' Before the 2003 invasion of Iraq Dr. Muayad Said described the structure before the filling of the reservoir: ' It has an octagonal body enhanced by alcoves, some of which are blind.

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 1946, children as well as adults were content in carving and shaping wooden replicas from block wood kits, often depicting enemy aircraft to help in identification in case of invasion.

Before the Roman invasion, begun in 43, Iron Age Britain already had established cultural and economic links with Continental Europe, but the Roman invaders introduced new developments in agriculture, urbanisation, industry and architecture.

Before the Norman invasion in 1066, the parish of Higher Mutley was owned by a man Alwin of Tamerton, and Lower Mutley by another man called Goodwin, but at the time of the Domesday Book ( 1086 ) both were owned by Odo, whose feudal overlord was Juhel of Totnes.

Before the Roman invasion Caratacus is associated with the expansion of his tribe's territory.

Before the treaty reached the Senate for ratification, and even before news of its signing reached New Orleans, a massive British invasion force was utterly defeated at the Battle of New Orleans, which made a national hero out of General Andrew Jackson.

Before the invasion, the Fenians had received some intelligence from like-minded supporters within Canada but did not receive support from all Irish Catholics there who saw the invasions as threatening the emerging Canadian sovereignty.

Before the Turkish invasion there was much archaeological activity there ; one French Mission was excavating at Enkomi, another at Salamis and the Department of Antiquities was busy almost throughout the year with repairs and restorations of monuments and was engaged in excavations at Salamis.

Before the German invasion of Poland in 1939, he destroyed all records of his existence then moved to Turkey, where he worked for Turkish radio and set up an intelligence organisation.

Before the British invasion of Virginia forced the temporary closure of the College of William and Mary and disbandment of the Phi Beta Kappa there early in 1781, Elisha Parmelee, an alumnus of Yale College and Harvard College, passed through Williamsburg and took charters from the Phi Beta Kappa to establish branches of the society at these schools.

Before the war, Moltke also moved 180, 000 men to eastern Germany to defend against the Russian invasion of East Prussia.

Before the invasion in March 2003, polls showed 47-60 % of the US public supported an invasion, dependent on U. N. approval.

Before the invasion, the revolution was weak.

Before his invasion of Greece, Xerxes I spent three years amassing supplies from all over Asia ; Herodotus wrote that the Persian army was so large it " drank the rivers dry ".

Before trial, the court granted Flynt's motion for summary judgment on the invasion of privacy claim, and the remaining two charges proceeded to trial.

Before the 1955 invasion of Tibet, many of the texts and information that are now available would have been esoteric and restricted.

Before the main invasion, the offshore islands of Tanegashima, Yakushima, and the Koshikijima Islands were to be taken, starting on X-5.

Before the invasion, it had not yet been decided whether mainland France would be attacked ; this would depend on the outcome of Fall Gelb.

In 1065, Before his invasion of Anglo-Saxon England, William of Normandy warned his rivals in Brittany and Anjou to abstain from any attacks on his duchy, on the grounds that his mission bore the papal banner.

Before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the zoo housed 650 animals.

Before the invasion the brigade had been informed that they would stay in France for only a few days.

Before becoming a king, he had other offices and was known for his resistance against the Genoese invasion against Cyprus.

Edward is found living alone in the attic of a Gothic castle, a setting that is also used for main characters in Burton's Batman and The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Before 1794, the central nave was crowned with a Gothic vault, but in that year it was replaced with another vault, which in turn was replaced by a flat wooden roof in 1898.

A popular graffito of the 1970s was the legend " Dick Nixon Before He Dicks You ", reflecting the hostility of the youth culture to that U. S. president.

Before cheap Internet, there were some geographically compact communities where the culture encouraged Weinberg's egoless programming, and a developer could easily attract a lot of skilled kibitzers and co-developers.

Before 1999, Bhutan had banned television and internet to preserve its culture, environment, its identity etc.

Before the establishment of the League of Corinth, even though the Macedonians apparently spoke a dialect of the Greek language and claimed proudly that they were Greeks, they were not considered to fully share the classical Greek culture by many of the inhabitants of the southern city states, because they did not share the polis based style of government.

Before World War II, archaeologists sometimes applied the term " Minyans " differently, to indicate the very first wave of Proto-Greek speakers in the 2nd millennium BCE, among the early Bronze Age cultures sometimes identified with the beginning of Middle Helladic culture.

Before Christianisation, in traditional pagan European culture it was believed that the spirit of the corn ( in modern American English, " corn " would be " grain ") lived amongst the crop, and that the harvest made it effectively homeless.

Before taking up a scholarship to study at University College, Oxford, Sorley spent a little more than six months in Germany, three months of which were at Schwerin studying the language and local culture.

It was during this period that Richard Henry Dana, Jr. first visited Santa Barbara and wrote about the culture and people of Santa Barbara in his book Two Years Before the Mast.

Before the conquest of Champa by the Dai Viet emperor Lê Thánh Tông in 1471, the dominant religion of the Cham people was Hinduism, and the culture was heavily influenced by that of India.

Before that time the whites had most, if not all, of the control over any means expression, culture, and so on Rumba forming and for once being able to be expressed openly gave some of the control back to the Afro-Cubans.

Before the 18th century, however, much of European culture considered it a pagan view to admire nature.

Before the reign of David I ( 1124 – 53 ) brought Norman and Anglo-French culture to the court, the Scots possessed a flourishing literary elite who regularly produced texts in both Gaelic and Latin that were frequently transmitted to Ireland and elsewhere.

Before the internet existed, the duo were a phenomenon surrounded by their own culture, analogous to the Twilight craze.

Before creating Elemental and Parallel Dreams, she traveled to Ireland for inspiration from the country's history, folklore, geography and culture.

Before the Illyrians, the area was inhabited by an ancient Mediterranean people of a pre-Indo-European culture.

Before Hwasun became an administrative community in the Japanese Empire, individual culture was formed along three rivers: Jiseokcheon River to Neungju, Hwasuncheon River to Hwasun, and Dongbokcheon River to Dongbok.

Before Christianisation, in traditional pagan European culture it was believed that the spirit of the corn ( in modern American, " corn " would be " grain ") lived amongst the crop, and that the harvest made it effectively homeless.

Before the 1990s, Finland had a very thin and stratified cocktail culture.

Before the crusades, the region of Livonia was a mixed outpost, a pagan society where merchants from the Hanseatic League encountered merchants of Novgorod, and where Germanic, Scandinavian, and Russian trade, culture, and cults all mingled.

Before the Spanish colonisation of the Americas by " right of conquest ", the northern region of South America that is contemporary Colombia had no culture akin to that of the ( Peruvian ) Incas, the ( Central American ) Mayas, or the ( Mexican ) Aztecs.

Before being shut down in 2000 by the Iranian Judiciary System, Payam-e Emrooz was the most professional monthly magazine with news and analyses in the areas of politics, society, culture, and economy.

This period is vividly portrayed in Bostonian Richard Henry Dana, Jr .' s famous seafaring memoir, Two Years Before the Mast and the culture of the great Mexican landowners of this period is often harked back to as exemplifying the height of California's romantic pastoral era.

Before the late 1960s, full access to Western culture was limited to a highly educated elite in society, but the Vietnam War brought the outside world face to face with large segments of the Thai society as never before.

Before the Qing Empire ceded Taiwan to Japan in 1895, Taiwan ’ s culture was characterized by Qing frontier societies of Han farmers and highland Aborigines.