In Earnest J. Gaines ' novel, " A Lesson Before Dying " Bayonne, Louisiana is the name of a Cajun town central to the book.

Before 1537 Cabeza de Vaca crossed central Texas or northern Mexico from the Gulf to northwest Mexico.

Before moving into the castle in the 1890s, Wilbraham Tollemache, 2nd Baron Tollemache added central heating and electric light.

Before these plans could come to effect however, the central government declared the city a protected townscape.

Before the rise of the Mongols in the 13th century, what is now central and western Inner Mongolia, especially the Hetao region, alternated in control between Chinese agriculturalists in the south and Xiongnu, Xianbei, Khitan, Jurchen, Tujue, and other Mongol nomads of the north.

Before the advent of personal computers such as the Apple II and the IBM Personal Computer ( IBM PC ), the computer market was dominated by costly mainframes and minicomputers equipped with dumb terminals that time-shared processing time of the central computer.

Before courtyards, open fires were kept burning in a central place within a home, with only a small hole in the ceiling overhead to allow smoke to escape.

Before the gold rush, Maiden was the largest city in central Montana.

Before the log house was built in Monticello or the first tree cut, the farseeing brothers first surveyed their planned village, laying out broad streets and a central park.

Before frozen foods and the importation of foods from the Southern Hemisphere became readily available in northern and central Europe, sauerkraut provided a source of nutrients during the winter.

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 1800, it had a disjunct range in the British Isles, absent from central and southern Scotland, with S. vulgaris zetlandicus in the far north and northwest ( Shetland, Orkney, Caithness, Outer Hebrides ), and S. vulgaris vulgaris south of the Scottish-English border ; it was also rare or regionally absent in Ireland, western Wales and western and northernmost England.

Before the outbreak of World War I the ships of the German naval forces under Admiral Count von Spee were located at central Pacific colonies on routine missions.

Before about the 1840s, reporting on music was either done by musical journals, such as Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung or the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik ( founded by Robert Schumann ), and in London such journals as The Musical Times ( founded in 1844 as The Musical Times and Singing-class Circular ); or else by reporters at general newspapers where music did not form part of the central objectives of the publication.

The date line is a central factor in Umberto Eco's book The Island of the Day Before ( 1994 ), in which the protagonist finds himself on a becalmed ship, with an island close at hand on the other side of the International Date Line.

Before the Meitoku Rising ( ran ) in 1391, the Yamana family possessed eleven provinces in western and central Japan which made them the most powerful shugo family in the country.

Before reconstruction it had a fairly narrow central platform, and a single track leading from the main route to a set of points immediately prior to the platforms.

Before the final conquest of the central part of Mindanao ( Bukidnon area ), Sumilao, Linabo, Mailag and Silae has been established by Spanish missionaries ( Dominicans and Jesuits ).

Before his untimely death, James Wyatt completed the north-facing front entrance and the central block, containing the state apartments and western courtyards.

Before long, Clarke was playing a central role in local IRB activities.

Before it was incorporated into the City of Brooklyn in 1894, Flatbush described both the Town of Flatbush, incorporating a large swath of central Kings County extending east to the Queens County border, and the Village of Flatbush, formerly the heart of the current community.

Before the advent of operator distance dialing and customer Direct Dial ( DDD ) calling, switchboard operators would work with their counterparts in the distant central office to complete long distance calls.

Before the American Civil War the mountain was a popular hiding place for slaves who had escaped from their owners in the central and eastern sections of North Carolina.

Before seizing power in 2003, Bozizé's rebel group was equipped and trained in Chad.

Before Stalin's consolidation of power, the Central Committee featured open debate, where even leading officials could be criticised.

Before the development of silicon power rectifier diodes, cuprous oxide and later selenium was used ; its low efficiency gave it a much higher forward voltage drop ( typically 1. 4 to 1. 7 V per " cell ", with multiple cells stacked to increase the peak inverse voltage rating in high voltage rectifiers ), and required a large heat sink ( often an extension of the diode ’ s metal substrate ), much larger than a silicon diode of the same current ratings would require.

Before the constitutional rewrite, which was completed in 2000, the president enjoyed more power.

Before 2000, the President had the right to enact regulations on matters not governed by parliamentary law, but this power was removed, and existing regulations were converted into regular statutes by the Parliament.

Before Arbenz come to power in 1951, the Communist movement preferred to carry out many of their activities through the so-called mass organization.

Before long steam power was applied to drive textile machinery.

Before coming to power, the Khmer Rouge also demonstrated characteristics of " the Buddhist ideals of propriety and social justice ", more so than the current government.

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.

Before the Revolution, despite supporting political reform ( including Bolsheviks elected to the Duma, when opportune ), Lenin proposed that capitalism could ultimately only be overthrown with revolution, not with gradual reforms — from within ( Fabianism ) and from without ( social democracy ) — which would fail, because the ruling capitalist social class, who hold economic power ( the means of production ), determine the nature of political power in a bourgeois society.

Before the cold war began in the late 1940s, Foot favoured a ' third way ' foreign policy for Europe ( he was joint author with Richard Crossman and Ian Mikardo of the pamphlet Keep Left in 1947 ), but in the wake of the communist seizure of power in Hungary and Czechoslovakia he and Tribune took a strongly anti-communist position, eventually embracing NATO.

Before the handover of power, some 300, 000 Kosovars, mostly Serbs, left the province, many had been expelled by the Albanians.

Before colonization the senior queen acted as a check and counterweight to the king's power, both through her direct control of some military forces and her control of rainmaking medicines and rites and of key aspects of the Ncwala national ritual that annually binds the fate of the king and the nation together.

* Before the Chiefs ' first touchdown, he sent in the play " 65 toss power trap.

Before the summer 2006 offensive began, indications existed that soldiers in Afghanistan had lost influence and power to other groups, including potentially the Taliban.

Before the development of the transformer, electric power distribution primarily used direct current at the same voltage used by motors and lights.

Before October 5, even as opposition grew, Milošević continued to hold significant power.

Before the advent of the CCD beam profiler, the beam width was estimated using the knife-edge technique: slice a laser beam with a razor and measure the power of the clipped beam as a function of the razor position.

Before his death, he is thought to have named Aurelian as his successor, although Claudius ' brother Quintillus briefly seized power.

Before flue-gas desulfurization was installed, the air pollution | air-polluting emissions from this power plant in New Mexico contained excessive amounts of sulfur dioxide.

Before Henry held real power, it was alleged that there was a plot to spirit Eleanor away and deliver her to the king of France ; de Maulay was accused of the plot and fell out of favour.

Before the end of the war, architect Charles Holden drew up plans to redevelop the city centre, but locals were so opposed that the Citizens ' Defence Association was formed and swept to power in the 1945 municipal elections.