On the death of Alexander, around 242 BC, Olympias assumed the regency on behalf of her sons, and married Phthia to Demetrius.

The stadium will be built by builder VolkerWessels, it will cost around 300 million euros (± £ 242 million ).

The Red Creek Fir, ca. 15 km from Port Renfrew, BC, measures 43. 7ft around its base and stretches 242 ft high

The Roman Republic was broke and nearly exhausted and had to borrow money from wealthy citizens to fund the construction of a fleet of 200 Quinquiremes, which blockaded Carthaginian positions in Sicily in 242 BC by seizing the harbor of Drepana and anchorages at Lilybaeum, while Roman soldiers built siege works around Drepanum.

In the 2008 Presidential Election, Republican John McCain received 69. 2 % of the vote ( 19, 173 ballots cast ), outpolling Democrat Barack Obama, who received around 29. 7 % ( 8, 242 votes ), with 27, 750 of the township's 39, 640 registered voters participating, for turnout of 70. 0 %.

This village includes the area around State Highway 242 and the Harper's Landing neighborhood east of I-45 ( opened 1995 ).

Priscus became a member of the Praetorian guard around 242 during Gordian III Persian campaign, and, when Timesitheus – the praetorian prefect – died in 243, he convinced the young emperor to substitute him with his own brother Philip.

Sales of the Coronet were fairly low from this point onwards, with around 80-90, 000 produced each year through 1973 ( compared with 196, 242 as recently as 1968 ), due both to the fuel crisis and to a proliferation of Dodge and Plymouth models, and the growing effect of overlap with the other Chrysler Corporation brands.

The game initially sold around 242, 000 copies, while the number of active subscriptions ( those who play longer than the free month included when buying the game ) was estimated to be around 130, 000, to drop in the next months to about 40, 000.

The town of Abrene itself, which developed around the Pytalovo railroad station, had 1, 242 inhabitants, 484 of them ethnic Latvians.

With a few exceptions, such the. 242 Rimless Nitro Express from the 1920s, and a brief period around 1980 when Remington renamed their. 280 Remington cartridge the 7 mm Express Remington, the label express is today used for short range, big game rifles pushing large, fast bullets.

Based on the 2007 national census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia ( CSA ), Dessie woreda has a total population of 151, 174, of whom 72, 932 are men and 78, 242 women ; 120, 095 or 79. 44 % are urban inhabitants living in the town of Dessie, the rest of the population is living at rural kebeles around Dessie.

Headquartered in Mumbai, financial and commercial capital of India, the Life Insurance Corporation of India currently has 8 zonal Offices and 113 divisional offices located in different parts of India, around 3500 servicing offices including 2048 branches, 54 Customer Zones, 25 Metro Area Service Hubs and a number of Satellite Offices located in different cities and towns of India and has a network of 13, 37, 064 individual agents, 242 Corporate Agents, 79 Referral Agents, 98 Brokers and 42 Banks ( as on 31. 3. 2011 ) for soliciting life insurance business from the public.

During the Achaemenid Persian Empire, around 600 BC the Persians first began to use the abacus.

The oldest known mention of " Atlantic " is in The Histories of Herodotus around 450 BC ( Hdt.

Supporters of Altaic formerly set the date of the Proto-Altaic language at around 4000 BC, but today at around 5000 BC ( Starotsin et al.

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Similarly, around the 3rd century BC, the Brāhmī script developed ( from the Aramaic abjad, it has been hypothesized ).

Early human settlements are believed to have been established on Achill around 3000 BC.

It is believed that at the end of the Neolithic Period ( around 4000 BC ), Achill had a population of 500 – 1, 000 people.

This can be dated back to Hipparchus, who around 190 BC used the catalogue of his predecessors Timocharis and Aristillus to discover the earth ’ s precession.

Eventually, humans learned to smelt metals such as copper and tin from ore, and, around 2500 BC, began alloying the two metals to form bronze, which is much harder than its ingredients.

The first known smelting of iron began in Anatolia, around 1800 BC.

These metals found little practical use until the introduction of crucible steel around 300 BC.

