Before 1974, the records of the HBC were kept in the London office headquarters.

Before the 1974 season began, the Padres were on the verge of being sold to Joseph Danzansky, who was planning to move the franchise to Washington, D. C. by the beginning of the 1974 season.

Before 1974, Chemung County was governed by a board of supervisors.

Before 1974, that role had been filled by Famagusta which is now located in the Turkish controlled part of the island which is not recognised as a legal port by any country except Turkey.

Before 1974, NFL teams kicked off from the 40 ; starting in 1974, the NFL moved its kickoffs back to the 35, and twenty years later, the kickoff line was pushed back to the 30.

Before moving to Bankers Life Fieldhouse, the Pacers played their games at Market Square Arena from 1974 – 1999 and at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum ( currently known as the Pepsi Coliseum ) from 1967 – 1974.

Before retirement, in 1974, he starred in La Mary, a hit movie directed by Daniel Tinayre.

He was also the voice of Father Mouse in the 1974 Christmas special Twas the Night Before Christmas, and sang the song Give Your Heart a Try in that production.

Before 1974, Morphou was an almost entirely Greek Cypriot community.

Before 1974, St Ives Borough Council was the principal local authority for what now forms the civil parish of St Ives.

In 1974, Diamond released the album Serenade, from which " Longfellow Serenade " and " I've Been This Way Before " were issued as singles.

Before the Local Government Act 1972 came into force in 1974 Wisbech was a municipal borough ; it is now a civil parish in the Fenland District.

Before entering politics, Morgan worked as an Industrial Development Officer for South Glamorgan County Council from 1974 to 1980.

* Where Have I Known You Before ( 1974, Polydor )

* 1974: Long Before Our Mothers Cried ( Strata-East Records )

Before the year 1924 it started at 6 and at 7 between 1924 and 1974.

Before 1974 all crimes and offences were prosecuted at the suit of ( after action taken by ) the Attorney General.

Before 1974, the land the airport sits on was largely owned by the United States Air Force, which operated an air force base there.

( 1946 ); “ Essentials for Nigeria ’ s Survival .” ( 1965 ); “ Before Us Lies The Open Grave ” ( 1947 ); “ The Future of Pan-Africanism ” ( 1961 ); “ The Realities of African Unity ” ( 1965 ); “ Origins of the Nigerian Civil War ” ( 1969 ); I Believe in a One Nigeria ( 1969 ); Peace Proposals for Ending the Nigerian Civil War ( 1969 ); Dialogue on a New Capital for Nigeria ( 1974 ); “ Creation of More States in Nigeria, A Political Analysis ” ( 1974 ); Democracy with Military Vigilance ( 1974 ); “ Reorientation of Nigerian Ideologies: lecture on 9 December 1976, on eve of the launching of the UNN Endowment Fund ” ( 1976 ); Our Struggle for Freedom ; Onitsha Market Crisis ( 1976 ); Let Us Forgive Our Children, An appeal to the leaders and people of Onitsha during the market crisis ( 1976 ); A Collection of Poems ( 1977 ); Civil War Soliloquies: More Collection of Poems ( 1977 ); “ Themes in African Social and Political Thought ” ( 1978 ); Restoration of Nigerian Democracy ( 1978 ); Matchless Past Performance: My Reply to Chief Awolowo ’ s Challenge ( 1979 ); A Matter of Conscience ( 1979 ); Ideology for Nigeria: Capitalism, Socialism or Welfarism?

Before the Draft Act was passed Baker had confidentially briefed governors, sheriffs, and prospective draft board members on the administration of the measure -- and the confidence was kept so well that only one newspaper learned what was going on.

Before the fight was over, the Harlem boy had a concussion and Trig was cut up badly.

Before he left the apartment he knocked on their door and asked if there was anything he could do for them.

Before he left town Pat saw to it that I was fixed up with a job.

Before the airplanes came, he said, travel in Laos was just about impossible.

Before coming on a visit to Spelman in 1885, Miss Mary had been a successful teacher in Worcester, and her position there was held open for her for a considerable period.

Before he was forty Griffith had created the art of the film.

