Before 2000, arguments that the Deccan Traps flood basalts caused the extinction were usually linked to the view that the extinction was gradual, as the flood basalt events were thought to have started around 68 Ma and lasted for over 2 million years.

The backstory of Kid Icarus is described in the instruction booklet: Before the events of the game, earth was ruled by the goddess, or Queen of light, Palutena, and the goddess, or Queen of darkness, Medusa.

In Peter David's 2007 Star Trek: The Next Generation novel, Before Dishonor, which is set after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis, Janeway is assimilated by a rogue faction of the Borg, and becomes the new Borg Queen.

Before Sima, histories were written as certain events or certain periods of history of states ; his idea of a general history affected later historiographers like Zheng Qiao ( 鄭樵 ) in writing Tongshi ( 通史 ) and Sima Guang ( 司馬光 ) in writing Zizhi Tongjian ( 資治通鑑 ).

Before the construction of the North Portico, most public events were entered from the South Lawn, which was graded and planted by Thomas Jefferson.

Before the game begins, we are told that Julie has previously killed a tyrant and " would-be God " named Lord Tyler ( during the events of Heavy Metal 2000 ), and brought the remnant of her people to a planet called Eden.

Before and after aerial photographs and satellite imagery are used to gather landslide characteristics, like distribution and classification, and factors like slope, lithology, and land use / land cover to be used to help predict future events.

Before relating the story, it is stated that Cupid played no role in the events and was not to blame for Myrrha's incestuous love for her father, Cinyras.

Before this, General Officers had considered this approach to battle as separate events.

Before the final attack began, Xenophon, the main relator of the events at Cunaxa, who was probably at the time some kind of mid-level officer, approached Cyrus to ensure that all the proper orders and dispositions had been made.

** Before the sermon, the priest may make announcements, especially of marriages, requirements of the liturgical season such as fasting, events for the week, and requests to pray for the ill or deceased.

Before the 1940s, most artists in St Ives and West Cornwall belonged to the St Ives Society of Artists ; but events in the late 1940s led to a dispute between the abstract and figurative artists in the group.

Before ABC Sports even became a formal division of the network, Scherick and ABC programming chief Tom Moore pulled off many programming deals involving the most popular American sporting events.

Before the core of a light water nuclear reactor can be damaged, two precursor events must have already occurred:

Before the end of that year, the events of the War of the Fourth Coalition forced Neander to move to Göttingen.

Before she began the advice column, she was a journalist, covering social events at the White House and embassies ; she then became a theater and film critic.

Before the government's registration system was created, evidence of births and / or baptisms ( and also marriages and death or burials ) was dependent on the events being recorded in the records of the Church of England or in those of other various churches – not all of which maintained such records or all types of those records.

Before and since, the building has hosted other major events, both religious and secular, that have drawn the attention of the American people.

Before listing his engagements, the prime minister sometimes extends condolences or offers congratulations after significant events.

Before this, they seem simply unable to comprehend why others do not see the same view of events that they do — and seem to assume that there is only one point of view, which is their own.

And again in 1995's Before Sunrise, where the events take place on 16 June.

Before the 2008 season, the Columbus Crew front office demolished the north stands where the most ardent of Crew supporters stood, in order to build a stage that would provide additional revenue by facilitating concerts and other events.

Before the end of the northern summer in 268, the events at Mediolanum were to see the assassination of Gallienus, the defeat of Aureolus, and the accession of Claudius II.

Before the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the Summer of 2005, annual events included the Spring Pilgrimage in March, Confederate Memorial Day in April, the Fall Muster in October, and Candlelight Christmas in December.

Before the Cheers pilot, " Give Me a Ring Sometime ", was finalized and then aired in 1982, the series originally consisted of four employees of Cheers, the bar, in the original script.

For the second pilot, " Where No Man Has Gone Before " ( 1966 ), Roddenberry accepted director James Goldstone's decision to have Paul Fix play Dr. Mark Piper.

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.

Sequences exist from: the pilot episode ; " Intolerance "; " Sex Before Marriage "; " The Bulldog Breed "; " A Wapping Mythology ( The Workers ' King )"; " The Puppy "; " Aunt Maud ".

In developing the second pilot, " Where No Man Has Gone Before ", series creator Gene Roddenberry changed the captain's name to James T. Kirk after rejecting other options like Hannibal, Timber, Flagg, and Raintree.

However, Number One was dropped in developing the second pilot, " Where No Man Has Gone Before " ( 1966 ).

Before departure the engineer informed the pilot of the problem and confirmed that the tanks would have to be verified with a floatstick.

Before the pilot aired ( on September 12, 1959 ), the song sequence, deemed too campy, was edited out of the scene and instead the Cartwrights headed back to the ranch whooping and howling.

Before the conversation goes any further, the plane suddenly hits a flock of birds and nose-dives into a lake, killing the pilot.

Before it went to air, the pilot was well received by test audiences, except for some dislike of the actor playing Dan Williams.

Before leaving he made ten flights in the Bf 109 ; deeply impressed with the performance of the aircraft it persuaded him to change from a strike pilot to a fighter pilot.

Before becoming a journalist, he joined the RAF and was a jet fighter pilot.

Before he assumes this position, however, he befriends a Zeon pilot named Aina Sahalin up in space and unbeknownst to both of them their fates become intertwined.

Before he was an astronaut, Casper was a United States Air Force fighter pilot, earning his pilot wings at Reese Air Force Base, Texas.

He was shown as the USS Enterprise's staff physicist in the pilot episode, " Where No Man Has Gone Before ", but served as third officer and senior helmsman throughout the rest of the series, during which he held the rank of lieutenant.

Before joining NASA, Swigert was a test pilot.

Before Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, there had been a feature-length pilot episode, entitled Missing Persons, originally broadcast in 1990 on ITV and featuring Tony Melody as Robert Wainthropp.

Before the enemy airplane is even within visual contact range, the pilot will consider any available information about the likely identity of the enemy pilot: his nationality, level of training, and cultural traditions that may come into play.

The episode became " Where No Man Has Gone Before ", the second pilot of Star Trek.

Before being able to act as pilot in command ( PIC ) a pilot must have completed a flight review within the previous 24 calendar months.