Before courtyards, open fires were kept burning in a central place within a home, with only a small hole in the ceiling overhead to allow smoke to escape.

Before Diaz can kill her, Eriksson fires his M-16 rifle into the air, exposing them to the nearby Viet Cong.

Before December 1866, there was no city fire department, and fires in the city, which broke out regularly in the wooden buildings, were extinguished by several volunteer fire companies.

Before losing consciousness, Frank fires a shot through the camera lens, penetrating the eye of the hitman, who is revealed to be Greg Portman.

Before the appearance of metal tools, dugouts were hollowed-out using controlled fires.

Before it reaches 100 km, when its second stage fires and incinerates the earth, Polly pushes an emergency button that ejects all the animals in escape pods.

Before he fires, Kiddo tells him that he is the father of her unborn child.

Before the advent of central heating systems, scullery maids were required to light the fires on the kitchen stove and supply hot water for tea and washing.

Before the Fortunate warps away to the Nausicaan base, it fires its plasma cannons at the Enterprises nacelles to delay pursuit.

Before Munro can tell Harry about what smashed the rig, the Caber fires a rifle, killing Munro and creasing Harry's forehead with a second shot.

Before the epic event, there were many debates on how to handle forest fires ; whether to let them burn because they were a part of nature and were expensive to fight, or to fight them in order to protect the forests.

Before he can escape however, Daba fires one last fateful shot of the Buster Launcher and incinerates Giwaza once and for all.

Before he is given a chance to investigate further, a large warship decloaks behind him, and fires.

Before 1992, the exact height of Mount Logan was unknown and measurements ranged from to.

* 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 10 October 2010, the Vaalserberg was the highest point in the Netherlands, until upon the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles when Mount Scenery on Saba ( the highest point in the Kingdom of the Netherlands ) became part of the Netherlands.

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

There is a marina at 79th Street and also a kayak launch at 148th St. Before the park existed, Edgar Allan Poe liked to sit on rocky " Mount Tom " at 83rd Street.

Before and during the time of The Hobbit, some Orcs had Mount Gundabad as their capital, the Orcs of the Misty Mountains were apparently ruled by one " Great Goblin ", the former Dwarf-realm of Moria was held by orcs under one Azog and then his son Bolg, and one Golfimbul had led the orcs of Mount Gram in a foray into the Shire.

Before the time of the 2008 amalgamation, Rockhampton City had a population of approximately 74, 530, Livingstone Shire approximately 28, 266, Fitzroy Shire approximately 11, 357, and Mount Morgan Shire approximately 2, 925 people.

Before and after photographs of a river valley filled in by lahars from Mount Pinatubo

Before the section of Highway 19 from Campbell River to Port Hardy was opened in 1979, Highway 28 acted as the main access to Port Hardy and various other communities on the northern tip of the Island ( in the Regional District of Mount Waddington ), aided by a system of local logging roads leading from the highway to the various north Island communities.

Before the eruption of Mount St. Helens, there were four camps on the shore of Spirit Lake: a Boy Scout camp, a Girl Scout camp, a YMCA camp, and another for the general public.

Before conversion of the Melbourne-Adelaide railway to standard gauge in 1995, Mount Gambier was connected to Adelaide on the broad gauge network via Naracoorte, Bordertown and Tailem Bend.

Before leaving for Germany, Prof. H. H. Turner of Oxford suggested that the Mount Wilson Observatory in America will be the best place for his kind of work and advised him to write to George Ellery Hale, Director of the Mount Wilson Observatory.

Before Meiji, the district covered the entire foothills of Mount Akagi.

Before Mount Price was overridden by glacial ice, volcanic activity took place on its northern flank where a satellite vent is present.

Before the city was established, herds of animals followed the rains and moved across the plains from Mount Kilimanjaro to Mount Kenya, a migration as great as the migration that takes place on the Serengeti.

Before that it was called Mount Nouon.

Before the arrival of Europeans, Mount Hikurangi was within Ngāti Porou's territory.

Before the Plymouth Breakwater was completed in 1841 and the Mount Batten Breakwater in1881, the Mount Batten peninsula was subject to significant coastal erosion.

Before reaching Donahue Pass, this route leaves the trail and heads south towards Mount Lyell.

Before becoming part of Portland in 1905, Mount Tabor was a rural farming community dating back to the 1850s.

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 the fight was over, the Harlem boy had a concussion and Trig was cut up badly.

Before he left the apartment he knocked on their door and asked if there was anything he could do for them.

Before he left town Pat saw to it that I was fixed up with a job.

Before the airplanes came, he said, travel in Laos was just about impossible.

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 appealing to the U.N. or to Russia, he first appealed to the U.S. for military help, and was rejected.

Before her chore was finished she was rescuing wind-blown sheets of music, trundling microphones about the stage, helping to move the piano and otherwise joining in the informal atmosphere.

Before ASCII was developed, the encodings in use included 26 alphabetic characters, 10 numerical digits, and from 11 to 25 special graphic symbols.

Before Europeans discovered other oceans, the term " ocean " itself was synonymous with the waters beyond the Strait of Gibraltar that we now know as the Atlantic.

Before he could pass the river with safety, however, it was necessary to subdue certain fortresses, one of which was for several days vigorously defended by the governor, Yussuf el-Harezmi, a Khwarezmian.

Before the 1989 series began, the win-loss ratio was almost even, with 87 wins for Australia to England's 86, 74 having been drawn.

Before the late modern era, the abbot was treated with the utmost reverence by the brethren of his house.

Before the creation of the world, God was all by Himself, in a Self-absorbed state.

Before the Tennessee electorate voted on secession, Johnson, at his peril, toured the state, speaking in opposition to the measure, contending it was unconstitutional.

Before his death, he was absolved from the excommunication ; moreover, the Pope also promised that the King of Hungary and his relatives would not be excommunicated without the special permission of the Pope.

Before the 2007 season began, Vick was suspended indefinitely by the NFL after pleading guilty to charges involving dog fighting in the state of Virginia.

Before the War, Paul was a creative, sensitive, and passionate person, writing poems and having a clear love for his family.

Before the war Tjaden was a locksmith.