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 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 1900, Germany in particular was taking a more aggressive stance towards the territory and was accused of sabotage and of obstructing the administrative process in order to force the issue.

Around 1900, German physicist Arthur Korn invented the Bildtelegraph, widespread in continental Europe especially, since a widely noticed transmission of a wanted-person photograph from Paris to London in 1908, used until the wider distribution of the radiofax.

Around 1900 BCE they were replaced by angular harps with verti-cal ( fig.

Around 1900 an English translation was made by Baha ' i Anton Haddad, which circulated among the early American Bahá ' í community in a typewritten form.

Around 1900, producers bent the tin that formed the bottom of a pan into a series of flues, which increased the heated surface area of the pan and again decreased boiling time.

Adorno also became increasingly involved with the publishing house of Peter Suhrkamp, inducing the latter to publish Benjamin ’ s Berlin Childhood Around 1900, Kracauer ’ s writings and a two-volume edition of Benjamin ’ s writings.

Around 1900 infant mortality rates ( IMR ) in Uruguay were among the world's lowest, indicating a very healthy population.

Around 1900, a movement began for providing citizens, especially factory workers, with healthier environments.

Around 1900, Ravel joined with a number of innovative young artists, poets, critics, and musicians who were referred to as the Apaches ( hooligans ), a name coined by Viñes to represent his band of " artistic outcasts ".

Around the 1900 Assen began to play a more prominent industrial role.

Around 1900 the area got an enormous growth of population when a combination of reviving Catholicism and economic recovery caused high birthrates.

Around 1900, CICM missionaries started a project to " purify " the language in order to make it " pure Bantu " again.

Around 1900 he became the manager of a real estate firm in the then semi-rural suburb of Auburn.

Around 1900, the Baltimore Gold Fish Company built five artificial lakes in the area to spawn goldfish and rare species of fish.

Around 1900 and before the essentialist primordialist understanding of ethnicity was predominant, cultural differences between peoples were seen as being the result of inherited traits and tendencies.

Around 1900, the Grand Hotel was built by a stock company on the southeast corner of Main and Oak Streets.

Around 1900, however, the Rock Island Railroad was built through what is now the town of Meta, and as that town grew, Babbtown dwindled away.

Around the year 1900, three large saw mills were built in the town, making it prosper.

Around the year 1900, 1, 000 people were employed there, making it one of the largest working places in Sweden.

Around 1900, the Douglas Coal and Coke Company purchased of land in the Dunlap vicinity with plans to mine coal and convert the coal into industrial coke.

Around 1900 the community was a major cotton center, with a number of gins, cotton compresses, and cottonseed oil mills.

Around 1900, the property was taken over by Puget Sound National Bank and sold to a group of Seattle men who used it as a family retreat for Sunday picnics and summer camping.

Around 1900, many people left East Frisia due to lack of jobs and emigrated to the United States or elsewhere.

Around 1900, one in four ethnic Chinese men in the U. S. worked in a laundry, typically working 10 to 16 hours a day.