Earlier, Riesling was sometimes claimed to have originated from wild vines of the Rhine region, without much support to back up that claim.

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, the place was a thick jungle, where wild animals roamed making it impossible for anyone to live in.

Earlier than 1847, Irosin was a far inland valley unspoiled by human settlers and covered by vast forest expanse teeming with wild animals.

Earlier he would have caught glimpses in the east of a similar wild tract of marshy country which then covered the whole of the flat land between the Don and the Trent.

Earlier that day, Navratilova lost her women's doubles quarterfinal match against Chinese fourth seeds Yan Zi and Zheng Jie, also the eventual champions.

Earlier Mark Catesby saw it during his travels in Carolina, and after his return to England in 1726, imported seeds.

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 than 900 CE progressing past the 13th century, the population complexes were a major center of culture for the Ancient Pueblo Peoples.

Earlier still, racquets were made of wood.

Earlier in the history of chemistry substances were given name by their discoverer, which often led to some confusion and difficulty.

Earlier French demands for the country to hold a National Conference resulted in the gathering of 750 delegates representing political parties ( which were legalized in 1992 ), the government, trade unions and the army to discuss the creation of a pluralist democratic regime.

Earlier censuses were taken in 1872 ( the first ), 1900, 1920, 1941, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1991, 2000 and 2010.

Earlier censuses were taken in 1869, 1880, 1890, 1900, 1910, 1921, 1930, 1950, 1961, 1970, 1980, 1991 and 2001.

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

Earlier, such terms were introduced in the Maxwell – Stefan diffusion equation.

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

Earlier sanctuaries, whose dedication to Hera is less secure, were of the Mycenaean type called " house sanctuaries ".

Earlier, in the 1920s, there were records by a band called the Beverly Hillbillies.

Earlier Khoisan populations were absorbed by Bantu peoples, such as the Sotho and Nguni, but the Bantu expansion stopped at the region with winter rainfall.

Earlier buildings were made of wood and were destroyed.

Earlier meetings of groups that later formed the Republican Party were held in Ripon, Wisconsin ; Exeter, New Hampshire ; and Crawfordsville, Iowa, and all four cities bill themselves as the " Birthplace of the Republican Party.

Earlier curved sword designs similar to the katana were used in China such as the Zhanmadao.

Earlier definitions were less precise, defining molecules as the smallest particles of pure chemical substances that still retain their composition and chemical properties.

Earlier fleets were obtained from Europe and China, but a trade embargo has forced North Korea to build their own vehicles.

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 androids were easier to detect because of their limited intelligence.

Earlier CD-i games included entries in popular Nintendo franchises, although those games were not developed by Nintendo.

Earlier modes were telegraphy ( Morse Code ), teleprinter ( Baudot ) and facsimile.

Earlier rendering algorithms, such as Whitted-style ray tracing were capable of computing effects such as reflections, refractions, and shadows, but despite being highly global phenomena, these effects were not commonly referred to as " global illumination.

Earlier packages of Duke Nukem 3D also included the complete versions of Duke Nukem I and II as a bonus.

Earlier versions also offer Unison / Couple Mode, in which two players must cooperate to play the song.

Earlier Indian epics such as Vyasa's Mahabharata and Valmiki's Ramayana also contained fables within the main story, often as side stories or back-story.

Earlier versions also ran on the i860, Alpha, MIPS, Fairchild Clipper, and PowerPC architectures.

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 ( I. i ), Boniface VIII is also mentioned for his role in sending Charles of Valois to Florence in 1300 to end the feud between the Black and White Guelphs.

Earlier in the novel Simon himself also predicts his own death when he tells Ralph that he will " get back all right ", implying that, of the two of them, only Ralph will be saved.

Earlier treatments may be found in history of religion and belief in magic power of spells, also later in monotheistic religions, such as in the works of some church fathers, following much cited New Testament ideas like ζάω γάρ ὁ λόγος ὁ θεός καί ἐνεργής ( Hebrews 4: 12 ) in turn based on much cited Old Testament ideas like כן יהיה דברי אשר יצא מפי לא ־ ישוב אלי ריקם כי אם ־ עשה את ־ אשר חפצתי והצליח אשר שלחתיו ׃ ( Isaiah 55: 11 ).

Earlier meetings with the Rising Sons had also secured them the guitar and arranging skills of Ry Cooder, which also brought about input from Taj Mahal on percussion and guitar work from Cooder's brother-in-law Russ Titelman.

Earlier display adapters were simple frame-buffers, but later display standards also specified a more extensive set of display functions and software controlled interface.

* Earlier stage productions of the film include Toxic Avenger: The Musikill, with lyrics by Ira Kortum, who also directed and starred in the production, which premiered in Portland, Oregon.

Earlier, pre-Prohibition, Boswell also boasted its own brewery.

Earlier newspapers for the community were the weekly Suburban Times ( 1970s ), published by Dave Sclair ( who, starting in 1970, also published Western Flyer ); and, in the 1980s, the Lakewood Press, published by Grace T. Eubanks and later Dane S. Claussen, which launched the University Place Press as a monthly and then biweekly before it folded in early 1989.

Earlier 10th through 12th century sources refer to " long swords " that while a common medieval term or orthography for naginata, could also simply be referring to conventional swords ; one source describes a naginata being drawn with the verb nuku, commonly associated with swords, rather than hazusu, the verb otherwise used in medieval texts for unsheathing naginata.

Earlier, Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn also suffered ( but survived ) ricin-like symptoms after a 1971 encounter with KGB agents.

Earlier versions of ISO 13250 ( than the current revision ) also exist.

Earlier editions of ISO 732 also provided international standards for the now-obsolete 127 and 620 film formats.

Earlier in the 20th century, the organization was known as JETEC, the Joint Electron Tube Engineering Council, and was responsible for assigning and coordinating RETMA tube designations to electron tubes ( also called valves ).

Earlier in 1993, for Midge's 30th anniversary, a Midge reproduction doll was also produced, but she did not possess a reproduction of her original swimsuit or the original box.

Earlier work on the A-0 through A-2 compilers led to the development of the first English-language business data processing compiler, B-0 ( FLOW-MATIC ), also completed in 1957.

Earlier issues featuring Big Ethel show her bearing a strong resemblance to Jughead, also, with her prominent nose, dark hair, and angular build.

Earlier work by the Irish physician Robert Bentley Todd ( 1847 ), Ernest Horn, and Moritz Heinrich Romberg ( 1851 ) had described Tabes dorsalis and noted atrophy of the spinal cord, but in an important paper, Gull also stressed the involvement of the posterior column in paraplegia with sensory ataxia.