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

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.

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

Around 1450 – 1456 he painted his three most famous paintings The Battle of San Romano, the victory of the Florentine army over the Sienese in 1432, for the Palazzo Medici in Florence.

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 1450, there was a split in the clan, and the internal conflict weakened the clan as a whole, causing it to lose the position of kanrei to the Hosokawa clan.

Around 900 – 1450 CE, the Mississippian culture developed and spread through the Eastern United States, primarily along the river valleys.

Around 1450 BCE, the Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III extended his empire to that region and considered Gebel Barkal its southern limit.

Around 1450, Spain and Portugal took the early lead when conditions became right for a capitalist world-economy.

Around 1450, Usodimare fled Genoa to escape his creditors, making his way first to Seville, and then Lisbon.

: Around this time, according to popular opinion, a certain outlaw named Robin Hood, with his accomplices, infested Sherwood and other law-abiding areas of England with continuous robberies.

#: Around 1983 – 1984 a new color identification standard (" Line SECAM or SECAM-H ") has been introduced in order to make more space available inside the signal for adding teletext information ( originally according to the Antiope standard ).

Around 2001, Stethographics introduced PC-based software which enabled a phonocardiograph, graphic representation of cardiologic and pulmonologic sounds to be generated, and interpreted according to related algorithms.

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 11: 18 local time ( 08: 18 UTC ), a small craft approached the port side of the destroyer, and an explosion occurred, creating a 40-by-40-foot gash in the ship's port side, according to the memorial plate to those who lost their lives.

Around 387 BC, at the age of 23, he traveled with the physician Theomedon, who according to Diogenes Laërtius some believed was his lover, to Athens to study with the followers of Socrates.

Around the same time, he received a visit from a German missionary who, according to legend, survived an ordeal by fire, which convinced Harold to convert to Christianity.

Around 20 % of Irish people are affected by SAD, according to a survey conducted in 2007.

Around 500 BC the Fritzens-Sanzeno culture, also known as culture of the Raeti, after the goddess Raetia who according to roman authors was the main deity of the people inhabiting the region, succeeds both the Laugen-Melaun culture of the southern and the Urnfield culture of the northern part of Tyrol.

Around 1986 Johnston and Simmons began working on an album together ( according to a 1989 interview with Simmons ), but abandoned the project soon after with no known finished tracks.

Around 1650, according to Houbraken, he became a student of Rembrandt, eventually developing a close working relationship, painting history scenes, biblical compositions, symbolic studies of a solitary figure, as well as portraits.

Around this time she had a serious romance with David Niven, and according to his authorized biography, even wanted to marry him, but he wasn't faithful to her.

Around the same time, 13th century chronicler Matthew Paris wrote of the monks of St Albans Abbey " according to their custom, lived upon pasties of flesh-meat ".

Around the middle of the 2nd century BC, the Sibylline Oracles mention the " land of Gog and Magog " as " situated in the midst of Aethiopian rivers ", but in a second mention links it with the " Marsians and Dacians ", in eastern Europe ; in both cases they are about to receive " woe ," and according to Boe, " there can be little doubt about the direct use of Ezekiel's oracles " in their composition.

Around the year 455, Juvenal Patriarch of Jerusalem sent to Pope Leo I a fragment of the " precious wood ", according to the Letters of Pope Leo.

Around that time, according to the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII, the Hungarians controlled the region on the border of modern Romania and Hungary along the rivers Timiş, Mureş, Criş, Tisa and Toutis.

Around 1417, ( or possibly 1404 ) as a direct result of his beliefs — which were considered blasphemous by contemporary religious authorities — Nesîmî was seized and, according to most accounts, skinned alive in Aleppo.

Around this time he was given the nickname " Nugget " because, according to Hearn, " you could put your case of money on him and you knew you were going to get paid.

Around 555, according to Procopius, Emperor Justinian ( 527-565 ) renovated the fortifications of Nikopolis, as part of his huge program involving the renewal of city fortifications and the erection of new defences.

Around 1825, according to Charles Babbage's autobiography, he invented the thaumatrope, which was later commercially publicised by Dr. John Ayrton Paris ( to whom the invention is more usually attributed ).

Around this time Bohemond left his wife Theodora, a niece of the recently-deceased Emperor Manuel, and married a woman named Sibylla, " who had the reputation of practicing evil arts " according to William of Tyre.

Around mid 1838 a war of extirpation, according to local magistrate Edmund Denny Day, was waged all along the Gwydir River.

Around 1400, the technique of the diminution motet became common: a long tenor color was repeated several times according to different mensuration rules, making its performance faster by a fixed proportion each time.