Before joining the Grateful Dead, Hart and his father, Leonard Hart, a champion rudimental drummer, owned and operated Hart Music, selling drums and musical instruments in San Carlos, California.

Before Irving Leonard died, he and Eastwood had discussed the idea of Malpaso producing Play Misty for Me, a film that was to give Eastwood the artistic control he desired, and his debut as a director.

Before The Search for Spock was released, its director Leonard Nimoy was asked to return to direct the next film in the franchise.

Before opening night, the third and fourth yeomen's couplets in the Act I finale – in which they remind " Leonard " of his brave deeds – were cut, though they remained in the vocal score until around the 1920s.

Before achieving success as composer, Corigliano worked as assistant to the producer on the Leonard Bernstein Young People's Concerts, and as a session producer for classical artists such as André Watts.

Before Malpaso Productions co-founder Irving Leonard died, he and Eastwood discussed a final film, one giving Eastwood the artistic control he desired by making his directorial debut.

* Richard Belzer as Leonard in the Season 2 episode " Twas the Episode Before Christmas ".

Before the making of Thunderheart, Apted made the documentary Incident at Oglala about convicted murderer Leonard Peltier.

The company's American repertoire has ranged from established works ( e. g., Douglas Moore's The Ballad of Baby Doe, Carlisle Floyd's Susannah and Leonard Bernstein's Candide ) to new works ( e. g., Thomas Pasatieri's Before Breakfast and Mark Adamo's Little Women ).

Before long, Beck was offered even more money by Dr Leonard C. Sanford, of New Haven, Connecticut, to collect birds in Alaska for the well-known ornithologist Arthur Cleveland Bent, who was collecting for his studies of “ The Life Histories of North American Birds ”.

Before he lost to Leonard in 1917, Welsh bought a farm on Long Hill in Chatham Township, New Jersey.

Before joining the faculty at The George Washington University Law School, Kerr served as a law clerk for Judge Leonard I. Garth of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Before the Second World War, undergraduates who worked on the Advocate included Malcolm Cowley, James Agee, Robert Fitzgerald, Leonard Bernstein, James Laughlin ( who got into trouble with local police for publishing a racy story by Henry Miller ) and Norman Mailer.

Before leaving the system, the man transforms into an energy-based life-form that enters an encounter suit similar to the ones used by the Vorlons.

Before she fully transforms, Wells runs in to the room just in time and shoots her in the head.

Before Harkyn and his party find the wounded dragon, Kalec transforms into a human and is saved by Anveena, a young maiden who saw the event.

Before Conan is able to ravish her, Atali disappears in a stroke of lightning that seemingly transforms the landscape and renders Conan unconscious.

Before the Washington game, as players gather around, Brooking screams, " We're gonna keep hitting ' em, we're gonna keep hitting ' em!

Before Jimbo shoots Kenny in his platypus state, he screams, " It's coming right for us!

Before he was even half way done with his routine, the loud screams of another person's martial arts practice interrupted his concentration.

Before leaving the islands, the Japanese rounded up and executed 750 civilians.

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

Before the Pacific War began, the Imperial Japanese Army formed Teishin Dan (" Raiding Brigades ") and Imperial Japanese Navy trained marine ( Rikusentai ) paratroopers.

Before the treaty was signed, Li Hongzhang was attacked by a right-wing Japanese extremist on March 24: he was fired at and wounded on his way back to his lodgings at Injoji temple.

Before 1950 the original Japanese Baseball League had been a single-table league of franchises.

Before independence, others identified a Japanese fifth column in India and some thought the British would retain certain princely states to serve them in that role.

Before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent entry of the United States into World War II, the U. S. House of Representatives held hearings on the legality of wiretapping for national defense.

Before the Japanese defeat in World War II, " Kimigayo " was understood to mean the long reign of the emperor.

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

Before 1982, the Japanese variety of these mushrooms could only be grown in traditional locations using ancient methods.

Before World War II the forests were mainly composed of beech but since then there has been a huge swing towards the production of faster growing Japanese cedar.

This is further supported by the translation of the Japanese spoken words from the beginning of " The Canyon Behind Her ": " This album was inspired by a painting titled ' Dream Caused By the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate One Second Before Awakening '.

Surveying the wreckage of the Pacific Fleet, he remarked, " Before we're through with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell.

Before returning to Japan, Nosaka gained Stalin's endorsement for the leadership of the Japanese Communist Party.

Before returning to Japan, Nosaka advised Joseph Stalin to retain the position of the Japanese Emperor, but to replace Emperor Hirohito with Crown Prince Akihito if the Communists ever gained control of Japan.

Before Midway, a small and fractional US Navy in the Pacific faced an overwhelmingly large and battle-hardened Japanese fleet.

Before the English translation of Japanese name to Zeon was canonized by Nippon Sunrise in the late 1990s, it was sometimes translated as Zion or Jion, with the latter being closer to actual pronunciation in Japanese.

Before the First Sino Japanese War, China engaged in technological modernization only, buying modern weapons, ships, artillery, and building modern arsenals to produce these weapons, and only giving their soldiers modern weapons without institutional reform, and while refusing to reform the government or civil society according to western standards, unlike Japan, who adopted western style government with a Parliament and completely reoganized the army on western lines.

Before World War II, Davao was heavily populated by Japanese immigrants.

Before the Japanese annexation in 1910, the island was usually known as Quelpart to Europeans.

Before the outbreak of World War II ; Lake Ogawara at Misawa was used by the Imperial Japanese Navy to practice for the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Before the breakup, Yoshiki had already independently collaborated with Queen drummer Roger Taylor on the single " Foreign Sand " and provided the Japanese contribution to the international Kiss tribute album Kiss My Ass: Classic Kiss Regrooved, an orchestral arrangement of the song " Black Diamond ".