Earlier, the guilds of writers had denounced the printing press as " the Devil's Invention ", and were responsible for a 53-year lag between its invention by Johannes Gutenberg in Europe in c. 1440 and its introduction to the Ottoman society with the first Gutenberg press in Istanbul that was established by the Sephardic Jews of Spain in 1493 ( who had migrated to the Ottoman Empire a year earlier, escaping from the Spanish Inquisition of 1492.

Earlier Spanish explorers called it sierra nevadas, meaning " snowy mountains ".

" Pegqenos and Grandes: Earlier Heinkel He 111s in Spanish Service ".

Earlier attempts had been made by the Spanish in what is now Georgia ( San Miguel de Gualdape, 1526 – 27 ; several Spanish missions in Georgia between 1568 and 1684 ), South Carolina ( Santa Elena, 1566 – 87 ), North Carolina ( Joara, 1567 – 68 ) and Virginia ( Ajacán Mission, 1570 – 71 ); and by French in South Carolina ( Charlesfort, 1562 – 63 ).

Earlier, Guatemala had been a state within the United Provinces of Central America since 1823, before that part of the First Mexican Empire under Agustín de Iturbide, and before 1821 ruled by the Captain General of Guatemala, a Spanish colonial official owing allegiance to the Viceroy of New Spain and the King of Spain, back to the Spanish conquest of the region in the early 16th century.

Earlier Spanish popes of the Borja family held a long tradition of employing Spanish singers in the papal chapel ’ s choir.

Earlier, Germany's January 1936 commercial contracts for the output of the Spanish and Spanish Moroccan mines had gone awry with the opposition of a newly elected government in Madrid.

* Earlier Spanish editions of Ehret ’ s books contained various translation errors such as using the word legumes instead of vegetables.

Earlier expeditions by Diogo Dias and Afonso de Albuquerque explored the area and discovered several Ocean Indian islands.

Earlier, this woman had been so filled with a chaotic variety of introjects that at times, when she was in her room alone, it would sound to a passerby as though there were several different persons in the room, as she would vocalize in various kinds of voice.

Earlier this month Edward R. Murrow, director of the United States Information Agency, came to Hollywood and had dinner with more than 100 leaders of the motion picture industry.

( Earlier the APG had used the name Alliaceae for this group .).

Earlier amnesties, requiring signed oaths and excluding certain classes of people, had been issued by Lincoln and by Johnson.

Earlier Andronikos III had effected the recovery of the islands of Lesbos and Chios from Martino Zaccaria in 1329 ( although the island remained under Benedetto III Zaccaria until 1330 ) and of Phocaea in 1334 from the last Genoese governor Domenico Cattaneo.

Earlier, Gongshan had approached Confucius to join him, which Confucius considered at first.

Earlier in 1961, a Television Audience Measurement ( TAM ) showed that 75 % of available viewers ( 15 million ) tuned into Corrie and by 1964 the programme had over 20 million regular viewers, with ratings peaking on 2 December 1964, at 21. 36 million viewers.

Earlier in the year, 13-year-old Sarah-Louise Platt ( Tina O ' Brien ) had become pregnant and given birth to a baby girl, Bethany, on 4 June.

Earlier, Dai had been involved with the Blue Shirts Society, a fascist-inspired paramilitary group within the Kuomintang, which wanted to expel Western and Japanese imperialists, crush the Communists, and eliminate feudalism.

Earlier British clipper ships had become known as extreme clippers, and were considered to be " as sharp as the American " built ships.

" Earlier, in December 1984, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs had issued a report condemning the Contras and the United States government as being among the worst human rights violators in Latin America: " The CIA directed forces are among the worst human rights violators in Latin America, responsible for systematic brutality against a civilian population.

Earlier dragoon responsibilities for scouting and picket duty had passed to hussars and similar light cavalry corps in the French, Austrian, Prussian, and other armies.

Earlier in the century, Norris had played on one of hockey's early powers, the Montreal HC, nicknamed the " Winged Wheelers.

Earlier in the year the band had performed at one of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics victory concerts at Whistler Medals Plaza and donated a collection of objects to the Ohio Historical Society including an energy dome, jumpsuit, stickers, and t-shirts.

Earlier, the Scottish philosopher David Hume had put forward a similar view on the difference between facts and values.

Earlier, the emperors had married women from families of the government-holding Soga lords, and women of the imperial clan itself, i. e. various-degree cousins and often even their own sisters ( half-sisters ).

Earlier Imperial sponsorship of Buddhism, beginning with Prince Shōtoku ( 574 – 622 ), had led to a general politicization of the clergy, along with an increase in intrigue and corruption.

Earlier constituent assemblies had written thirteen constitutions ( only ten of which had entered into force ), and the latest had been adopted in 1924.

Earlier pedal harps had a single-action mechanism that allowed strings to play sharpened notes.

Earlier in the 1970s, Conservative prime minister Edward Heath ( elected in 1970 ) had attempted to reduce trade union powers due to the rising level of strikes across the country.

Earlier that year, Francis Baring and Company of London had become the U. S. government's official banking agent in London.

Earlier submersible work had yielded dismal results.

Earlier, the two of them had also been caught in an attempt to assassinate Nasir when he was president and had been tried and imprisoned before being released in 1975.

Earlier, he had come to the area as one of the builders of the C & O Railway's terminals, and had served as the first mayor of Newport News after it became an independent city in 1896.

Earlier the area was known as " Columbia " or " Columbus ".

Earlier the same area, including Forteviot, had served as the population centre of the southern Picts.

Earlier documents dated at c. 1000 – 1004 show lands in this area known as Kyningesburg were granted by Wulfric, one of King Edward's ministers, to Elfhei, another Saxon nobleman.

Earlier maps and plans indicated that the Soviets would occupy an area that included the Potsdam-approved final Soviet Zone along with all of the 1937 German territory east of the Oder-Neisse Line.

Earlier in the decade, a 500-foot overrun area was added to the 10 end of this runway.

Earlier in the decade, Tryon residents had formed a Committee of Safety to provide security for the settlers in the area.

Earlier buildings in this area have individual designs, but the later builtings have a rectangular style.

Earlier maps of Gippsland area in the eastern part of the state show proposed counties of Douro ( a title of the Duke of Wellington ), Bass, Haddington, Bruce, Abinger, Combermere and Howe with approximate boundaries.

Earlier attractions were retrofitted for Fastpass by rerouting the queue area to allow a shorter line near the boarding area.

Earlier, those taking multiple-choice tests waited for a moment or two in the administration area to receive a printout of their results, which usually resulted in the exit area being crowded.

Earlier in the same battle ( 12th March ) he was hit by shrapnel or shell fragments while leading his men across an area known as Layes Brook but despite his wounds he refused to be evacuated and continued at the front, although heavily bandaged.

Earlier newspapers in the area included –

Earlier excavations had indicated Saxon burials in the area however it was not expected to make such a significant find.

# Earlier, there was only marshy land in the park area but after commissioning of the hydroelectric project two ecosystems have emerged ; one with water body covering one third area and the other the phumdis, which covers two thirds area.

Earlier in his career Mackey did significant work in the duality theory of locally convex spaces, which provided tools for subsequent work in this area, including Alexander Grothendieck's work on topological tensor products.

Earlier designations include " Playground of the Gulfcoast " and the " Miracle Strip ", especially for the area between Fort Walton Beach and Panama City.

Earlier in his United career, he had also worked as a bricklayer in the Barnsley area.

Earlier they had considered other names for the football stadium, the two other names which they considered were old place names from that area: Í Stópunum and Undir Brekkum.