Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.

Around the same time, due to encouragement from influential speaker Themistocles, the Athenians also constructed the Long Walls connecting their city to the Piraeus, its port, making it effectively invulnerable to attack by land.

Around this time, the county of the City of Dublin was established along with certain liberties adjacent to the city proper.

Around this time, El Cid, with a combined Christian and Moorish army, began maneuvering in order to create his own fiefdom in the Moorish Mediterranean coastal city of Valencia.

Around 200, 000 passengers use the tram network each weekday and within the inner city of Helsinki, trams have established a position as the main form of public transport.

Around this time the House of Savoy came to ( at least nominally ) dominate the city.

Around 1439, Gutenberg was involved in a financial misadventure making polished metal mirrors ( which were believed to capture holy light from religious relics ) for sale to pilgrims to Aachen: in 1439 the city was planning to exhibit its collection of relics from Emperor Charlemagne but the event was delayed by one year due to a severe flood and the capital already spent could not be repaid.

Around 1160, Hanseatic traders from Lübeck established a trading post on the site of the future city of Riga, which Albrecht von Buxthoeven founded in 1201.

Around the 12th century, the Franciscan, Carmelite, Dominican, Servite Order ( see Servants of Mary ) and Augustinian mendicant orders chose to live in city convents among the people instead of being secluded in monasteries.

Around 969, Emperor Nicephorus II Phocas rebuilt the fortifications on the acropolis and in part of the city.

Around the excavated city of Ebla in northern Syria, an Italian mission led by Prof. Paolo Matthiae discovered evidence in 1975 of a great Semitic empire, spreading from the Red Sea north to Turkey and east to Mesopotamia and thriving from 2500 to 2400 BCE.

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

Around 1000 Gilles dance throughout the city from morning until past dusk, whilst traditional carnival songs play.

Around the time of her first husband's death came the initial complaints to the English Council in Dublin from Galway's city leaders that O ' Flaherty and Ní Mháille ships were behaving like pirates.

Around the city there are also two other football pitches, indoor tennis courts, badminton courts and a swimming pool.

Around the city were little villages where the fishermen of Cardo lived.

Around 32 % of the city is occupied by parks, squares and forest preserves which creates a unique and healthy climate.

Around the city there are a series of interconnected lakes and unique cultural landmarks, in particular the parks and palaces of Sanssouci, the largest World Heritage Site in Germany.

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

Around the city itself many other fortresses can still be seen.

Around the city is a large savanna.

Around 350 B. C., suffering from a shortage of grain and scarcity of funds, the rulers of the city passed a resolution calling on citizens who had stores of olive oil to lend to the city at interest.

Around 1530, Cannes detached from the monks who had controlled the city for hundreds of years and became independent.

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 a black hole there is a mathematically defined surface called an event horizon that marks the point of no return.

Around 1649, there was great social unrest in England and many people turned to Oliver Cromwell as England's new leader.

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 396 there were increasing barbarian incursions into Britain, and an expedition — possibly led by Stilicho — brought naval action against the raiders.

Around the turn of the century the Young Poland cultural movement, centered on Galicia and taking advantage of the conducive to liberal expression milieu there, was the source of Poland's finest artistic and literary productions.

Around the 1st century CE there were several small Jewish sects: the Pharisees, Sadducees, Zealots, Essenes, and Christians.

Around 1930, there had been more than ten regions, usually entitled " soviet areas ", under control of the CPC.

Around the time of the radiocarbon-indicated date of the eruption, there is evidence for a significant climatic event in the Northern Hemisphere.

Around many South American cities there are shanty towns.

Around 1780, there were about eight legal distilleries and 400 illegal ones.

is steeped with references to the 1960s popular music scene ( at one point a list of 200 fictional bands performing at the Walpurgisnacht rock festival is reeled off ( including a handful of actual bands of the 60s ), and there are numerous references to the famous rock and roll song, " Rock Around the Clock "), and has influenced many bands and musicians.

Around 1 A. D. there were numerous incursions through Westphalia and perhaps even some permanent Roman or Romanized settlements.

Around 2005, there were of Syrah in Chile.

Around the turn of the 20th century, there were serious labor disputes in the mines near Telluride.

Around schooling age, his father, Johann Bernoulli, encouraged him to study business, there being poor rewards awaiting a mathematician.

Around 1943, presumably to reduce the risk of Luftwaffe bombing, a new dispersed design office was opened at Fairmile Manor in Cobham, Surrey ; little is known of this establishment and nothing survives there today.

Around AD 90, the Romans built a fort there.

As Bill Haley's best-known recording, there have been dozens of compilation album releases over the years entitled Rock Around the Clock.

Around 25 BC, he sailed up the Nile until reaching Philae, after which point there is little record of his proceedings until 17 AD.