingdom known as D ' mt was established in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia, with its capital at Yeha in northern Ethiopia.

Around 330 BC, Aristotle maintained on the basis of physical theory and observational evidence that the Earth was spherical.

Around the 17th and 16th centuries BC most of the older centres had been overrun.

Around 300 BC, they were pushed inland by the Deutero-Malays, an Iron Age or Bronze Age people descended partly from the Chams of Cambodia and Vietnam.

Around 1500 BC Fiji was settled by Polynesian seafarers.

Around 900 – 600 BC Moturiki Island was settled.

Around 3000 BC, iron was a scarce and precious metal in the Near East.

Around 713 BC, the semi-mythical successor of Romulus, King Numa Pompilius, is supposed to have added the months of January and February, allowing the calendar to equal a standard lunar year ( 354 days ).

Around 150 BC, Mesopotamia was under the control of the Parthians.

Around 10200 BC, the first fully developed Neolithic cultures belonging to the phase Pre-Pottery Neolithic A ( PPNA ) appeared in the fertile crescent.

Around 10, 700 to 9400 BC, a settlement was established in Tell Qaramel, 25 kilometers north of Aleppo.

Around 9000 BC during the PPNA, the world's first town, Jericho, appeared in the Levant.

Around 6400 BC the Halaf culture appeared in Lebanon, Israel and Palestine, Syria, Anatolia, and Northern Mesopotamia and subsisted on dryland agriculture.

Around 700 BC, they appear to have developed systems of social organization that were the precursors of the Inca civilization.

Around this time, Hasdrubal became Carthaginian commander in Iberia ( 229 BC ).

Around 340 BC, the Greek navigator Pytheas of Massalia ventured from Greece to Western Europe and Great Britain.

Around 500 BC Sri Lankans

Around 1720 BC, Semitic Canaanite nomads called Hyksos took over Egypt, ended the Middle Kingdom, severed links with Kush, and destroyed the forts along the Nile River.

Around 750 BC, a Kushite king called Kashta conquered Upper Egypt and became ruler of Thebes until approximately 740 BC.

Around the year 455, Juvenal Patriarch of Jerusalem sent to Pope Leo I a fragment of the " precious wood ", according to the Letters of Pope Leo.

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 2010 Around 13 – 14 % of Mormons lived in Utah: the center of cultural influence for Mormonism.

Around 1930 a marker " Oahu West Base " 21 deg 18 min 13. 889 sec North, 157 deg 50 min 55. 796 sec West was set as the origin of Hawaii's system, and the latitude-longitude of all other points was defined by distance and direction from that marker.

Around 13 minutes and shot entirely in black and white, with appearances by his mother and David Lynch, the film showed a noticeably weakened and dysarthric Van Vliet at his residence in California, reading poetry, and philosophically discussing his life, environment, music and art.

Around 500 chiefs, including at least 13 females, signed the Treaty of Waitangi.

Around 13, 000 years ago, the lake came to cover much of Manitoba, northwestern Ontario, northern Minnesota, eastern North Dakota, and Saskatchewan.

Around 13 species are considered threatened by human activities, mostly specialised forest species threatened by habitat loss.

Around the age of 13 she was raped.

She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records ; her 13 Top 40 hits include " You're So Vain ", " Nobody Does It Better ", and " Coming Around Again ".

* 1964 Fontana – " Don't Turn Around " / " Really Mystified "-UK # 13

In the The Princeton Review's 2013 college rankings, Olin ranked # 4 in " Best College Dorms ," # 4 in " LGBT-Friendly ," # 10 in " There's a Game ?," # 19 in " Lots of Race / Class Interaction ," # 19 in " Professors Get High Marks ," # 13 in " Stone-Cold Sober Schools ," # 17 in " Great Financial Aid ," # 2 in " Students Study the Most ," # 10 in " Town-Gown Relations are Great ," # 4 in " Easiest Campus to Get Around ," # 10 in " Best Classroom Experience ," # 10 in " Best Quality of Life ," and # 18 in " Their Students Love These Colleges.

Around 13, 000 Allied soldiers survived to be made prisoners.

Around 10, 000 Mahdists were killed, 13, 000 wounded and 5, 000 taken prisoner.

Around 11, 000 to 13, 500 years ago, these grasslands shrank and woody shrubs began to appear.

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Around the age of 13 he was apprenticed to a chemical and pharmaceutical firm at Böblingen.

Around 90 young people, between the ages of 13 and 18, attend the group, which meets on Friday nights.

Around 13, 000 years ago a rockfall sealed the cave's entrance, preserving its contents until its eventual discovery, which occurred after a nearby tree fell and disturbed the fallen rocks.

Around May 13, 1948

Around midnight on August 13, 1971 Curtis was lugging an air-conditioning unit towards his brownstone apartment on West 86th Street in New York City when he noticed two junkies were using drugs on the steps to his home.

Around 9am on August 13, the Chinese Peace Preservation Corps exchanged small arms fire with Japanese troops in the Zhabei, Wusong, and Jiangwan districts of Shanghai.

Around that time ( 1722 ) he was also supposed to create 13 pieces of the Calvary to put in the niches of the New Castle Stairway, a project that was never realized.

" Morrow also supplied drawings for chapters in Classics Illustrated Special Issue # 159A, Rockets, Jets and Missiles ( Dec. 1960 ), and in 13 World Around Us issues ranging from Prehistoric Animals ( Nov. 1959 ) to Famous Teens ( May 1961 ).

On 13 January 2012 Look Around You had its 10th anniversary celebrated by a showing of all episodes of the first series at the BFI Southbank in London.