Before entering the service, Pfaff for five years did clerical work with a general merchandising and wholesale firm in New Orleans.

Before entering West Point, Poe moved back to Baltimore for a time, to stay with his widowed aunt Maria Clemm, her daughter, Virginia Eliza Clemm ( Poe's first cousin ), his brother Henry, and his invalid grandmother Elizabeth Cairnes Poe.

Before entering the university, he would read many other classical works.

Before entering Parliament he had already substituted a High Church Anglican attitude, with its dependence upon authority and tradition, for the evangelical outlook of his boyhood, with its reliance upon the direct inspiration of the Bible.

However, the episode " Flashes Before Your Eyes " suggests that minor changes are possible, unlike the totally fixed timeline postulated by Novikov's principle: in this episode Desmond's consciousness time travels back to a point in his past, where he ends up in a bar, where he remembers ( from his previous experience of this time ) a man named Jimmy Lennon entering and attacking the bartender ; in his attempt to warn the bartender, he himself gets attacked instead.

Before entering politics, he had been a classical scholar, becoming a full Professor of Ancient Greek at the age of 25.

Before his death in January 2006, Rawls ' last performance was a taping for the 2006 telethon that honored Wonder, months before entering the hospital after being diagnosed with cancer earlier in the year.

Before entering politics, the young Jimmy Walker worked as a songwriter, his most popular composition being " Will You Love Me in December ( as You Do in May )?

Before he was allowed to teach, a newcomer entering the state from Tibet or India first had to seek the approval of local authorities.

Before entering politics, she owned a fish and chip shop in Ipswich, a city near Brisbane.

Before entering hibernation, most species eat a large amount of food and store energy in fat deposits to survive the winter.

Ettelaat, an Iranian daily, reported, " Before entering the minefields, the children wrap themselves in blankets and they roll on the ground, so that their body parts stay together after the explosion of the mines and one can carry them to the graves.

Before entering the spaceship, E. T.

Before entering Afghanistan he warned his fighters:

Before entering the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen he won the support of Dithmarschen.

Before entering the dungeon, the dungeoneer is given a knapsack to wear, in which they are to place food found along the way, in order to replenish Life Force ( see below ).

Before entering the United States Military Academy, Custer attended the McNeely Normal School, later known as Hopedale Normal College, in Hopedale, Ohio.

Before entering politics, he was a dentist.

Before entering Cardozo High School and shortly after the Gay family relocated to D. C .' s Deanwood neighborhood in northeastern Washington, he had joined several doo-wop groups in the D. C. area, including the Dippers, which featured his friend Johnny Stewart, brother of R & B singer Billy Stewart.

Before it succeeded in entering the queen's bedroom, Marie Antoinette fled to the king's apartments.

Before entering politics, he studied at Universidad de los Andes in the 1960s.

Before entering state politics, Gallop worked as a tutor and lecturer at both Murdoch University and The University of Western Australia, and was a City Councillor at Fremantle from 1983 to 1986.

Before entering the university, he had begun his literary career at Budapest as contributor and dramatic critic for Der Zwischenact.

Before entering Parliament he worked for N M Rothschild & Sons, the investment bank, and became director of Rothschild Asset Management.

Before entering politics, she worked as a real estate agent.

Before the Dutch retook control of the islands, the British removed many nutmeg trees and transplanted them to Ceylon and other British colonies.

Before, Anguilla ( 1631 – 1650 ), the present-day British Virgin Islands ( 1612 – 1672 ), St. Croix and Tobago had also been Dutch.

Before the Dutch Revolt, Antwerp had played an important role as a distribution center in northern Europe.

Before Charles's restoration, the Navigation Acts of 1650 had hurt Dutch trade by giving English vessels a monopoly, and had started the First Dutch War ( 1652 – 1654 ).

Before the start of the new 1999 – 2000 season, Ajax were beaten in their own stadium when Feyenoord won their second Dutch Super Cup title, after a free kick by Patrick Paauwe, which secured a 3 – 2 win.

Before 1881, when Charles Daniel Dance wrote his Chapters From a Guianese Log-book, he noticed, The children all talked a Dutch patois besides the Arawak Indian tongue ; and with a Dutch teacher to instruct them, it is not difficult to conceive the manner in which they read their English lessons.

Before this could happen the Dutch fleet would have to be defeated first.

Before 1984, the area was administrated by the Openbaar Lichaam Zuidelijke IJsselmeerpolders < sup > NL </ sup > ( OLZIJ ) (), founded by the Dutch national government after the province of Flevoland was created.

Before reaching Alphen aan den Rijn they could be repelled by the Dutch.

Before this the Native Americans had poor relations with the Dutch.

Before the Saturday afternoon parade the main street is scrubbed by children and adults dressed in traditional Dutch costumes to prepare the road for the Klompen Dancers and parade to follow.

Before that time the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ) merchants were in principle just another trading power among many, establishing trading posts and settlements ( colonies ) in strategic places around the archipelago.

Before entering the French service, Luckner had spent time in the Bavarian, Dutch and Hanoverian armies.

Before that, the region had been invaded many times by the Dutch and the English, seeking pepper ; guaraná, a tree from which a powder is produced and used as a stimulant ; and annato seeds, a fruit used for cooking, as a sunscreen and also for the extraction of dye.

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 1961, the Dutch language was one of the official languages of South Africa.

Before 1814, the term Dutch Guiana did not describe a distinct political entity, but rather all colonies under Dutch sovereignty taken together.

He was later identified as Dutch radio DJ Sander Lantinga, who was streaking for a TV show called Try Before You Die.

Before the publication began at the request of a group of Mennonites from Montgomery County, it had to be translated from the original Holland Dutch into German, which was completed by Peter Miller of the Ephrata Community.

Before and during its construction many Dutch people, experts and politicians such as members of parliament were opposed to the Betuweroute.