Before the Civil War, the sisters discovered that their late brother Henry had had a relationship with Nancy Weston, an enslaved mixed-race woman, after he became a widower.

Before the birth of James's son on 10 June, William had been third in the line of succession.

Before the English Civil War, a pamphlet by William Neade entitled The Double-Armed Man advocated that soldiers be trained in both the longbow and pike ; this advice was followed only by a few town militias.

" Waits also continued to further his acting career with a supporting role as Rudy the Kraut in Ironweed ( an adaptation of William Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ) alongside Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, in which Waits performed the song " Big Rock Candy Mountain ", as well as a part in Robert Frank's Candy Mountain, in which Waits also performed " Once More Before I Go.

Before this, William had returned to the continent, where Ralph had continued the rebellion from Brittany.

Before that date, however, the Liberal Government of William Ewart Gladstone fell.

Before all these marriages he had a marriage contract with Joan, daughter of William de Reviers, 5th Earl of Devon, but that engagement was broken off in 1200.

Before the establishment of the Chickamauga Post in 1902 by United States Army, an unincorporated city existed, where Fort Oglethorpe was later established, called Hargrave, Georgia after the name of the land owner and ex-Confederate soldier, William Hamilton Hargrave.

Before Hurricane Katrina, William Carey University had a satellite campus in Gulfport, but in 2009, the University moved to their new Tradition Campus, constructed off Mississippi Highway 67 in north Harrison County.

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Before the Civil War, George O. Roberson and his father, William, owned a store originally located on the northwest corner of what is now known as Railroad and Roberson Streets.

Before Choctaw was chartered, the area included a part of William McClure's 7C Ranch and was known for a trading post and a camping spot near a spring.

Before the post office was established, William Carter charged 50 cents a letter to carry the mail on horseback from the nearest post office, in Walla Walla, Washington.

Before the 1895 schism in English rugby, William Nicholl played rugby union for England, and Brighouse Rangers.

Before 1066 the manor of Wakefield belonged to Edward the Confessor and it passed to William the Conqueror after the Battle of Hastings.

Before the death of William the Conqueror, Ranulf held a prebend in the diocese of Salisbury.

Before Abraham Lincoln, no President had a beard ; after Lincoln until William Howard Taft, every President except Andrew Johnson and William McKinley had either a beard or a moustache.

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 her death in 1804 the couple had six children ; Anne Lucinda Lee ( 1790 – 1845 ), Infant Son Lee ( 1791-1791 ), Richard Henry Lee ( Feb 1793-Mar 1793 ), Charles Henry Lee ( b. Oct 1794 ), William Arthur Lee ( b. Sept 1796 ), Alfred Lee ( 1799 – 1865 ).

Before the adoption of luck at the end of the Middle Ages, Old English and Middle English expressed the notion of " good fortune " with the word speed ( Middle English spede, Old English spēd ); speed besides " good fortune " had the wider meaning of " prosperity, profit, abundance "; it is not associated with the notion of probability or chance but rather with that of fate or divine help ; a bestower of success can also be called speed, as in " Christ be our speed " ( William Robertson, Phraseologia generalis, 1693 ).

Before that, however, it was open to any member of servant of the society ; in 1829 a former Preacher was interred, and in 1780 William Turner, described as Hatch-keeper and Washpot to this Honble.

Before the English name was standardised to Willow Warbler by William Yarrell in 1843, it was sometimes called " willow wren ".

Before the advent of printing in Scotland, writers such as Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Walter Kennedy and Gavin Douglas have been seen as leading a golden age in Scottish poetry.

Before the 19th century, the area now occupied by Camberley was referred to as Bagshot Heath, which was known as a haunt of Highwaymen such as William Davies-known as the Golden Farmer-and Claude Duval.

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.

Among her other films are Laughter ( 1930 ), Paramount on Parade ( 1930 ), Hot Saturday ( 1932 ) with Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, The Kiss Before the Mirror ( 1933 ) directed by James Whale, and Broken Lullaby aka The Man I Killed ( 1932 ) directed by Ernst Lubitsch.

" She commissioned a serial, Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill, for safety, but also Bill Brand, one of the edgiest political dramas ever, and us ... Before we had even finished making the first series, Verity commissioned the second.

