Prior to forming and commanding the Xiang Army, Zeng Guofan had no military experience.

Prior to the 19th century the area now forming the Borough was practically unoccupied: very few of the present settlements were mentioned in the Domesday Book, although the village of Bexley has a charter dated 814CE.

Prior to the 1900s, most barns were timber framed ( also known as post and beam ) forming very strong structures to withstand storms and heavy loads of animal feed.

Prior to forming The Offspring, Kriesel was also on the track and field team at Pacifica High School in Garden Grove, California, along with bandmate Holland, and was also in the Math Club.

Prior to the Minnesota Thunder forming in 1990 Minnesota had two former professional soccer teams.

Prior attempts at forming an air force for Canada were the Canadian Aviation Corps that was attached to the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and a two-squadron Canadian Air Force that was attached to the Royal Air Force.

Prior to the modern independent political movement, many citizens of Quebec decided to express their dissatisfaction with federal elections by forming the Rhinoceros Party of Canada.

Prior to going to sleep, some species extrude mucus from their mouths, forming a protective cocoon that envelops the fish, presumably hiding its scent from potential predators.

Prior to forming part of the City of Kingston, Aspendale was part of the City of Chelsea and, before that, the Shire of Carrum.

Prior to forming the band, Masucci had music in two films by Hal Hartley, Flirt and The Book of Life.

Prior to forming Shrapnel Records, Mike Varney played extensively with the pre-punk San Francisco band, The Nuns.

Prior to the Lesotho general election, 2012 the party split again with incumbent Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili forming the Democratic Congress and General Secretary Mothetjoa Metsing taking over the party leadership.

Prior to forming the Personal Choice Party, Larsen was known as a political activist and frequent candidate for numerous political offices in Utah under the ballot lines of several minor parties including the Libertarian Party and the Independent American Party.

Prior to forming Drive Like Jehu, vocalist Rick Froberg and guitarist John Reis had played together in Pitchfork from 1986 to 1990.

Prior to forming, guitarist Chris Weber was introduced to Lafayette native Izzy Stradlin, in the parking lot of the Rainbow Bar and Grill, by friend Tracii Guns, who was leading the first incarnation of L. A.

Prior to 1982, BBC Cymru Wales on television provided programmes in both English and Welsh, with the news programme Heddiw and Pobol y Cwm forming the bulk of the latter programming.

Prior to forming the Medium Productions label, Jansen & Barbieri released music as The Dolphin Brothers (" Catch the Fall ", 1987, EMI / Virgin ), and simply as Jansen & Barbieri (" Stories Across Borders ", 1991, Virgin ).

Prior leaking of dacite dried, forming smaller landforms like Mount Conard and Diamond Peak.

Prior to its closure the hall had become a meeting place for local artists, poets, folk musicians, and sculptors, including Arthur Dooley, Roger McGough, and Adrian Henri, forming what became known as the Liverpool Scene.

Prior to forming Eton Park in 2004, Mindich spent 15 years at Goldman Sachs in two main roles: leading the firm ’ s equities risk arbitrage business and managing the firm ’ s equities division.

Prior to forming Tooth & Nail, Ebel worked for the Christian label Frontline.

Prior to forming the sloppy meateaters, Josh Chambers had a punk band called NoClass with whom he released a few 7 " records and a split CD with Atlanta punk legends the Tone Deaf Pig-Dogs.

Prior to the release of their first LP, Vinnie Paz had conceived the idea of forming a rotating, collaborative super-group of underground East Coast artists called the Army of the Pharaohs ( AotP ).

Prior to forming Redbone the brothers had some initial success as songwriters.

Prior to forming Redbone, Pat and Lolly Vasquez released an album in the mid 1960s entitled Pat & Lolly Vegas at the Haunted House ( Mercury MG 21059 / SR 61059 ).

Prior to the 1995 season, the Rockies acquired free-agent outfielder Larry Walker, previously of the Montreal Expos, who replaced Kingery as the 4th member of the " Blake Street Bombers "— named after the street on which the new ballpark ( Coors Field ) was located — along with Galarraga, Bichette, and third baseman Vinny Castilla, who had played sparingly with the major-league club during the previous season.

