Before the production of Proton Saga, a contest was held to choose the name of the first national car, and the name Saga was chosen from the winner of the contest, Ismail Jaafar, a retired military soldier.

Before Payne loomed the Old Clubhouse, Seward's home, where Key had once been killed.

Before the discoveries, the only source of information about Hittites had been the Old Testament ( see Biblical Hittites ).

* Before I Get Old: The Story of The Who by Dave Marsh, Plexus Publishing ( 16 September 2003 )

Before his first visit to England in 1834, the labours of Hugh Miller and other geologists brought to light the remarkable fish of the Old Red Sandstone of the northeast of Scotland.

Shortly after his introduction to Guy Chambers, Williams released " Old Before I Die " which would be the first single taken from his début album.

Before the Old Man tracks Sam down and captures him, they have infected the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, whose department controls the United States Secret Service ( responsible for the President's personal security ); the slugs are a step away from infecting the President himself.

Before the end of 1661 Wren was unofficially advising the repair of Old St Paul's Cathedral after two decades of neglect and distress ; his architectural interests were also evident to his associates at the time.

Before the Nat Turner Revolt, there was a small but ineffectual antislavery movement in Virginia, largely on account of economic trends that made slavery less profitable in the Old South in the 1820s and fears among whites of the rising number of blacks, especially in the Tidewater and Piedmont regions.

Before the 20th century, the tiny settlement was concentrated around in what was Kenton Lane ( the easternmost part of which remains as Old Kenton Lane to the east of Kingsbury station ) and is now part of the present day Woodgrange Avenue and Kenton Road.

Before its founding, the area was known as Old Fields or Old Fields of Toe.

Before the adoption of luck at the end of the Middle Ages, Old English and Middle English expressed the notion of " good fortune " with the word speed ( Middle English spede, Old English spēd ); speed besides " good fortune " had the wider meaning of " prosperity, profit, abundance "; it is not associated with the notion of probability or chance but rather with that of fate or divine help ; a bestower of success can also be called speed, as in " Christ be our speed " ( William Robertson, Phraseologia generalis, 1693 ).

Before becoming a unified town, Cleethorpes was made up of three small villages, or " thorpes ": Itterby, Oole and Thrunscoe, which were part of a wider parish called Clee ( not to be confused with Old Clee ).

Before Philip could read, his mother began to teach him the history of the Old and New Testament from blue Dutch chimney-tiles on the chimney place of their sitting room.

Before the meal starts, a gong is sounded and the attendees stand as the fellows and their guests come in from the Old Combination Room to sit at High Table.

Before the fall of the Old Empire, a scientific expedition known as the Noah 9 left Earth in search of Heaven, a paradise world to which humans could immigrate.

Most recently Chad stepped out from behind the drum set to front his new project Before Cars, who released the single " Old Chair " in 2006.

Before the 2002 season it was known as Old Kent Park ; the name was changed when the park's title sponsor, Old Kent Bank, was purchased by Fifth Third Bank.

Before the cyclical Old French romances, appearances of Morgan are few.

Before 1598 the road was part of Broad Street ( now Old Broad Street ).

* Luraghi, Raimondo, " The Civil War and the Modernization of American Society: Social Structure and Industrial Revolution in the Old South Before and During the War ", Civil War History XVIII ( Sept. 1972 ).

Stevenson's research was the subject of Tom Shroder's Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence for Past Lives ( 1999 ) and Jim B. Tucker's Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives ( 2005 ).

Before he made that retreat, he telephoned Earl Blackman in Kansas City and asked him to come to Europe with him.

Before Broadway became one-way, the main bus routes along it were the New York City Omnibus Company's ( NYCO ) 6 ( Broadway below Times Square ), 7 ( Broadway and Columbus Avenue ), and 11 ( Ninth and Amsterdam Avenues ), and the Surface Transportation Corporation's M100 ( Kingsbridge ) and M104 ( Broadway Branch ).

Before he was forced abroad for political reasons, director Jules Dassin made two classic noirs that also straddled the major / independent line: Brute Force ( 1947 ) and the influential documentary-style The Naked City were developed by producer Mark Hellinger, who had an " inside / outside " contract with Universal similar to Wanger's.

New York City produced its share of psychedelic bands, such as folk pioneers The Fugs, The Godz, and Pearls Before Swine, besides the Blues Magoos, the Blues Project, Lothar and the Hand People and the blues-influenced Vanilla Fudge.

Before May was out he was once more in Rome in answer to a summons for the countess Matilda of Tuscany, whose troops held the Leonine City and Trastevere, but when at the end of June the antipope once more gained possession of St. Peter's, Victor again withdrew at once to his Monte Cassino abbey.

Before the release of Moana, Flaherty made two short films in New York City with private backing, The Pottery Maker ( 1925 ) and The Twenty-Four Dollar Island ( 1927 ).

* Before 2: 30 PM, the official New York City missing count has risen to 4972.

Before serving two terms as Berkeley's Mayor, Dean served on the Berkeley City Council for 15 years between 1975 and 1994 and was a leader of the Berkeley Democratic Club.

Before major construction could begin Judah traveled back to New York City to raise funds to buy out The Big Four.

Before the release of Hang ' Em High Eastwood had already begun working on Coogan's Bluff, about an Arizona deputy sheriff tracking a wanted psychopathic criminal ( Don Stroud ) through the streets of New York City.

Before World War II, Oklahoma City developed major stockyards, attracting jobs and revenue formerly in Chicago and Omaha.

Before its official release date on October 5, the band played at the Austin City Limits Music Festival and KBCO's World Class Rockfest.

Before NBC's 1926 formation, RCA had acquired AT & T's New York City station WEAF ( later WNBC, now CBS-owned WFAN ).

( Before the race Ryun had thought that a time of 3: 39 would be good enough to win in the high altitude of Mexico City.

Before becoming Watford City, the county seat was Alexander from 1905 to 1907 and Schafer from 1907 to 1941.

Before the Industrial Revolution, much of the area was farmland, providing food for the City of London and surrounding population centres ; and with particular specialisms, such as growing lavender on Lavender Hill ( nowadays denoted by the road of the same name ), asparagus, sold as " Battersea Bundles " or pig breeding on Pig Hill ( later the site of the Shaftesbury Park Estate ).

Before the Satsuma City School System was founded, the schools that served Satsuma included Robert E. Lee Primary School ( Kindergarten through 2 ), Robert E. Lee Intermediate School ( 3 through 5 ), North Mobile County Middle School ( 6-8 ), Satsuma High School ( 9-12 ).

Before the Saraland City Schools system formed, Satsuma residents attended Adams Middle School in Saraland.

City Council District, Before Vistancia AnnexingIn November 1983, Peoria citizens voted to require the direct election of the mayor and in 1989, established a city council district system that separated the city into six geographical districts, each of which elects one member of the city council.

Before that time, residents of both towns had to trek 11 miles by foot or horse and buggy to nearby Columbia City to get their mail.

New York Times featured author Jim Harrison wrote about the Trout Festival in his book Just Before Dark: Collected Non-fiction, Clark City Press, 1991, ISBN 0-944439-33-0.

Before the American Civil War, Nebraska City was noted as having the Territory's largest population of slaves.

Before Long Beach Island was developed, its northern area, from the Barnegat Inlet to the Great Swamp ( now Surf City ), was covered with Atlantic white cedar ( chamaecyparis thyoides ).

Before local elections and in the face of widespread residents ' opposition to the distribution center, the Buda City Council unanimously voted against the land change.