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.

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 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 the 970s an Arabic envoy Ibn Sulaym went to Dongola and wrote an account afterwards ; it is now our most important source for this period.

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 1557 he returned to Owari Province and joined the Oda clan, now headed by Oda Nobunaga, as a lowly servant.

Around 1890, the modern fluid bearing was invented, now universally used to support heavy water turbine spindles.

Around 1820 they had settled on the Zambian side at Feira ( now Luangwa ).

Around the 9th century the Igbo people of what is now southeastern Nigeria, develop bronze casts of humans, animals and mythical creatures.

Around 800 AD Charlemagne established an outpost in what is now Lower Austria, to hold back advances from Slavs and Avars from the East.

Around 1988 a new round was introduced, the PGU-28 / B, which is now standard for US Navy and USAF aircraft.

Around 1868, Sherman began to write a " private " recollection for his children about his life before the Civil War, identified now as his unpublished " Autobiography, 1828 – 1861 ".

Around AD 200 there were about 20, 000 people living in this city, now part of the much smaller Augst.

Around 1509, under a land grant from the Spanish king, he became founder and governor of Castilla de Oro, in what is now Panama, one of the first two Spanish settlements on the American mainland ( different sources give dates from 1508 to 1510 ).

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

In March and July 2005, the members of the 1954 – 55 group, now billed as simply The Comets after decades of controversy over the use of the name, made several high-profile concert appearances in New York City and Los Angeles organized by Martin Lewis as part of celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of rock and roll, the release of Blackboard Jungle, the 50th anniversary of " Rock Around the Clock " hitting Number 1, and the 80th birthday of Bill Haley.

Around 8300 BC the temperature rose drastically, now with summer temperatures around 15 degrees, and the landscape changed into dense forests of aspen, birch and pine and the reindeer moved north, while aurochs and elk arrived from the south.

Around 814 there is a written reference to Meginhardeswich, which is now, as the present-day Meijnerswijk, part of Arnhem.

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.

For a long period, stockfish trade made up the bulk of Iceland's exports Around the time Iceland became a vassal state of Norway, a climate shift occurred — a phenomenon now called the Little Ice Age.

Around 1430, Cosimo de ' Medici, the foremost art patron of his era, commissioned from Donatello the bronze David ( now in the Bargello ) for the court of his Palazzo Medici.

Around 1440, he executed a bust of a Young Man with a Cameo now in the Bargello, the first example of a lay bust portrait since the classical era.

The original pressings of the LP featuring " Runnin ' ' Round The World " and the uncensored versions of " Let Me In " and " Run Around " are now worth thousands of dollars on the collectors ' market.

The archive of networked programmes made by Southern Television, for example, is now owned by the Australian media company Southern Star Group ( no connection ) – but Southern's regional output is in the hands of ITV plc, whilst the few surviving tapes of Associated-Rediffusion belong to many different organisations ( the majority of Associated-Rediffusion's tapes were recorded in monochrome and therefore deemed of no use upon the arrival of colour broadcasting ; as such they were disposed of by their successor Thames Television ), although in recent years there have been occasional discoveries such as a 1959 episode of Double Your Money and the remaining missing episode of Around the World with Orson Welles, found by Ray Langstone in 2011.

Around the same time, what is now the flagship institution of Texas State Technical College was founded as James Connally Technical Institute, as a member of the Texas A & M University System.

Around 1450, Johannes Gutenberg developed a printing press, which allowed works of literature to spread more quickly.

Around 4 July, Poisson declared Galois ' work " incomprehensible ", declaring that " argument is neither sufficiently clear nor sufficiently developed to allow us to judge its rigor "; however, the rejection report ends on an encouraging note: " We would then suggest that the author should publish the whole of his work in order to form a definitive opinion.

Around this time, composers of classical music developed a strong interest in traditional song collecting, and a number of outstanding composers carried out their own field work on traditional song.

Around this fort a town gradually developed, which became the centre of a small but important state of great strategic value to France, Germany and the Netherlands.

Around the year 1900 Lord Rayleigh developed the duplex ( combination of two ) theory of human sound localization using two binaural cues, interaural phase difference ( IPD ) and interaural level difference ( ILD ) ( based on analysis of a spherical head with no external pinnae ).

Around this time, Musashi developed a number of disciples for his Enmei-ryū although he had developed the school considerably earlier ; at the age of 22, Musashi had already written a scroll of Enmei-ryū teachings called " Writings on the Sword Technique of the Enmei-ryū " ( Enmei-ryū kenpo sho ).

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

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

Around the turn of the 19th to 20th century, the Slaby-Arco wireless system was developed by Adolf Slaby and Georg von Arco.

Around the middle of the 13th century, various legends developed that, after Richard's capture, his minstrel Blondel travelled Europe from castle to castle, loudly singing a song known only to the two of them ( they had composed it together ).

Around 1966, a schism developed between the peacock mods ( also known as smooth mods ), who were less violent and always wore the latest expensive clothes, and the hard mods ( also known as gang mods, lemonheads or peanuts ), who were identified by their shorter hair and more working class image.

Around July 1891, Tesla developed various alternator apparatuses that produced 15, 000 cycles per second.

Around 1978 Elbit Systems in Israel developed a CP / M capable microcomputer named the DS2100.

Around the late 12th century, a Slavic settlement called Drežďany had developed on the southern bank.

Around this time, Numan also developed his distinctive style.

Around 1450, Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press and independently developed a movable type system in Europe, along with innovations in casting the type based on a matrix and hand mould.

Around the same time, Edmund Fournier d ' Albe developed the Optophone, a handheld scanner that when moved across a printed page, produced tones that corresponded to specific letters or characters.

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 this time Erwin Madelung also developed a hydrodynamic version of Schrödinger's equation which is incorrectly considered as a basis for the density current derivation of the de Broglie – Bohm theory.

Around the same time a group of Māori migrated to Rekohu ( the Chatham Islands ), where, by adapting to the local climate and the availability of resources, they developed a culture known as Moriori — related to but distinct from Māori culture in mainland New Zealand.

Around six years after its birth, an international YMCA conference in Paris decided that the objective of the organisation should become " Christian discipleship developed through a programme of religious, educational, social and physical activities " ( Binfield 1973: 265 ).

Around the top of it a magical species of raven has developed that is much more intelligent than usual.

Around 130 years later, St. Vedast ( also known as St. Vaast ) established an episcopal see in the town and a monastic community, which developed during the Carolingian period into the immensely wealthy Benedictine Abbey of St. Vaast.

Around this time the Sea Bright Skiff was developed in the Northern Jersey Shore.