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Before his invasion of Greece, Xerxes I spent three years amassing supplies from all over Asia ; Herodotus wrote that the Persian army was so large it " drank the rivers dry ".
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' Before the 2003 invasion of Iraq Dr. Muayad Said described the structure before the filling of the reservoir: ' It has an octagonal body enhanced by alcoves, some of which are blind.
Before the Mongol invasion, Chinese dynasties reportedly had approximately 120 million inhabitants ; after the conquest was completed in 1279, the 1300 census reported roughly 60 million people.
Before the invasion of the Huns the Gothic Chernyakhov culture produced jewelry, vessels, and decorative objects in a style much influenced by Greek and Roman craftsmen.
Before 1946, children as well as adults were content in carving and shaping wooden replicas from block wood kits, often depicting enemy aircraft to help in identification in case of invasion.
Before the Roman invasion, begun in 43, Iron Age Britain already had established cultural and economic links with Continental Europe, but the Roman invaders introduced new developments in agriculture, urbanisation, industry and architecture.
Before the Norman invasion in 1066, the parish of Higher Mutley was owned by a man Alwin of Tamerton, and Lower Mutley by another man called Goodwin, but at the time of the Domesday Book ( 1086 ) both were owned by Odo, whose feudal overlord was Juhel of Totnes.
Before the Roman invasion Caratacus is associated with the expansion of his tribe's territory.
Before the treaty reached the Senate for ratification, and even before news of its signing reached New Orleans, a massive British invasion force was utterly defeated at the Battle of New Orleans, which made a national hero out of General Andrew Jackson.
Before the invasion, the Fenians had received some intelligence from like-minded supporters within Canada but did not receive support from all Irish Catholics there who saw the invasions as threatening the emerging Canadian sovereignty.
Before the Turkish invasion there was much archaeological activity there ; one French Mission was excavating at Enkomi, another at Salamis and the Department of Antiquities was busy almost throughout the year with repairs and restorations of monuments and was engaged in excavations at Salamis.
Before the German invasion of Poland in 1939, he destroyed all records of his existence then moved to Turkey, where he worked for Turkish radio and set up an intelligence organisation.
Before the British invasion of Virginia forced the temporary closure of the College of William and Mary and disbandment of the Phi Beta Kappa there early in 1781, Elisha Parmelee, an alumnus of Yale College and Harvard College, passed through Williamsburg and took charters from the Phi Beta Kappa to establish branches of the society at these schools.
Before the war, Moltke also moved 180, 000 men to eastern Germany to defend against the Russian invasion of East Prussia.
Before the invasion in March 2003, polls showed 47-60 % of the US public supported an invasion, dependent on U. N. approval.
Before the invasion, the revolution was weak.
Before trial, the court granted Flynt's motion for summary judgment on the invasion of privacy claim, and the remaining two charges proceeded to trial.
Before the 1955 invasion of Tibet, many of the texts and information that are now available would have been esoteric and restricted.
Before the main invasion, the offshore islands of Tanegashima, Yakushima, and the Koshikijima Islands were to be taken, starting on X-5.
Before the invasion, it had not yet been decided whether mainland France would be attacked ; this would depend on the outcome of Fall Gelb.
In 1065, Before his invasion of Anglo-Saxon England, William of Normandy warned his rivals in Brittany and Anjou to abstain from any attacks on his duchy, on the grounds that his mission bore the papal banner.
Before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the zoo housed 650 animals.
Before the invasion the brigade had been informed that they would stay in France for only a few days.
Before becoming a king, he had other offices and was known for his resistance against the Genoese invasion against Cyprus.
Before and Greece
Before leaving Italy Pyrrhus sent requests for military and financial assistance to southern Greece and Macedon, as well as to the Hellenic empires of the Ptolemaic and Seleucid dynasties.
Before Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire during the reign of the Emperor Constantine I, Diocletian and Maximian passed strict anti-polygamy laws in 285 that mandated monogamy was the only form of legal marital configuration, as had traditionally been the case in classical Greece and Rome themselves.
Before the games began, a truce was declared by Corinth to grant athletes safe passage through Greece.
Before taking office, the Prime Minister is sworn in inside the Presidential Mansion by the Archbishop of Athens ( the head of the Church of Greece ).
Before the Balkan Wars of 1912 – 1913, Venizelos ' catalytic role helped gain Greece entrance to the Balkan League, an alliance of the Balkan states against Ottoman Turkey.
