Before him, mutilated, bleeding to death, they lay.

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

Before the actual process of cell death is precipitated by enzymes, apoptotic signals must cause regulatory proteins to initiate the apoptosis pathway.

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 his death Joshua delivered a farewell address to the Israelites ( 23 – 24 ), just as Moses had delivered his farewell address ( Deut.

Before his death in 1283, Karma Pakshi wrote a will to protect the established interests of his sect by advising his disciples to locate a boy to inherit the black hat.

Thomas was a teenager when many of the poems for which he became famous were published: " And death shall have no dominion ", " Before I Knocked " and " The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower ".

Before his death in 1987, Kaye demonstrated his ability to conduct an orchestra during a comical, but technically sound, series of concerts organized for UNICEF fundraising.

Before leaving, Lee learns from his teacher that Han's bodyguard O ' Hara ( Robert Wall ) had been involved in the death of his sister, Su Lin ( Angela Mao ), years ago, when she committed suicide to save herself from dishonour after being cornered by O ' Hara and a collection of Han's thugs.

Before this, however, he had become Earl of Aberdeen on his grandfather's death in 1801, and had travelled all over Europe.

Before Hildegard ’ s death, a problem arose with the clergy of Mainz.

Before his death, Brown was scheduled to perform a duet with singer Annie Lennox on the song " Vengeance " for her new album Venus, which was released in 2007.

Before he can sell the secret of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union, he is discovered by the British and is killed by members of MI5 who stage his death as a heart attack.

Before Stalin's death, Beria was appointed First Deputy Premier and reappointed head of the MVD, which he merged with the MGB.

Before his death he played extensively in colleges, concert halls, coffee houses and also on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, as well as recording three further albums for Vanguard Records.

Before his death, Meher Baba had made extensive preparations for a public darshan program to be held in Poona ( now Pune ), India.

Before Mormon's death in battle, he passed the golden plates to Moroni.

Before his death he had urged the College of Cardinals to elect Giovanni di San Paolo as his successor, but Lotario de ' Conti was elected pope on the very day on which Celestine III died.

Before her death in 1198, she named Innocent as guardian of the young Frederick until he reached his maturity.

Before her death, on November 15, 1908, she allegedly ordered her trusted eunuchs to poison the Guangxu Emperor.

Before Tony's death, the brothers collaborated on a miniseries based on the late Robin Cook's novel, Coma for A & E.

Before his death however, Chelebi's last words were to accuse Ibrahim of conspiracy against the Sultan.

Before his death, he confessed of his sins and died repentant.

* Before 2: 30 PM, the official death count at the Pentagon has risen to 189, including the 64 in the plane.

Before facing Magnentius, Constantius first came to terms with Vetranio, a loyal general in Illyricum who had recently been acclaimed emperor by his soldiers.

Before the rule of Claudius Gothicus, there had only been two emperors from the Balkans, but after, there would only be one emperor who did not hail from the provinces of Pannonia, Moesia or Illyricum until the year 378, when Theodosius I from Hispania would take the throne.

Before his exile, Libanius was a friend of the emperor Julian, with whom some correspondence survives, and in whose memory he wrote a series of orations ; they were composed between 362 and 365.

Before the Taihō Code was established, the capital was customarily moved after the death of an emperor because of the ancient belief that a place of death was polluted.

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

Before the conquest of Champa by the Dai Viet emperor Lê Thánh Tông in 1471, the dominant religion of the Cham people was Hinduism, and the culture was heavily influenced by that of India.

Before Hong Taiji was emperor, he controlled the two White banners.

Before the accession of the Emperor Anastasius I, Euphemius had made him sign a profession of faith ; eventually he fell foul of the emperor.

Before 1911, the dynastic emperor mostly served as the divine religious symbol, often stretching the mandate of heaven into religious terms.

Before the emperor can make his third wish, Zoroaster, a sorcerer ( Ari Barak ), interrupts and states that upon the third wish granted to the one who woke the djinn, a gateway will open between the worlds and the evil race of djinn can live on Earth.

Before his death, Maximilian adopted the grandsons of the first Mexican emperor, Agustín de Iturbide.

Before the war, Eugène proposed to Napoleon that his infantry be formed into three corps, but the emperor had not replied to this request.

Before the emperor died on 26 June 363 from a combat injury, he held a last philosophical conversation with Maximus and Priscus.

Before Gods of Towns dominated in China, land worship had a hierarchy of deities conforming strictly to social structure, in which the emperor, kings, dukes, officials and common people were allowed to worship only the land gods within their command ; the highest land deity was the Earthly Queen of the Four Imperial Ones.

: Before you became emperor, Zhou was in control of the imperial seal, and commanded the powerful northern guards.

Before the month was over, however, Mason had been named to replace Thomas Thirlby as English ambassador to the emperor.