Before being disfranchised by the Democrats ' passage in 1899 of a new state constitution that included discriminatory provisions, black citizens elected four African Americans to the US Congress from North Carolina's 2nd congressional district in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

Before her death in June 1899 Lady Shelley had gifted four acres of land which were laid out to form Boscombe Cliff Gardens.

Before Kudirka's death, the first performance of the poem occurred at a concert in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1899.

Before, it considered it as a " bourgeois " and " reactionary " activity, something which could be understood due to the social restrictions which weighted on the individual possibilities to take part in such actions: as economist Thorstein Veblen had put it in his Theory of the Leisure Class ( 1899 ), one first had to be a member of that " leisure class " to be able to take part in such activities.

Before the Bell Tower was constructed in 1899, a farmhouse owned by James E. Williams, who would later be mayor of Atlanta, stood in the spot.

Before the 1899 season, the Browns were purchased by the owner of the competing Cleveland Spiders and renamed the Perfectos.

Before Mona Lisa, Schillings had already written three operas: Ingwelde ( 1894 ), Der Pfeifertag ( 1899 ) and Der Moloch ( 1906 ).

Before we comment further on these pathological conditions, we should remember that changes in the state of the hypothalamus within physiological limits distinguish sleep from wakefulness.

Before considering these elements in more detail, an additional requirement should be stated.

Before commercial Internet access became common, these networks of BBSes provided regional and international e-mail and message bases.

Before that, it was about 7 censuses, most part of these previous censuses was undertaken during Soviet ( USSR ) control.

) Before a major fire, typical chaparral plant communities are dominated by manzanita, chamise ( also called greasewood or Adenostoma fasciculatum ) and Ceanothus species, Toyon ( which can sometimes be interspersed with scrub oaks ), and other drought-resistant shrubs with hard ( sclerophyllous ) leaves ; these plants resprout ( see resprouter ) from underground burls after a fire.

" Before the production of written languages, dance was one of the methods of passing these stories down from generation to generation.

Before these modifications, the design of their shoulders was closer to instruments of the violin family.

Before these privileges were legislated, these groups of handicraft workers were simply called ' handicraft associations '.

Before the Test series started he scored consecutive centuries against Tasmania and Australia A these were his first in two years.

Before consolidation of many of these rural school districts in the last half of the twentieth century, Indiana high schools had fewer students than those of most other states ; basketball was a natural game for these schools since it only required five starters and a few reserves.

Before he died, Marx asked Engels to write up these ideas, which were published in 1884 under the title The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State.

Before that, most of these patterns were more connected to geographical regions than to any clan.

Before Franklin D. Roosevelt, attempts at a third term were encouraged by supporters of Ulysses S. Grant and Theodore Roosevelt ; neither of these attempts succeeded.

Before the time of Flavius, these formularies are said to have been secret and known only to the priests.

Before these monsters the hero's courage failed and by them was led away to eternal punishment.

Before 1900, England had none of these except for the civil registration of births, marriages, and burials briefly attempted under the Commonwealth ( 1653 – 1660 ) and an even more short-lived initiative of the same kind in 1694 in connection with the attempt to raise a tax on the occasion of every birth, marriage, and death — paupers excepted.

Before the start of World War II, Germany started building U-boats and training crews, labeling these activities as " research " or concealing them using other covers.

Before and during his career as a writer, he attempted to be a publisher, printer, businessman, critic, and politician ; he failed in all of these efforts.

Before 1991 these judges were known as District Justices and addressed as " Your Worship ".

Before universal algebra came along, many theorems ( most notably the isomorphism theorems ) were proved separately in all of these fields, but with universal algebra, they can be proven once and for all for every kind of algebraic system.

Before printer's magenta was invented in the 1890s for CMYK printing, and electric magenta was invented in the 1980s for computer displays, these two artificially engineered colors were preceded by the color displayed at right, which is the color originally called fuchsine made from coal tar dyes in the year 1859.

Before these royal marriages, Darius married a commoner with whom he had three sons, Artobarzanes ( the first born ), Arabignes and Arsamenes, while daughters are not known.

Before these plans could come to effect however, the central government declared the city a protected townscape.

Before this date a variety of groups based around ecclesiastical parishes had responsibility for these matters, in a system of local government that originated in the feudal system of the 8th century.

Before the incorporation of additional land from adjacent parishes, Hawridge historically comprised some.

Before these counties were created in 1777, Georgia had been divided into local government units called parishes.

