Before reaching Italy however, Titus learnt that Galba had been murdered and replaced by Otho, the governor of Lusitania ( modern Portugal ).

Before reaching the coast of Peru, Drake visited Mocha Island, where he was seriously injured by hostile Mapuche.

Before reaching Jordanian territory the river forms the Sea of Galilee, the surface of which is 212 meters below sea level.

Before reaching the brain, the spinothalamic tract splits into the lateral, " neospinothalamic " tract and the medial, " paleospinothalamic " tract.

Before reaching the brain, the spinothalamic tract splits into the lateral neospinothalamic tract and the medial paleospinothalamic tract.

Before reaching this point, it needs to be scraped down with a reamer.

Before reaching the Lebanese border and the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, the Jabal an Nusayriyah range terminates, leaving a corridor — the Homs Gap — through which run the highway and railroad from Homs to the Lebanese port of Tripoli.

Before reaching the turbine, the fluid's pressure head is changed to velocity head by accelerating the fluid with a nozzle.

Before reaching the last half, he must complete the next quarter of the distance.

Before reaching Versailles, she also met her future brothers-in-law, Louis Stanislas Xavier, comte de Provence ; and Charles Philippe, comte d ' Artois, who came to play important roles during and after her life.

Before reaching Harbor Beach, the winds turned to the northeast and the lake began to rise.

Before reaching Eastford, however, it takes a right onto Route 244 (" Brayman Hollow Road ") which headed directly to Pomfret.

Before reaching its ending in Copper Harbor, M-26 follows a scenic stretch along Lake Superior

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 reaching Wellington ( on New Zealand's North Island ), brief stops were made at Port Hardy ( on d ' Urville Island ) and Queen Charlotte Sound ( on New Zealand's South Island ) and Challenger passed through the Cook Strait to reach Wellington.

Before reaching Alexandria, his path was blocked by a single, old Roman ambassador named Gaius Popillius Laenas, who delivered a message from the Roman Senate directing Antiochus to withdraw his armies from Egypt and Cyprus, or consider themselves in a state of war with the Roman Republic.

Before the war a number of 1930s council housing blocks were added to the stock, but it was after the war, partly as result of bomb site redevelopment, that the council housing boom really got into its stride, reaching its peak in the 1960s with the construction of several extensive estates, both by the Metropolitan Borough of Islington and the London County Council.

Before reaching their destination in Kansas, over 40 of them had died, many of them children ; two children died and were buried at the second Warren County campsite.

Before reaching Alphen aan den Rijn they could be repelled by the Dutch.

Before reaching its mouth it is joined by the River Trym at Sea Mills which was the site of Portus Abonae a Roman port.

Before reaching the Indian subcontinent, Eliade also made a brief visit to Egypt.

Before reaching flag rank, he served on several battleships, commanded two destroyer divisions, a destroyer squadron, and the battleship.

Before the 20th century, the " Steven " spelling was heavily outweighed by " Stephen ", never reaching above 391st.

Before reaching the middle of the journey, the weather deteriorated, resulting in most the passengers except Lü being nervous and worried.

Before meeting Cesare, Leonardo had worked at the Milanese court of Ludovico Sforza for many years, until Louis XII of France drove Sforza out of Italy.

Before a new Grand Alliance could be concluded Leopold I prepared to send an expedition to seize the Spanish lands in Italy.

Before World War I Italy and Austria-Hungary had been instrumental in the creation of an independent Albanian state.

Before his consecration, Italy was disturbed by the rebellion of the eunuch Eleutherius, Exarch of Ravenna.

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

Before the Second World War, researchers in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, independently and in great secrecy, developed technologies that led to the modern version of radar.

Before he became king, he was also the Sovereign Prince of Pontecorvo, in Southern Italy, between 1806 and 1810.

Before the abolition of the Italian monarchy in 1946, it was the residence of the king of Italy, and before 1871 it was, as originally, a residence of the Pope.

Before the imperial family celebrated Christmas together in Ravenna, Otto II received the Iron Crown of Lombardy as the King of Italy.

Before 5, 000 Communist delegates he spoke of a " pluralistic system " ( translated by the interpreter as " multiform "), referring to the PCI's intentions to build " a socialism that we believe necessary and possible only in Italy.

Before his death, Leo IX had sent a legatine mission under Cardinal Humbert of Silva Candida to Constantinople to negotiate with Patriarch Michael I Cerularius in response to his actions concerning the church in Southern Italy.

Before her London contract began she returned to Italy to resume her studies with Lamperti.

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 the United States became formally involved, France, England, and Italy jointly proposed that Chile receive Tarapacá and withdrew their troops to the Camarones River ; Chile accepted this solution.

Before the Battle of Leipzig ( October 1813 ), Napoleon reproached him with not being the Augereau of Castiglione ; to which he replied, " Give me back the old soldiers of Italy, and I will show you that I am.

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

Before the eastern legions could reach Rome, the Danubian legions of the provinces of Raetia and Moesia also acclaimed Vespasian as Emperor in August, and led by Marcus Antonius Primus invaded Italy.

Before 25 November 1943, when the official title of the regime was adopted, the names Republican State of Italy and Republican National State () were variously used.

Before the Continuation War five more torpedo boats were ordered from Italy.

Before leaving Italy, Carlo had already discovered a warbler new to science, the Moustached Warbler, and on the voyage he collected specimens of a new storm-petrel.

Before traveling to Italy for a two-picture deal with Giuseppe Amato, Darnell was rushed into the production of Blackbeard the Pirate ( 1952 ), which — much to Darnell's distress — went far behind schedule.

Before the first series had finished airing, the BBC had sold rebroadcast licenses to TV channels in twelve countries, including Italy, Norway, Germany, Israel, Russia and the Netherlands.

Before the Columbian Exchange, there were no oranges in Florida, no bananas in Ecuador, no paprika in Hungary, no tomatoes in Italy, no potatoes in Germany, no coffee in Colombia, no pineapples in Hawaii, no rubber trees in Africa, no cattle in Texas, no donkeys in Mexico, no chili peppers in Thailand or India, and no chocolate in Switzerland.