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Around the billiard tables were always at least a couple of dozen beribboned generals.
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Around 30 massage tables are in near constant use.
Around the same time, in the late 1990s, as the dot-com boom led to a rapid growth in the ' new media ' of web page creation and design, there began a trend of using HTML tables, and their rows, columns and cells, to control the layout of whole web pages.
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Around the 5th century, Indian clerks were already finding new ways of recording the contents of the Abacus.
Around 338 BC the orator Hyperides ( fragment 13 ) claimed that there were 150, 000 slaves in Attica, but this figure is probably not more than an impression: slaves outnumbered those of citizen stock but did not swamp them.
Around the dynastic Tang, Song, and early Ming Period, cuirasses and plates ( mingguangjia ) were also used, with more elaborate versions for officers in war.
Around 446 BC, they were given the authority to care for the decrees of the senate ( senatus consulta ).
Around 100 of these instruments were made during this period.
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 1960s, the study of physical properties of liquids were added to this list, and it came to be known as condensed matter physics.
Around 100 were killed.
Around the house prowled strangely docile lions and wolves, the drugged victims of her magic ; they were not dangerous, and fawned on all newcomers.
Around 150 cane toads were introduced to Oahu in Hawaii in 1932, and the population swelled to 105, 517 after 17 months.
Around 1. 5 to 1. 8 Mya, a variety of wolves were present in Europe.
Around 190 AD under the leadership of the scholar Pantanaeus, the school of Alexandria became an important institution of religious learning, where students were taught by scholars such as Athenagoras, Clement, Didymus, and the native Egyptian Origen, who was considered the father of theology and who was also active in the field of commentary and comparative Biblical studies.
Around 1994 and 1995, WADs were primarily distributed online over bulletin board systems or sold in collections on compact discs in computer shops, sometimes bundled with editing guide books.
Around fifty structures were erected, restored or completed, achievements second only to those of Augustus.
Around year 960, the Brethren of Purity of Basra were engaged in their Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity.
Around 2 am, a few boats were finally procured for the crossing.
Around 1388, the city's fortifications were strengthened further.
Around 3, 400 complaints were received, with viewers branding the storyline " insensitive ", " irresponsible " and " desperate ".
Around the excavation of the 18 shrines found on the spot, thousands of carp bones were found, consumed possibly in feasts to the God.
Around 8, 000-9, 000 Finnish Reds defended Helsinki ; their best troops, however, were located in the more northern main front of the 1918 war.
Around 8, 000 Reds were captured.
Around 100, 000 Goths were reportedly killed in battle, and Ariaricus, son of the King of the Goths, was captured.
Around 1350 Germany and almost the whole of Europe were ravaged by the Black Death.
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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 30 % of all games always have a Set among the 12 cards, and thus never need to go to 15 cards.
Around the same time, the band were recording material for the next Thin Lizzy album, and as before, the sessions seemed to merge to the extent that musicians were not always sure which album they were working on.
Around this time she acquired the nickname " Butterfly "— a tribute to her constantly moving hands — for her performance of the Butterfly Ballet in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream ( she had always hated her birth name, and later legally changed her name to Butterfly McQueen ).
In the film Around the World in 80 Days ( 1956 film ), Phileas Fogg tells the steward on the RMS Mongolia from Suez to India that his Thursday mid-day meal " has always been, and will always be, hot soup, fried sole, roast beef and Yorkshire Pudding, baked potato, suet pudding and treacle ".
" Around the same time, he was reported as commenting, " I just don't think clean behind the fridge enough " and that " I am here to represent Yorkshire women who always have dinner on the table when you get home.
Around the village lie numerous farms and large areas of woodland, including Hilhouse Wood, always known locally as Bluebell Wood, which was purchased by The Woodland Trust with the help of local people.
Woodson always referred to Pinkney as his Father in the music business and Woodson sang Walk Around Heaven All Day at Pinkney's Homegoing service in July, 2007.
Around a hundred pages of articles on cricketing topics, including the introductory " Notes by the Editor ", which address often controversial cricket issues and always provoke discussion in the cricketing world.
He finally achieved the success he always wanted with two Top 10 country hits, " These Lonely Hands of Mine " and " She'll Be Hanging Around Somewhere ".
Around this time he became a priest, though his appointments were rarely lucrative ; indeed he always complained about money.
When Namor decided to start a financial empire a short time later, Nita joined him as a member of the board of Oracle, Inc. Around Namor, Namorita was always deferential, but around the Warriors she would act tough.
Around 1779, he had acquired Somerford Hall, due west of Brewood, and always an important centre of influence locally.
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If nothing else, at least two good songs came out of the project, `` Out Of This World '' and `` June Comes Around Every Year ''.
Around the world today are a number of banks, companies, charities, and schools for developing co-operative forms of business using Steiner's ideas about economic associations, aiming at harmonious and socially responsible roles in the world economy.
Around a third of the male population attended at the club.
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.
Around 2, 700 students also attend Bachelor of Science engineering programmes, merchant marine and other undergraduate courses at Campus Lindholmen.
Around the 12th century AD, the Sultanate of Ifat was established in Djibouti and northern Somalia, eastern Ethiopia with its capital at Zeila in northern Somalia.
Around 10, 000 Allied troops arrived in Darwin in the early 1940s at the outset of World War II, in order to defend Australia's northern coastline.
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 523, the Jewish king Dhu Nuwas came to power in Yemen and, announcing that he would kill all the Christians, attacked an Aksumite garrison at Zafar, burning the city's churches.
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 the city there are tiny placards on the walls noting where the flood waters reached at their highest point.
Around the same time he was living in Denver, Colorado, where he hosted a show at local radio station KHIH on Sunday nights called " Gary Coleman's Colorado High ", where he played light jazz and new age music.
Around this time the House of Savoy came to ( at least nominally ) dominate the city.
DJ Lethal became a member of nu metal band Limp Bizkit, who would cover " Jump Around " at live concerts, particularly in Limp Bizkit's early years during the Family Values Tour 1998.
Around 105, however, there appears to have been a serious setback at the hands of the tribes of the Picts of Alba: several Roman forts were destroyed by fire, with human remains and damaged armour at Trimontium ( at modern Newstead, in SE Scotland ) indicating hostilities at least at that site.
Around 800, 000 years ago, newcomers had settled at Gesher Bnot Yaakov in the northern Rift, introducing the cleaver tradition.
Around 500 people lived in the town in 1086 ( at the time of the Domesday Book ).
Around the 9th century CE, the central Sudanic Empire of Kanem, with its capital at Njimi, was founded by the Kanuri-speaking nomads.
Around thunderstorms, hail is most likely within the cloud at elevations above.
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