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 ".

He is famous for his dark, quirky-themed movies such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, 9 and Dark Shadows, and for blockbusters such as Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Batman, Batman Returns, Planet of the Apes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland, which was the second highest-grossing film of 2010, and the twelfth highest-grossing film of all time.

Before publishing one of its most famous discoveries, Watson and Crick's 1953 paper on the structure of DNA, Nature did not send the paper out for peer review at all.

Before the battle, Henry rallies his troops with the famous St. Crispin's Day Speech, referring to " we few, we happy few, we band of brothers ".

Before the war, in 1912, he had published the book The Good Soldier Švejk and other strange stories ( Dobrý voják Švejk a jiné podivné historky ) where the figure of Švejk appeared for the first time ; but it was only after the war in his famous novel that Švejk became a sancta simplicitas, a cheerful idiot who joked about the war as if it were a tavern brawl.

Before the 1990s tapestry upholstery fabrics and reproductions of the famous tapestries of the Middle Ages had been produced using Jacquard techniques but then artists such as Chuck Close adapted the

Before becoming famous, for a couple of years Susana worked as an executive secretary for a large factory, but realizing that she needed a more exciting career at 19 yrs.

While famous for classic recordings from Rod Stewart, Aretha Franklin, Eric Clapton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Rolling Stones and The Allman Brothers, recent hit songs such as " Before He Cheats " by Carrie Underwood and " I Loved Her First " by Heartland continue the city's musical legacy.

Before he became famous, musician Buddy Holly played a show on the roof of the Sky Vue's projector building.

Before going into their famous number, "( Can I Speak To You Before You Go To ) Hollywood ", the singer suddenly left the stage.

Before she became famous, she earned titles in several beauty contests, including holding the titles of Miss Louisiana USA 1975 for Miss USA and that of Miss Louisiana for both the Miss World and the Miss International pageants.

Two of his hits were " The Song of the Sewer ", sung in character as Norton, and "' Twas the Night Before Christmas ", a spoken-word record in which Carney, accompanied only by a jazz drummer, recited the famous Yuletide poem in syncopation.

Before leaving, he and his family travelled to Belfast, and it was at the summit of Cavehill that Tone made the famous Cavehill compact with fellow United Irishmen, Russel and McCracken, promising " Never to desist in our efforts until we subvert the authority of England over our country and asserted our independence ".

Before the War, he lived in Germany as a successful, famous, German-language playwright, and became a Nazi propagandist.

Co-star Constance Moore remembered, " Before Mr. Fields did the famous Ping-Pong scene he wanted Mr. Cline.

* Richard Henry Dana, Jr. author of the famous memoir Two Years Before the Mast.

Before his execution, Morazán dictated his famous will to his son, Francisco.

" Before even a line of Kafka's most famous work had been made public, Brod had already praised him as " the greatest poet of our time ", ranking with Goethe or Tolstoy.

Before this two huge airship hangars had been built there by the famous engineer Eugène Freyssinet from 1923 on.

Before Kripke delivered the famous lecture series Naming and Necessity in 1970, the descriptivism advocated by Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell was the orthodoxy.

Before being exported to France, the famous Ballet dance genre also originated in Italy.

Before publishing the book, he printed certain extracts from it in Elle, a popular woman's magazine, which resulted in a famous lawsuit from count d ' Ornano and his descendants.

Before Søren Poppe got famous with the band, he was a teacher in a school in Valby, in Copenhagen.

The area was first made famous by the early 20th-century writer Shimazaki Tōson, who chronicled the effects of the Meiji Restoration on the valley in his landmark novel Before the Dawn.

Before the arrival of Europeans, Banda had an oligarchic form of government led by orang kaya (' rich men ') and the Bandanese had an active and independent role in trade throughout the archipelago.

Before the Iron Age, the role of cavalry on the battlefield was largely performed by light chariots.

He also provided the voice of Jack Skellington, the main character in Tim Burton's animated Disney film The Nightmare Before Christmas ( 1993 ), and has since reprised the role in many other subsequent productions, including the Disney / Square video games Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II and the Capcom sequel to the original film, Oogie's Revenge.

Before the fighting, the Parliament of England did not have a large permanent role in the English system of government, functioning as a temporary advisory committee, summoned by the monarch whenever the Crown required additional tax revenue, and subject to dissolution by the monarch at any time.

Before accepting a role as a villain in Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, Henry Fonda called Wallach and asked " What the hell does he know about the West?

Before the rise of Christianity, the pseudepigrapha of Enochic Judaism, which enjoyed much popularity during the Second Temple period, gave Satan an expanded role.

Before that, the vocal virtuosity, not range, was the priority, with soprano parts rarely extending above a high A ( Handel, for example, only wrote one role extending to a high C ), though the castrato Farinelli was alleged to possess a top D ( his lower range was also extraordinary, extending to tenor C ).

Before his theft of fire, Prometheus played a decisive role in the Titanomachy, securing victory for Zeus and the other Olympians.

Before the release of It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Professor Griff, in his role as Minister of Information, gave interviews to UK magazines on behalf of Public Enemy, during which he made homophobic and anti-Semitic remarks.

Before the relatively recent discovery of neurons and their role in pain, various different body functions were proposed to account for pain.

" Waits also continued to further his acting career with a supporting role as Rudy the Kraut in Ironweed ( an adaptation of William Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ) alongside Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, in which Waits performed the song " Big Rock Candy Mountain ", as well as a part in Robert Frank's Candy Mountain, in which Waits also performed " Once More Before I Go.

Before he showed an interest in poetry, he displayed a keenness for acting, though Mr Giles ' Theatre, where he performed, only let him play the title role in Macbeth if he paid for the privilege.

Before motorized transport became widespread, drummers played a key role in military conflicts.

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

Before 1974, that role had been filled by Famagusta which is now located in the Turkish controlled part of the island which is not recognised as a legal port by any country except Turkey.

Before the lightning strikes earth, the filaments lead electricity through the clouds, playing the role of lightning rods.

Before production, John Ford shopped the project around to several Hollywood studios, all of which turned him down because big budget Westerns were out of vogue, and because Ford insisted on using John Wayne in a key role in the film.

* Dick Van Dyke – Before his small but memorable role as D. A.

Before relating the story, it is stated that Cupid played no role in the events and was not to blame for Myrrha's incestuous love for her father, Cinyras.

Before his role as protector of merchants and travelers, Hermes was a phallic god, associated with fertility, luck, roads and borders.

He has done animation voice acting, most notably voicing the recurring role of David Xanatos in the animated series Gargoyles, and he provided the voice of his own head in a jar in the Futurama episode " Where No Fan Has Gone Before ".

Before independence, others identified a Japanese fifth column in India and some thought the British would retain certain princely states to serve them in that role.

Before leaving, McQueen told Spielberg that he could not accept the role because he was unable to cry on cue.

Before his election, Adolf ’ s political activities had been limited to his role as Bundesgenosse of the Archbishop of Cologne.

Before any commercial use of QuickRing, newer versions of PCI started appearing that offered performance close enough to QuickRing to make its role redundant.