Before coming on a visit to Spelman in 1885, Miss Mary had been a successful teacher in Worcester, and her position there was held open for her for a considerable period.

Before he compiled his church history, Eusebius edited a collection of martyrdoms of the earlier period and a biography of Pamphilus.

Before a new employee could rise to the level of mastery, he had to go through a schooling period during which he was first called an apprentice.

Before this period, brewers used a wide variety of bitter herbs and flowers, including dandelion, burdock root, marigold, horehound ( the German name for horehound means " mountain hops "), ground ivy, and heather.

Before the Lebanese Civil War ( 1975 – 1990 ), the country experienced a period of relative calm and prosperity, driven by tourism, agriculture, and banking.

Before the rise of Christianity, the pseudepigrapha of Enochic Judaism, which enjoyed much popularity during the Second Temple period, gave Satan an expanded role.

Before the recovery of the Mary Rose, Count M. Mildmay Stayner, Recorder of the British Long Bow Society, estimated the bows of the Medieval period drew, maximum, and Mr. W. F.

Before the advent of copyright, anonymous and pseudonymous publication was a common practice in the sixteenth century publishing world, and a passage in the Arte of English Poesie ( 1589 ), the leading work of literary criticism of the Elizabethan period and an anonymously published work itself, mentions in passing that literary figures in the court who wrote " commendably well " circulated their poetry only among their friends, " as if it were a discredit for a gentleman to seem learned " ( Book 1, Chapter 8 ).

Before the contemporary period, the most significant scholar of Proclus in the English speaking world was Thomas Taylor, who produced English translations of most of his works, with commentaries.

Before the beginning of the Syrian uprising / civil war, the obligatory military service period was being decreased over time.

Before the Meiji Restoration, shrines were disorganized institutions usually attached to Buddhist temples, but they were claimed by the government during the imperial period for patriotic use and systematized.

Before the latest ice period, much of the archipelago was not under water.

Before they were replaced in 1961, there was a period when, by the " within earshot " definition, no " Bow-bell " Cockneys could be born.

Before his methods were commercialised in 1987 his laboratory was the only centre carrying out DNA fingerprinting in the world, and during this period of about two or three years it was very busy, receiving inquiries from all over the globe.

Before the discovery of a live coelacanth specimen, the coelacanth time range was thought to have spanned from the Middle Devonian to the Upper Cretaceous period.

Before the French revolution, prior to the integration of the Duchy of Brittany into the Kingdom of France, Rennes was the capital of the duchy, with the other historical capitals of Brittany's Ducal period being Nantes and Vannes.

Before the colonial period about 15-16 % of the population was Tutsi ; many of these were poor peasants, but the majority of the ruling elite and monarchy were Tutsi.

Before the Eastern Jin the city was known as Jianye ( 建業 Jiànyè ), and the capital of the kingdom of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period.

Before this, Huang ( 皇 ) and Di ( 帝 ) were given as titles of a number of rulers from the era known as the " sage kings " period, supposedly predating written history, but probably coinciding with or following the invention and early stages of evolution for the Chinese writing system.

Before becoming king, Harald spent a period in exile as a military commander in Kievan Rus ' and in the Byzantine Empire.

Before 1100, Genoa emerged as an independent city-state, one of a number of Italian city-states during this period.

) Before this time, the region was called Loon, ( apart from a short period when it was part of France and referred to as part of the Department of the Lower Meuse ).

Before the period of cheap turkeys, roast chicken would be more common than goose although chicken was still a once a year treat until the 1950s, goose being unsuitable for small groups of diners.

Before European settlement, the network of ephemeral lakes filled and emptied, on average, about every 20 years, typically remaining dry for about half that period at a time.

It was during this period that Richard Henry Dana, Jr. first visited Santa Barbara and wrote about the culture and people of Santa Barbara in his book Two Years Before the Mast.

Before becoming public, the movement was secretive and held closed meetings in what was known as Sessions of Wisdom.

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Before mechanical printing, literature was copied by hand, and many variations were introduced by copyists.

Before the 5th century A. D. the details of its history which can be gleaned from surviving records and literature are exceedingly meagre, obscure and confusing.

Before Premchand, the Hindi literature revolved around fairy or magical tales, entertaining stories and religious themes.

Much of the available historical information on shanties comes from travelogue literature, most of it of scarcely notable popularity, but some of it reaching a wide audience, such as Dana ’ s Two Years Before the Mast ( 1840 ).

Before 1914, Iorga focused his critical attention on Romanian Symbolists, whom he denounced for their erotic style ( called " lupanarium literature " by Iorga ) and aestheticism — in one instance, he even scolded Sămănătorul contributor Dimitrie Anghel for his floral-themed Symbolist poems.

Before the New Criticism became dominant, English professors in America focused their writings and teaching on historical and / or linguistic scholarship surrounding literature rather than analyzing the literary text itself.

Before the 5th century A. D. the details of its history which can be gleaned from surviving records and literature are exceedingly meagre, obscure and confusing.

Before the early modern period most of the literature of the Swiss Confederation was either in Latin or German as until 1798 ponfederation was overwhelmingly German with only small pockets of French.

In the same article Hurley recommended educating the public about home invasion .. Before the term " home invasion " came in use, the term " hot burglary " was often used in the literature.

Before the 18th century, the Odes were only known through Lactantius ' quotation of one verse and their inclusion in two lists of religious literature.

Before leaving the U. S. in the autumn of 1966 aboard the R. M. S Queen Mary, Mr. Levy attended the University of Maryland and Temple University and taught in the literature department at Shippensburg State College, in Pennsylvania.

Before writing her first detective novel at the age of 39, she taught literature in high school.

Before the Civil War the journal contained everything from agricultural reports, statistical data, and economic analysis to literature, political opinion, and commentary.

Before becoming a food science writer McGee was a literature and writing instructor at Yale.

Before coming to the film world, he had displayed great interest in the field of literature ; his favourite authors are Bernard Shaw and Shakespeare.

Before joining Square, Ted Woolsey was a graduate student at the University of Washington where he completed a master's degree in Japanese literature.

Before buying any products, be sure to understand the available features, and check with vendors or read the product literature closely to figure out how marketing terms correspond to reality.

Before creating the album, Stevens read literature by Illinois authors Saul Bellow and Carl Sandburg, and studied immigration records and history books for the state — he made the deliberate decision to avoid current events and focused on historical themes.

Before the literary revival movement promoted by Gwalarn in the early 20th century, most literature in Breton consisted of religious writings.

Before the development of writing, it is probable that there were already epic poems, hymns to gods and incantations ( such as those later found written in the ancient library at Ninevah, and the Vedas ), and other oral literature ( for example, see ancient literature ).

Before he left Mannheim he had tried his hand at literature, under the influence of the Sturm und Drang movement.

Before leaving Ireland he was a frequent contributor to the periodical literature of the day, and took an active part in the Irish literary movement of the 1840s.

Before the Alexandrians had begun to produce original works, their researches were directed towards the masterpieces of ancient Greek literature.