* The Chinese Buddhist monk Huiyuan, who founded the Pure Land Buddhism sect and the monastery on Mount Lushan, writes the book On Why Monks Do Not Bow Down Before Kings in this year.

* " I Gave You Up Just Before You Threw Me Down " w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby & Fred E. Ahlert

Before Break Down Landy's best-known work was Scrapheap Services ( 1995 – 1996 ), which featured a fictitious cleaning company which sought to change society by way of " a minority of people being discarded ".

Before a formula for gangsta rap had developed, artists such as the New York City-based Boogie Down Productions and Los Angeles native Ice-T implemented detailed observations of " street life ", while the chaotic, rough sounding production style of Public Enemy's records set new standards for hip hop production.

Examples include Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Dick Tracy, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Santa Clause, Remember the Titans, Sweet Home Alabama, Bringing Down the House, National Treasure, Enchanted, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dark Water, Hidalgo, Tales of Earthsea, and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

Before they can reach Jacobs, he is captured by gangsters in Down Below, looking for anything of value.

*" 1ST Album "-released by Decca in 1965 ( later re-released on London label with new artwork as album title "# 1 featuring Concrete And Clay ", with " 500 Miles ", You've Lost That Lovin ' Feelin '" and " Swing Down Chariot " being replaced by " Tell Somebody You Know ", "( You've ) Never Been In Love Like This Before " and " Woman From Liberia ".

The most remarkable traveling actuality of all is the Miles Brothers ' Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire ( 1906 ), which was shot on a San Francisco streetcar and literally dropped off for processing on the day before the earthquake and fire destroyed San Francisco.

At nearly eight minutes ' length, Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire is also one of the longest actuality films.

They went on tour with 7eventh Time Down in December 2010 for the " Rock Before Christmas " tour.

They performed a mix of past and present songs from their most recent Korean album, opening their act with a medley of " The Way You Are "/" Mirotic ", " Maximum ", " Before U Go ", " Keep Your Head Down " and ending with " Rising Sun ".

TVXQ was also the closing act at the 2011 K-pop Music Festival in Sydney, Australia, presented by JK Entertainment on November 12, where they performed songs from their latest Korean album, " Maximum ", " Before U Go " and " Keep Your Head Down ".

Before he died, Würzel was working on new material with his new band, Leader of Down, who had previously announced the release of their debut single for early 2010.

Before that he also played in Loud Pipes, Merciless, Regurgitate, Entombed, and Face Down.

" Before her work with Glee, she was a series regular on the Starz comedy Party Down.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

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

Before the president recommends a candidate to the trustees, the administration collects the views of colleagues in the same field of knowledge on campus and elsewhere.

Before it cycles on again, humidity can build up and make you uncomfortable even though the temperature is still low.

Before that we lumber dealers were working almost single-handed on the problem ''.

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 the accelerometers are mounted on the platform, the direction of their sensitive axis must be accurately determined.

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 could snap it on, a stinging blow caught him in the ribs.

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 the early 20th century, treatments for infections were based primarily on medicinal folklore.

Before leaving, he had stacked all his cultures of staphylococci on a bench in a corner of his laboratory.

Before his death on August 11, 1919, Carnegie had donated $ 350, 695, 654 for various causes.

Before computers, some armies set the range on the gun's sights, which mechanically corrected it for the gun's muzzle velocity.

In his Rudolphine Tables ( 1627 ), Johannes Kepler used a prototype of year zero which he labeled Christi ( Christ ) between years labeled Ante Christum ( Before Christ ) and Post Christum ( After Christ ) on the mean motion tables for the Sun, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury.

Before his death in Herat, on June 9, 1863, Dost Mohammad Khan had nominated as his successor Sher Ali Khan, his third son, passing over the two elder brothers, Afzal Khan and Azam Khan.

Before the introduction of the Phoenix missile, most other US aircraft relied on the smaller, less-expensive AIM-7 Sparrow ; classified as a Medium Range Missile ( MRM ).

Before the 1704 campaign ended, the Allies had taken Landau, and the towns of Trier and Trarbach on the Moselle in preparation for the following year's campaign into France itself.

Before 1931, i. e. through most of Ruth's most productive years, the umpire called the play based on the ball's final resting place " when last seen ".

Before the formation of Malaysian Federation, the Philippines claimed that the Malaysian state of Sabah in north Borneo is within their territorial rights based on historical facts of the Sultanate of Sulu's leasing agreement with the North Borneo Company, is presently an unresolved claim against Malaysia.

