* Before the 2009 season, the right field roofbox seating area was renovated and expanded and the original 1912 seating bowl was water-proofed and seats replaced.

Before the 2008 season, Fenway Park's capacity was increased to 37, 373, where it remains following additional renovations for the 2009 season, making its total capacity the fourth smallest, ahead of Marlins Park, the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, and Tropicana Field.

* Khaled El-Rouayheb, Before Homosexuality in the Arab – Islamic World, 1500 – 1800 Chicago, 2009.

Before LG Enhanced IPS was introduced in 2009, the additional transistors resulted in blocking more transmission area, thus requiring a brighter backlight and consuming more power, making this type of display less desirable for notebook computers.

The most recent re-calibrated radiocarbon dating in 2009 indicates that the skeleton can be dated to around 33, 000 Before Present ( BP ).

Before the 2009 season, the Bluefish hired Willie Upshaw, a Major League Baseball alumnus and Fairfield County native, as their bench coach.

Image: Flooding along the Illinois River ( Before ). jpg | Late October 2009 ( before the flood ).

Before the 2009 – 10 NHL season the Ducks traded Pronger to the Philadelphia Flyers for Lupul, Luca Sbisa and two first round draft picks.

Before 2009 – 10, the playoffs format was identical to that of the English Premiership with the exception of neutral sites for the semifinals.

Before December 2009 it had a circular route around the centre of London on the north side of the River Thames linking the main line railway termini.

Before Hurricane Katrina, William Carey University had a satellite campus in Gulfport, but in 2009, the University moved to their new Tradition Campus, constructed off Mississippi Highway 67 in north Harrison County.

My Bloody Valentine curated the All Tomorrow's Parties ' Nightmare Before Christmas ' festival in December 2009, where they were obliged to perform on a smaller stage due to noise level issues.

* The town of Swindon abandoned the use of fixed cameras in 2009, questioning their cost effectiveness with the cameras being replaced by vehicle activated warning signs and enforcement by police using mobile speed cameras: in the nine months following the switch-off there was a small reduction in accident rates which had changed slightly in similar periods before and after the switch off ( Before: 1 fatal, 1 serious and 13 slight accidents.

Before the Treaty of Lisbon entered into force on 1 December 2009 no provision in the treaties or law of the European Union outlined the ability of a state to voluntarily withdraw from the EU.

Before May 2009, the links to Lancashire and the North West were also seen in the media with Todmorden receiving an analogue TV signal from BBC North West.

In 2009, Bit-tech included Planescape: Torment on their list of " 30 PC Games to Play Before You Die ".

Before the 2009 elections, Shem-Tov was expelled from the party by Shlomi Sandak who was the temporary chairman of the Green Leaf Party.

Before 2009 the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) had not validated any alternative methods for testing eye or skin irritation potential.

On September 3, 2009, months upon the release of Before I Self Destruct, Jackson posted a video for the Soundkillers ' Phoenix produced track " Flight 187 " which introduced his mixtape, the 50th LAW, and was also featured as a bonus track on his iTunes release of Before I Self Destruct.

Before a match between Bowdoin and Williams at Watson Arena, built in 2009

Before he retired from the weekday breakfast programme Wake Up to Wogan on BBC Radio 2 on 18 December 2009, it had a regular 8 million listeners, making Wogan the most listened-to radio broadcaster of any European nation.

* Before and after crash between 1959 Bel Air and 2009 Malibu

Later, in 2009, the prequel novel Before Green Gables was adapted into an anime, Kon ' nichiwa Anne: Before Green Gables, in which Anne also appears as the central character.

Before meeting Cesare, Leonardo had worked at the Milanese court of Ludovico Sforza for many years, until Louis XII of France drove Sforza out of Italy.

Lieutenant General Ēmile Janssens, the FP commander, wrote during a meeting of soldiers that ' Before independence = After Independence ', pouring cold water on the soldiers ' desires for an immediate raise in their status.

Before leaving, in a meeting with all the Papal vicars held on April 29, 1357, Albornoz issued the Constitutiones Sanctæ Matris Ecclesiæ, which regulated all the matters of the Papal States and its division into provinces.

Before meeting Willow, Tara had been painfully shy, in part due to a father who led her to believe that she was demonic.

# Before an APNIC meeting

Before Hurricane David, some 2, 000 persons earned a living fishing in coastal waters, producing about 1, 000 tons of fish a year and meeting only about one-third of the local demand.

Before the meeting took place, French president Jacques Chirac declared on 10 March that France would veto any resolution which would automatically lead to war.

Before 798 the new tribrach type appeared, with a design consisting of three radial lines meeting at the centre.

Before the meeting, he agitated for the voting by head, rather than estate, as a member of the " Committee of Thirty ".

Before meeting Batu, Guyuk died suddenly.

Before the first court date in September 2001, Vreme magazine organized a mediation attempt between the two parties, with Kusturica and Srbljanović meeting face to face in the magazine's offices.

Before a vote is taken at a Council meeting, though, all proposals are circulated in writing to the heads of departments, who commission the senior career officials of their department – the heads of the Federal Offices – to prepare a written response to offer criticism and suggestions.

In McCarthy's words, " Before meeting Jim Forrestal I thought we were losing to international Communism because of incompetence and stupidity on the part of our planners.

Before this meeting came to pass, however, Rutherford abruptly withdrew.

Before Roberts ' switch to Methodism, Crutchfield arranged a meeting between Roberts and Bishop William Angie Smith, at which the Bishop told Roberts, " We need you, but we need the Holy Spirit more than we need you and we've got to have the Holy Spirit in the Methodist Church.

Before meeting Bathsheba, Troy had promised to marry Fanny ; on the wedding day, however, the luckless girl goes to the wrong church.

Before the 200 Pastors and the Brethren from the General Conference present at this meeting, G. Dail, L. R. Conradi, H. F. Schuberth, and P. Drinhaus withdrew their statement about military service and apologized for what they had done.

Before fighting for the world championship, she had to meet the likes of Kim Messer, Elena Reid and former world champion Para Draine before meeting Regina Halmich in Germany for the WIBF world Jr. Flyweight title, on August 17, 2002.

Before meeting Fry and Leela and joining Professor Farnsworth's delivery crew at Planet Express where Bender currently works as the assistant manager of sales, he had a job at the metalworking factory, bending steel girders for the construction of suicide booths.

Before meeting humanity, they had an elephant-sized slug-like form, which communicates by direct neural connection, since they have no vocal organs and no sense of hearing.

Before the signing of the Bologna declaration, the Magna Charta Universitatum had been issued at a meeting of university rectors celebrating the 900th anniversary of the University of Bologna – and thus of European universities – in 1988.

Before it split into two separately listed companies in early 2010, Cable & Wireless suffered one of the biggest shareholder rebellions in 2009 when 38pc of the shareholder register failed to back the company's pay policy at a fiery meeting.

Before Smith became their pastor, twelve of the 25 members attended a prayer meeting about whether or not to close their church: they reported that " the Holy Spirit spoke to them through prophecy " and told them that Smith would become their pastor, that he would want to elevate the platform area, that God would bless the church, that it would go on the radio, that the church would become overcrowded, and that he would become known throughout the world .< ref name = chuck_smith >