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 200 AD, ten of the plays of Euripides began to be circulated in a select edition, possibly for use in schools, with some commentaries or scholia recorded in the margins.

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 Perthshire, about 200 kilometres away from Aberdeen, an extremely dense cluster of four-posters occurs.

Around AD 200, Clement of Alexandria noted that John's gospel was a " spiritual gospel ", distinct from the Synoptics.

Around 1760 the university reputation dropped as the number of students fell below 200, most of whom hailed from around the province.

Around 1, 200 of these were employed in its main, poorly-paid, lace-making industry.

Around 400 to 700 pounds ( 200 – 300 kg ) of explosive were used.

Around 186, 000 tickets were sold beforehand and organizers anticipated approximately 200, 000 festival-goers would turn up.

* July 28 – Around 200 die in explosion at a chemical plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

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 200, 000 girls and women, mostly from Korea and China, were conscripted into sexual slavery, with the euphemism " comfort women ".

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

His subsequent recording Around the World in a Day held the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 for three weeks.

Around 200 boys from Repton School stayed on during the school holidays so that they could appear in the film.

Around 2000, worldwide Vee racing had re-established itself as a 1, 200 / 1, 300 cc beginner class with wingless cars and VW engines outputting about, but incorporating more modern chassis and tyres.

Around 841, the Republic of Venice sent a fleet of 60 galleys ( each carrying 200 men ) to assist the Byzantines in driving the Arabs from Crotone, but it failed.

Around 6: 15 P. M. another two flares were shot, this time from a helicopter ( one was green and another one was red ) as 5, 000 soldiers, 200 tankettes and trucks surrounded the plaza.

Around the age of seventeen, he kills over 200 men on the base, and then cuts off his own face, this last act being interpreted as part of his efforts to reject his father.

Around this time, Licking was the site of one of the largest stock shows in the state, with as many as 200 wagons lining the streets for this event.

Around 200, 000 visitors attend each year and more and more people are coming every year.

Around the same time, Guy Hands, CEO of Terra Firma Capital Partners, came to EMI with restructuring plans to cut between 1, 500 and 2, 000 jobs and to reduce costs by £ 200 million a year.

1997's Around the Fur was far more successful, peaking at number one on the Billboard Heatseekers chart, and in 29th position on Billboard 200.

Around 200 million years ago, Pangaea started to break up.

Around 200 died here ; more died afterwards, when the Nazis sent the prisoners on death marches in April 1945 fearing the Allied advance.