While the use of iron started to become more widespread around 1200 BC, mainly because of interruptions in the trade routes for tin, the metal is much softer than bronze.

It probably was a Thracian town, as Strabo has it, but was afterwards colonized by Milesians, with the consent of Gyges, king of Lydia, around 700 BC.

Together with Pausanias, he later moved to the court of Archelaus, king of Macedon, who was recruiting playwrights ; it is here that he probably died around 401 BC.

But Leotychidas was ultimately set aside as illegitimate, contemporary rumors representing him as the son of Alcibiades, and Agesilaus became king around 401 BC, at the age of about forty.

Akkadian gradually replaced Sumerian as a spoken language somewhere around the turn of the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BC ( the exact dating being a matter of debate ).

Akkadian gradually replaced Sumerian as a spoken language somewhere around the turn of the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BC ( the exact dating being a matter of debate ), but Sumerian continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial, literary and scientific language in Mesopotamia until the 1st century AD.

* Eurypyle, queen of the Amazons who was reported to have led an expedition against Ninus and Babylon around 1760 BC

He died there in around the year 428 BC.

Athenian democracy developed in the Greek city-state of Athens, comprising the central city-state of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica, around 508 BC.

We are not certain that the word " democracy " was extant when systems that came to be called democratic were first instituted, but around 460 BC an individual is known whose parents had decided to name him ' Democrates ', a name which may have been manufactured as a gesture of democratic loyalty ; the name can also be found in Aeolian Temnus, not a particularly democratic state.

The plot revolves around King Leonidas ( Gerard Butler ), who leads 300 Spartans into battle against Persian " god-King " Xerxes ( Rodrigo Santoro ) and his army of more than one million soldiers.

Mike tested the leg and found that he was able to hobble around on it.

She glanced around the clearing, taking in the wagon and the load of supplies and trappings scattered over the ground, the two kids, the whiteface bull that was chewing its cud just within the far reaches of the firelight.

She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

He had spent two hours riding around the ranch that morning, and in broad daylight it was even less inviting than Judith Pierce had made it seem.

I was constantly searching for clues around the neighborhood of the hall.

He looked around in surprise, then noticed that Fred Powell was clutching his chest.

Sweeping a look around, he saw that he was safe for the moment.

The metal strip they had taken off from was coal black against the green jungle around it.

Mrs. Roebuck thought Johnson was a `` sweet bawh t'lah lahk thet '', but her Herman was getting to be a man, there was no getting around it.

But it was only Johnson reaching around the wire chicken fencing, which half covered the truck cab's glassless rear window.

She was still hugging the stained coat around her, so I said, `` Relax, let me take your things.

The girl took a couple of steps toward the man in shorts when Benson, in that barefoot courtliness Ramey could never decide was real, said, `` You don't want to go around there, Ma'am ''.

I've helped him along ever since he was a youngster hanging around his brother's tackle shop.

The enemy came looming around a bend in the trail and Matsuo took a hasty shot, then fled without knowing the result, ran until breath was a pain in his chest and his legs were rubbery.

She munched little ginger cakes called mulatto's belly and kept her green, somewhat hypnotic eyes fixed on a light-colored male who was prancing wildly with a 5-foot king snake wrapped around his bronze neck.

William Gilmore Simms, sturdy realist that he was, pleaded for a natural robustness such as he found in his favorites the great Elizabethans, to vivify the pale writings being produced around him.

The formal displacement of the geocentric principle far from being Copernicus' primary concern, was introduced only to resolve what seemed to him intolerable in orthodox astronomy, namely, the ' unphysical ' triplication of centric reference-points: one center from which the planet's distances were calculated, another around which planetary velocities were computed, and still a third center ( the earth ) from which the observations originated.

The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.

But Mercer's explanation was simple: `` I made out the check and carried it around a few days unsigned -- in case I lost it ''.

She reached and reached around the dress, but there was nothing there.

As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

The Prince took her with him on every tour around the area, and it was rumored he was utilizing her knowledge of Constantinople as part of his espionage network.