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 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 Seinfeld, he starred in a short-lived CBS sitcom called Everything's Relative in 1987 which lasted six episodes.

Before the 1987 – 88 season, Dalglish signed a number of new players: Peter Beardsley from Newcastle, John Aldridge from Oxford United ( who replaced Ian Rush ); winger John Barnes from Watford ; and Oxford United midfielder Ray Houghton.

Before his methods were commercialised in 1987 his laboratory was the only centre carrying out DNA fingerprinting in the world, and during this period of about two or three years it was very busy, receiving inquiries from all over the globe.

Before 1987, a limited edition Henry Moore sculpture accompanied the monetary prize.

Before 1987, the show's theme song was the Hank Snow hit " Hello Love ".

Before it burned down in 1987, the Worumbo Mill was the main mill in Lisbon Falls.

Before the album was released, Jane's Addiction supported British band Love and Rockets on a two-month tour in late 1987 .. Also in late 1987, the band opened for former Bauhaus vocalist Peter Murphy at the now demolished Fender's Ballroom in Long Beach.

Before then, the last Secretary of State for a major department drawn from the Lords was Lord Young of Graffham, serving between 1985 and 1989 as Secretary of State for Employment until 1987 and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry until 1989.

Before founding the MRC in 1987, Bozell ran the National Conservative Foundation project at the Conservative Political Action Conference, in which he moderated debates between Sam Donaldson and Bob Novak over media bias.

At this time Dre was working on side projects for local entrepreneur Eric ‘ Eazy-E ’ Wright with his homies from CIA in the Kru-Cut studio and Ice Cube was enlisted to ghostwrite for the World Class single ‘ House Calls / Cabbage Patch ’ single in 1987 and shortly after, featuring Michel ’ le, ( Dre ’ s girlfriend ) came out the slow jam hit ‘ Before You Turn off the Lights ’ that was a huge hit across the country on the pop charts in early 1988.

Before the release of the Pixies ' debut mini-album Come On Pilgrim in October 1987, Ivo Watts-Russell, head of 4AD, suggested they return to the studio to record a full length album.

Before leaving the series to work on his new television series, Crime Story, Michael Mann handed the role of executive producer to Dick Wolf prior to the third season ( 1986 – 1987 ).

* Elizabeth Kwan Living in South Australia: A Social History Volume 1: From Before 1836 to 1914 ( 1987 )

* Death Before Dishonor, a 1987 American action movie

Before 1987, one-dimensional photonic crystals in the form of periodic multi-layers dielectric stacks ( such as the Bragg mirror ) were studied extensively.

Before the section between the M11 and A13 opened in 1987, the A406 designation extended as far as east as Gants Hill.

Before they reached 1957, 1971, the semi-finals, as well as 1958, 1974, 1981, 1982, 1987 the quarterfinals of the European Cup.

Before Obasanjo's administration Nigeria's GDP growth had been painfully slow since 1987, and only managed 3 % between 1999 / 2000.

Before 1987, Woods contends, the party had a strong, unambiguous national identity.

A first-season episode of 1987 of that series was named " Where No One Has Gone Before ", the plot of which bears no connection to that of " Where No Man Has Gone Before ".

Before he took upon this unpaid position that will be filled by a new appointment in 2011, he was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom and was Member of Parliament for Fylde between 1987 and 2010, serving at various junior ministerial posts during the John Major administration.