Before appealing to the U.N. or to Russia, he first appealed to the U.S. for military help, and was rejected.

Before her chore was finished she was rescuing wind-blown sheets of music, trundling microphones about the stage, helping to move the piano and otherwise joining in the informal atmosphere.

Before ASCII was developed, the encodings in use included 26 alphabetic characters, 10 numerical digits, and from 11 to 25 special graphic symbols.

Before Europeans discovered other oceans, the term " ocean " itself was synonymous with the waters beyond the Strait of Gibraltar that we now know as the Atlantic.

Before he could pass the river with safety, however, it was necessary to subdue certain fortresses, one of which was for several days vigorously defended by the governor, Yussuf el-Harezmi, a Khwarezmian.

Before the 1989 series began, the win-loss ratio was almost even, with 87 wins for Australia to England's 86, 74 having been drawn.

Before the late modern era, the abbot was treated with the utmost reverence by the brethren of his house.

Before the creation of the world, God was all by Himself, in a Self-absorbed state.

Before the Tennessee electorate voted on secession, Johnson, at his peril, toured the state, speaking in opposition to the measure, contending it was unconstitutional.

Before his death, he was absolved from the excommunication ; moreover, the Pope also promised that the King of Hungary and his relatives would not be excommunicated without the special permission of the Pope.

Before the 2007 season began, Vick was suspended indefinitely by the NFL after pleading guilty to charges involving dog fighting in the state of Virginia.

Before the War, Paul was a creative, sensitive, and passionate person, writing poems and having a clear love for his family.

Before the war Tjaden was a locksmith.

Before adjournment Monday afternoon, the Senate is expected to approve a study of the number of legislators allotted to rural and urban areas to determine what adjustments should be made.

Before 1940 Finland was a poor rural nation of urban and rural workers and independent farmers.

Some Louisiana urban environments have a multicultural, multilingual heritage, being so strongly influenced by an admixture of 18th century French, Spanish, Native American ( Indian ) and African cultures that they are considered to be somewhat exceptional in the U. S. Before the American influx and statehood at the beginning of the 19th century, the territory of current Louisiana State had been a Spanish and French colony.

Before World War II, rickshaws were an important part of urban public transportation.

Before the advent of mass transportation, factories ' needs for ever-greater concentrations of laborers meant that they typically grew up in an urban setting or fostered their own urbanization.

Before urban development and massive land reclamation, Causeway Bay was a heavily silted bay.

Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as an urban planner.

Before 1974 it was in the administrative county of Gloucestershire, and Kingswood constituted an urban district within that county.

Before the 1980s, cities in the People's Republic of China were administrative divisions containing mostly urban, built-up areas, with very little farmland, except for the immediate suburbs in order to ensure a large supply of food or raw materials.

Before Reynolds, urban counties were often drastically underrepresented.

Before the Victorian Era, all of London's dead were buried in small urban churchyards, which were so overcrowded and so close to where people lived, worked and worshipped that they were causing disease and ground water contamination.

Before the station became prominent in the Greater Toronto Area, many listeners would tune-in to Buffalo, New York's 93. 7 WBLK, which has used an urban contemporary format since the 1960s.

Before the Treaty of Trianon, Zalău was one of the most important urban centers in the region.

Before local government reorganisation in 1 April 1974, it was part of the urban district of Bebington, within the county of Cheshire.

Before this point, the company was a grocer in the vein of Piggly Wiggly, where a mix of rural and urban stores made up the company in general.

Before 1973, the organization may have staged few attacks compared to its urban guerrilla peers, but it tried to infiltrate the Chilean Armed Forces in anticipation of a coup d ' état against Allende and discussed plans to replace the existing police and military with a militia recruited from the Popular Front's supporters.

Before bringing Supernatural to television, creator Eric Kripke had been developing the series for nearly ten years, having been fascinated with urban legends since he was a child.

Before the onset of the Second Sudanese Civil War ( 1983-2005 ), Yei was a thriving urban, commercial center.

Before urban development the area was the estuary of a river named " Wong Nai Chung ", which looked like the neck of a goose.