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

This song would later be adapted into " Christmas Is All Around " and sung by the character of Billy Mack in Richard Curtis ' 2003 film Love Actually, in which Grant also stars.

" Around four days later, an army of well-trained Georgian troops arrived to the town after hearing of Gurgīn's death but Mirwais and his Afghan forces successfully held off the town.

Around the same time Kid Rock formed his back up band Twisted Brown Trucker, later recruiting Joseph " Joe C ." Calleja whom he met at a 1994 concert as part of the group.

Around 1200 the port became the main point of departure for colonists leaving for the Baltic territories conquered by the Livonian Order and, later, Teutonic Order.

Around 1090, Matilda married again, to Welf V of Bavaria, from a family ( the Welfs ) whose very name was later to become synonymous with alliance to the popes in their conflict with the German emperors ( see Guelphs and Ghibellines ).

Around 1945, Dizzy Gillespie parted ways with Parker, and Davis was hired as Gillespie's replacement in his quintet, which also featured Max Roach on drums, Al Haig ( replaced later by Sir Charles Thompson and Duke Jordan ) on piano, and Curley Russell ( later replaced by Tommy Potter and Leonard Gaskin ) on bass.

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 two years later on June 4, 1974, the NFL gave the city an expansion franchise.

Around forty years later William of Malmesbury believing the Abbey older, said that David visited Glastonbury only to rededicate the Abbey and donate a travelling altar including a great sapphire.

The story may have later been an inspiration for Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days.

Around 1897, Nikola Tesla patented a remote controlled boat and later demonstrated the feasibility of radio-guided torpedoes to the United States military.

Around the same time, Newton's contemporaries Robert Hooke and Christian Huygens — and later Augustin-Jean Fresnel — mathematically refined the wave viewpoint, showing that if light traveled at different speeds in different media ( such as water and air ), refraction could be easily explained as the medium-dependent propagation of light waves.

Around 600, however, Sophronius of Jerusalem noted that " two epistles bearing his name ... are considered by some to be the work of a certain John the Elder " and, while stating that Revelation was written by John on Patmos, it was “ later translated by Justin Martyr and Irenaeus ”, presumably in an attempt to reconcile tradition with the obvious differences in Greek style.

Around 5 – 8 yr later ( species and climate dependent ), the fungal and mold growths cause the culm to collapse and decay.

Around 1671, Anne first made the acquaintance of Sarah Jennings, who later became her close friend and one of her most influential advisors.

Around 1880, rickshaws appeared in India, first in Simla and then, 20 years later, in Calcutta ( now Kolkata ).

This was later shortened to "( We're Gonna ) Rock Around the Clock ", though this form is generally only used on releases of the 1954 Bill Haley Decca Records recording ; most other recordings of this song by Haley and others ( including Sonny Dae ) shorten this title further to " Rock Around the Clock ".

Around 1324 Basarab became a vassal of King Charles I of Hungary ( 1308 – 1342 ), but later the king called him ‘ unfaithful ’ on the pretext that Basarab had occupied crown territories.

Around the Zuiderzee many fishing villages grew up and several developed into walled towns with extensive trade connections, in particular Kampen, a town in Overijssel, and later also towns in Holland such as Amsterdam, Hoorn, and Enkhuizen.

Around 300 knights were killed, including Louis of Blois, Duke of Nicaea and Baldwin was captured and later died in captivity.

* Around the same time, in the calf brain, Rabi Simantov and Solomon H. Snyder of the United States found what Eric Simon ( who independently discovered opioid receptors in the brain ) later termed " endorphin " by an abbreviation of " endogenous morphine ", meaning " morphine produced naturally in the body ".

Around half of people initially diagnosed with bipolar disorder achieve syndromal recovery ( no longer meeting criteria for the diagnosis ) within six weeks, and nearly all achieve it within two years, with nearly half regaining their prior occupational and residential status in that period.

Around half of the samples appeared to be dominated by bacteria that produce lactic acid, such as lactobacillus, while the other half mostly contained a family of so-called enteric bacteria, such as Escherichia coli.

Around 1980, subsequent revisions by Peter Wellnhofer had reduced the number of recognized species to about half a dozen.

Around the estuary of the Tocantins the great plateau has disappeared, to give place to a part of the forest-covered, half submerged alluvial plain, which extends far to the north-east and west.

Around 325-350, the unfortified settlement along the road was transformed into a fortified camp or castrum, which covered only half of the former settlement area.

Around half of all vocational high schools are private.

Around Monte Rosa, the Vincent family, Josef Zumstein ( 1783 – 1861 ), and Giovanni Gnifetti ( 1801 – 1867 ) did good work during the half century between 1778 and 1842, while in the Eastern Alps the Archduke John ( 1782 – 1850 ), Prince F. J. C. von Schwarzenberg, archbishop of Salzburg ( 1809 – 1885 ), Valentine Stanig ( 1774 – 1847 ), Adolf Schaubach ( 1800 – 1850 ), above all, P. J.

Around 1987, Alma called itself the " Spinach Capital of the World " because the Allen Canning Company based in Alma canned more than half of all the spinach canned in the U. S., about sixty million pounds a year.

Around the same time Tractor Supply Company opened, though, Peebles later reopened in another location in Neshannock Township in parts of the former Kmart section of the Field Club Commons plaza after Kmart reduced itself to one location in the New Castle area after it filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2002, with Tuesday Morning taking up the other half.

Around half a dozen shops on Commercial Street have been fully redeveloped and will be occupied soon, most notably the former Coach and Horses pub, which will become shops and flats.

Around this time it was getting in excess of half a million visitors a year.

Around $ 130bn in funds was raised in the first half of 2012, down around a fifth on the first half of 2011.

Around half of UNE ’ s on campus students live in one of the colleges.

Around half of UNE ’ s on campus students live in one of the colleges.

Around three-quarters of chicks live long enough to fledge, but not more than half of those survive long enough to reproduce.

Around the latter half of the sixteenth century, ashigaru holding pikes ( nagae yari ) with length of 4. 5 to 6. 5 m ( 15 to 20 feet ) became the main forces in armies.

Around half of the love-shy men reported being bullied or harassed as late as high school, while none of the non-shy men did.

Around a half hour later, an American F-16 shot down an Iraqi MiG-23 Flogger which had crossed into the no-fly zone.

Around a half of the pre-war area of the municipality of Gorizia, with an approximate 20 % of the population, were annexed to Yugoslavia.

Around the second half of the 8th century, Old English tales of a figure named " Thunor "— the Old English form of Thor's name — are recorded, a figure who likely refers to an Old English cult of the god.

Around half of the city's housing had been built in the 19th century, and many units lacked proper sanitary facilities, were overcrowded, and in poor condition.