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 the same time, on the North slope, in a cave next to the one dedicated to Pan since the classical period, a sanctuary was founded where the archons dedicated to Apollo on taking office.

Around the same time, in France, Charles-Louis Havas extended the services of his news agency, Havas to include advertisement brokerage, making it the first French group to organize.

That same year Dutch rapper Extince released his first record: Rap Around The Clock.

Around the same time, his mansion in Wisconsin was destroyed by a nor ' easter.

Around the same time his songwriting companion Ulvaeus met vocalist Agnetha Fältskog.

Around the same time Ban Johnson changed the name of his minor league ( Western League ) to the American League.

Around the same time, East Bay Ray had tried to pressure the rest of the band to sign to the major record label Polydor Records ; Biafra stated that he was prepared to leave the group if the rest of the band wanted to sign to the label, though East Bay Ray asserts that he recommended against signing with Polydor.

Around the same time, perhaps in 287, Persia relinquished claims on Armenia and recognized Roman authority over territory to the west and south of the Tigris.

Around the same time, the disco-influenced electronic style of dance music called house music emerged in Chicago.

Around the same time as Daihachi Oguchi ’ s Taiko ensemble's name was spreading around Japan via radio and television broadcasts, another pioneer in the field called, Sukeroku Daiko, emerged.

Around the same time, Elvis Presley indicated, that he wanted to cover the song.

Around the same time, Charles Elton pioneered the concept of food chains in his classical book Animal Ecology.

Around the same time, they met Italian movie producer Dino De Laurentiis, the owner of production and distribution company DEG.

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 same time various immigrants, such as the Hittites in Anatolia and Mycenaean Greeks, started appearing around the peripheries of civilization.

Around the same time, Microsoft released Windows for Workgroups ( WfW ), which was available both as an add-on for existing Windows 3. 1 installations and in a version that included the base Windows environment and the networking extensions all in one package.

Around this same time, the Protestant Reformation, led in France mainly by John Calvin, was challenging the power of the Catholic Church in France.

Around the same time, the X-30 scramjet programme was announced in America.

Around the same time, an extended-release hydrocodone-only product was apparently close to final approval for marketing in the United States, and single-ingredient tablets of oxycodone and codeine were being marketed.

Around the same time, Robert Watson-Watt, working at the Radio Research Station in Slough, UK, suggested that the ionospheric sporadic E layer ( Es ) appeared to be enhanced as a result of lightning but that more work was needed.

Around this time, Scott Miller of Apogee Software learned of the group and their exceptional talent, having played one of John Romero's Softdisk games, Dangerous Dave, and contacted Romero under the guise of multiple fan letters that Romero came to realize all originated from the same address.

Around the same time, he gave money for a Spanish Republican Army ambulance during the Spanish Civil War, which he put down to being " a soft touch ", an act which enhanced his liberal reputation.

Around the same time, he appeared in two episodes of a twist-in-the-tale episode of the British TV series, Tales of the Unexpected, with Wendy Hiller ( 1979 ), and Gloria Grahame ( 1980 ).

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 year 960, the Brethren of Purity of Basra were engaged in their Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity.

Around two million people visit the canal each year on pleasure cruises and related activities.

Around the year 197, Rome divided Britannia into two provinces, Britannia Superior and Britannia Inferior ; sometime after 305, Britannia was further divided, and made into an imperial diocese.

Around 2 million people visit this fun fair every year.

Around 713 BC, the semi-mythical successor of Romulus, King Numa Pompilius, is supposed to have added the months of January and February, allowing the calendar to equal a standard lunar year ( 354 days ).

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 9600 BCE the droughts and cold of the Younger Dryas Stadial had come to an end, making it possible for Natufian groups to extend the duration of their stay, eventually leading to year round habitation and permanent settlement.

Around the year 1000, when the area was under Polish rule, the stronghold became seat of the Diocese of Kołobrzeg.

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 the year 1000, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kraków was created, and its borders covered whole area of Lesser Poland.

Around 300 to 400 horses are nominated each year, but the final field is limited to 24 starters.

Around July of each year, these ungainly animals migrate north from the Serengeti plains in search of fresh pasture, and return to the south around October.

Around the turn of the year, White Boy began giving notoriously crazed performances.

Also that year, Abdul co-wrote the song " Spinning Around " with songwriter and producer Kara DioGuardi, who became a fellow judge on American Idol in 2009.

In terms of its wide cultural impact across society in the US and elsewhere, Bill Haley's " Rock Around the Clock ", recorded in April 1954 but not a commercial success until the following year, is generally recognized as an important milestone, but it was preceded by many recordings from earlier decades in which elements of rock and roll can be clearly discerned.

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 1. 4 million passengers and 15, 000 to 17, 000 tonnes of cargo pass through it each year.

Around 1968, she was married to cinematographer Salah Kurayyem ; the marriage lasted for approximately one year.

Around 30, 000 breweries sprang up around the country within a year.

Around the year 890, Wulfstan of Hedeby ( by his own account ) undertook a seven-days boat journey from Hedeby to Truso at the behest of king Alfred the Great.

Around 950 long-finned pilot whales ( Globicephala melaena, actually a species of dolphin ) are slain each year, mainly during the summer.

The joining together of the Union Pacific line with the Central Pacific line in May 1869 at Promontory Summit, Utah, was one of the major inspirations for French writer Jules Verne's book entitled Around the World in Eighty Days, which was published in the year 1873.

Around the year 982, Imperial authority in Slavic territory extended as far east as the Lusatian Neisse River and as far south as the Ore Mountains.

Around the year 2000, due to overfishing and high demand, lobster aquaculture expanded.