Before graduation, seniors produce a sizable project on 16 mm color negative film.

Before becoming the studio host for The NFL on NBC in 1984, Costas did play-by-play of NFL games with analyst Bob Trumpy.

Before 1998, the United Kingdom profile contained a sentence that asserted the UK had gained independence on 1 January 1801.

Before that, it had been the capital of the Jin, who did not rule all of China.

Before and during World War II, when Japan occupied Korea, Taiwan, parts of China, the Philippines, and various Pacific islands, locals in those countries learned Japanese as the language of the empire.

Before the report could be voted on by the Assembly, Japan announced its intention to push further into China.

Before 1991, the former Soviet Union, China and the Warsaw Pact countries had been a major source of economic and military aid.

Before the invention of woodblock printing in China or by moveable type in a printing press in Europe, all written documents had to be both produced and reproduced by hand.

Before his death, he asked Emperor Yong Le that ( 1 ) Brunei and Sungai Kinabatangan be made ( or annexed as ) Chinese territories, ( 2 ) named Gunung Kinabalu, and ( 3 ) that he himself be buried in China.

Before World War II, the Japanese colonized Manchukuo and used it as a base from which to invade China.

Before the 1990s, both the PRC and the ROC claimed to be the legal government of the whole of China and Taiwan.

Before 1991, the president was selected by the National Assembly of the Republic of China for a term of six years.

Before returning to England to become the new Foreign Secretary, writer, soldier and diplomat Robert Conway has one last task in 1935 China: to rescue 90 Westerners in the city of Baskul.

Before that there had not been any large Frankish catapult in Cathay China, but Talib, a catapult-maker from this land, had gone to Baalbek and Damascus, and his sons Abubakr, Ibrahim, and Muhammad, and his employees made seven large catapults and set out to conquer the city Fu or Hsiang-yang fu = modern Xiangfan.

Before his retirement, Molotov proposed establishing a socialist confederation with the People's Republic of China ( PRC ); Molotov believed socialist states were part of a bigger, supranational entity.

Before the Grand Canal was rebuilt, grain was transferred to Beijing in two ways ; one route was simply via the East China Sea, from the port of Liujiagang ( near Suzhou ); the other was a far more laborious process of transferring the grain from large to small shallow barges ( after passing the Huai River and having to cross southwestern Shandong ), then transferred back to large river barges on the Yellow River before finally reaching Beijing.

Before 1949, for instance, the illiteracy rate in Mainland China was 80 percent, and life expectancy was a meager 35 years.

Before the referendum, Abbas lobbied for international support for the GPRA, which was quickly recognized by Morocco, Tunisia, several other Arab countries, China, and a number of African and other Asian states but not by the Soviet Union.

Before desegregation of schools nationwide in the 1950s, China Elementary ( then China School ) served white students, whereas Henderson served the African American population.

Before the 16th century, pepper was being grown in Java, Sunda, Sumatra, Madagascar, Malaysia, and everywhere in Southeast Asia, these areas traded mainly with China, or used the pepper locally.

Before the Xi ' an incident, the Chinese Communist Party had established itself in Shaanxi province following being driven from Jiangxi and other regions in southern China in 1934.

Before the introduction of kanji from China, Japanese had no writing system.

Before establishing diplomatic relations with the South Korea, the People's Republic of China tended to use the historic Korean name Cháoxiǎn ( " Joseon "), by referring to South Korea as Nán Cháoxiǎn ( (" South Joseon ").

Before Outer Mongolia's effective independence of China ( circa 1920 ) the same firms also ran caravans into Urga, Uliassutai, and other centers of Outer Mongolia, and to the Russian border at Kyakhta, but with the creation of an international border, those routes came into decline.

Before Outer Mongolia's effective independence of China ( circa 1920 ) the same firms also ran caravans into Urga, Uliassutai, and other centers of Outer Mongolia, and to the Russian border at Kyakhta, but with the creation of an international border, those routes came into decline.

Before communist rule in China, many villages still had shrines or places of worship dedicated to nature gods such as Shu, and Nakhi inhabitants of Tacheng, which is in the Lijiang-Nakhi Autonomous county, still profess belief in the " nature and man " relationship.

Before the late 1960s, Taiwanese immigrants to the United States tended to be waishengren ( mainlanders ) who were people that immigrated to Taiwan with the Kuomintang after the fall of mainland China to the Communists.