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Before the Beeching Axe the town had a number of railway stations and a direct link to London down the east coast.
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Before rail closures of the 1950s and the later Beeching Axe the station was the largest of three major railway stations in the town, and was then known as Yarmouth Vauxhall .< ref >
Before and Axe
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Before the 1988 NFL season, the team moved to Tempe, Arizona, a college town suburb of Phoenix, and played their home games for the next 18 years at Arizona State University's Sun Devil Stadium.
Before the Civil War, baseball competed for public interest with cricket and regional variants of baseball, notably town ball played in Philadelphia and the Massachusetts Game played in New England.
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Before the end of World War II the town was predominantly German Protestant with Polish and Jewish minorities.
Before the English Civil War, a pamphlet by William Neade entitled The Double-Armed Man advocated that soldiers be trained in both the longbow and pike ; this advice was followed only by a few town militias.
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Before going into business partnership with Klement, Laurin was established as a bicycle manufacturer in the nearby town of Turnov.
Before the invention of artillery, many of the world's cities and towns, particularly in Europe and Asia, had protective walls ( also called town walls or city walls ).
Before its destruction, the town had a population of 20, 000.
Before the Paillon River was covered over, the Pont-Neuf was the only practicable way between the old town and the modern one.
Before the Roman conquest of northern Gaul, Reims, founded circa 80 BC as * Durocorteron (" round fortress "; in Latin: Durocortōrum ), served as the capital of the tribe of the Remi — whose name the town would subsequently echo.
Before the day ended, Israeli armor had cut through Egyptian defense lines, capturing the town of el-Arish.
Before World War II, when the first modern hotel was built ( i. e. H Cerna, 1930 ) it remained a popular destination with Western Europeans, who lent the town a refined elegance.
Before World War II the population of the town was composed of Protestants, Jews and Catholics.
Before Sandwich became a Cinque Port, the ancient Saxon town of Stonar, located on the bank of the Wantsum estuary, but on the opposite side of the mouth of the River Stour, was already well established.
Before Bryan joined the cast, Gale Gordon played the part of the town doctor in several episodes.
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Before 1881, mail for Pea Ridge was dropped at Elkhorn Inn and Tavern, a stagecoach stop, and carried to the town by horseback, buggy, or wagon.
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Before Harmony had a chance to reply, Rod cracked his long whip over his thin oxen's backs.
Before the Draft Act was passed Baker had confidentially briefed governors, sheriffs, and prospective draft board members on the administration of the measure -- and the confidence was kept so well that only one newspaper learned what was going on.
Before his departure, a group of his friends, the Reverend Stidger among them, had given him a luncheon, and Stidger had seen advance sheets of Elmer Gantry.
Before the fight was over, the Harlem boy had a concussion and Trig was cut up badly.
Before Payne loomed the Old Clubhouse, Seward's home, where Key had once been killed.
Before he went into battle Andrei had told Alex, `` I only want to be a Pole.
Before the Juniors entered the ring the Steward announced that after all Juniors had moved their dogs around the ring and set them up, they could relax with their dogs.
Before daylight Sunday morning, a posse of twenty-three men under the leadership of Deputy Sheriff Frank MacPherson of Catskill followed the trail to the house of Francisco Chaves, where 100 to 150 Mexicans had gathered.
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 was forty Griffith had created the art of the film.
Before he testified for 20 minutes, Stein, who lives at 3300 Lake Shore Dr., admitted to reporters that he had a wide acquaintance with crime syndicate hoodlums.
`` Before then, my sales during much of the year had lagged behind 1960 by 20% '', he says.
Before he could return to Burma, Field Marshal Slim had to rally the defeated remnants of a discouraged army and unite them with fresh recruits.
Before 1800 astronomers had isolated observational errors resulting
Before leaving, he had stacked all his cultures of staphylococci on a bench in a corner of his laboratory.
Before that, several scientists had published or pointed out that mould or penicillium sp.
Before his death on August 11, 1919, Carnegie had donated $ 350, 695, 654 for various causes.
Before his departure for Rome, his friends had applied to the Venetian senate for a pension, to enable him to pursue his studies without embarrassment.
Before Caesar's time they had attached themselves to the Romans, and were honoured with the title of brothers and kinsmen of the Roman people.
Before his death in Herat, on June 9, 1863, Dost Mohammad Khan had nominated as his successor Sher Ali Khan, his third son, passing over the two elder brothers, Afzal Khan and Azam Khan.
Before this, cities and counties of sufficiently large populations such as most of Metro Atlanta already had Sunday alcohol sales at bars and restaurants, with local ordinances to abide by, such as having a certain amount of food sales in order to be opened and serve alcohol.
Before this action, though, he had for the most part opted to continue the Whig policy of limited expansion, preferring to maintain the then-current borders as opposed to promoting expansion.
Before the 1704 campaign ended, the Allies had taken Landau, and the towns of Trier and Trarbach on the Moselle in preparation for the following year's campaign into France itself.
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