Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game ( 2005 ), by David Block, suggests that the game originated in England ; recently uncovered historical evidence supports this position.

Before the game begins, the player chooses which historical civilization to play.

Before the game begins, each player creates his or her player character and records the details ( described below ) on a character sheet.

Before the snap of the ball, in the American game, backfield players may only move parallel to the line of scrimmage, only one back may be in motion at any given time, and if forward motion has occurred, the back must be still for a full second before the snap.

Before consolidation of many of these rural school districts in the last half of the twentieth century, Indiana high schools had fewer students than those of most other states ; basketball was a natural game for these schools since it only required five starters and a few reserves.

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.

Before the second Test in Melbourne, Woodfull had to wait until minutes before the game before he was confirmed as captain by the selectors.

Before using machinima, Burnie Burns and Matt Hullum of Rooster Teeth Productions spent US $ 9, 000 to produce a live-action independent film ; in contrast, the four Xbox game consoles used to make Red vs. Blue in 2005 cost $ 600.

Before then, the game was only available on a limited basis on the Commodore 64 due to few publishers showing any interest in porting it.

Before the start level, there is a set of three pathways with easy, medium, and hard skill levels ; in order to reach the Nightmare skill level ( described in the game manual as " so bad that it was hidden, so people won't wander in by accident "< ref > ID Software.

Before the release of the game or the demo of the game, id software released QTest on February 24, 1996.

Before the fourth edition, skill and ability checks worked as follows: all actions in the game, from the use of skills to making attacks in combat, are first given a target number that reflects the difficulty of the action which is then raised or lowered by various modifying factors, such as environmental conditions, the condition of the character, the use of mechanical aids, and so forth.

Before being knocked out of the game, Unitas completed 3 out of 9 passes for 88 yards and a touchdown, with 2 interceptions.

Before this season, the Dolphins had never won a playoff game in franchise history, but they surprised the entire NFL by advancing to the Super Bowl with wins against the two previous Super Bowl champions.

Before being taken out of the game, Denver's starting quarterback Craig Morton completed just 4 out of 15 passes for 39 yards and was intercepted 4 times.

Before the game on September 28, Williams was batting. 39955, which would have been rounded up to a. 400 average.

Valhalla is referenced in the video game titles Valhalla ( 1983 ), Valhalla: Before the War ( 1995 ), Valkyrie Profile ( 2000 ), Max Payne ( 2001 ), Valhalla Knights ( 2006 ), Final Fantasy XI ( 2002 ), Halo 3 ( 2007 ), The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim ( 2011 ), and Final Fantasy XIII-2 ( 2011 ).

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 that game, all referees simply used their voices to control the flow of play.

( A similar debate caused Cheapass Games to repackage their game Before I Kill You, Mr. Bond as James Ernest's Totally Renamed Spy Game.

Before a match, the server specifies the game rules, including Force ranking.

Before signing him Canton was averaging 1, 200 fans a game, but 8, 000 showed up for his debut against the Massillon Tigers.

Before the game, the Mariners honored him with a 15-minute presentation which included a highlight reel of his playing career with the Mariners, a presentation of a " The House that Griffey Built " memorial by Mariners hall-of-famers and former teammates Jay Buhner and Edgar Martínez, and a 4 minute standing ovation from the sold-out crowd.

— Pearl Bailey ( from the all-black 1967 revamping of the show ) performing " Before the Parade Passes By " with the ensemble.

Before recording their first album, the band recruited keyboardist Nickey Barclay ( born 1951, Washington, DC ) who was also a member of Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs & Englishmen touring ensemble.

Before the advent of radio, entertainment in the rural areas relied to a large extent on stage performances by folk singers.

Also in 2007, singers Alison Krauss and Robert Plant recorded a duet version of the song " Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us ", written by Sam Phillips.

Before the advent of the microphone, popular singers like Al Jolson had to project to the rear seats of a theater, as did opera singers, which made for a very loud vocal style.

In 2002, she recorded " One Small Voice " featuring singers Myra & Taylor Momsen and " The Night Before Christmas Song " for the compilation album School's Out!

Before Stalin's consolidation of power, the Central Committee featured open debate, where even leading officials could be criticised.

