' 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 computers, some armies set the range on the gun's sights, which mechanically corrected it for the gun's muzzle velocity.

Due to the Gregorian calendar's obvious connotations of Western Christianity, non-Christians and even some Christians sometimes replace the traditional era notations " AD " and " BC " (" Anno Domini " and " Before Christ ") with " CE " and " BCE " (" Common Era " and " Before Common Era ").

Before the 1970s, community colleges in the United States were more commonly referred to as junior colleges, and that term is still used at some institutions.

Some are non-verbal ( Marmaduke, The Angriest Dog in the World ), some have verbal thoughts but are not understood by humans, ( Garfield, Snoopy in Peanuts ), and some can converse with humans ( Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, Mutts, Citizen Dog, Buckles, Get Fuzzy, Pearls Before Swine and Pooch Cafe ).

Fire Bet: Before the shooter begins, some casinos will allow a bet known as a fire bet to be placed.

Before the impact, models of Jupiter's atmosphere had indicated that the break-up of the largest fragments would occur at atmospheric pressures of anywhere from 30 kilopascals to a few tens of megapascals ( from 0. 3 to a few hundred bar ), with some predictions that the comet would penetrate a layer of water and create a bluish shroud over that region of Jupiter.

Before Maimonides concluded this, Sunni Muslims officially prohibited mutah ( i. e. temporary marriage ) relationships ; some commentators ' suggest that Maimonides changed his view in response to this development, similar to Gershom ben Judah's ban on polygamy being made after Christians had prohibited it.

Before the year 1830 drew to a close, both Marshal Sucre and Simón Bolívar would be dead ; the former, murdered ( on orders from a jealous General Flores, according to some historians ), and the latter, from tuberculosis.

Before World War I, Portuguese forces, with some assistance from the Muslim population, subdued animist tribes and eventually established the territory's borders.

Before cheap Internet, there were some geographically compact communities where the culture encouraged Weinberg's egoless programming, and a developer could easily attract a lot of skilled kibitzers and co-developers.

Before IBAN, differing national standards for bank account identification ( i. e., bank, branch, routing codes, and account number ) were confusing for some users.

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 becoming a manga artist, Asamiya graduated from the Tokyo Designer School, then worked as a character designer for a number of anime series, and even designed models for some of the later Godzilla films ( 1980s ).

Before the 1960s ( and in some cases decades after ), many materials science departments were named metallurgy departments, from a 19th and early 20th century emphasis on metals.

Before the Mariner 4 spacecraft arrived at Mars in July 1965 and dispelled some of the more exotic theories about the planet, the conventional image of Mars was shaped by the observations of the astronomers Giovanni Schiaparelli and Percival Lowell.

Before la Jeune Parque, Valéry's only publications of note were dialogues, articles, some poems, and a study of Leonardo da Vinci.

Before they reached the city, however, the remains were seized by some citizens of Ravenna and buried there in the Church of Santa Maria Rotonda, the burial place of Theodoric the Great.

Before leaving Hollywood for Europe in 1952, following the problematic production The Crimson Pirate for Warner Bros., his third and last film with Burt Lancaster, Siodmak had directed some of the era's best film noirs, more than any other director who worked in that genre, twelve in all.

Before colonization, Sumba was inhabited by several small ethnolinguistic groups, some of which may have had tributary relations to the Majapahit Empire.

Before a statute becomes law in some countries, it must be agreed upon by the highest executive in the government, and finally published as part of a code.

Before it is registered, it is common practice ( with some legal standing ) to use the service mark symbol ℠ ( a superscript SM ).

Before 2007 there existed only a few other places on the Formula 1 calendar with a body of water close to the track.

* Before the Industrial Revolution, most manufacturing occurred in rural areas, where household-based manufacturing served as a supplemental subsistence strategy to agriculture ( and continues to do so in places ).

Before starting, each player places their twelve pieces in the two rows closest to them and in the two rightmost spaces in the center row.

Before they exchange places, Arawn gives specific instructions to Pwyll to kill him with one stroke and no more.

Before Galileo turned his telescope to the heavens, the planets of the Solar System were not recognized as worlds, or places where a person could potentially set foot ; they were visible to observers merely as bright points of light, distinguishable from stars only by their motion.

* Listed as one of the places to visit in Patricia Schultz's book 1, 000 Places to See Before You Die.

Before World War II, Main Street had numerous drugstores and soda fountains that served as the social gathering places for young people.

Before that time the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ) merchants were in principle just another trading power among many, establishing trading posts and settlements ( colonies ) in strategic places around the archipelago.

Before confessing, the penitent venerates the Gospel Book and cross, and places the thumb and first two fingers of his right hand on the feet of Christ as he is depicted on the cross.

Before he went on the music halls he worked as an engineer in, amongst other places, the South West of England.

Before World War II and the Holocaust, Jews in Germany had not taken much interest in klezmer, at least compared to Jews in places like the United States.

Before communist rule in China, many villages still had shrines or places of worship dedicated to nature gods such as Shu, and Nakhi inhabitants of Tacheng, which is in the Lijiang-Nakhi Autonomous county, still profess belief in the " nature and man " relationship.

Before the building of the bridge over the Usk, Brecon was one of the few places where the river could be forded.

Before the mid nineteenth century, it was a much more pastoral area, used for fattening stock brought in from Scotland and northern England before it was driven to market in places like London.

Before entering any school of secondary education ( including 8-year gymnasium ) for which there are more applicants than places offered, the applicants have to pass entrance examinations.

Before dying of his wounds, Syrran places Surak's katra into Archer's mind.

It is considered to be one of the holy places of Hinduism .. Before the Pashupatinath the river flows Gokarneswor Temple located at Gokarna, located at the North of the Kathmandu Valley.

Before turning the complete site into a modern open air museum documentation and necessary investigations, including excavations especially in places that may need to be remodelled, are planned in three major phases.

Before he leaves, he places his wife, Doña Jimena, and his two daughters, Doña Elvira and Doña Sol, in the Monastery of Cardeña.

Before play, the dealer antes five chips to the pool, deals 9 cards in batches of 3s, and places the remaining 13 face down on the table to form the stock, or talon.

( Before 1974 – 75 it was only four clubs that changed places instead of six ).

Before the Revolution, the building was one of the meeting places of the Sons of Liberty.

Before the war, stadium capacity was more than 20, 000, but now it officially has 8, 898 seated places, but some 8, 000 more can fill the unseated parts of the stadium.

Before this time, the three segments / continents that now compose the East European craton were in different places on the globe.