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 800 Louis the Pious, son of Charlemagne, appointed Einhard, the biographer of Charlemagne, as abbot of both abbeys.

Around 800, 000 years ago, newcomers had settled at Gesher Bnot Yaakov in the northern Rift, introducing the cleaver tradition.

Around 800 AD, they were replaced by the Igneri people, members of the Arawak group.

Around 800 AD Charlemagne established an outpost in what is now Lower Austria, to hold back advances from Slavs and Avars from the East.

Around 800 species have been described, of which around 70 occur in North America, 12 in Great Britain and two in Australia.

Around 800 suggestions were received on the draft rules.

Around the same time, the Alexander Smith and Sons Carpet Company ( in the Saw Mill River Valley ) expanded to 45 buildings, 800 looms, and over 4, 000 workers and was known as one of the premier carpet producing centers in the world.

Around 800 AD the area of the modern municipality of Beemster was covered in peat.

Around 800 AD, the area that now the municipality of Schermer was covered in peat, and a small river called the Schermer flowed through it.

Around the year 800 to 1000, triangular projectile points were developed.

Around 1, 800 BC, during the early Bronze Age, the hill was cleared and used to grow crops, but the soil was quickly exhausted and the site abandoned.

Around 800 Esslingen became a market town, its market rights being certified in 866.

Around AD 750, Chang ' an was called a " million people's city " in Chinese records, while modern estimates put it at around 800, 000 – 1, 000, 000 within city walls.

Around 4, 800 students ( 23 %) are from overseas, with ca.

* Around 2, 800 students have been chosen for academic exchanges since the program's inception in 1995.

Around 800 AD, Iroquois ancestors moved into the area from the Appalachian region.

Around 300 BC, Gojoseon lost significant western territory after a war with the Yan state, but this indicates Gojoseon was already a large enough state that could wage war against Yan and survive the loss of 2000 li ( 800 kilometers ) of territory.

Around 800, during the reign of Charlemagne, settlement by the Bavarii began.

Around 800 years ago, the Wupatki site was the largest pueblo around.

Around 4, 800 men had been lost.

Around 32, 800 km² of mostly boreal forest ( as well as some alpine tundra and meadows ) in the Republic's Northern Ural Mountains have been recognized in 1995 as a UNESCO World Heritage site, Virgin Komi Forests.

Around the year 800, monks from the Sinai Monastery found her remains.

Around 800 people could be seated in the stalls, and the balconies and various en-suite dinner rooms housed about a further 1, 700 seats.

Around 800 AD two major empires emerged in the neighborhood: Kievan Rus in present day Ukraine adopted Orthodox Christianity, the Bolgar kingdom located at the confluence of Kama and Volga rivers adopted Islam, and some Moksha areas became tributaries to the latter until the 12th century.