Stephan Pastis, creator of Pearls Before Swine, credits Adams for launching his career as a cartoonist.

Before officially launching the album, the Darkest Hours EP was released with the new songs " Darkest Hours " and " Infernal Maze ", plus two live recordings of older songs.

Before launching his speech, Aristophanes warns the group that his eulogy to love may be more absurd than funny.

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Before and after Clarke appeared before the 9 / 11 Commission, defenders of the Bush administration tried to attack his credibility, launching a full-scale offensive against him: impugning his personal motives, claiming he was a disappointed job-hunter, that he was publicity-mad, a political partisan.

Before launching these militant struggles, Chūkaku-ha analyzed the post-World War II world system and concluded that the world ruling system of imperialism and Stalinism was beginning to be fundamentally destabilized because of quagmire of Vietnam War, fundamental and unsolvable crisis of dollar system and IMF system, and contradiction of Stalinism.

Before the launching of the Hipparcos satellite telescope, distance estimates for the star varied widely, from 96 light years to 1200 light years.

Before formally launching a loan to these retail accounts, arrangers will often get a market read by informally polling select investors to gauge their appetite for the credit.

Before World War II, from 1933 to 1936, the Portuguese Navy underwent a profound reorganization, launching a vast naval program and acquiring a total of 22 new warships, including destroyers, submarines and avisos ( frigates ).

Before launching BNP, Delkar had been involved in the formation of the Indian Federal Democratic Party together with the infamous Pappu Yadav.

Before his research is finished, a massive hurricane-like storm hits and Ike must take to the sky, launching weather balloons.

Before launching his own solo career with his 1998 album " Velvet ", Standring represented a third of the band SolarSystem, a one-shot project that combined elements of jazz and hip-hop.

Before launching Khalid against Tulayha, Abu Bakr sought ways and means of reducing the latter's strength, so that the battle could be fought with the maximum prospects of victory.

Before launching her acting career, Patty formed the rock ' n roll band called The Loved Ones.

A special Return to Forever anthology box-set, featuring remixed and digitally remastered tracks from the albums Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy, Where Have I Known You Before, No Mystery, and Romantic Warrior, was released to coincide with the tour.

* Before 326 BC to 324 BC: Hephaestion guiding Alexander in India, died in Ecbatana Warrior # 23, Geomancer # 4

* Before 1132 AD to 1192 AD: Tashi Khatun Warrior # 9, Geomancer # 1

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Before 1939, German scientists occasionally contacted Goddard directly with technical questions.

Before he left Baghdad, Gaylani contacted Mulla Effendi and informed him that he had chosen his house as a safe haven for the Royal family to stay until the conflict ended.

Before releasing the film, Else contacted The Simpsonss creator, Matt Groening for copyright permission.

Before the public meeting, Thigpenn had already contacted the Broadcast Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) to discover that two analog television frequencies ( channels 30 and 47 ) were available for broadcast in Jacksonville.

Before the release of Summerteeth, the daughter of the late folk legend Woody Guthrie contacted folk rock singer Billy Bragg, who in turn contacted Tweedy about recording an album of unreleased Woody Guthrie songs.

Before Unicron's head could be connected to Cybertron to form a new body for him, however, Scourge set aside his pride and contacted the Autobots, warning them of Unicron's scheme and enabling them to stop it.

Before this, 60 Minutes, the BBC, and more than two dozen independent film producers had contacted Kertes beforehand, but Merv Griffin Productions was the first to make a " serious bid ".

" Before going on to note he was contacted to work on the upcoming WWE Network.

Before either Forrester Creations or Jackie M had revealed their new lines, Felicia contacted Nick Marone expressing a wish to leave her father's company in favor of Jackie M and even offered to rekindle their romance, despite him being engaged to Katie Logan.

Before rehearsals could begin, Dylan had to assemble a band, and he quickly contacted several musicians, including former Rolling Thunder Revue members Steven Soles, David Mansfield, Rob Stoner, and Howie Wyeth.

" Before this, he had published several works on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and its consequences, but his literary capacity was mediocre, his style stiff and cold, and it was his personal character rather than his reputation as a writer that earned him the confidence of the elector.

Before the revelation of Sheldon's identity, Tiptree was often referred to as an unusually macho male ( see, e. g., Robert Silverberg's commentaries ) as well as an unusually feminist science fiction writer ( for a male ) — particularly for " The Women Men Don't See ", a story of two women who go looking for aliens to escape from male-dominated society on Earth.

Before and during his career as a writer, he attempted to be a publisher, printer, businessman, critic, and politician ; he failed in all of these efforts.

Before becoming a director himself, he built his reputation as a film writer with articles in Esquire.

Before becoming a Hollywood filmmaker, he had been an amateur boxer, reporter, short-story writer, portrait artist in Paris, a cavalry rider in Mexico, and a documentary filmmaker during World War II.

Before his breakthrough as a writer, Zola worked as a clerk in a shipping firm and then in the sales department for a publisher ( Hachette ).

Before returning to England to become the new Foreign Secretary, writer, soldier and diplomat Robert Conway has one last task in 1935 China: to rescue 90 Westerners in the city of Baskul.

Fantasy writer Larry Niven in his 1969 short story Not Long Before the End described mana as a natural resource which is used or channeled by wizards to cast magic spells.

Before his death, Jack Parsons appeared in science fiction writer Anthony Boucher's murder mystery Rocket to the Morgue ( 1942 ) under the guise of Hugo Chantrelle.

* Henry Selick ( born 1952 ), stop motion director, producer and writer who is best known for directing both The Nightmare Before Christmas, and James and the Giant Peach.

* Henry Selick ( born 1952 ), stop motion director, producer and writer who is best known for directing The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach and Coraline.

Before establishing himself as a successful writer and comic Monkhouse appeared on stage in London, first as Aladdin in a stage show of the same name written by SJ Perelman and Cole Porter.

Before Night Falls () is the 1992 autobiography of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, describing his life in Cuba, his time in prison, and his ultimate escape to the United States.

Before World War I, the term " muckraker " was used to refer in a general sense to a writer who investigates and publishes truthful reports to perform an auditing or watchdog function.

Before the 15th, ( according to the story by Sports Illustrated's great boxing writer Pat Putnam ) ' Ali was on very wobbly legs '.

Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as an urban planner.

Before entering show business, Rivers worked at various jobs such as a tour guide at Rockefeller Center, a writer / proofreader at an advertising agency and as a fashion consultant at Bond Clothing Stores.

Before becoming a writer, he taught school in several parts of the province, including the Eastport Peninsula in Bonavista Bay.

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 appearance of his book, no writer in England had ever published his own poetry under his own name ; in this, Googe was an accidental pioneer.

Before entering politics, Patrick Boyer, Q. C., was a writer, journalist and a partner in Fraser & Beatty's law firm in Toronto.

Before joining AP in 1999 Chris worked as a news reporter and feature writer on business magazines and has journalistic experience both inside and outside photography.

Before his career as an executive, Frick was a baseball writer ; he gained fame as the ghostwriter for Babe Ruth in the 1920s.

Henry Selick ( born November 30, 1952 ) is an American stop motion director, producer and writer who is best known for directing The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach and Coraline.

Before any part of the episodes were written, the guests were interviewed by a television writer / producer.