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Before the forty days of Great Lent commence, there is a three-week Pre-Lenten season, to prepare the faithful for the spiritual work they are to accomplish during the Great Fast.
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Before he was forty Griffith had created the art of the film.
* Before the temptation of Christ, Jesus fasted " Forty days and forty nights " in the Judean desert.
Before the United States National Guard arrived, the CHP had four patrol helicopters over New Orleans, more than forty vehicles on the ground, and more than 200 officers and other staff, including a SWAT team, deployed in New Orleans.
Before the Armenian Genocide in 1915 the district contained sixty villages, forty of which were inhabited by Armenians.
" () Before the full forty days expired, the children of Israel decided that something happened to Moses, and compelled Aaron to fashion a golden calf, and he " built an altar before it " () and the people " worshipped " the calf.
Before and days
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 Second World War, air shows were associated with long distance air races, often lasting many days and covering thousands of miles.
Before the days of blinking electrically lighted road barriers, highway construction zones were marked at night by kerosene fired, pot-bellied torches.
Before leaving Prestige, however, Davis had to fulfill his obligations during two days of recording sessions in 1956.
Before the days of cultured pearls, black pearls were rare and highly valued for the simple reason that white pearl oysters rarely produced naturally black pearls, and black pearl oysters rarely produced any natural pearls at all.
Before he crossed the Euphrates, Saladin besieged Aleppo for three days, signaling that the truce was over.
Before filming began, several of the film's stars, including Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, Adam Goldberg, Giovanni Ribisi, and Tom Hanks, endured ten days of " boot camp " training and work on the film set to prepare for their roles.
Before modern factory butter making, cream was usually collected from several milkings and was therefore several days old and somewhat fermented by the time it was made into butter.
Tết in the three Vietnamese regions can be divided into three periods, known as Tất Niên ( Before New Year's Eve ), Giao Thừa ( New Year's Eve ), and Tân Niên ( the New Year ), representing the preparation before Tết, the eve of Tết, and the days of and following Tết, respectively.
In the 1960 edition, the article on the ark stated that " Before the days of ' higher criticism ' and the rise of the modern scientific views as to the origin of the species, there was much discussion among the learned, and many ingenious and curious theories were advanced, as to the number of animals on the ark ".
Before the ceremony, they are required to herd cattle for seven days in order to prove they are worthy of being called a warrior.
Before those days Sun Records had mainly been noted for recording African-American artists, as Phillips loved Rhythm and Blues and wanted to get black music recorded for a white audience.
Before the days of the railroad, a tavern was located where the former station would later be built.
Before tanning, the skins are unhaired, degreased, desalted and soaked in water over a period of 6 hours to 2 days.
Before learning of the Dream Couch being the cause, this was known on Earth as the " 130-day fever ", a period of planet-wide temporary insanity occurring roughly every one hundred and thirty days.
Before marching to Tadcaster and then to Marston Moor, the Parliamentarians spent two days in Wetherby while joining forces with the Scots.
Before he was to be executed, Wolfe Tone attempted suicide and subsequently died from his wounds eight days after the attempt, thus avoiding being hanged as a convicted traitor to the Irish Crown for his involvement in the 1798 Irish Rebellion.
Before 1926, the four rounds were played in two days.
Before making a Remedial Order, the Government must lay a proposal before Parliament for 60 days, during which time it will be considered and reported upon by the Joint Committee of both Houses on Human Rights.
Before the days of solid-state ( electronics ), inexperienced young men were sequentially directed through a series of supply compartments to request a Fallopian tube for a malfunctioning radio, RADAR, or SONAR set.
Before his days as a saloon proprietor, Mickey Finn was known as a pickpocket and thief who often preyed on drunken bar patrons.
Before the days of motorized vehicles, the word referred to the front or after compartment of a Continental stagecoach.
" (" Before eight days have passed, you'll make more of them than you would like to "), where " them " ( vers ) can be understood as either " verses " or " worms ".
Financial settlement periods used to be much longer: Before the early 1990s at the London Stock Exchange, for example, stock could be paid for up to 10 working days after it was bought, allowing traders to buy ( or sell ) shares at the beginning of a settlement period only to sell ( or buy ) them before the end of the period hoping for a rise in price.
Before and Great
Before the Great Hunger (" Irish Potato Famine "), in which over a million died and more emigrated, there had been the Penal Laws which had already resulted in significant emigration from Ireland.
Before they reached the city, however, the remains were seized by some citizens of Ravenna and buried there in the Church of Santa Maria Rotonda, the burial place of Theodoric the Great.
Before the Great Schism, mainstream Christianity confessed " one holy catholic and apostolic church ", in the words of the Nicene Creed.
Before Independence, American merchant ships were protected from the Barbary pirates by the naval and diplomatic influence of Great Britain.
Before the industrial revolution, Toledo was a port city on the Great Lakes.
Before his consecration he became known for supporting ecclesiastical independence from Rome, maintenance of the Great Charter and the exclusion of foreigners from civil and ecclesiastical office.
Before 1917, the position of the United States government and the feelings of the nation in respect to the " Great War " initially had properly been one of neutrality.
Before he died to was touched by the Great Awakening in the South the book states.
Before 1 February 1833, in common with the admiralty and ecclesiastical courts, appeal from the Court was to the Crown in Chancery, with appeals being heard by Commissioners appointed by letters patent under the Great Seal in each case.
Before his 22nd birthday, he had set many records for high scoring, some of which still stand, and became Australia's sporting idol at the height of the Great Depression.
Before leaving the state, I-40 enters the Great Smoky Mountains.
Before 1800 they made the Black Dog Trail starting east of Baxter Springs, Kansas and going northwest to their summer hunting grounds at the Great Salt Plains in present-day Alfalfa County.
Before their attempted conversion to Christianity, the Sioux used Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka to refer to an organization of sacred entities whose ways were mysterious: thus, " The Great Mystery ".
Before the Great Depression the inhabitants of Pierre Part were fisherman.
Before European settlement, the Ojibwe moved into the area from the Great Lakes, pushing out the historic Dakota peoples, such as the Assiniboine and Hidatsa.
Before James J. Hill bought the Great Northern Railway in 1879 and accepted the task of completing the line from Crookston to the Canadian border, a French-Canadian man founded a town named Louisa, after the French king, in the path of the railroad.
Before European settlement, the Ojibwe moved into the area from the Great Lakes, pushing out the historic Dakota peoples, such as the Assiniboine and Hidatsa.
Before Long Beach Island was developed, its northern area, from the Barnegat Inlet to the Great Swamp ( now Surf City ), was covered with Atlantic white cedar ( chamaecyparis thyoides ).
Before people of European descent came on the scene, the region around the present town of Pond Creek was traversed by many of the nomadic Native Americans of the Great Plains.
Before the turn of the century, early pioneers, many of them silver miners, arrived from the East by way of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern railroads, for which Spokane was a major hub.
Before European settlers arrived, the mountain was known as Agiocochook, or " Home of the Great Spirit ".
Before dawn on March 15, the battering ram Grond smashed into the Great Gate three times while the Witch-king spoke words of power.
Before decimalisation brought about a new currency with new coinage, the sum of three pence was pronounced variously, or, reflecting different pronunciations in the various regions and nations of Great Britain.
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