Before General Motors invited Bel Geddes to submit a proposal for the exhibit, they had planned to put in another production line as was featured at their exhibit in the Century of Progress Exposition of 1933 in Chicago.

Before the launch of tubgirl. com, this image was featured in a rotten. com story " Fecal Japan " claiming that the subject matter is popular in Japan, and in a San Francisco Chronicle article by author Violet Blue, as well as being the subject of a joke by Gizmodo.

In 2002, Q featured New Order on their list of the " 50 Bands to See Before You Die ", although this was as part of a sub-list of " 5 Bands That Could Go Either Way ".

Before such elements were forced out of opera seria, many libretti had featured a separately unfolding comic plot as sort of an " opera-within-an-opera.

Before the Beatles, John Lennon and Paul McCartney's band, The Quarrymen, featured a tea-chest bass, as did many young bands around 1956.

Before he became widely known as an astronaut, the film Air Cadet ( 1951 ) starring Richard Long and Rock Hudson briefly featured Grissom early in the movie as a U. S. Air Force candidate for flight school at Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas.

A Night at the Opera is the third and final Queen album to be featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Before the film's release, a major publicity campaign resulted in photographs and life-sized cardboard figures of Sharon Tate being displayed in cinema foyers throughout the United States ; a concurrent advertising campaign by Coppertone featured Tate.

A short story by Ari Marmell, " Before I Wake ," based on the realms of Darkon, Lamordia and Bluetspur was released on October 31, 2007 on the Wizards of the Coast website as a special for Halloween and featured characters inspired by H. P.

In 2006 he began work with Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock on songs that eventually featured on the band's 2007 release, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank.

The distinctive appearance of Triceratops has led to them being frequently depicted in films, computer games and documentaries, including the Don Bluth film The Land Before Time, which featured a young Triceratops as a main character, the 1993 film Jurassic Park and the 1999 BBC television documentary Walking with Dinosaurs.

The album featured Asia's longest track ever in " The Day Before the War ".

* @ Toon ( 2001 – 2004 ): Before each first commercial break for most of the shows, the block featured some viewer submissions and game high scores from the official website.

New York Times featured author Jim Harrison wrote about the Trout Festival in his book Just Before Dark: Collected Non-fiction, Clark City Press, 1991, ISBN 0-944439-33-0.

Before entering Cardozo High School and shortly after the Gay family relocated to D. C .' s Deanwood neighborhood in northeastern Washington, he had joined several doo-wop groups in the D. C. area, including the Dippers, which featured his friend Johnny Stewart, brother of R & B singer Billy Stewart.

* Before he was taken hostage, the satirical programme, Spitting Image, featured a puppet of Waite returning from his foreign trips laden with duty-free goods which he would bring surreptitiously to an eagerly waiting Robert Runcie.

In 1983, the band mounted an ambitious stage show in support of Kilroy featuring theatrical presentations of three songs utilizing instrumental backing tracks, including " Mr. Roboto ", which featured DeYoung singing live while disguised as a Roboto, " Heavy Metal Poisoning " with James Young as the evangelist Dr. Righteous singing while the Panozzo brothers acted as his henchmen on stage, and " Haven't We Been Here Before " with Tommy Shaw as Jonathan Chance and DeYoung ( as Kilroy in Roboto costume ) duetting.

Three tracks from the album –" A Waltz For A Night ," " An Ocean Apart ," and " Je t ' aime tant "– were featured in Before Sunset.

Four more songs from the album Dead Man's Party were used in soundtracks: " No One Lives Forever " was featured in Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, " Stay " ( in the Boingo Alive version ) was used as the theme music for the Brazilian soap opera Top Model, " Same Man I Was Before " was used in My Best Friend Is a Vampire and " Just Another Day " opened the 1985 film adaptation of S. E. Hinton's That Was Then, This Is Now.

The album was the only one by Queens of the Stone Age to be featured in the reference book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Before Break Down Landy's best-known work was Scrapheap Services ( 1995 – 1996 ), which featured a fictitious cleaning company which sought to change society by way of " a minority of people being discarded ".

The album is featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Before dub, most Jamaican 45s featured an instrumental version of the main song on the flipside, which was called the " version ".