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month and prior
One month prior to the end of the 1961 season, Richards resigned as the team's skipper to become the general manager of the expansion Houston Colt 45s.
Each year, most of the trackside fencing, pedestrian overpasses, grandstands and other motorsport infrastructure are erected approximately a month prior to the Grand Prix weekend and removed within 6 weeks after the event.
A month prior to the regular season, the Marlins hired David Dombrowski as the third President in club history, making him both President and General Manager.
In November 2007, Brooks performed nine sold-out shows in Kansas City at the Sprint Center, which had opened a month prior.
From the 12th to the 17th century “ handfasting ” in England referred to a ceremony, usually about a month prior to a church wedding, at which the marrying couple formally declared that each accepted the other as spouse.
This approach is presumed to have been employed in the case of Dan Rather over a story that he ran on 60 Minutes in the month prior to the 2004 election that attempted to impugn the military record of George W. Bush by relying on allegedly fake documents that were provided by Bill Burkett, a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Texas Army National Guard.
The FARC-EP had called its planned release of the hostages a gesture of recognition for the mediation efforts of Chávez, who had called on the international community to recognize the rebels as belligerents a month prior.
However, prior to Islam's exclusion of intercalary days from its calendar, the name of this month was called Natiq and to the intercalary days added always occurred in the warm season.
The Italian feature film Cabiria ( 1914 ), directed by Giovanni Pastrone, was the first popular film to use dolly shots, which in fact were originally called " Cabiria movements " by contemporary filmmakers influenced by the film ; however, some smaller American and English films had used the technique prior to Cabiria, as well as Yevgeni Bauer's The Child of the Big City, released a month prior to Cabiria.
One month prior to the release of this third album, in April 1981, the Undertones embarked on their ' Positive Touch tour '; this tour saw the band perform a total of 36 gigs across the UK mainland in the space of less than two months.
Surprising his doctors, White lived five years longer than predicted but died in April 1990, one month prior to his high school graduation.
The next part of the surgery can be done in one or two steps and is usually done at six to twelve month intervals from each prior surgery.
Stilwell had until the prior month been a deputy for Sheriff Behan but had been fired for " accounting irregularities ".
However, within a month, Lulu is back home, having discovered that Ninian was already legally married: 18 years prior he had wed a girl who left him after 2 years, and he had actually forgotten about the whole thing.
That month, Parliament declared Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York ( the Princes in the Tower ) illegitimate because their father, Edward IV's marriage to Elzabeth Woodville was bigamous, by way of a prior pre-contract of marriage with Eleanor Butler.
* the resource can be reliably measured – otherwise the stable measuring unit assumption is applied under the Historical Cost Accounting model: i. e. it is assumed that the monetary unit of account ( the functional currency ) is perfectly stable ( zero inflation or deflation ); it is simply assumed that there is no inflation or deflation ever, and items are stated at their original nominal Historical Cost from any prior date: 1 month, 1 year, 10 or 100 or 200 or more years before ; i. e. the stable measuring unit assumption is applied to items such as issued share capital, retained earnings, capital reserves, all other items in shareholders ´ equity, all items in the Statement of Comprehensive Income ( except salaries, wages, rentals, etc., which are inflation-adjusted annually ), etc.
The K ' iche ' performed the Great Dance of Tohil in honour of the deity in the month of Tz ' ikin Q ' ij, prior to the maize harvest ( which takes place in November ).
Less than one month prior to August 29, 1994, Dell moved 1, 100 customer support and telephone sales employees to Round Rock.
Whitman explained to a family friend that the catalyst for his decision to join the Marines was an incident that had occurred the month prior to his enlistment when his father had beaten him and thrown him into the family swimming pool, almost drowning him, after he had returned home drunk after an evening socializing with friends.
Ripley is the home of the First Monday Trade Day held the weekend prior to the first Monday of every month.