O ' Dwyer later contributed to a second book by Stella Randolph, The Story of Gustave Whitehead, Before the Wrights Flew, published in 1966.

Before the current 502d Air Base Wing, the 12th Flying Training Wing, and the 3510th Flying Training Wing were the host units at Randolph.

Before competing in the college ranks, Jeffries attended high school at Bloomington High School North, advancing to the Indiana High School Athletic Association ( IHSAA ) basketball finals in 2000 before losing to Marion High School, led by current Memphis Grizzlies forward Zach Randolph.

Before he departs, however, a drunken and disheartened Edie arrives at his house, and Wharton leaves her in the care of his black maid, Gladys ( Amanda Randolph ).

Before Winters, the president was William Randolph " Randy " Davenport of Campbellsville, who served 1969 – 1988.

Before forming as a hip hop group, Ultramagnetic MCs members Cedric " Ced-Gee " Miller, " Kool " Keith Thornton, DJ Moe Love ( Maurice Smith ), and TR Love ( Trevor Randolph ) from The Bronx, New York were break dancers for the New York City Breakers and People's Choice crews.

Before releasing albums with The Family Band, Randolph was selected by avant-garde jazz organist John Medeski to join him and the North Mississippi Allstars on their 2001 jam project, The Word.

Before long the atmosphere reverted to its old normalcy, and insects hummed and birds occasionally called.

Before leaving for America, he happened to see his old friend Jean Arp and confided to him his new resolutions.

Before we built the new jail, we used to keep prisoners in here overnight sometimes when the old jail got too crowded.

Before this, many of its families were assigned to the old order Liliales: a very large order containing almost all monocots with colourful tepals and without starch in their endosperm.

Before the arrival of the Europeans, the African slave trade, centuries old in Africa, was not yet the major feature of the coastal economy of Guinea.

Before beginning to shoe, the farrier removes the old shoe using pincers ( shoe pullers ) and trims the hoof wall to the desired length with nippers, a sharp pliers-like tool, and the sole and frog of the hoof with a hoof knife.

Before that, the old building was Liberiet close to the city's cathedral.

Before they went metric, one Swedish mile was 10, 688 metres and a Norwegian mile was 11, 295 metres, so only a small change had to be made to the old mile to make them equal to one myriametre.

Before the playoffs, the 33-year old Riggins told coach Joe Gibbs " I'm really getting down the road.

Before that, the earliest known proto-frog was Triadobatrachus massinoti, from the 250 million year old early Triassic of Madagascar.

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.

Before the Paillon River was covered over, the Pont-Neuf was the only practicable way between the old town and the modern one.

Before this, Lake Huron was a low-lying depression through which flowed the now-buried Laurentian and Huronian Rivers ; the lake bed was criss-crossed by a large network of tributaries to these ancient waterways, with many of the old channels still evident on bathymetric maps.

Before Mary died he was a member of the " old flock of Hatfield ", and from the first, the new Queen relied on Cecil.

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Before turning over the colors to another survivor of the 54th, Carney modestly said, " Boys, I only did my duty ; the old flag never touched the ground!

Before he was 30 years old, Gainsbourg was a disillusioned painter, but earned his living as a piano player in bars.

Before reaching Alexandria, his path was blocked by a single, old Roman ambassador named Gaius Popillius Laenas, who delivered a message from the Roman Senate directing Antiochus to withdraw his armies from Egypt and Cyprus, or consider themselves in a state of war with the Roman Republic.

Before Potter died of tuberculosis, 28-years old, he succeeded in producing about a hundred paintings, working continuously.

Before it was moved it was an old voting booth.

Before that almost all of the old northern town adjacent to the port was demolished and subsequently rebuilt.

Before he was 5 years old, his paternal grandfather ordered all members of the Rubinstein family to convert from Judaism to Russian Orthodoxy.

Before the death of the old king he became chaplain to Maurice, Bishop of London, whom he had formerly served in the chancery.

Before the French Revolution, which radically and bloodily overthrew most aspects of French society's organization, the only way that constitutional change could be instituted was by referring it to old legal documents that could be interpreted as agreeing with the proposal.