Before his first visit to England in 1834, the labours of Hugh Miller and other geologists brought to light the remarkable fish of the Old Red Sandstone of the northeast of Scotland.

Before Lindow Man, it was estimated that 41 bog bodies had been found in England and Wales and 15 in Scotland.

Before the 19th century, the first use of the word " police " recorded in government documents in the United Kingdom was the appointment of Commissioners of Police for Scotland in 1714 and the creation of the Marine Police in 1798 ( set up to protect merchandise at the Port of London ).

Before the process could begin, he insisted that all of the contenders recognise him as Lord Paramount of Scotland.

Before 1891 and the publication of Munros Tables there was considerable uncertainty about the number of peaks in Scotland over 3, 000 feet.

Before the process got underway Edward insisted that he be recognised as Lord Paramount of Scotland.

Scotland Before History ( Edinburgh: University Press ) ISBN 0-85224-348-0

Before it was abolished in 1975 by the Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1973, the county contained six burghs.

Before the Treaty of Union in 1707, Scots was the state language of Scotland used for all government business.

Before his coming to America, Trungpa drove a sports car into a joke shop in Dumfries, Scotland.

Before returning to Scotland, they visited several of the chief American cities, and his experience strengthened Jeffrey in the conciliatory policy he had advocated towards the States.

Before the advent of printing in Scotland, writers such as Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Walter Kennedy and Gavin Douglas have been seen as leading a golden age in Scottish poetry.

Before the Acts of Union 1707 united the English and Scottish parliaments, there was a Heritable Usher of the White Rod who had a similar role in the Estates of Parliament in Scotland.

Before 1800, it had a disjunct range in the British Isles, absent from central and southern Scotland, with S. vulgaris zetlandicus in the far north and northwest ( Shetland, Orkney, Caithness, Outer Hebrides ), and S. vulgaris vulgaris south of the Scottish-English border ; it was also rare or regionally absent in Ireland, western Wales and western and northernmost England.

Before 1474 he had returned to Scotland, and was made academic rector of the university, and official of the see of Glasgow.

Before the reign of David I Scotland had no towns.

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 departing with his prisoner, Inspector Gregson of Scotland Yard shows Holmes and Watson the empty jewel case found concealed in Joliffe's room.

Before Churchill was replaced as First Lord he corrected his mistake by appointing Hood to command of the Third Battlecruiser Squadron operating out of Rosyth in Scotland.

* Scotland Before History-Stuart Piggott, Edinburgh University Press 1982, ISBN 0-85224-348-0

Before the Scotland Act 1998 created the office of First Minister, the position of Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland was generally given to the Secretary of State for Scotland.

Before it was amended by this Act, the Scotland Act 1998 provided for the constituencies of the Scottish Parliament ( known also as Holyrood constituencies ) to be the same as those for the United Kingdom Parliament ( Westminster ), except that Orkney and Shetland were separate constituencies.

Before then it was the capital of Elbląg Voivodeship ( 1975 – 1998 ) and a county seat in Gdańsk Voivodeship ( 1945 – 1975 ).

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

* The Bed Before Yesterday ( Ben Travers, Lyric Theatre, 1975 )

Before serving two terms as Berkeley's Mayor, Dean served on the Berkeley City Council for 15 years between 1975 and 1994 and was a leader of the Berkeley Democratic Club.

Before 1975, North Vietnam had maintained that the Central Highlands and the Giai Truong Son were strategic areas of paramount importance, essential to the domination not only of South Vietnam but also of the southern part of Indochina.

Before Mauritania signed the Madrid Accords and after the withdrawal of the last Spanish forces, in late 1975, the Mauritanian Army invaded the southern part of Western Sahara, while the Moroccan Army did the same in the north.

Before pre-production could begin, Moe fell ill from lung cancer, and died three months later on May 4, 1975.

Before 1975 Amalthea was most commonly known simply as.

Asimov read this story at the age of 11, and acknowledged it as a source of inspiration in Before the Golden Age ( 1975 ), an anthology of 1930s science fiction in which Asimov told the story of the science fiction he read during his formative years.

* La vie devant soi — 1975 Prix Goncourt ; filmed as Madame Rosa ( 1977 ); translated as " Momo " ( 1978 ); re-released as The Life Before Us ( 1986 ).

Before she became famous, she earned titles in several beauty contests, including holding the titles of Miss Louisiana USA 1975 for Miss USA and that of Miss Louisiana for both the Miss World and the Miss International pageants.

Before the record label folded, Brotherhood of Man released one more single in the Summer of 1975.

Before it got its International designation in 1975, Indianapolis's primary commercial air passenger and cargo facility was called Weir-Cook Municipal Airport, after Col. Harvey Weir-Cook

Before his election to the Senate, Baucus was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1978, representing Montana's ( now defunct ) 1st congressional district.

Before entering Dutch politics, Bolkestein worked for the oil company Royal Dutch Shell from 1960 to 1975.

* Before Armageddon: An Anthology of Victorian and Edwardian Imaginative Fiction Published Before 1914 ( 1975 )

Before the incorporation with Witten in 1975 Herbede has been a city in the administrative district Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis.

Before 1975 the town was in the former county of West Lothian.

Before Gibson returned to his home in Omaha at the end of the 1975 season, Cardinals general manager Bing Devine offered him an undefined job that was contingent on approval from higher-ranking club officials.

Before becoming President, he was Prime Minister from 1975 to 1991.

Before Jaws set box office records in the summer of 1975, successful films such as Quo Vadis, The Ten Commandments, Gone With the Wind, and Ben-Hur were called blockbusters based purely on the amount of money earned at the box office.