( Before this date, the EU was excluded from the Factbook.

Before, geologists could only use fossils to date sections of rock relative to one another.

Before this date, the most precise measurement of the Imperial Standard Yard was metres.

Before that date, the only papyri known were a few surviving from medieval times.

Before that time the region between the Vaal and Limpopo was scarcely known to Europeans, but in 1829, Mzilikazi was visited at Mosega by Robert Moffat, and between that date and 1836 a few British traders and explorers visited the country and made known its principal features.

* In the scientific Before Present system of numbering years for purposes of radiocarbon dating, the reference date is January 1, 1950 ( though the use of January 1 is quite irrelevant, as radiocarbon dating has limited precision ).

Before 1970, the date chosen was 17 April.

Before that date in 1530, he was called Emperor-elect too.

Before its official release date on October 5, the band played at the Austin City Limits Music Festival and KBCO's World Class Rockfest.

Before that date it was designated a micropolitan statistical area.

Before this date soviet aircraft were named according to their function: TB-1 for " Tyazholy Bombardirovschik " (" тяжелый бомбардировщик ", " heavy bomber "), the first.

* Umberto Eco's novel The Island of the Day Before ( 1995 ) ( L ' isola del giorno prima, 1994 ), a story about a 17th-century nobleman marooned across the international date line

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

Before this date Husum was not situated directly on the coast.

Before a hearing date was set, the state issued a subpoena for much of the Association's records, including bank statements and leases, but most notably the names and addresses of the " agents " or " members " of the Association in Alabama.

Before the first court date in September 2001, Vreme magazine organized a mediation attempt between the two parties, with Kusturica and Srbljanović meeting face to face in the magazine's offices.

Before that date the bullrunning ended in the " castle plaza ", still not far from the present bullring.

Before and during World War II the museum was put on a shoestring budget by the Nazi party and many exhibits were allowed to get out of date with a few exceptions such as the new automobile room dedicated 7 May 1937.

Before this date the RHS had held flower shows from 1833 in their garden in Chiswick, which themselves had been preceded by fetes.

Before the handover in early April, Captain Superintendent of Police, Francis Henry May and some policemen erected a flagstaff and temporary headquarters at Tai Po and posted the Governor's proclamation of the takeover date.

Before that date, however, some rates were fixed for a trial period commencing in December 1984.

Before the Revolutionary war, Rush was engaged to Sarah Eve, daughter of prominent Philadelphian, Captain Oswell Eve, Sr. Their wedding date was set for mid-December 1774.

Before this, the country was divided by the date line.

The date line is a central factor in Umberto Eco's book The Island of the Day Before ( 1994 ), in which the protagonist finds himself on a becalmed ship, with an island close at hand on the other side of the International Date Line.

Before this period, brewers used a wide variety of bitter herbs and flowers, including dandelion, burdock root, marigold, horehound ( the German name for horehound means " mountain hops "), ground ivy, and heather.

Before becoming a full-time actor, Spader held a variety of jobs including being a yoga instructor, busboy, truck driver, stable boy, and railroad-car loader.

Before Limbaugh, their day time talk show hosts were local and not particularly partisan, each quite a bit different from the other, and had diverse conversations on a wide variety of topics from both local and national politics, to food, to interviews with interesting people, book authors, and so forth.

Before the Council of Trent in the 16th century, the Catholic Church in Western Europe had a wide variety of rituals for the celebration of Mass.

Before this the stone was referred to by a variety of names, but these fell from use after 250 BC.

Before receiving the 9th kyu, the first rank, a student must demonstrate the ability to smoothly roll in a variety of directions without exposing the neck to injury.

Before the areas were drained, the temperate swamps supported a nearly unimaginable variety of flora and fauna.

Before 1982, the Japanese variety of these mushrooms could only be grown in traditional locations using ancient methods.

Before that, heavy taxes and outright bans on imports that competed with local produce severely limited the availability of foreign or unseasonal food, but now Finnish supermarkets and restaurants serve up a wide variety of food from all over the world.

Before the advent of computers for camera motion control and CGI, movies used a variety of approaches to achieve animated special effects.

Before 1540, David Joris, an Anabaptist of the " inspirationist " variety, had been the most influential leader in the Netherlands.

Before 1973, it was a monarchy that was governed by a variety of kings, emirs or shahs.

Before World War II, patterned socks were common, and a variety of designs like Argyle or contrasting socks was commonly seen.

Before World War II, the Polish lands were noted for the richness and variety of their ethnic communities.

Before religious studies became a field in its own right, flourishing in the United States in the late 1960s, several key intellectual figures explored religion from a variety of perspectives.

Before moving to Florida, he worked with a variety of businesses in Florida, such as CBS, Data Control Systems Inc, and Kutola Advertising.

Before that, he filled a wide variety of cabinet positions in both the Blair and Brown governments, including Health Secretary and Education Secretary.

( The company ’ s name had been changed to Deb Chemical Proprietaries Ltd .) Before Swarfega, mechanics used a variety of harsh home-brewed cleaners such as paraffin ( kerosene ), sand and petrol.

Before any systematic naming convention was adopted, comets were named in a variety of ways.

Before PALs were introduced, designers of digital logic circuits would use small-scale integration ( SSI ) components, such as those in the 7400 series TTL ( transistor-transistor logic ) family ; the 7400 family included a variety of logic building blocks, such as gates ( NOT, NAND, NOR, AND, OR ), multiplexers ( MUXes ) and demultiplexers ( DEMUXes ), flip flops ( D-type, JK, etc.

Before the wide adoption of Pinyin, the name of the city ( often viewed as a county seat, i. e. Qufu xian ) was transcribed in English in a variety of ways, such as Ch ' ü-fou-hien, Kio-feu-hien, Kio-fou-hien,

Before turning to comedy, he studied engineering at the University of Waterloo and then worked a variety of jobs.

Before becoming a full-time writer, teacher and editor he worked in a variety of places, including laboratories, a fertiliser factory and on farms.

Before the war was over, 84, 000 WAVES filled shore billets in a large variety of jobs in communications, intelligence, supply, medicine, and administration.