Prior to that Essendon lost a hard fought grand final to Richmond in 1943 by 5 points, finished 3rd in 1944, and dropped to 8th in 1945.

Prior to 1945 it formed an important part of East Prussia.

Prior to the Potsdam Conference, during the Soviet winter 1945 offensive ( Vistula – Oder Offensive ) Red Army overrun Warmia, killing and raping local population, without any regards towards age nor ethnic origin.

Prior to this, between 1947 and 1998, it was the capital of the Bydgoszcz Voivodeship, and before that, of the Pomeranian Voivodeship between 1945 and 1947.

Prior to 1945, the facility had been owned by the United States Army Air Corps.

Prior to 1945, " Kimigayo " served as the national anthem of the Empire of Japan, however, when the Empire of Japan was dissolved following its surrender at the end of World War II, its parliamentary democracy successor state, the State of Japan, replaced it in 1945, the polity therefore changed from an absolute monarchy to a parliamentary democracy.

Prior to 1945, the town was part of Poland, Bohemia, Austria, Prussia and Germany.

Prior to 1945 it was in Germany.

Prior to 1945, the town was the centre of the German-speaking region known as Egerland, and was part of the Northern Austro-Bavarian dialect area.

Prior to 1945 it was in East Prussia.

Prior to August 1945, the Japanese Government had not seriously contemplated an Allied occupation of Japanese home islands, as they had assumed the Japanese people would fight to extinction rather than accept such terms.

Prior to the 1980s, there was debate over the circumstances of Globocnik's survival-some had speculated that his death in either early May or June 1945 at the hands of either partisans or a Jewish revenge squad.

Prior to 1945 it was in Germany.

Prior to 1945 it was in Germany.

Prior to 1945, Gubin was part of Guben in Germany.

Prior to 1945 it was in Germany.

Prior to this repair, the last known ringing of the bell with its clapper was at the end of World War II, in 1945, though it had since been rung several times by striking with a mallet.

Prior to 1945 ( the year Pius XII changed the form of ballot to use anonymous oaths, first carried out in 1958 ), when the ballots were of the more complex type illustrated above, the sealing wax which was used in those ballots had an effect in making the smoke from burning the ballots either black or white, depending on whether damp straw was added or not.

Prior to 1945 it was in Germany.

Prior to 1945, glengarries were generally worn steeply angled, with the right side of the cap worn low, often touching the ear, and the side with the capbadge higher on the head.

Prior to the 1945 renumbering, the route that became SR 50 had the following numbers:

Prior to the creation of the post of Chief Minister in 1964, Hassan had served as a member of the Gibraltar Executive Council ( 1950 – 64 ), as Mayor of Gibraltar ( 1945 – 1950, 1953 – 1969 ; until 1955 the name of the title was Chairman of the City Council ), and as the Chief Member of the Legislative Council ( 1950 – 64 ).

Prior to 1945, the territory of this constituency had been contained in the Horsham and Worthing seat.

It went underground in Vienna after 1945, but was contacted in 1958 by a former Waffen-SS lieutenant, Rudolf Mund, who became Prior of the Order in 1979.

Prior to 1942, automobiles were the individual responsibility of the agency to which assigned.

Prior to the December 1984 coup that brought Taya to power, the Mauritanian-Moroccan cooperation agency stated that relations between the two countries were on the mend in spite of alleged Moroccan complicity in a 1981 coup attempt and Mauritania's subsequent turn toward Algeria.

Prior to 1 July 2008, the agency was called the Environment and Heritage Service.

Prior to creating Garfield, Davis worked for a local advertising agency, and in 1969, he began assisting Tom Ryan's comic strip, Tumbleweeds.

Prior to the game's release, the publishers launched a web site purporting to be that of an intergalactic travel agency called Starlight Travel, which in the game is the Starship Titanic < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s parent company.

He also studied computer science at Brown and Stanford universities in the U. S. Prior to starting Gengo, Robert Laing headed UK-based design agency, Moresided.

Prior to 1991, Dr. Fabelo served in different capacities at the agency, including Director of Research and Deputy Director.

During the 2005 off-season, after Nomar Garciaparra left the Cubs via free agency, Prior was mentioned as part of a possible deal for Baltimore Orioles's shortstop Miguel Tejada, but this trade did not come to pass.

( Prior to Perdue's becoming governor, no state agency had even compiled an inventory of what assets the state owned, much less managed them.

Prior to 2003, the Border Patrol was part of the Immigration and Naturalization Service ( INS ), an agency that was within the U. S. Department of Justice.

Prior to the launch of the NAA, Charles Clarke, the then Secretary of State for Education and Skills stated that the separation of these two roles, made possible by the creation of the new agency, would decrease what was regarded by the government as conflicting responsibilities.

Prior to coming to Logo, Sherman was Senior Vice President and Group Account Director of the New York office of the Hill Holliday advertising agency.

Prior to joining the agency he was a director at the Department for Transport, responsible for the delivery of major rail investment projects including the Channel Tunnel Rail Link and Thameslink.

Prior to 1 April 2006 Training Group held British Government agency status, operating as the Training Group Defence Agency ( TGDA ).

Prior to joining CHEO, Munter was Chief Executive Officer of the Champlain Local Health Integration Network ( LHIN )- the provincial government agency responsible for planning, integrating and funding health services in the Ottawa Region with an annual budget of $ 2. 2 billion.

Prior to 2001, it was known as Bakin ( Badan Koordinasi Intelijen Negara-State Intelligence Coordinating Agency ); its name was changed as part of a general restructuring of the agency.

Prior to their work on the ads, neither Rufkahr nor Maugg had been an actor: Rufkahr worked for an advertising agency, while Maugg was a general contractor.

Prior to taking over as Acting Special Counsel, he had responsibility for managing the activities of the agency ’ s regional field offices, as well as responsibility for OSC ’ s Alternative Dispute Resolution Program.

Prior to the 2007 season, the Buffalo Bills signed Webster to a one-year deal in an attempt to fill the shoes of Nate Clements, who was lost to free agency.

Prior to the transaction, the agency was owned and run by Horst-Dieter Esch and Brad Krassner, who purchased 50 % from Esch in 1999.

Prior to joining the agency, Mendez was an artist ( worked as an illustrator and tool designer for Martin Marietta ) and now works on art full time.