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 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.

* The Chinese Buddhist monk Huiyuan, who founded the Pure Land Buddhism sect and the monastery on Mount Lushan, writes the book On Why Monks Do Not Bow Down Before Kings in this year.

Before the monk died from his wounds he revealed to Glory ( under torture ) that The Key had been transformed, but not what The Key had become.

Before he went to China, Kūkai had been an independent Buddhist monk in Japan for over a decade.

Before his death he became a monk and, according to his will, was buried in the cemetery of the St. Daniel Monastery.

Before a battle it was customary for a chosen monk / holy man ( usually attached to the McGroarty clan, and someone who was sinless ) to wear the Cathach in its cumdach around his neck and then walk three times around the troops of O ’ Donnell.

Before joining the Catholic Workers, he had attended a seminary in Vermont and hoped to become a monk.

Before he died, the monk consented to forgive them and spare their lives if they and their descendants would enact a penance.

Before World War II, French historian Pierre David advanced a theory that Gallus might have been a Hungarian monk from Saint Giles ' Monastery in Somogyvár who accompanied King Bolesław III in his return from Hungary to Poland.

Before rising to the primacy of the see of Jerusalem, he was a monk and theologian who was the chief protagonist for orthodox teaching in the doctrinal controversy on the essential nature of Jesus and his volitional acts.

Before becoming a monk, Nil Sorsky worked as a scribe and was engaged in book copying.

Before becoming a monk, he was married and had two sons:

* 1265 – Before August – Future King Edward I escapes captivity in the hands of Simon de Montfort.

* Jimmy Carter, An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood ( New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001 ).

Before Simon could put himself forward as a candidate, however, the rebellion had broken down and the people were restless.

His work as a songwriter met with particular success in the UK: top 40 UK hits written by Newman included Cilla Black's " I've Been Wrong Before " (# 17, 1965 ), Gene Pitney's " Nobody Needs Your Love " (# 2, 1966 ) and " Just One Smile " (# 8, 1966 ); and The Alan Price Set's " Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear " (# 4, 1967 ).

That same year, Simon recorded another album of original songs, Letters Never Sent, and contributed a Christmas song, " The Night Before Christmas ", to the soundtrack for the film Mixed Nuts.

* Ballin Smith, Beverley ; Taylor, Simon ; and Williams, Gareth ( eds ) ( 2007 ) West Over Sea: Studies in Scandinavian Sea-borne Expansion and Settlement Before 1300.

Before 1542 the works principally used by apothecaries were the treatises on simples by Avicenna and Serapion ; the De synonymis and Quid pro quo of Simon Januensis ; the Liber servitoris of Bulchasim Ben Aberazerim, which described the preparations made from plants, animals and minerals, and was the type of the chemical portion of modern pharmacopoeias ; and the Antidotarium of Nicolaus de Salerno, containing Galenic formulations arranged alphabetically.

Before signing with the Pirates, Simon signed with the Florida Marlins and New York Yankees in the 2000 season, but did not play in the majors for either franchise.

Before retiring from politics, Marsden co-authored the book ' Voices for Peace ' published by Simon and Schuster in 2001.

In his novel All Who Came Before, Biblical Scholar Simon Perry takes Bar-Abbas as a title meaning ' son of the father '.

* All Who Came Before, a 2011 historical thriller novel by Simon Perry

Before they can flee, the Victors Jr. and Sr. ( J. E. Freeman ) arrive at their door, so Simon and crew bribe a young boy staying in the next room to open the connecting door for their escape.

In 2007 they appeared in two consecutive stories in Judge Dredd Megazine, focusing on the clan's earlier adventures: Before They Wuz Dead ( an Angel Gang story ) and Pizen Impossible ( a Fink solo story ), both by Simon Spurrier and Steve Roberts.

* The Angel Gang: " Before they wuz dead " ( by Simon Spurrier and Steve Roberts, in Judge Dredd Megazine # 258-ongoing, 2007 )

In addition to various Spielberg films, Amblin has produced movies by other directors such as Joe Dante ( Gremlins, Small Soldiers, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Innerspace ), Robert Zemeckis ( the Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit ), Brian Levant ( the Flintstones duology ), Matthew Robbins (* batteries not included ), Penelope Spheeris ( the 1994 film remake of The Little Rascals ), Brad Silberling ( Casper ), Don Bluth ( An American Tail, The Land Before Time ), Clint Eastwood ( The Bridges of Madison County, Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, Hereafter-except for the last named the Amblin logo does not appear on Eastwood's films, or on Schindler's List & True Grit ), Gil Kenan ( Monster House ), Martin Campbell ( The Mask of Zorro, The Legend of Zorro ), Richard Donner ( The Goonies ), Jan de Bont ( Twister ), Barry Sonnenfeld ( the Men in Black trilogy ), Martin Scorsese ( Cape Fear ), Joe Johnston ( Jurassic Park III ), J. J. Abrams ( Super 8 ), The Coen Brothers ( True Grit ), and Simon Wells ( An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, and We're Back!

Before settling and growing up in Marseille, Simon lived in Madagascar, Budapest, Turin and Berlin.

Before deciding to accept an American contract, Simon decided to first complete two more films for Allégret, Les yeux noirs ( Black Eyes, 1935 ) and Les beaux jours ( 1935 ).

It also appears in The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson, Max Ophüls ' Letter from an Unknown Woman and its Generation X counterpart, Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise, and The Glass Room by Simon Mawer.

Before joining The Bill in 2000, she filmed a trilogy of films about London life all under the same director, Simon Rumley.

* Jimmy Carter, An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood Simon & Schuster, London ISBN 0-7432-1199-5

Before transitioning to this private sector work about a decade ago, Wilhelm had established a reputation as a leading manager of political campaigns, working for candidates such as Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, Richard Daley, the late Paul Simon and several other Illinois-based Democrats.

" in Ballin Smith, Beverley, Taylor, Simon and Williams, Gareth ( eds ) ( 2007 ) West Over Sea: Studies in Scandinavian Sea-borne Expansion and Settlement Before 1300.

Before creating the Banjo model, Simon designed a shelf clock ( 1780s, Grafton ).

Before Gabriel arrives, Simon befriends a little girl, Mary ( Moriah Shining Dove Snyder ), and passes the soul on to her in order to hide it from Gabriel.