Prior to the American War of Independence, the only Regular Army unit in Bermuda was an Independent Company, based in St. George's.

Prior to this, the top rack had to be ring-shaped, to allow impeller water from the base of the unit to reach the top of the chamber unimpeded, and then fall back down onto the dishes from above.

Prior to the creation of the department, the area was not a natural unit, but much of it was commercially prosperous thanks to traditional industries such as salt and cognac production.

Prior to the expansion, ADC replaced the 473d Fighter Group with the 56th Fighter Wing, along with its 62d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, to Sawyer as the host unit.

Prior to the Normandy campaign, the 11th Hussars were removed from the Division and assigned as a Corps-level unit in accordance with Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery's view that all armoured car regiments would be assigned to Corps, not Divisions.

Prior to 1588, the " part " ( 1 / 16 ) was the smallest unit in the avoirdupois weight system.

Prior to 2007, a second military installation on the southwestern portion of the airport property was known as " General Mitchell Air Reserve Station " and was home to the 440th Airlift Wing ( 440 AW ), an Air Mobility Command ( AMC )- gained unit of the Air Force Reserve Command ( AFRC ) flying the C-130H Hercules.

Prior to 1956, the unit wore the traditional Australian Rising Sun Badge.

Prior to the establishment of the National Open Source Enterprise, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service ( FBIS ), established in 1941, was the government's primary open-source unit, transcribing and translating foreign broadcasts.

Prior to this there was no professional archaeological unit responsible for recording remains prior to destruction, though several individuals and volunteers did carry out important work.

Prior to Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms a work unit acted as the first step of a multi-tiered hierarchy linking each individual with the central Communist Party infrastructure.

Prior to this, the unit was widely used in much of the world and it is still in use for some purposes.

Prior to 1914, each unit ran its own canteen, mostly contracted out to private firms.

Prior to 1914 the basic Schutztruppe unit in Southeast Africa was the feldkompagnie comprising seven or eight German officers and NCOs with between 150 and 200 askaris ( usually 160 )-including two machine gun teams.

Prior to that, there had been an equality unit in the Cabinet Office and a Cabinet committee, which were continued under the leadership under the new minister.

Prior to 1991, it was not unusual for a USAF support group to have no subordinate squadrons, but merely be a larger unit than a squadron.

Prior to 2003, the award was a unit decoration of the United States Coast Guard.

Prior to the formation of the square, confusion had already broken out on the field when a unit of the Queen's Own Rifles mistook three companies of redcoat Hamilton 13th Battalion troop arriving to take positions, for British troops.

Prior to being named to head up Assa Abloy ’ s Global Tech Division, Mr. Grillo worked in the Identification Technology business unit, combining several disparate RFID and smart card businesses into one organization servicing several vertical markets with security based card, transponder and reader products.

Prior to the introduction of TOPS, electric multiple unit numbers were allocated by the British Rail regions in their own series.

Prior to the introduction of the FL9, all non-multiple unit New Haven passenger trains were hauled by electric locomotives between New York and New Haven, with a change to steam ( before 1950 ) or diesel at New Haven.

Prior to being in his current position, Miscavige had been a member of the Commodore's Messenger Organization and had been instrumental in the internal purge of the Guardian's Office, the former intelligence service and legal defense unit of the Scientology network.

Prior to his service as auxiliary bishop he had been the superior of his religious community's unit at the University of Notre Dame.

Prior to being assigned to the National Park Service, the canyon area formed the southmost unit of Alabama's DeSoto State Park.

Prior to the year 1878, all apostolic letters and briefs requiring for their validity the leaden seal were engrossed upon rough parchment and in Gothic characters ( round letters, also called Gallicum and commonly Bollatico, but in Italy today Teutonic ) without lines, or diphthongs, or marks of punctuation.

Prior to dividing by, one needs to check if there are stationary ( also called equilibrium )

Prior to that, the lifelong fan of the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers recorded a song called " The D-O-D-G-E-R-S Song ( Oh really?

Prior to 1986, the Australian banks organized a widespread uniform credit card, called Bankcard, which had been in existence since 1974.

Prior to the Crucifixion the Jews are called Israelites, the honorific title of God's chosen people ; after it, they are called " Ioudaioi ", Jews, a sign that through their rejection of the Christ the " kingdom of Heaven " has been taken away from them and given instead to the church.

Prior to the separation of the colony of Victoria from New South Wales in 1951, the area was called the Port Phillip District of New South Wales.

Prior to that his mother tutored him and he had learned, virtually by heart, a book called the Child's Guide to Knowledge, a popular book of the day — even as an adult he would quote from it.

Prior to this, a person prosecuted for misdemeanour was called a defendant.

Prior to World War I, the British explosives chemist Oswald Silberrad obtained British and U. S. patents for a series of plastic explosives called " Nitrols ", composed of nitrated aromatics, collodion, and oxidising inorganic salts.

Prior to 1973, Conservative Judaism had more limited roles for women and was more similar to current Modern Orthodoxy, with changes on issues including mixed seating, synagogue corporate leadership, and permitting women to be called to the Torah.

Prior and during the Kosovo War of 1999, Slovenian top government officials called repeatedly for Slobodan Milošević's compliance with NATO demands.

Prior to the release of The Wind Waker, a bonus disc called The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest was released, containing a port of Ocarina of Time and a GameCube-modified version of Ocarina of Time Ura.

Prior to the European foundation of the city, there was no established nation state, and the population instead consisted of some indigenous semi-nomad groups that are collectively called Chichimecas.

Prior to his character's appearance on The 11 O ' Clock Show, Baron Cohen had portrayed a similar character named MC Jocelyn Cheadle-Hume on a show he presented called F2F, which ran on a satellite channel called Talk TV ( owned by Granada Television ).

Prior to the adoption of the California Job Case, the capital letters were stored in a separate drawer or case that was located above the case that held the other letters ; this is why capital letters are called " upper case " characters while the non-capitals are " lower case ".

Prior instances of this scheme have been called the " Airplane Game " and the four tiers labelled as " captain ," " co-pilot ," " crew ," and " passenger " to denote a person's level.

Prior to the Central District being created in 1975 the area had historically been called Clackmannanshire and there was strong pressure to resurrect this title rather than hold to the rather bland title of " Central Region ".

Prior to joining the Our Gang comedies, " Sonny ," as he was called by his family, modeled children's clothing for a Dallas department store and was also seen around the Dallas area on highway billboards and in print advertisements for Wonder Bread.

Prior to the 19th century, light was believed to consist of discrete packets called corpuscles.

Prior to that, RIT's athletic teams were called the " Techmen " and had blue and silver as the sports colors.

Prior to the mid-1960s, software practitioners called themselves computer programmers or software developers, regardless of their actual jobs.

Prior to his association with Disney, Van Horn drew and wrote a black and white comic book called " Nervous Rex " for Blackthorne Publishing.

Prior to the Romans ' arrival, Haringey was part of a large area covering Essex and Middlesex which was home to a Celtic tribe called Trinobantes.