Earlier in 2006, he won his first ATP singles title, beating Christophe Rochus in Rotterdam, but he had yet to progress beyond the third round of a Grand Slam tournament until he got into the quarter-finals at Wimbledon, where he was eliminated by 34-year-old Jonas Björkman, after holding match point at 7 – 6 in the 4th-set tie-break.

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 computations indicated that a nondisruptive mass loss would be possible in some cases, but later star modeling taking neutrino energy loss into account indicates no such mass loss.

Earlier devices, known as ear trumpets or ear horns, were passive funnel-like amplification cones designed to gather sound energy and direct it into the ear canal.

Earlier, New Scientist reported on research by a team at the University of Oxford seeking to link dark energy and the aether to resolve a problem with gravity and mass.

Earlier, and at age 21 in 1952, Boucher was the instigator and one of two key people from the preservation / conservation field responsible for the preservation of New Jersey Wharton Forest, home to three major historic iron furnace villages that served the American Revolution, twenty four species of wild orchids, the habitat of the rare " Pine Barrens Tree Frog ," and a canoeing and hunting retreat.

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 in the year, Alison Wakefield married Kevin Webster after discovering she was pregnant with his child.

Earlier papers referred to calreticulin as an Ro / SS-A antigen, but this was later disproven.

Earlier Berkeley studies estimated that by the end of 1999, the sum of human-produced information ( including all audio, video recordings and text / books ) was about 12 exabytes of data.

Earlier in December 2005, the European Commission initiated the second stage of infringement proceedings against the British Government relating to Gibraltar ’ s failure to transpose five European Union directives on electronic communications, but these were closed after the relevant legislation was passed into law by the House of Assembly in June 2006.

Earlier, IPsec was an integral part of the base IPv6 protocol suite, but has since been made optional.

Earlier writings only mention either bishops or presbyters, and give the impression that there was usually more than one bishop per congregation.

Earlier, in 1780, after the death of Ranjit Deo, the Raja of Jammu, the kingdom of Jammu ( to the south of the Kashmir valley ) was also captured by the Sikhs and afterwards, until 1846, became a tributary to the Sikh power.

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 in England in 1958 the term " Pop Art " was used by Lawrence Alloway to describe paintings that celebrated consumerism of the post World War II era.

Earlier it was stated that, " if plasma is pushed hard enough, it generates electric fields which allow it to move in response to the push, often ( not always ) deforming the magnetic field in the process.

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, it was common for that part to be sung by any female voice, or even a castrato.

Earlier it was thought to be more massive ( up to 380 Earth masses ),

Earlier descriptions of the species placed it within the genus Columba, but it was transferred to a monotypic genus due to the greater length of the tail and wings.

Earlier in the decade, Congo's major employer was the state bureaucracy, which had a payroll of 80, 000, which is enormous for a country of Congo's size.

Earlier, there was a strong romantic nationalist element mixed with Enlightenment rationalism in the rhetoric used in British North America, in the colonists ' Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution of 1787, as well as the rhetoric in the wave of revolts, inspired by new senses of localized identities, which swept the American colonies of Spain, one after the other, from 1811.

Earlier Christians fighting the Moors, such as Pelayo, could plausibly be described as natives opposing foreign invasion and conquest ; however, by the time most parts of Muslim Iberia were ( re ) conquered by Christian forces, the Muslim population there was centuries old, and much of it undoubtedly composed of converted Iberians rather than migrants from other Muslim lands.

Earlier, the river was designated kisiskāciwani-sīpiy (" swift flowing river ") in the Cree language.

Earlier it was providing triple play services to free zones areas under the name Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company ( EITC ) ( Which is still its legal name ).

Earlier dukes had been illegitimate, and William's association with his father on ducal charters appears to indicate that William was considered Robert's most likely heir.

Earlier Cray designs at CDC had included separate computers dedicated to this task, but this was no longer needed.

Earlier in his career, Smale was involved in controversy over remarks he made regarding his work habits while proving the higher dimensional Poincaré conjecture.

Earlier in that same dynasty, a similar attack on Hatshepsut was carried out.

Earlier that year, she starred in HouseSitter, a screwball comedy with Steve Martin, which was a commercial and critical success.

Earlier still, racquets were made of wood.

Earlier in the 20th century, taller retaining walls were often gravity walls made from large masses of concrete or stone.

Earlier buildings were made of wood and were destroyed.

Earlier observations had been made by Roger Bacon who recognized the visible spectrum in a glass of water, four centuries before Newton discovered that prisms could disassemble and reassemble white light.

Earlier he had married the European-educated cousin of the chogyal ( king ) of Sikkim and with her support made continual efforts to modernize his nation throughout his twenty-year reign.

Earlier restaurants were known for their Cape Cod-style buildings, blue roofs, small steeples, and nautically-themed decorations such as seats made to look like nautical flags.

Earlier attempts to storm Riga had been made in December 1699.

Earlier in the documentary, Lopes mentioned that she felt the presence of a " spirit " following her, and was struck by the fact that the child killed in the accident shared her last name, even thinking that the spirit may have made a mistake by taking his life instead of hers.

Earlier that same year, in February, Brin was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering, which is " among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer ... honors those who have made outstanding contributions to engineering research, practice ...".

Earlier research conducted by CIMMYT made use of a chemical hybridising agent to evaluate heterosis in hexaploid triticale hybrids.

Earlier an independent municipality, it was made part of Helsinki in 1946.

Earlier, in 1976, a Special Award was made to Scott Joplin in his centennial year.

Earlier in the year Parsons had released Safe at Home ( although the principal recording for the album had taken place in mid-1967 ) with the International Submarine Band, which made extensive use of pedal steel and is seen by some as the first true country-rock album.

Earlier live action films to use the new Technicolor process include the final musical number in the feature The Cat and the Fiddle released by MGM in February 1934, and in short sequences filmed for other movies made during 1934, including The House of Rothschild ( 20th Century Pictures / United Artists ) with George Arliss and Kid Millions ( Samuel Goldwyn / United Artists ) with Eddie Cantor.

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 attempts at the formation of a central secretariat had been made and failed.

Earlier in the same year he was made physicien ( physicist ) at the imperial observatory at Paris.

Earlier comments Schreyer had made describing homosexuality as an " affliction " were raised by his electoral opponents in the campaign, as the NDP by that time supported same-sex marriage.

Earlier calculators stored programs on magnetic cards and the like ; increased memory capacity has made storage on the calculator the most common implementation.

Earlier, Germany had proposed that Poland join the Anti-Comintern Pact and previous attempts were made by Germany to create an extraterritorial highway connecting Germany proper with Danzig and then East Prussia.

Earlier ( c. 1772 ), he also invented windmill ' Spring sails ', which replaced the simple canvas designs previously used with sails made from a series of shutters that could be operated by levers, allowing windmill sails to be quickly and safely controlled in the event of a storm.

Earlier paddles were often made of wood and then later with a heavy metal shaft and poly-synthetic blades.