In this period Smith's contact with William Blake at Crewkerne was significant: Blake put him in touch with John Prior Estlin at Lewin's Mead.

Prior to the 2010 – 11 season, he was chosen to replace the retiring Rob Blake as the eighth captain in team history on October 7, 2010.

Prior to Paris Blake served in Managua, Nicaragua, Moscow, Russia, Tokyo, Japan, Tunis, Tunisia, and as Deputy Chief of Mission in Kinshasa.

Prior to beginning his solo career, he was based in Victoria working with various artists, including Blake Emmons.

Blake's musical publications include Sweet fields of Eden: for the Sabbath School, with J. H. Tenney and Aldine S. Kieffer ( Dayton, VA, 1882 ); Sabbath Bells: for the Sunday School, and for prayer, praise, and gospel meetings, with A. J. Showalter, B. F. Nysewander and Charles E. Prior ( Dayton, VA, 1884 ); and The Royal Proclamation, edited by Aldine S. Kieffer and Blake ( Dayton, VA, 1886 ).

Prior to Doctor Who he appeared in numerous TV shows including, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Ivanhoe, Dial 999, Danger Man, Maigret, Compact, The Third Man, Crane, Detective, Sherlock Holmes, No Hiding Place, The Saint, Armchair Theatre, The Wednesday Play, Z-Cars, Adam Adamant Lives!

Woden ’ s Barrow is a tumulus, now called Adam ’ s Grave, at Alton Prior, Wiltshire.

Prior to the signing, the Ducks made two key acquisitions, signing playmaking centre Adam Oates to a one-year deal and trading for winger Petr Sykora from the New Jersey Devils.

Prior to the recording process, singer Gene Adam was let go from the band after he refused to take singing lessons.

Prior to the Big Bang, Adam was part of his brother's gang before he took a stock-clerk job at a music store called Stonegas Records.

" Prior to Burton's involvement, Warner Bros. considered or discussed Willy Wonka with Nicolas Cage, Jim Carrey, Michael Keaton, Brad Pitt, Will Smith and Adam Sandler.

In all, 216 were put to death ; lords and knights, half a dozen abbots, 38 monks, and 16 parish priests, including: Sir Thomas Percy, Sir Stephen Hamerton, Sir William Lumley, Sir John Constable, Sir William Constable, Adam Sedbar, Abbot of Jervaulx, William Trafford, Abbot of Sawley, Matthew Mackarel, Abbot of Barlings and Bishop of Chalcedon, William Thirsk, Abbot of Fountains and the Prior of Bridlington were all executed and hanged at Tyburn between June and July 1537.

The National Team featured many MLB players like Mark McGwire, Nomar Garciaparra, Troy Glaus, Mark Prior, Jason Giambi, and Adam Everett.

Guests included Kim Prior ( as vocals ), Adam Buhler ( on guitar ), Candy Sherlock and Lara Radford ( as violinists ).

Prior to that, he was known by one of his territorial designations, Adam Hepburn of Crags, under which he drew up his Testament.

Elections of successive Herrenmeister ( including a Roman Catholic, Adam von Schwarzenberg, in 1641 ) were announced to the Grand Prior of Germany in the Roman Catholic Order of Malta and, in accordance with the requests from the governing authorities of the Order of Malta, responsions ( periodic remittances from revenues ) were paid to the Grand Priory.

Prior to its bestowal upon Prince Adam, the Sword of Power was also stored in the depths of the Crystal Chamber.

Prior to joining Carol Burnett, Waggoner was a finalist for the title role in the TV series version of Batman, but lost the role to comic book buff and veteran actor Adam West.

Prior to making Germon captain Turner assessed Germon's wicket keeping abilities consulting with former New Zealand wicketkeepers Barry Milburn and Ian Smith who both considered Germon to be the best the wicketkeeper in New Zealand at that time, former New Zealand captain and then senior squad member Martin Crowe also stated to Turner that he thought Germon as better with the gloves than incumbent wicket keeper Adam Parore.