Before civil parishes were introduced, the Counties ( Detached Parts ) Act 1844 transferred many ( but not all ) parishes which were detached parts of a county to the county in which they were geographically located.

* Before 1832: The parishes of St James ( Bath ), St Peter and St Paul ( Bath ), St Michael ( Bath ), and part of the parish of Walcot.

Before 1986, students who attended Roman were from " feeder parishes "; Roman served as the school for the boys from the Center City, Chinatown, East Falls, Fairmount, Manayunk, North Philadelphia, and Roxborough regions of Philadelphia.

Before the French Revolution, the town had two parishes: L ' église Notre-Dame du Cap Lihou and Saint-Nicolas.

# Before fading in the new track, check that the beats of two tracks match by listening to both channels together in the headphones, as the sound from the speakers can reach you with a delay.

Before the break in the strip, the characters were eternal college students, living in a commune together near “ Walden College ”, which was modelled after Trudeau ’ s alma mater.

Before, the regionalists had been seated divided, with the SNP with the Gaullist-dominated European Democratic Alliance, VU, the Valdotanian Union and the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) in the Rainbow Group, together with green parties, the South Tyrolean People's Party ( SVP ) with the Group of the European People's Party, and Batasuna among the Non-Inscrits.

Before the widespread use of non-linear editing systems, the initial editing of all films was done with a positive copy of the film negative called a film workprint ( cutting copy in UK ) by physically cutting and pasting together pieces of film, using a splicer and threading the film on a machine with a viewer such as a Moviola, or " flatbed " machine such as a K .- E .- M. or Steenbeck.

Before this, a " cartridge " was simply a premeasured quantity of gunpowder together with a ball in a small cloth bag ( or rolled paper cylinder ), which also acted as wadding for the charge and ball.

Before the multitudinous components of present biochemistry could come to lean together they had to lean on something else.

Before the end of 2008, Jeepster would also release another Belle & Sebastian compilation, The BBC Sessions, collecting the tracks that the band had recorded for the BBC in 1996, which included rarities and unreleased songs, together with live recordings from Belfast.

Before a battle the sarissa were carried in two pieces and then slid together when they were being used.

Before the 1989 revolution, Czechoslovakia was a socialist dictatorship ruled by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, technically together with the coalition of the so called National Front.

Before colonization the senior queen acted as a check and counterweight to the king's power, both through her direct control of some military forces and her control of rainmaking medicines and rites and of key aspects of the Ncwala national ritual that annually binds the fate of the king and the nation together.

Before beginning the story-telling sessions, the ten young Florentines, 7 women and 3 men, referred to as the Brigata, gather at the Basilica di Santa Maria Novella and together decide to escape Black Death by leaving the city to stay in a villa in the countryside for the next two weeks.

( In the future, Selick and Burton would work together in The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach.

( Before 1804 electors cast two votes together without differentiation as to which office was to be filled by which candidate.

Before the formal charter signing in 2000, URI supporters around the world participated together in a project called " 72 Hours for Peace ", in which more than 250 local organizations united in projects promoting peace and justice during the turn of the millennium.

According to Dr. Galena Rhoades, " Before 1970, living together outside of marriage was uncommon, but by the late 1990s at least 50 % to 60 % of couples lived together premaritally.

Before the French Revolution it had as suffragan sees Carpentras, Vaison and Cavaillon, which were united by the Napoleonic Concordat of 1801 to Avignon, together with the Diocese of Apt, a suffragan of Aix-en-Provence.

Before the imperial family celebrated Christmas together in Ravenna, Otto II received the Iron Crown of Lombardy as the King of Italy.

Before joining Queen, Brian May and Roger Taylor had been playing together in a band named Smile with bassist Tim Staffell.

Before the troupe formed, Bruce McCulloch and Mark McKinney were working together doing Theatresports in Calgary, performing in a group named " The Audience ".

Before deploying with his unit to Somalia he married his wife Carmen and together they had two children.

Ettelaat, an Iranian daily, reported, " Before entering the minefields, the children wrap themselves in blankets and they roll on the ground, so that their body parts stay together after the explosion of the mines and one can carry them to the graves.

Before establishing the award in 1980, von Uexkull had tried to interest the Nobel Foundation in a new prize to be awarded together with the Nobel Prizes.

Before Tū-te-wehiwehi and Ikatere fled, they disputed together as to what they should do to escape from the storms.

Before Jughead decides whether he wants to pursue a relationship with Joani, she leaves him-but with a promise that they will be together again.