Before gaining his powers, Rev was a delivery boy for Quick Wrap Sandwich Shack and an inventor.

Before leaving, he met Milton Caniff, and the two became lifelong friends.

Before commercial Internet access became common, these networks of BBSes provided regional and international e-mail and message bases.

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 chemistry became a science, alchemists had designed arcane symbols for both metals and common compounds.

Before the RISC philosophy became prominent, many computer architects tried to bridge the so called semantic gap, i. e. to design instruction sets that directly supported high-level programming constructs such as procedure calls, loop control, and complex addressing modes, allowing data structure and array accesses to be combined into single instructions.

Before the buildup to the war gay servicemembers were court-martialed, imprisoned, and dishonorably discharged, but in wartime commanding officers found it difficult to convene court-martial boards of commissioned officers and the administrative blue discharge became the military's standard method for handling gay and lesbian personnel.

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 digital technology became widespread, for many decades, the scanned data was transmitted as analog.

Before rail fins became ( extremely ) popular, this tendency of " single fins " led to riders " nursing " turns-this tendency was a significant limiting factor on performance.

Before gelatin became widely available as a commercial product, the most typical gelatin dessert was " calf's foot jelly ".

Before long, a falcon representing Horus became the norm as the animal on top, with the individual Pharaoh's symbol usually appearing in the box beneath the falcon, and above the stripes representing the palace.

Before she became associated with Greek mythology, she had many similarities with Artemis ( wilderness, and watching over wedding ceremonies )

Before the 18th century the Kalevala poetry was common throughout Finland and Karelia but in the 18th century it began to disappear in Finland, first in western Finland, because European rhymed poetry became more common in Finland.

Before Digital Command Control became available, this was one way of controlling two trains separately on the same track.

Before the latter became terminally ill, Bismarck did not expect he would live to see Wilhelm ascend to the throne, and thus had no strategy to deal with him.

Before leaving school, towards the end of 1855, he became assistant to the painter and professor Louis ( Lodewijk ) Jan de Taeye, whose courses in history and historical costume he had greatly enjoyed at the Academy.

Before the start of the 1994 season, San Diego was not expected to do well because they had so many newcomers via the draft and free agency ; the Chargers ended up 22 new players on their roster and 10 of them became starters.

Before cable-ready TV sets became common in the late 1980s, an electronic tuning device called a cable converter box was needed to receive the additional analog cable TV channels and transpose or convert the selected channel to analog radio frequency ( RF ) for viewing on a regular TV set on a single channel, usually VHF channel 3 or 4.

Before Paine it had been possible to be both a Christian and a deist ; now such a religious outlook became virtually untenable.

Before his conversion, Saul ( who later became better known as Paul of Tarsus ) puts followers of Jesus in prison.

Before any of the scandalous activity became widely known, Harding's popularity began to ebb, but he responded with determination to run for re-election, despite strong support emerging for the very popular Henry Ford for the Democrats.

Before blogging became popular, digital communities took many forms, including Usenet, commercial online services such as GEnie, BiX and the early CompuServe, e-mail listsThe term " e-log " has been used to describe journal entries sent out via e-mail since as early as March 1996.

Before he became a monk, Simon handed his county of the Vexin over to King Philip.

Before he became widely known as an astronaut, the film Air Cadet ( 1951 ) starring Richard Long and Rock Hudson briefly featured Grissom early in the movie as a U. S. Air Force candidate for flight school at Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas.

Before motorized transport became widespread, drummers played a key role in military conflicts.

Before the 19th century, the first use of the word " police " recorded in government documents in the United Kingdom was the appointment of Commissioners of Police for Scotland in 1714 and the creation of the Marine Police in 1798 ( set up to protect merchandise at the Port of London ).

Before reaching Wellington ( on New Zealand's North Island ), brief stops were made at Port Hardy ( on d ' Urville Island ) and Queen Charlotte Sound ( on New Zealand's South Island ) and Challenger passed through the Cook Strait to reach Wellington.

Before the arrival of European settlers, the Port Orford area was inhabited by Tututni peoples.

Before Glassport was its own borough, the territory was part of Elizabeth Twp., then of Lincoln Twp., then Port Vue, PA.

Before 1780, Grigsby ’ s Bluff, explicitly that part of Port Neches immediately east of Port Neches Park, had been an Indian town for at least 1, 500 years, at first of the Karankawa tribe, whose 7-foot skeletons were often found in the burial mounds there ; and after 1650 of the Nacazils, a sub-tribe of the Attakapas, who were a short and stocky people before their extinction about 1780.

Before Port Arthur was abandoned as a Prison in 1877, some people saw the potential tourist attraction.

Before being officially named St Kilda in 1841 by Charles La Trobe, who was superintendent of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales, the area was known by several names, including ' Green Knoll ' and ' The Village of Fareham '.

Before Great Seto Bridge was opened, there was train ferry between Uno Port in Tamano and Takamatsu on Shikoku and Tamano was the major entrance to Shikoku.

Before 1979, the highway terminated in the north at Kelsey Bay, where BC Ferries originally began its northern route to Prince Rupert until moving its southern terminus north to Port Hardy after the highway was extended.

Before Port Arthur in a Destroyer ; The Personal Diary of a Japanese Naval Officer.

Before the formation of Less Than Jake, vocalist and guitarist Chris Demakes, drummer Vinnie Fiorello, and bassist Shaun Grief led a local band named Good Grief while attending high school in Port Charlotte, Florida.

Before the jet airline era, Port Bell was a landing point on the Imperial Airways flying boat passenger and mail route from Southampton to Johannesburg's Vaal Dam.

Before European settlers arrived at Port Phillip, Aborigines resting after the stiff climb of Oliver's Hill, Frankston, and looking north along the bay would have viewed a long ribbon of sandy beach shaped vaguely like a boomerang.

Before Port Kembla was an industrial suburb of Wollongong, it was a town with a remarkably self-sufficient society, a growing commercial centre, and a vibrant civic life.

Before the section of Highway 19 from Campbell River to Port Hardy was opened in 1979, Highway 28 acted as the main access to Port Hardy and various other communities on the northern tip of the Island ( in the Regional District of Mount Waddington ), aided by a system of local logging roads leading from the highway to the various north Island communities.

Before the Interstate era, M-21 extended across the entire Lower Peninsula, from the junction with US 31 in Holland near Lake Michigan east to the St. Clair River at Port Huron, and crossed into Canada where the Blue Water Bridge is currently located.

Before the two cities of Fort William and Port Arthur merged, it was called the Canadian Lakehead Airport.

Before 1949, Hindmarsh included most of Port Adelaide.

Before that time the Ausable passed through the village of Grand Bend, where it made an abrupt curve toward the south, paralleling the Lake Huron shoreline for several kilometers, before entering the lake at Port Franks.

Before European settlement of Adelaide's western suburbs and the construction of various flood mitigation channels and levees, the Port River formed one of the outlets of the River Torrens.

Before white settlers moved into the newly surveyed Medora Township starting in the 1860s, the Ojibway moved to Parry Sound but continued to summer in Port Carling.

Before 1942, the name Port Radium was used in reference to the name of the government facilities at Cameron Bay ( post office and wireless radio station ).