The nocturnal hunter is known for its chilling screech and has long been associated with agricultural activities in Ireland, attracted to the rodent activity around grain stores and barns.

The Dead Sea has attracted visitors from around the Mediterranean basin for thousands of years.

Modern ecology is a young science that first attracted substantial scientific attention toward the end of the 19th century ( around the same time that evolutionary studies were gaining scientific interest ).

After shopping the script around overseas, Beck eventually attracted the interest of the Japanese studio Toho.

At its prime, the site attracted around 80, 000 visitors a year, but in March 2010 BT announced that the visitor centre would be " Closed for Easter and beyond, until further notice.

" Copious springs in and around the city attracted human habitation for thousands of years.

He was attracted to Cornwall by the Newlyn group of artists but he ended up starting a second group based around his adopted home of Lamorna.

They attracted other young people with radical political ideas around them, forming a society known as the New People's Study Society who debated Chen Duxiu's ideas.

Various acrobatic maneuvers can be performed, including the " Paraloop ", whereby flying around in a complete circle causes any items within the loop to be attracted towards Nights.

Part of the chain link fence put in place around the site of the blast, which had attracted over 800, 000 personal items of commemoration later collected by the Oklahoma City Memorial Foundation, is now on the western edge of the memorial.

In 1929 the fairs site was the venue for a major National Exhibition ( Powszechna Wystawa Krajowa, popularly PeWuKa ) marking the tenth anniversary of independence ; it attracted around 4. 5 million visitors.

In around 1070 he founded a yeshiva which attracted many disciples.

Despite the church's firm stand against blues music and the sinful world which revolved around it, House became attracted to it and taught himself guitar in his mid 20s, after moving back to the Clarksdale area, inspired by the work of Willie Wilson.

This independent USA based organization has attracted the attention of numerous adherents from other countries, and is in fellowship with other Unitarian faith based organizations around the world.

Although he reserved a distaste for abstract and dogmatic religions founded around personality cults, he was attracted to the type of people he met at the Golden Dawn.

On 13 July 2002, Fatboy Slim performed the second of his free, open air concerts on Brighton Beach, named The Big Beach Boutique II, Although organisers expected a crowd of around 60, 000 people, the event instead attracted an estimated 250, 000 who crammed the promenade and beach between Brighton's piers.

The coal mine, established by Friedrich Reden, attracted workers, and a settlement was soon established around it.

Pavia held out against the domination of Milan, finally yielding to the Visconti family, rulers of that city in 1359 ; under the Visconti Pavia became an intellectual and artistic centre, being the seat from 1361 of the University of Pavia founded around the nucleus of the old school of law, which attracted students from many countries.

Playing his kithara, Arion sang a praise to Apollo, the god of poetry, and his song attracted a number of dolphins around the ship.

The war attracted tens of thousands of laborers from around the country, though most were poor whites and blacks from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas — sharecroppers and tenant farmers who had been recruited by Henry J. Kaiser to work in his shipyards.

Deliberate or not, the episode attracted widespread media attention, being reported by newspapers around the world.

There were around 1, 000 whites there, joined by Brazilian Jews, attracted by religious freedom which was granted to all the settlers by the English.

This led the elite to be attracted to certain lands while leaving other lands, especially those around former volcanic eruptions, to the poor subsistence farming mestizos and the Indian communes.

The Hindu nationalist movement has attracted privileged groups fearing encroachment on their dominant positions, and also " plebeian " and impoverished groups seeking recognition around a majoritarian rhetoric of cultural pride, order, and national strength.

Dorking lost its stagecoaches when the railways arrived, but now attracted wealthy residents who built large houses in and around Dorking, such as Denbies House and Pippbrook House ( now with Council Offices in the grounds ).

The 2006 Daytona 500 attracted the sixth largest average live global TV audience of any sporting event that year with 20 million viewers.

The Shakers built more than twenty settlements that attracted at least 20, 000 converts over the next century.

An estimated 20 – 40 % of fledging Barau's Petrels and 45-60 % of fledging Cory's Shearwater are attracted to the streetlights on Réunion and Tenerife, respectively.

In the years since 17, 000 to 20, 000 tickets are consistently sold, an increase over the first Parade Ball held in 1980 at the Paddington Town Hall, a BYO event which attracted 700 guests.

* The Hoggetowne Medieval Faire has attracted thousands of fairgoers for over 20 years

Within a year and a half, the newly established city had attracted 500 residents with over 120 buildings including two hotels, 20 stores and a school.

In 2009 Them Crooked Vultures, a supergroup that brought together Foo Fighters ' Dave Grohl, Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme and Led Zeppelin bass player John Paul Jones attracted attention as a live act and released a self-titled debut album that reached the top 20 in the US and UK and the top ten in several other countries.

An estimated 20 – 40 % of fledging Barau's Petrels are attracted to the streetlights on Réunion.

On 16 April 1938, Mount Panorama attracted 20, 000 spectators to its first race, The Australian Tourist Trophy and in 2006 the crowd figure reached 194, 000 for the 3 day Bathurst 1000 event.

In 1875 he was named Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford and in 1876 assumed the new Chair of Chinese Language and Literature at Oxford, where he attracted few students to his lectures but worked hard for some 20 years in his study at 3 Keble Terrace, on his translations of the Chinese classics.

Longwick was the location for the Sunrise / Back to the Future Acid House party on 12 August 1989, which attracted over 20, 000 people, and considered to be one of the most significant, and best, parties of its era.

In 1960, a SANE rally was held at Madison Square Garden that attracted 20, 000 to hear Eleanor Roosevelt, Norman Cousins, Norman Thomas, A. Philip Randolph, Walter Reuther, and Harry Belafonte call for an end to the arms race.

County achieved a notable milestone in 2004, when the club attracted a more than as more than 20, 000 crowd for one of its tour matches in China.

Though Whitey reminds him that he lost his chance with her 20 years ago, Davey still finds himself attracted to Jennifer.

The event attracted 250, 000 foreign visiting pilgrims to Sydney, with an estimated 400, 000 pilgrims attending Holy Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI on 20 July.

At one point, Bjelke-Petersen attracted 20 percent support in opinion polls.

They attracted audiences of up to 20 million viewers.

An annual parade of locomotives takes place at the start of May – the 2007 event, which also celebrated the roundhouse's centenary, attracted 20, 000 visitors.

The youthful and adolescent nature of their music attracted a large audience, both at home and abroad — thousands covered the Gran Vía Madrileña during the release of their two films and Lima's Jorge Chávez International Airport was nearly closed due to the 20, 000 fans that congregated on the landing runway during their first visit to Perú.

The event attracted only about 20, 000.

There was a greyhound stadium to the south-west of Elland Road which closed in 1982 and a speedway track known as Fullerton Park, which operated between the two world wars, attracted audiences in the range of 10, 000 – 20, 000 people.

This attracted a television audience of 20 million.

Despite losing 20 – 21 to " London " Wasps, the game attracted 76000 spectators.

First was the O405 based Cityranger which attracted an order of 20 from GRT Holdings ( 14 for Grampian Regional Transport and 6 for Midland Bluebird-all are now based at First Greater Manchester ) along with a solitary example for Stevensons of Uttoxeter.