The gateway town of Lençóis was founded around 1844 as a mining centre and although it doesn't have the impressive monuments and churches of the colonial Portuguese towns in Brazil's hinterland, it has its full share of peaceful charm.
Macao was founded around 1557.
The Promised Day Brigade (PDB) was founded around November 2008.
Shelter was founded around then and campaigning was already going on, so the two went together.
The Company was founded around the discovery of a novel type of adult stem cell, the Early Lineage Adult (ELA) stem cell.
His reference to 1753, the year the British Museum was founded around Hans Sloane's personal collection, is hardly coincidental.
The Barakaat Group was founded around 1989 by a former banker in Somalia, Ahmed Nur Ali Jumale.
It was founded around a 12th-century castle where Christopher II died (1332) and where Christian V was married (1667), and it was chartered in 1539.
Old Nisa was founded around 171 bc by Mithradates I to serve as a royal Parthian residence and necropolis, as well as the kingdom's capital.
And it's true that the library was founded around that time, as I was able to confirm on my most recent visit to Pringles, a few months ago.
It was founded around 300 B.C. by Ptolemy I, who had inherited Alexandria, a brand-new city, from Alexander the Great.
