Around the 1870s, lock makers realized they could successfully package the same locking mechanism found in cast heart locks into a more economical steel or brass shell instead of having to cast a thick metal body.

Around one third of the city's area is composed of forests, parks, gardens, rivers and lakes.

Around a third of the male population attended at the club.

Around 1800 it was tried to create a third West Indian Company, without any success.

Around 430 – 424 BC, a devastating plague, which some believe to have been typhoid fever, killed one third of the population of Athens, including their leader Pericles.

Around a third of the land area is the island of Mahé and a further third the atoll of Aldabra.

Around a third of the railways authorised were never built – the company either collapsed due to poor financial planning, was bought out by a larger competitor before it could build its line, or turned out to be a fraudulent enterprise to channel investors ' money into another business.

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 that time, Barrow revealed that the band was in the process of writing its third album.

Stick Around for Joy, the band's third album, was released in February 1992.

After the group's breakup, Furay and Messina compiled various tracks recorded between mid-1967 and early 1968 into a third and final studio album, titled Last Time Around.

Around a third ( depending on criteria used ) of people diagnosed with BPD achieve remission within a year or two.

Around a third experienced mood worsening to the level generally associated with a major depressive episode.

Around 23 million people own Premium Bonds, over one third of the UK population.

Around a third of students at Goldsmiths are postgraduate students.

" Rockin ' Around the Christmas Tree " got noticed in its third release a few months later, and sales snowballed ; the song remains a perennial favorite each December and is the record with which she is most identified by contemporary audiences.

Around October 1989, when Baltimore was appointed president of Rockefeller University, around a third of the faculty opposed his appointment because of concerns about his behaviour in the Imanishi-Kari case.

Around a third of people worldwide carry the parasite, with most catching it by consuming undercooked meat, especially lamb, pork and venison or by ingesting water, soil or anything contaminated by feline faeces.

Around 1933, some 160, 000 Jews were living in Berlin: one third of all German Jews, 4 % of the Berlin population.

Around 1540 John Leland recorded a third line now missing: CVM DOMINA OUSILLA (' with the lady Ousilla ': Ousilla is conceivably a latinisation of the Cornish Eselt ), but missed the badly weathered first line (' DRUSTINVS HIC IACIT ') which has led Craig Weatherhill to speculate that this third line could have been lost by stone fracture.

Around 1200 people take part in the carnival, of which one third part from abroad.

Around 1985, Ridgway began dating Judith Mawson, who became his third wife in 1988.

A slightly less common ground ball double play is the 5-4-3 double play, also called the " Around the Horn " double play which occurs on a ground ball hit to the third baseman ( 5 ), who throws to the second baseman ( 4 ) at second base, who then throws to the first baseman ( 3 ).

Around 1980 Nakamichi introduced the third generation of 1000 and 700 three head decks.

Hakka cuisine, or Kejia cuisine, is the cooking style of the Hakka people, who originated in the southeastern Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Fujian, but may also be found in other parts of China and in countries with significant overseas Chinese communities .< ref > Linda Lau Anusasananan, < i > The Hakka Cookbook: Chinese Soul Food from Around the World </ i > ( University of California Press, 2012 )</ ref > There are numerous restaurants in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore serving Hakka cuisine.

Around the 1820s Sakukawa's most significant student Matsumura Sōkon ( 1809 – 1899 ) taught a synthesis of te ( Shuri-te and Tomari-te ) and Shaolin ( Chinese 少林 ) styles.

Around the 1st century AD, according to Funan epigraphy and the records of Chinese historians ( Coedes ), a number of trading settlements of the South appear to have been organized into several Malay states, among the earliest of which are believed to be Langkasuka and Tambralinga.

Around 700 AD, Tai people who did not come under Chinese influence settled in what is now Dien Bien Phu in modern Vietnam according to the Khun Borom legend.

Around 1900, one in four ethnic Chinese men in the U. S. worked in a laundry, typically working 10 to 16 hours a day.

Around AD 750, Chang ' an was called a " million people's city " in Chinese records, while modern estimates put it at around 800, 000 – 1, 000, 000 within city walls.

Around 1720 Chinese porcelain was loaded in enormous quantities to Europe.

Around the time of Kumārajīva, the four major Sanskrit āgamas were also translated into Chinese.

Around 175, 000 Chinese workers volunteered for labor battalions after being enticed with money, some even years before war was declared.

Around 20 % of the vocabulary is of Chinese origin, and 10 % is also of Tibetan origin.

Around 63, 000 Chinese labourers were brought into South Africa between 1904 and 1910 to work the country's gold mines.

Around 85, they also assisted the Chinese general in an attack on Turpan, east of the Tarim Basin.

Around this time he also met the venerable Zen master Hodo Tobase of the Soto Zen sect and began studying Chinese Calligraphy ( 1952-57 ).

Around noon the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Nationalist Party ( 中國國民黨革命委員會 ) was established.

* March 7: Around 20 Chinese hackers claim to have gained access to the world's most sensitive sites, including The Pentagon.

Around that time, a conflict with the Ming China started over the issues of tribute trade: Turpanians benefited from sending " tribute missions " to China, which allowed them to receive valuable gifts from the Ming emperors and to do plenty of trading on the sides ; the Chinese, however, felt that receiving and entertaining these missions was just too expensive.

Around the turn of the 20th century, Chinese immigration was perceived as a threat to the living standards of whites in North America and other similar nations.

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 1650, the College became a center of cosmopolistic learning, as " Americans, Indians, Tartars, Russians, and even Chinese visited it ".

Around AD 1200 the availability of prestigious imported goods including Chinese and Southeast Asian ceramics and Gujerati print-block textiles, coupled with newly discovered sources of iron ore in Luwu stimulated an agrarian revolution which expanded from the great lakes region into the lowland plains to the east, south and west of the Walennae depression.

Around the same time, Zhang Chu was signed to the ambitious Taiwan-based rock recording label " Muoyan " and in 1994 participated in the legendary " Chinese Rock Power " concert held at Hong Kong Arena.

Around the 1910s, Chinese folklore began to gain popularity as an area of study with the beginnings of the movement to formally adopt Vernacular Chinese as the language of education and literature.