Before the break in the strip, the characters were eternal college students, living in a commune together near “ Walden College ”, which was modelled after Trudeau ’ s alma mater.

Before World War II he added the Lipki estate and Semyonovskaya, and had at least four dachas in the south by 1937, including one near Sochi.

Before the 1990s, the TAFEs had a near monopoly in the sector.

Before it reaches Rotterdam, it joins with the Meuse near Woudrichem to form the Boven Merwede.

Before the Spanish conquest, the Pipil peoples established their capital, Cuzcatlán, near the current location of San Salvador.

Before he was captured, Jean Valjean had already traveled near to Montfermeil and buried all the money he'd saved as M. Madeleine — a chapter tells of a worker in Montfermeil, a former Toulon convict, who claims having seen, according to a local fairy tale, the devil burying his treasure in the forest.

Before that Ansfried had founded the abbey of Thorn, near the present-day border between Belgium and the Netherlands.

Before entering politics, she owned a fish and chip shop in Ipswich, a city near Brisbane.

Before the Grand Canal was rebuilt, grain was transferred to Beijing in two ways ; one route was simply via the East China Sea, from the port of Liujiagang ( near Suzhou ); the other was a far more laborious process of transferring the grain from large to small shallow barges ( after passing the Huai River and having to cross southwestern Shandong ), then transferred back to large river barges on the Yellow River before finally reaching Beijing.

Before 1912 the town had two train stations: one in the Iron Works District near the present Brookfield Market and a second, Junction Station, near the corner of Junction Road and Stony Hill Road.

Before the opening, many residents swam in a section of the Frays River near Harefield Road, and the Colne.

Before 1960, most of the buildings in Ekwok were located in a low area near the river.

Before climbing a tributary up to Craigmont, the highway briefly paralleled a massive steel railroad trestle near its base, its track nearly 300 ( 91 m ) feet above the creek.

Before 1837 the area was occupied by Native Americans who utilized it for hunting grounds ; the Sioux tribe had a camp near Oneco.

Before the near universal exodus of the Mormons to Utah in 1852 ( many left beginning in 1847, but they were the majority of the population until 1852 ) the area was known as Brownell's Grove and Farmersville.

Before long, though, citizens formed a vigilance squad and overwhelmed both men, hanging them near the Smoky Hill River.

Before 1962, there were several local post offices throughout the town of Southeast, located near larger concentrations of residences and businesses.

Before 1854 " peaches were produced in large quantities and at profitable returns on the backbone hills of the island, which lie north of the main line of the Long Island railroad, near West Deer Park or Wyandance station.

Before the French and Indian War, there was a French block house and trading post near Clyde.

Before the American Revolution, early settlers seeking land near Lockwood's Folly River applied for patents and received warrants for surveys of selected tracts.

Before Choctaw was chartered, the area included a part of William McClure's 7C Ranch and was known for a trading post and a camping spot near a spring.

Before the 14th century, Boulogne was a small village called Menuls-lès-Saint-Cloud ( meaning " Menuls near Saint-Cloud ").

Before the summer of 440, he retired to private life at his estate, Avitacum, near Clermont.

Before this it is likely that the capital would have been at or near Pocklington.

Before the work of Lyell, phenomena such as earthquakes were understood by the destruction that they brought.

Before the destruction, the Dead Sea was a valley full of natural tar pits, which was called the vale of Siddim.

Before its destruction, the town had a population of 20, 000.

Before its destruction in 226 BC — due to an earthquake — the Colossus of Rhodes stood over 30 meters ( 107 ft ) high, making it one of the tallest statues of the ancient world.

Before the destruction, Spider Grandmother sealed the more righteous people into hollow reeds which were used as boats.

Before attacking a settlement, the Mongol generals demanded submission to the Khan, and threatened the initial villages with complete destruction if they refused to surrender.

Before destruction everyone on earth must come to know their God and purify themselves.

Before deactivating completely, Giskard transfers his powers of being able to read and influence minds to Daneel, whose closer tie to humanity allows him to slowly adapt to the new law without any risk of destruction.

Before its destruction this version had been transcribed and annotated ; it is this transcription on which modern translations are based.

Before the destruction of the Jerusalem temple, priests, kohens, and Levites were required to practice continence ( abstain from sexual intercourse with their wife ) before and during their time of service at the temple.

Before the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the Summer of 2005, annual events included the Spring Pilgrimage in March, Confederate Memorial Day in April, the Fall Muster in October, and Candlelight Christmas in December.

Before surrender, the complete destruction of all fortifications was carried out.

Before its destruction by Smaug, the Kingdom Under the Mountain grew fabulously wealthy through extensive trade with Men and Elves throughout Rhovanion.

Before this, Crayak and the Ellimist had battled which resulted in the seeming destruction of the Ellimist as he fell into a black hole.

Before crashing, the Axalon deploys its cargo of “ stasis pods ” containing Maximal protoforms — Transformer robots with vulnerable and undeveloped physical forms, which are left to orbit the planet as an alternative to possible destruction in the initial crash landing.

Before the final Persian destruction of the town in 256-257 CE, parts of the synagogue which abutted the main city wall were apparently requisitioned and filled with sand as a defensive measure.

Before he left he ordered a systematic destruction of Diriyah, whose ruins have remained untouched ever since.

Before Megatron can finish off Sentinel Prime, he witnesses the destruction of Cybertron.

Before his Mysteronisation he is shown as a much more sympathetic character, and his destruction of the Mysteron city now seems far more reasonable as his vehicle's equipment actually identifies the Mysteron probe as a weapon.

Before its destruction in 1967, the village of Imwas was located at the end of the Ayalon Valley, on the border of the hill country of Judah, at 153 stadia ( 18. 6 miles ) from Jerusalem via the Kiryat Yearim Ridge Route, 161 stadia ( 19. 6 miles ) via the Beth-Horon Ridge Route and lower by elevation.

Before the destruction of planet Vegeta, he and a group of his elites were sent to eradicate Burdock and his team of fighters.

Before he could finish the job, however, all three of them fell under the mind-controlling influence of Unicron, whose disembodied head had survived the destruction of his body and had landed on the planet, where he was having the native Junkions construct a new body for him.

Though the nature of this disaster is never fully explained, the result was the appearance of the " Z ' bri ", twisted demonic creatures of spirit who either initiated the fall of the " World Before ," or came in the wake of its destruction.

Before the total destruction of Saint-Pierre in 1902 by a volcanic eruption, it was the most important city of Martinique culturally and economically, being known as " the Paris of the Caribbean ".

Before Cyclops could reason with him Berzerker let out a giant energy attack at him, blaming X-Factor for the Tunnelers ' destruction.