Early Saturday morning, 26 October, forces from Russia's Spetsnaz ( Special Forces, literally " special purpose ") from the FSB ( Alpha Group and Vympel ), with the assistance of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs ( MVD ) SOBR unit, surrounded and stormed the theater, first through the gay club Central Station that had opened a month prior in the underground level of the building ; all were heavily armed and masked.
Conversely, citizens may find themselves ineligible because they do not currently reside within the United States ; exceptions apply for children of military parent ( s ) who were born overseas, were disabled or became blind overseas, or first applied for benefits overseas and for students studying abroad who were eligible for SSI in the month prior to leaving the US, whose absence will be for less than 1 year, and who are studying to enhance their ability to perform substantial gainful activity, sponsored by an educational institution in the US, and would not be available to the individual in the US.
Payments for SSI are made for the first day of the month, unless the first of the month is on a Weekend or a legal holiday, in which case the payment is made on the first day prior that is not a weekend or a legal holiday.

month and siege
This time the defenders were able to hold off the attack with cannon fire, but after a month of siege they ran out of ammunition.
The border city of Vukovar underwent a three month siegethe Battle of Vukovar — during which most of the city was destroyed and a majority of the population was forced to flee.
After an 18 month siege Jerusalem was captured in 587 BC, thousands of Jews were deported to Babylon and Solomon's Temple was razed to the ground.
The Prince of Hesse joined him, thus leaving the town ( he would die one month later in the siege of Barcelona ).
Fighting was not yet over, however ; in June 1677, 14, 000 Danish troops laid siege to Malmö for a month, but were unable to conquer the Swedish troops holding it.
The major battles were all fought in one month ( 7 August till 1 September ), and both French armies were captured at Sedan and Metz, the latter after a siege of some weeks.
He took the offensive and, apart from a five month siege of Andely, he swept all before him.
Grant forced Lee into a long nine month siege of Petersburg and the Union war effort stalled.
* July 12 – Siege of Haarlem: Spanish forces under the Duke of Alva capture Haarlem after a seven month siege.
* September 14 – Eighty Years ' War: After a 5 month long siege ,'s-Hertogenbosch surrenders to Frederick Henry.
** December 12 – after a month siege, the crusaders take Maarat and massacre part of the population.
* May 10 – Thirty Years ' War: After a two month siege, an Imperial army under the command of Tilly storms the German city of Magdeburg and brutally sacks it, massacring over 20, 000 inhabitants.
* 1285 – April 25 – Mamluk sultan Qalawun begins a siege of the Crusader fortress of Margat ( in present-day Syria ), a major stronghold of the Knights Hospitaller thought to be impregnable ; he captures the fortress a month later.
** June 19 – the city of Nicaea falls to the Crusaders after a month siege.
After the citizens refused to open the gates of Avignon to King Louis VIII of France and the papal Legate, a three month siege ensued starting on 10 June 1226, and ending in capitulation by Avignon on 13 September 1226.
However, the story is almost certainly untrue ; during the siege, which lasted only one month, no battering rams were used, although many cannons were.
* Alfonso V of Aragon captures Naples after a five month siege.
* April 25 – Mamluk sultan Qalawun begins a siege of the Crusader fortress of Margat ( in present-day Syria ), a major stronghold of the Knights Hospitaller thought to be impregnable ; he captures the fortress a month later.
Although the Knights lifted the siege of the castle after a month, they reduced much of the outer city to ruins.
Colonel Thomas Horton defeated the Royalist rebels at the battle of St. Fagans in May and the rebel leaders surrendered to Cromwell on July 11 after the protracted two month siege of Pembroke.
In 1662, following a nine month siege, Koxinga captured the Dutch fortress Zeelandia and Taiwan became his base ( see Kingdom of Tungning ).
After a two month siege, Rome capitulated on June 29, 1849, and the Pope was restored.
* It may mean " at / to the year of the siege of Mount Badon ... which happened 44 years and one month ago, and which is year of my birth ".
Necho responded the following year by retaking Kumukh after a four month siege, and executed the Babylonian garrison.

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