* " Hanging By His Hair " from the 1998 WORMWOOD album by The Residents recounts Absalom's defiance and death.

By summer 1998, Compaq was suffering from product-quality problems.

The phrase " Doom clone | Doom clone " was initially popular to describe the style of gameplay in Doom-like games, but after 1996 was gradually replaced by " first-person shooter " By 1998 the phrase " first-person shooter " had firmly superseded " Doom clone "

By 1998, Japan's public works projects still could not stimulate demand enough to end the economy's stagnation.

By 1998, he was ready to retire from the group and focus full-time on raising African black ostriches on his farm.

By 1998 Star Trek TV shows, movies, books, videotapes, and licensing provided so much of the studio's profit that " it is not possible to spend any reasonable amount of time at Paramount and not be aware of presence "; filming for Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine required up to nine of the largest of the studio's 36 sound stages.

By early 1998, the punk revival had commercially stalled, but not for long.

By 1994, sales of CD-i systems had begun to slow, and in 1998 the product line was dropped.

By January 1998, the government had shut down a third of Korea's merchant banks.

By 1998, simultaneous with Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Đukanović coming out on top in the power struggle with Montenegrin President Momir Bulatović, the republic undertook a different economic policy by adopting the Deutsche Mark as its currency.

By December 1998, Singapore ONE is available nationwide with the completion of the national fibre optics network.

By 1998, the economic crisis had grown even worse.

By 1998, Petersen was an established Hollywood director, with the power to both re-release his classic Das Boot in a new director's cut and to helm star-studded action-thrillers.

By 1998, however, output of copper had fallen to a low of 228, 000 tonnes, continuing a 30-year decline in output due to lack of investment, and until recently, low copper prices and uncertainty over privatization.

By 1998, UPI had fewer than 250 employees and 12 offices.

By 1998 its user base had almost completely evaporated, being replaced by other web browsers.

By November 1998, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, and Mena Suvari had been cast in the parts — in Birch's case, despite the fact she was underage for her nude scene.

By 1998, Sega's 128-bit console, the Dreamcast, could produce 3D graphics on-par with arcade machines at the time.

By 1998 Printronix pushed the speed to 1000 LPM.

" By 1998 it had sold more than 50 million copies.

By January 1998, the WWF began broadcasting more violence, swearing, and more edgy angles in its attempt to compete with WCW.

By 1998, 42 Charters had been published, and they included services provided by public service industries such as the health service and the railways, as well as by the civil service.

By the end, only one composer, Elizabeth Parker, remained and the Workshop closed in March 1998.

By the end of 2002, the economy had contracted by 20 % since 1998.

By 1998, more than fifteen million people had downloaded the program.

By the end of her life Elizabeth was also reputed to speak Welsh, Cornish, Scottish and Irish in addition to English.

By 1404, they were raiding the coast of England, with Welsh troops on board, setting fire to Dartmouth and devastating the coast of Devon.

By other scholars, however, the second element has been identified with the Celtic element-lan, signifying an enclosure or demarcated territory ( source of the Welsh word ' llan ', meaning a sanctuary or church ).

By 1924 there were people in Wales " eager to make their nationality the focus of Welsh politics.

By the time of his death in 1985 he was amongst the most celebrated of Welsh writers.

By about 1120 Gruffydd had grown too old to lead his forces in battle and Owain and his brothers Cadwallon and later Cadwaladr led the forces of Gwynedd against the Normans and against other Welsh princes with great success.

By 1932 the aims of self-government and Welsh representation at the League of Nations had been added to that of preserving Welsh language and culture.

By comparison with the forcible closure of monasteries elsewhere in Protestant Europe, the English and Welsh dissolutions resulted in a relatively modest volume of new educational endowments ; but the treatment of former monks and nuns was more generous, and there was no counterpart elsewhere to the efficient mechanisms established in England to maintain pension payments over successive decades.

By about 1538, Leland had turned his attention to English and Welsh topography and antiquities, embarking on a series of journeys which lasted six years.

By that date he had been on a tour to the north-west, which went via the Welsh marches to Cheshire, Lancashire and Cumberland ; while other itineraries took him to the west Midlands, the north-east ( reaching Yorkshire and County Durham ), and the Bristol region.

By the Statute of Rhuddlan in 1284 the territory of the native Welsh rulers had been broken up into the five counties of Anglesey, Caernarfon, Cardigan, Carmarthen, and Merioneth.

By his marriage he increased the Braose Welsh holdings to include Brecon and Abergavenny.

By 1944 not all of Time and Lifes forty war correspondents were men ; six were newswomen: Mary Welsh Hemingway, Margaret Bourke-White, Lael Tucker, Peggy Durdin, Shelley Smith Mydans, Annalee Jacoby, and Jacqueline Saix, an Englishwoman whose name is usually omitted ( she and Welsh are the only women listed in Time's publisher's letter, May 8, 1944, as being part of the magazine's team ) reported on the war for the company.

By the 20th century the breeding population had become restricted to a handful of pairs in South Wales, but recently the Welsh population has been supplemented by re-introductions in England and Scotland.

By the 15th century a large number of Welsh gentry, including Owain Glyndŵr, had Norman ancestry.

By far the largest part of British literature is written in the English language, but there are bodies of written works in Latin, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Scots, Cornish, Manx, Jèrriais, Guernésiais and other languages.

By 1969, the role of the Welsh Office had expanded to also cover responsibilities for highway construction and maintenance, tourism, water, forestry, common land, the Historic Buildings Council for Wales, and the Countryside Commission in Wales.

By the 1890s, Welsh clubs were starting to become regular opponents, with Cardiff and Penarth regularly appearing in the fixture list.

By the middle of the 12th century the area was under the control of the Welsh chieftain Ifor Bach ( Ifor ap Meurig ).

By 1900 Welsh was still spoken by a sizeable minority west of the town of Rhayader, the language disappearing as the century progressed.

By this time, the institution had expanded to offer a range of full-time, sandwich and part-time courses in science, technology and commerce, to which it added the first ever " Welsh for Adults " course in 1967.

By 1954, the New Theatre, Cardiff had become the company's base and it staged a short season between 1 – 13 November, with performances of Les vêpres siciliennes, Rigoletto, Nabucco, Verdi's Requiem, The Bartered Bride, Faust, Die Fledermaus and the premiere performance of Menna by Welsh composer Arwel Hughes.