Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado ( see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak ).

Before dropping the anchor, the fishing process is reversed, and the anchor is dropped from the end of the cathead.

Before the 1910 season, Hugh Chalmers of Chalmers Automobile announced he would present a Chalmers Model 30 automobile to the player with the highest batting average in Major League Baseball at the end of the season.

Before the end of this World Cup Glenn McGrath stated that Lara is the greatest batsman that he has ever bowled to.

Before sea levels rose at the end of the last Ice Age, Borneo was part of the mainland of Asia, forming, with Java and Sumatra, the upland regions of a peninsula that extended east from present day Indochina and Thailand.

Before the end of the Civil War and the introduction of the 1662 prayer book, something like a half a million prayer books are estimated to have been in circulation.

Before the end of the year, Charles Martel had escaped from prison and been acclaimed mayor by the nobles of that kingdom.

Before the end of February, a fire destroyed part of the Imperial palace.

Before the end of 1976, Bowie's interest in the burgeoning German music scene, as well as his drug addiction, prompted him to move to West Berlin to clean up and revitalise his career.

Before the end of HST, the examination of Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons ( FRCS ) must be taken in general surgery plus the subspeciality.

Before Hawks was called for active duty, he took the opportunity to go back to Hollywood and by the end of April 1917 was working on Cecil B. DeMille's The Little American, where he met and befriended the then eighteen-year-old slate boy James Wong Howe.

Before the end of November, the main German troops had withdrawn from Tirana, and the communists took control of the capital by fighting what was left from the German army.

Before the end of 2008, Jeepster would also release another Belle & Sebastian compilation, The BBC Sessions, collecting the tracks that the band had recorded for the BBC in 1996, which included rarities and unreleased songs, together with live recordings from Belfast.

Before the end of World War II the town was predominantly German Protestant with Polish and Jewish minorities.

Before May was out he was once more in Rome in answer to a summons for the countess Matilda of Tuscany, whose troops held the Leonine City and Trastevere, but when at the end of June the antipope once more gained possession of St. Peter's, Victor again withdrew at once to his Monte Cassino abbey.

Before the end of the first decade of the twentieth century, political parties were more akin to parliamentary factions, and were fluid, informal and disorganised by modern standards.

Before the end of 1802, the stone was transferred to the British Museum, where it is located today.

* Before 8: 00 AM, New York authorities end request for donations of emergency supplies.

Before leaving school, towards the end of 1855, he became assistant to the painter and professor Louis ( Lodewijk ) Jan de Taeye, whose courses in history and historical costume he had greatly enjoyed at the Academy.

Before the production of the pilot episode was completed, Ellison invoked a clause in his contract to force the producers to use his alternative registered writer's name of " Cordwainer Bird " on the end credits.

Before the end of the 19th century, the Greeks believed that the corpses of werewolves, if not destroyed, would return to life as vampires in the form of wolves or hyenas which prowled battlefields, drinking the blood of dying soldiers.

Before the end of a winless 1991 season Prost was fired by Ferrari for his public criticism of the team.

Before the end of the war in August 1945, the HEW built 554 buildings at Hanford, including three nuclear reactors ( 105-B, 105-D, and 105-F ) and three plutonium processing canyons ( 221-T, 221-B, and 221-U ), each long.

Before the end of 1885, it was estimated that, in Europe and America, at least 150 companies were producing the opera.

Before the end of the year, Psyche had been back to Poland, played as part of the Endless Danse Macabre Festivals in the Netherlands, and Belgium as well as played for the first time ever in Australia.

Before the Mongol invasion, Chinese dynasties reportedly had approximately 120 million inhabitants ; after the conquest was completed in 1279, the 1300 census reported roughly 60 million people.

Before the 1980s, Chinese publishers hired teams of workers and selected a few thousand type pieces from an enormous Chinese character set.

Before the Han Dynasty ( 202 BC – 220 AD ), Chinese ploughs were made almost entirely of wood, except the iron blade of the ploughshare.

* Before 1893 – 8, 000 Chinese arrive in Cuba.

* The Chinese Buddhist monk Huiyuan, who founded the Pure Land Buddhism sect and the monastery on Mount Lushan, writes the book On Why Monks Do Not Bow Down Before Kings in this year.

Before his death, he asked Emperor Yong Le that ( 1 ) Brunei and Sungai Kinabatangan be made ( or annexed as ) Chinese territories, ( 2 ) named Gunung Kinabalu, and ( 3 ) that he himself be buried in China.

Before the 20th century, the Zhou Dynasty ( 1046 – 256 BC ) was the earliest Chinese dynasty that could be verified from its own records.

Before the rise of the Mongols in the 13th century, what is now central and western Inner Mongolia, especially the Hetao region, alternated in control between Chinese agriculturalists in the south and Xiongnu, Xianbei, Khitan, Jurchen, Tujue, and other Mongol nomads of the north.

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 this, the only forms of punctuation found in Chinese writings were punctuations to denote quotes, proper nouns, and emphasis.

Before the early 17th century Taiwan was inhabited by aborigines and Han Chinese migrants resulting from successive waves of migration in antiquity.

Before 140 BC: Chinese begin extensive horse-breeding to support a proper cavalry.

Before the close of the first chapter ( and subsequent end of the game itself ), he is instructed by Master Chen to seek out the help of a master of the Chinese martial arts located in Wan Chai named Lishao Tao.

Before Jayavarman, Cambodia had consisted of a number of politically independent principalities collectively known to the Chinese by the names Funan and Chenla.

Before the CCP ( Chinese Communist Party ) took control, hunger was rarely used to control prisoners.

Before the reign of John III, the Portuguese had already reached Siam ( 1511 ), the Moluccas ( 1512 ), the Chinese littoral ( 1513 ), Canton ( 1517 ) and Timor ( 1515 ).

Before the Xi ' an incident, the Chinese Communist Party had established itself in Shaanxi province following being driven from Jiangxi and other regions in southern China in 1934.

Before the creation of Hangul, only members of the highest class were literate ( hanja was typically used to write Korean by using adapted Chinese characters, while Hanmun was sometimes used to write court documents in classical Chinese ).

Before 1873, the Chinese style lunisolar calendar had been in use since 7th century.

Before the use of paper, the Chinese used coins that were circular, with a rectangular hole in the middle.

( Before 1955, Chinese soldiers were assigned " functions " instead of ranks, such as " company commander ", or " division commander ").

Before 1949, there were five main department stores in Hong Kong and Shanghai: In Hong Kong: Lane Crawford-In 1850 founded by Thomas Ash Lane and Ninian Crawford, opened in Des Voeux Road Hong Kong ; Wing On-In 1907 Kwok's family returned to Hong Kong from Australia with accumulated savings and founded the Wing On Company ; Sincere-Founded by Ma Ying Piu in 1900 after returning from Australia and partnership with others to form the first Chinese department store in then British Hong Kong.

Before the reform era, aspects of Chinese society also contributed to shaping the contemporary structure for maintaining public order.