Before merging them into a common profile it is well to remember that their separate careers were extraordinary.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

Before that we lumber dealers were working almost single-handed on the problem ''.

Before WWII British ' social anthropology ' and American ' cultural anthropology ' were still distinct traditions.

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 that time, at the peak of the last ice age ( c. 16, 000 BC ) sea levels everywhere were 130 metres lower, and there were large well-watered coastal plains instead of much of the northern Aegean.

Before the 20th century, most manufactured products were made individually by hand.

Before the mention of Alemanni in the time of Caracalla, you would search in vain for Alemanni in the moderately detailed geography of southern Germany in Claudius Ptolemy, written in Greek in the mid-2nd century ; it is likely that at that time, the people who later used that name were known by other designations.

Before the early 20th century, treatments for infections were based primarily on medicinal folklore.

Before Caesar's time they had attached themselves to the Romans, and were honoured with the title of brothers and kinsmen of the Roman people.

Before the arrival of the British, Rajputs, Jats, the Kathats, Cheetas and Rawat Rajputs were land-holders, as well as cultivators.

Before the Second World War, air shows were associated with long distance air races, often lasting many days and covering thousands of miles.

Before the 19th century, tattoos and piercings were very common among the Aleut people, especially among women.

Before the invention of electronic amplifiers, mechanically coupled carbon microphones were also used as amplifiers in telephone repeaters for long distance service.

Before that time, all sacrifices were counted as sacrifice hits ( SH ), which included both sacrifice flies and bunts.

Before the adoption of carbon fibre composite, racquets were made of light metals such as aluminium.

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Before the mid-1960s, computers were extremely expensive and used only for special-purpose tasks.

Before this time bricks were generally made close to their point of intended use.

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 Broadway became one-way, the main bus routes along it were the New York City Omnibus Company's ( NYCO ) 6 ( Broadway below Times Square ), 7 ( Broadway and Columbus Avenue ), and 11 ( Ninth and Amsterdam Avenues ), and the Surface Transportation Corporation's M100 ( Kingsbridge ) and M104 ( Broadway Branch ).

Before the rise of the mendicant orders ( wandering friars ) in the thirteenth century, the daily services were usually contained in a number of large volumes.

Before the advent of printing, breviaries were written by hand and were often richly decorated with initials and miniature illustrations telling stories in the lives of Christ or the saints, or stories from the Bible.

Before the advent of machine tools, metal was worked manually using the basic hand tools of hammers, files, scrapers, saws and chisels.

Before starting a Model T with the hand crank, the spark had to be manually retarded or the engine might " kick back ".

Before EDA, integrated circuits were designed by hand, and manually laid out.

Before the advent of modern winemaking, most presses were basket presses made of wood and operated manually.

Before the function was defined, Lisp functions were manually compiled to assembly language statements.

Before the beginning of the 20th century, the only means of obtaining pearls was by manually gathering very large numbers of pearl oysters ( or pearl mussels ) from the ocean floor ( or lake, or river bottom ).

Before programmable controls were added to control cryogenic processors, the " treatment " process of an object was previously done manually by immersing the object in liquid nitrogen.

Before mechanization, cotton was harvested manually by the lower castes in India and by African slaves in America.

Before 1842, Toronto's water supply was manually pumped from the Lake, streams and wells.

Before Majordomo, mailing lists were maintained manually, with a list owner adding and removing participants by editing a text file.

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 eating earthworms, moles pull them between their squeezed paws to force the collected earth and dirt out of the worm's gut.

Before the 1990s it was usually collected in the wild and was not cultivated on a large scale or researched scientifically.

Before World War II ships were collected into divisions derived from the Royal Navy's " division " of the line of battle in which one squadron usually remained under the direct command of the Admiral of the Fleet, one squadron was commanded by a Vice Admiral, and one by a Rear Admiral, each of the three squadrons flying different coloured flags, hence the terms flagship and flag officer.

Before the maypole is raised, greens and flowers are collected and used to cover the entire pole.

Before leaving Italy, Carlo had already discovered a warbler new to science, the Moustached Warbler, and on the voyage he collected specimens of a new storm-petrel.

Based on 72 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, 96 % of the critics enjoyed The Nightmare Before Christmas with the consensus of " a stunningly original and visually delightful work of stop-motion animation.

Before he had collected all his available forces, Raymond and his ally mounted a relief expedition.

Before the advent of refrigeration, the college stored ice collected from the Puddle in an icehouse.

Before the first world war, saltpeter, collected in Chile from abundant deposits of caliche in the Atacama Desert, was the main source of nitrates in the world.

This version, known as " In the Night 1995 ", was released as a B-side to the 1996 single " Before " and was then collected on the 2001 two-disc re-release of Bilingual.

Before the introduction of rural free delivery ( RFD ) by the U. S. Post Office in 1896, and in Canada in 1908, many rural residents had no access to the mail unless they collected it at a post office located many miles from their homes or hired a private express company to deliver it.

Before it was banned from residential use in the US, chlorpyrifos was detected in 100 % of personal indoor air samples and 70 % of umbilical-cord blood collected from pregnant women 18 – 35 years old who self-identified as African American or Dominican and living in New York City public housing.

Before his resignation from the post, Oakeley, who was later to describe the chapel as " a complete paragon of ugliness " had conceived the idea of rebuilding the chapel in what he considered a correct ecclesiastical style, and had collected a sum of almost £ 30, 000 for the purpose.

Before much experimental evidence had been collected, the utility of testing was already apparent to some insightful observers.

Before erasing their memories, Ivo reveals himself as the mastermind behind the scheme and that, using data collected from the captured animals, he will create a serum of longevity.

Before the turn of the 19th century, the millets had a great deal of power — they set their own laws and collected and distributed their own taxes.

Before the pair can persuade her otherwise, she sells her library with unique French books collected by the generations to raise the money, and purchases plane tickets for all three of them.

Before he commenced the siege, Trebonius collected labourers and cattle from the Province, ordered timber and wood suitable for wattle-work to be brought up, and then proceeded to construct the principal terrace.

Kamal's work has been posthumously collected and published in the following titles: Rivermist ( 1992 ), Four contemporary poets ( Translations from Urdu, 1992 ), Before the Carnations Wither ( 1995 ), A Selection of Verse ( 1997 ).

Before the onset of monsoon season, when there is not much water in the Linganmakki dam, the Jog Falls are only a pair of thin streams of water trickling down the cliff, as the water collected in the dam is exclusively for generation of electricity ; during monsoons local rain-water is the source of water to the falls.

The facts collected about the Navy during that time — hints dropped by messmates — opinions, notions, & c., have, been picked up and carefully preserved in this “ bag .” Before I proceed though, to arrange from this medley of the “ bit o ’ writin ” for you, mm, I must in good earnest bespeak the indulgence of your readers, and seriously invite their attention to the facts which go to show a link to 10 pages, 1840 Lucky Bag article on Naval Reform, by Lieut. Matthew Fontaine Maury, U. S. Navy.

He uses the information he has collected to identify and check on the back history of various space vehicles and their owners-information which ties in with one of the many Space Gypsy Rules of Compliance ; ' Know Your Customer Before You Trade.

Before entering the city, every traveller had to pass through eight toll gates, each of which collected a tax.