Before he graduated from DeWitt Clinton, his mother died of a cerebral hemorrhage.

Before she died, Sophie Germain was recommended by Gauss to receive her honorary degree.

Before this happened, Iwama died in August 1982 ; subsequently, a CCD chip was placed on his tombstone to acknowledge his contribution .< ref >

Before his mentor Sholes died in 1968, Atkins had become vice president of RCA's country division.

Before filming of the remake commenced, Wray died in her sleep of natural causes on August 8, 2004, in her Manhattan apartment.

Before the Great Hunger (" Irish Potato Famine "), in which over a million died and more emigrated, there had been the Penal Laws which had already resulted in significant emigration from Ireland.

Before he died, Rabbeinu HaKadosh said: ‘ I need my sons !… Let the lamp continue to burn in its usual place ; let the table be set in its usual place ; let the bed be made in its usual place .” ( Kesubbos / Ketubot 103a )

Before Lawrence died, the Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation was formally established.

Before any further steps could be taken at Rome, Gregory XI died ( 1378 ).

Before he died, Marx asked Engels to write up these ideas, which were published in 1884 under the title The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State.

Before she died, my mother told me to be happy that I was the son of this other man.

Before Michele Ghislieri could return to his episcopate, Pope Pius IV died.

Before the arrival in Italy of his candidate Charles, Urban IV died at Perugia on 2 October 1264.

Before his death he had urged the College of Cardinals to elect Giovanni di San Paolo as his successor, but Lotario de ' Conti was elected pope on the very day on which Celestine III died.

Before he died, he told Little John ( or possibly another of his Merry Men ) where to bury him.

Before his death, he confessed of his sins and died repentant.

Before the season even started, quarterbacks coach Dick Rehbein died of a heart attack.

Before the widower William Randolph, an old friend of Peter Jefferson, died in 1745, he appointed Peter as guardian to manage his Tuckahoe Plantation and care for his four children.

Before pre-production could begin, Moe fell ill from lung cancer, and died three months later on May 4, 1975.

Before this run was concluded, Bizet died suddenly, and thus knew nothing of the opera's later celebrity.

Before he died in battle, he was reported to have said: " Let it never be the case that a Bohemian king runs a fight!

Before Sigismund died, he ordered to be buried next to the king saint.

Before Irving Leonard died, he and Eastwood had discussed the idea of Malpaso producing Play Misty for Me, a film that was to give Eastwood the artistic control he desired, and his debut as a director.

Before they were completed, Lucius died in Verona.

Before Isabella could be taken into custody, she fled to Fontevraud Abbey, where she died on 31 May 1246.

Before the days of blinking electrically lighted road barriers, highway construction zones were marked at night by kerosene fired, pot-bellied torches.

Before that, tourists who couldn't afford to stay in a hotel either slept in their cars or pitched their tents in fields alongside the road.

Before long, the Giants were 6 – 2, but lost two straight to division foes: to the Cowboys 33 – 20 at home, and to the Eagles on the road, putting the G-Men in 2nd place in the NFC East at 6 – 4.

Before the playoffs, the 33-year old Riggins told coach Joe Gibbs " I'm really getting down the road.

Before Crockett had left, his father had opened a tavern on the road between Knoxville, Tennessee and Abingdon, Virginia.

Before he leaves, he encounters Izz Huett on the road and impulsively asks her to come to Brazil with him, as his mistress.

Before the Industrial Revolution, much of the area was farmland, providing food for the City of London and surrounding population centres ; and with particular specialisms, such as growing lavender on Lavender Hill ( nowadays denoted by the road of the same name ), asparagus, sold as " Battersea Bundles " or pig breeding on Pig Hill ( later the site of the Shaftesbury Park Estate ).

Before the coming of the railway, with the opening of the Bexleyheath Line on 1 May 1895, Welling was a village on the main road between London and Kent ( Watling Street ).

Before consolidating into the Oak Hill Community, Converse was home to its own high school, nicknamed the Bordermen, who were known for their good basketball teams and unique dress code for road games.

Before the founding of Tishomingo in 1852, the area was known as Good Springs, named for the presence of several springs that made the place a suitable camp site along the road between Fort Washita and Fort Arbuckle.

Before the toll road, a driver bought a ticket, loaded the vehicle onto a flatbed or train, and used the wooden planks inside the rails when the train was not on a scheduled run.

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 this, the lowest road crossing of the River Tamar was Gunnislake New Bridge at the village of Gunnislake.

Before the main road connects to the Rathausplatz, a tablet commemorates the great Austrian composer Anton Bruckner.

Before the valley was linked by road to Kristiansand in the 1840s, people routinely traveled east and west across these moorlands.

Before the diversion was made round the extended runway at Scampton, with a very slight diversion at Broughton, it was possible to travel about 33 miles, from the Newport Arch, the Roman north gate at Lincoln, to the Parish of Winteringham along a road so slightly curved as to be regarded as straight.

Before construction could begin, a road to the site had to be built.

Route 4A ( 1940s-1953 ) Before 1927, what is today Route 79 was an unnumbered road.

Before leaving the Northwest Angle by road, one must report to Canadian customs from the same booth.

Before the Severn Bridge was opened, the old cast iron road bridge across the Wye at Chepstow, built in 1816 to replace earlier wooden structures, carried all the road traffic between South West England and South Wales and was the lowest bridging point of the Wye.

Before 1976, the tunnel was the only point of passage at the top, at an altitude of 2556 m. The tunnel was closed for restoration until 2002, and a new road was constructed over the summit.

Before the digging of the Welland Canal, shipping traffic between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie used a portage road between Chippawa, Ontario, and Queenston, Ontario, both of which are located on the Niagara River — above and below Niagara Falls, respectively.

Before the building of the bridge the crossing was made by a road raised above the bed of the river, which only allowed the river to be crossed in summer.

Before 1841, Bleak Heath or Blake Heath was a small group of farm houses and inns on the turnpike road from Oldbury to Halesowen, within Rowley Regis.