Before university, he attended Athens College a leading private school in Greece.
Before visiting Greece, he had been to Antioch, Joppa and Jerusalem, and to the banks of the River Jordan.
Before the flag of Cyprus was introduced, the flags of Greece and Turkey were used.
Before Giovanni Schiaparelli gave it the name Hellas ( which in Greek means ' Greece '), it was known as ' Lockyer Land ', having been named by Richard Anthony Proctor in 1867 in honor of Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, an English astronomer who, using a 6. 25-inch ( 16-cm ) refractor, produced " the first really truthful representation of the planet " ( in the estimation of E. M. Antoniadi ).
The first recorded mention of Judaism in Greece dates from 300-250 Before Common Era ( BCE ) on the island of Rhodes.
* 1957: Before Sundown ( Vor Sonnenuntergang ) ( West Germany ); The Girl in Black ( To Koritsi me ta mavra ) ( Greece ); Richard III ( United Kingdom ); Roses on the Arm ( Taiyo to bara ) ( Japan ); War and Peace ( Italy ); The White Reindeer ( Valkoinen Peura ) ( Finland )
Before becoming a politician, Alevras was employed at the Bank of Greece.
Before, and during, the Kokkina crisis, Karayiannis found himself charged with duties to both the government of the Republic of Cyprus and of Greece, which became contradictory because of the lack of agreement between the two governments.
Before the foundation of Gate 13 there were various football supporters ' clubs all around Greece.
Before departing to Greece for their historic match, they played a warm up match against Fiji A at OKI Jubilee Stadium in front of 1103 spectators.
Before and I
Before he went into battle Andrei had told Alex, `` I only want to be a Pole.
Before he left town Pat saw to it that I was fixed up with a job.
Before turning to my views as to the problems and issues before us at this Regional Conference, I wish to note a small item in the Summary Report as it refers to the District of Columbia.
Before God I swear I am innocent.
`` Before God, Captain, I am innocent ''.
As his ship was readied for battle, Nelson held a final dinner with Vanguard < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s officers, announcing as he rose: " Before this time tomorrow I shall have gained a peerage or Westminster Abbey ," in reference to the rewards of victory or the traditional burial place of British military heroes.
:: The Christ was Jesus ' spiritual selfhood ; therefore Christ existed prior to Jesus, who said, " Before Abraham was, I am.
Before World War I there were more than 3, 500 cheese producers in Britain, while fewer than 100 remained after the Second World War.
Before the Service Number was introduced in the 1990s, military personnel were identified on the I discs ( as well as other documents ) by their Social Insurance Number.
" Before Diderot ," Anne Louise Germaine de Staël wrote, " I had never seen anything in pictures except dull and lifeless colours ; it was his imagination that gave them relief and life, and it is almost a new sense for which I am indebted to his genius.
First, that the " sword shall never depart from your house " ( 2 Samuel 12: 10 ) second, that " Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight.
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 a new Grand Alliance could be concluded Leopold I prepared to send an expedition to seize the Spanish lands in Italy.
Before the 1980s Soviet war, Afghanistan pursued a policy of neutrality and nonalignment in its foreign relations, being one of a few independent nations to stay neutral in both World War I and World War II.
Before World War I, Portuguese forces, with some assistance from the Muslim population, subdued animist tribes and eventually established the territory's borders.
Before the apparition of the first gospel, the gospel of Mark which was probably written around the years 65 – 70, Paul the Apostle used the term gospel when he reminded the people of the church at Corinth " of the gospel I preached to you " ( 1 Corinthians 15. 1 ).
" Before she can cry any further, Rhett asks Scarlett to marry him saying, " I always intended having you, one way or another.
Before World War I Italy and Austria-Hungary had been instrumental in the creation of an independent Albanian state.
Before you get there, I am going to find your mother and fuck her ".
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 Jack and I moved to Montreal, we had just been through some very rough treatment in the racially biased South during spring training in Florida.
Before I had been vaguely conscious of something rotten somewhere, prison crystallised this.
Ten of his songs were nominated for the Oscar, many written with Cahn, including " I've Heard That Song Before " (# 1 for 13 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1943 ), " I'll Walk Alone ", " It's Magic " ( a # 2 hit for Doris Day in 1948 ) and " I Fall in Love Too Easily ".
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