Before this discovery, it is widely believed that bricks appeared about 3000 years ago in the Western Zhou dynasty since the earliest bricks were found in Western Zhou ruins.

Before central power stations were widely introduced it was common for industries, large hotels and commercial buildings to generate their own power and use low pressure exhaust steam for heating.

Before the Supreme Court of the United States, De Forest was granted the regeneration patent in what is today widely regarded as a misunderstanding of the technical facts by the Supreme Court justices.

Before the notion was widely adopted in the 1970s, many of the classic films noirs were referred to as melodramas.

Before gelatin became widely available as a commercial product, the most typical gelatin dessert was " calf's foot jelly ".

Before recent advances in digital photography, transparencies were widely used by professionals because of their sharpness and accuracy of color rendition.

Before any of the scandalous activity became widely known, Harding's popularity began to ebb, but he responded with determination to run for re-election, despite strong support emerging for the very popular Henry Ford for the Democrats.

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.

Before White, AIDS was a disease widely associated with the male gay community, because it was first diagnosed among gay men.

Before the advent of the modern critical edition of historical Roman works, AUC was indiscriminately added to them by earlier editors, making it appear more widely used than it actually was.

Before sound, 16 frames per second ( fps ) was the supposed norm, but practice varied widely.

Before tomatoes ( a New World fruit ) arrived in the Middle East, grenadine was widely used in many Iranian foods, and is still found in traditional recipes such as fesenjān, a thick sauce made from pomegranate juice and ground walnuts, usually spooned over duck or other poultry and rice, and in ash-e anar ( pomegranate soup ).

Before that, French-Canadian and British fur traders traveled widely through the area, trading with the Chippewa and other Native American peoples of the region.

Before the advent of modern aids dead reckoning was widely used in air navigation, taking into account displacement of position caused by wind as far as possible, often using a tool called a wind triangle.

Before recognizing Romania's role in the Porajmos, Traian Băsescu was widely quoted after an incident on May 19, 2007, in which he insulted a journalist by calling her a " stinky gypsy.

Before the introduction of image intensifiers, night glasses were the only method of night vision, and thus were widely utilized, especially at sea.

Before Fingers ' time, a former starter's renewed success in the bullpen would have led back to a spot in the starting rotation ; but since the successes of not only Fingers but also contemporaries such as Sparky Lyle and Goose Gossage, it has been widely accepted that an excellent pitcher might actually provide a greater benefit to his team as a closer than as a third or fourth starter.

Before European settlement, pecans were widely consumed and traded by Native Americans.

Before the World War II, Heinola was widely known as a spa town, and until 1972 it served as a location for an institute ( seminaari ) that taught elementary school teachers.

Before long, the News of the World established itself as the most widely read Sunday paper, with initial sales of around 12, 000 copies a week.

Before it morphed into a swing, Dixieland and bluegrass standard, " The Washington and Lee Swing " was one of the most well known — and widely borrowed — football marches ever written, according to Robert Lissauer's Encyclopedia of Popular Music in America.

Before this standardization, its treatment varied widely, including being deemed a win for the stalemating player, a half-win for that player, or a loss for that player ; not being permitted ; and resulting in the stalemated player missing a turn.

Before his party's convention in 1990, Mwanawasa was widely tipped to become the President of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy ( MMD ), but he declined the overture, citing his young age and inexperience.

The purpose of the law, Holmes insisted, was the deterrence of undesirable social consequences: “ I think that the judges themselves have failed adequately to recognize their duty of weighing considerations of social advantage .” Before the Civil War, this conception of adjudication as a form of social engineering had been widely shared by American judges, but in the late nineteenth century it had fallen out of favor.

Before 1895 Brunetière was widely known as an a rationalist, freethinking scholar.

Before Christmas 1955, Brantley had the group record a demo of " Please, Please, Please " for a local Macon radio station.

Before 1955, the option existed of blessing the baptismal font on the Vigil of Pentecost, and this was the only time the Paschal candle would be lit at services after Ascension.

Before 1955 black was used throughout.

Before the couple divorced in 1955, they lived in the Soviet Union from 1937 to 1938, while he served as the second American ambassador to the Soviet Union, under Joseph Stalin.

* 1955 " Blues Before Sunrise " b / w " Good Bye " ( Flair 1079 )

Before the record-setting 2011 auction, Christie's sold two: in 2005, a 1955 painting sold for $ 7. 8m.

Before moving to Aker Stadion in the beginning of the 1998 season, Molde had been playing their home games at Molde Idrettspark ( at the time called Molde stadion, and Gamle Molde stadion since 1998 ), a municipal-owned multi-use venue, since 1955.

Before 1955 it was known simply as Palm Sunday and the preceding Sunday as Passion Sunday.

Before his retirement in 1955, Gigli undertook an exhausting world tour of farewell concerts.

In 1955, she was chosen to play a dumb blonde sidekick in Arthur Askey's new ITV series, Before Your Very Eyes, and this soon made her a household name.

* Before Your Very Eyes ( 1955 – 5810 episodes )

Before this, he was Inspector General of Police of the Special Police Establishment from 1955 to 1963.

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

( Before 1955, Chinese soldiers were assigned " functions " instead of ranks, such as " company commander ", or " division commander ").

A seasonal recording, " The Night Before Christmas / Nuttin ' for Christmas ", made in 1955, still remains a cult classic.

Two of Nolan's paintings, The Abandoned Mine ( 1948 ) and Ned Kelly ( 1955 ) were included in Quintessence Editions Ltd .' s 2007 book 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die.

Before the 1955 renumbering, LA 137 was State Route 47 from Archibald to Rayville.

Before the creation of the Aldridge-Brownhills seat in 1974, the town had been part of the Walsall North constituency since 1955, when it had been transferred from the now-defunct Cannock constituency.

Before 1955, Pentecostal doctrinal distinctives were not embraced by the religious mainstream.

Before the league moved into the Democratic Party, there were only five Democrats among the 162 members of both houses of the legislature in 1955.

Before 1955, the railway ran from Linwood to Mulgrave where a ferry service operated to Point Tupper.

Before becoming National Security Advisor, Anderson was an official at the National Security Council from 1953 to 1955.

Before that he was London bureau chief ( 1965 – 1972 ), Washington, D. C. bureau ( 1955 – 64 ), and deskman ( 1948 – 1952 ) all for the Times.

Before 1955 it was located in Downtown Houston.