Before the special edition was released, the proposed soundtrack CD was replaced with The Rapture EP.

Before Haiti established its independence from French administration in 1804, Haiti ranked as the world's richest and most productive colony.

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 1941, average salinity was approximately 50 grams per liter ( g / l ) ( compared to a value of 31. 5 g / l for the world's oceans ).

Before the boom in thymidine use caused by the need for thymidine for the production of the antiretroviral drug azidothymidine ( AZT ), much of the world's thymidine production came from herring sperm.

Before the First World War the Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) was the largest party in Germany and the world's most successful socialist party.

Before construction resumed on the roof, tower height was scheduled to be so the building would hold the title of the world's tallest building ( structural top ) over the Taipei 101, but a height limit was imposed, allowing the roof to reach a maximum height of 492 m. Architect William Pedersen and developer Minoru Mori have resisted suggestions to add a spire that would surpass that of Taipei 101 and perhaps One World Trade Center, calling the Shanghai WFC a " broad-shouldered building ".

Before the Partition of India in 1947, Kargil was part of the Baltistan district of Ladakh, a sparsely populated region with diverse linguistic, ethnic and religious groups, living in isolated valleys separated by some of the world's highest mountains.

( Before his death in 1993, Parker went on to become one of the world's most renowned field ornithologists, and the acknowledged leading expert on the birds of the American tropics.

Before its eradication, smallpox was one of the world's most virulent viruses, responsible for millions of deaths, and leaving many of the victims who survived with disfiguring scars for life.

Before World War II it manufactured large variety of goods, including Minox-then the world's smallest camera.

Before the world's continents broke up into pieces, a huge disaster hit the world.

Before long Bond is at the centre of a murder investigation of an American Naval Intelligence officer, and while away to report the incident BAST has executed its plans to capture the ship and hold the world's three most powerful leaders for a 600 billion dollar ransom.

Harry Lustig notes his biographies that “ Most of the world's great theoretical physicists ... spent periods of their lives at Bohr's Institute .” Before the war, his research was instrumental in nuclear research, some of which led to the building of the bomb.

His 2011 book, The Storm Before the Calm launched this website, in collaboration with friends who share " his commitment to create a special place in the world of the Internet where people might engage with each other just as they do on other popular Social Media sites ... but in this case with a particular focus, purpose, and reason: to companion with each other, and to explore and share with each other, their discoveries, adventures, and questions about the world's New Spiritual Experience.

Before his arrest in New Zealand, he was the world's number one-ranked Modern Warfare 3 player.

Before the war, Amsterdam was the world's center for the diamond trade.

Before the war it was one of the world's most modern and outstanding bombers.

: Before his departure, Kent Jones would introduce the segment by saying that Maddow was " the world's leading expert on ...", then usually add something in based on what was discussed in the prior segment.

Before long, scientific inquiries provoked by his claims had pushed back the age of the earth into the millions of yearsstill too short when compared with the accepted 4. 6 billion year age in the 21st century, but a distinct improvement.

What was never in dispute, however, was that the OT used millions of forced laborers ( Zwangsarbeiter ) from the occupied countries of the Reich during World War II, and that the judging panel at the Nuremberg Trials ( formally, the " Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Court ") in 1946 sentenced Speer to 20 years ' imprisonment for having headed this organisation and thus sanctioned the international illegal use of forced labor.

Before they were caught, a group of mostly Republican politicians were able to siphon off millions of dollars in federal taxes on liquor ; the scheme involved an extensive network of bribes involving distillers, rectifiers, gaugers, storekeepers, and internal revenue agents.

Before World War I, he was the possessor of a significant fortune which was vaguely estimated at several millions of pounds.

Before the war, production of armaments did not exceed more than tens of millions of Swedish kronor, but during the war, production exceeded the cost of one billion Swedish kronor ($ 240, 000, 000 ).

Before he is found by members of the Khmer Rouge, he slips into a muddy cesspool filled with rotting human corpses ; in doing so, he stumbles upon the infamous killing fields of the Pol Pot regime, where it murdered millions of Cambodian citizens.

Before these failures, the rules of the reform were printed in millions of copies intended for classroom use and published in numerous newspapers.

Before the development of the transformer and alternating current, direct-current generators produced electricity at " utility voltage " of 120-240 volts, and did not use thousands to millions of volts for transmission.

Before leaving Turkey he arranged for bulbs to be collected later ; the first of the many millions exported ever since.

Before Mr. Parsky took over the University of California's pension fund it had averaged over 15 % return per year and had hundreds of millions in profit after paying for pensions.

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 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 Irenaeus, Christians differed as to which gospel they preferred.

Before the Second Vatican Council, per the pronouncements of the Council of Trent, the Roman Catholic Church officially referred to Protestants and other non-Roman Catholic Christians as " heretics " not having hope of salvation outside of the " Church of Rome ".

Before the conversion of Constantine in 312 AD, early Christians honored the Ascension of Christ in a cave on the Mount of Olives.

Eventually Eva falls terminally ill. Before dying, she gives a lock of her hair to each of the slaves, telling them that they must become Christians so that they may see each other in Heaven.

Before Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, local Christians were being persecuted by the Romans.

Before 1946, he had headed the New York Board of Rabbis, the Jewish National Fund, and the Zionist Organization of America, and helped found the National Conference of Christians and Jews.

Before being executed, he shouted to the crowd: " And now, it's time to show to the Parisians how Christians, Royalists and Bretons die ".

Before the Peace of Constantine ( 313 AD ), in which Rome ceased its persecution of Christians, Noah is normally shown in an attitude of prayer, a dove with an olive branch nearly always flying toward him or alighting on his outstretched hand.

Before Kurtz embraced the term " secular humanism ," which had received wide publicity through fundamentalist Christians in the 1980s, humanism was more widely perceived as a religion ( or a pseudoreligion ) that did not include the supernatural.

Before him, Athanasius believed that violence was justified in weeding out heresies that could damn all future Christians.

Before the emergence of the holiness movement in the mid 19th century and Pentecostalism in the early 20th century, most denominations believed that Christians received the baptism with the Holy Spirit either upon conversion and regeneration or through rites of Christian initiation.

Before this time, European Christians prayed in the orans, which is the Latin, or " praying " position that people had used in antiquity: standing, with hands outstretched, a gesture still used today in many Christian rituals.

Before the 4th century, square capitals were used to write de luxe copies of the works of authors categorized as " pagan " by Christians, especially those of Virgil ; the only three surviving manuscripts using this letter, among them the Vergilius Augusteus, contain works by Virgil.

Before there were Christians, the word was used in Greek philosophy, primarily in Stoicism.

Before the majority of Muslim conversions ( the majority of the former Christians had converted to Islam and then recanted ), the Empire tried to recant on liberty of conscience.

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 long, Larimer residents had built and were running concrete foundries and commercial bakeries along Lincoln Avenue towards Two-Mile Run ( some of which still exist today ), and a successful commercial district at the intersection of Larimer Avenue and Meadow Street, near the community's spiritual home of Our Lady Help of Christians Catholic Church ( 1898 ).