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

* Around 980 – 982, Eric the Red discovered Greenland, geographically and geologically a part of the Americas.

Around this time Johann Bernoulli's two sons, Daniel and Nicolas, were working at the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg.

Around the retired emperor, a variant Imperial court ( In no Chō ( 院庁 ) evolved around the retired emperors.

Around the same time, the Imperial Family was fleeing revolutionary Vienna for the calmer setting of Innsbruck, in Tyrol.

Around 260 FE, a rebel leader named Gilmer attempted a coup, in the process sacking Trantor and forcing the Imperial family to flee to the nearby world of Delicass, renamed Neotrantor.

Around the 6th century, the local chieftainship gained national control and established the Imperial court in Yamato Province.

Around 700 A. D., there is record of Emishi presenting local marine products at the Imperial Court, which may have encouraged immigration to the area.

Around the year 1000 Treviglio housed the inhabitants of Oriano, a commune near Brescia, which had been destroyed in the course of the struggle between Arduin of Ivrea and Henry II for the Imperial crown.

Around 446 BC, they were given the authority to care for the decrees of the senate ( senatus consulta ).

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.

The Economist magazine praised Sowell's books Affirmative Action Around the World as " terse, well argued and utterly convincing " and " crammed with striking anecdotes and statistics " and Economic Facts and Fallacies: " Mr Sowell marshals his arguments with admirable clarity and authority.

Around two thousand Roman soldiers and mercenaries, the so-called Gabiniani, were stationed in Alexandria to ensure Ptolemy XII's authority on the throne.

Around 440, Pope Leo I began using the title Pontifex Maximus to emphasize the civil authority of the Pope and the continuity of imperial power.

Around the same time, Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria made overtures to John, offering the renounce his nation ’ s obedience to the Patriarch of Constantinople, and place his kingdom under the ecclesiastical authority of the popes at Rome.

Around this time, he proclaimed himself " General Manager of Heat ", a title which carried no actual authority.

Around 2010-11, the authority of Rourkela Airport was passed over to Airport Authority of India.

Around the world, countries accord their head of state or other competent authority with the power to issue a pardon or reduce a sentence either in consultation with other parts of the government or unilaterally.

Around 1130 the monastery was given to Augustinian Canons Regular by the authority of the cathedral in Armagh, under Saint Malachy.