Prior to 1782, with the exception of occasional failed colonization schemes, the Europeans ignored the vast Ouachita Valley, which extended from the area around Hot Springs, Arkansas southward towards the Mississippi River in Louisiana.

Prior to making his first major speaking appearance in the episode " Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub ", crew members referred to the character as " Puff Puff " and " Swanson ".

Prior to Nielsen SoundScan, year-end singles charts were calculated by an inverse-point system based solely on a song ’ s performance on the Hot 100 ( for example, a song would be given one point for a week spent at position 100, two points for a week spent at position ninety-nine and so forth, up to 100 points for each week spent at number one ).

Prior to these events, Thayer had worked with Kiss as a songwriter on their 1989 album Hot in the Shade and a session guitarist on the 1998 album Psycho Circus, and had assisted Frehley in re-learning his guitar parts to old Kiss songs for a reunion tour after the latter's long long hiatus from the band.

Prior to this, in the early 1970s, he worked as an A & R manager for Astor Records and played a significant role in making the Neil Diamond LP Hot August Night a major hit in Australia.

Prior to the legalisation of homosexuality in Ireland ( in the wake of the European Court of Human Rights ' decision in Norris v. Ireland ), the media was not allowed to promote it in a positive light ( although this prohibition was often ignored particularly by publications such as Hot Press and In Dublin ).

Prior to their relationship with Nintendo, Camelot was credited with the successful games Shining Force III for the Sega Saturn and Hot Shots Golf for the PlayStation.

Prior to the accident, he is said to have trained some of the best Autobots, including Springer, Sunstreaker, Sideswipe, Hot Rod and Optimus Prime himself.

Prior to December 5, 1998, the Hot 100 was solely compiled of songs that were commercially available.

Prior to its release, the song had already reached the top of the Hot Dance Music / Club Play chart along with " Holiday ".

Prior to his Hot 30 days, Phil worked at New FM in Newcastle.

Prior to the switch to Alternative rock, the station was known as " Hot 105 KCCQ " with a contemporary hit radio format.

Prior to Wolf Parade, DeCaro played in Hot Hot Heat.

Prior to 2005, after the top two cars were set, the top 14 cars in the qualifying races advanced to the field, and then between six ( 1998 – 2003 ), eight ( 1995 – 97, 2004 ), or ten ( until 1994 ) fastest cars which did not advance from the qualifying race were added, and, since 1976, between one and seven cars were added by previous year's points performance and or championship, except for 1985, when no such car was eligible for a provisional starting spot, the only time that happened in the Daytona 500 from when the provisional was added in 1976 through 2004.

Prior to the 2011 Christchurch earthquake on 22 February the Worchestor Street building continued to house Christchurch radio stations previously owned by Radio New Zealand and now owned by The Radio Network, stations included Newstalk ZB, Classic Hits 97. 7 and 91ZM.

Prior to becoming an MP he was a journalist for the Guardian from 1981 – 97, and was a councillor in Wandsworth from 1971 to 1982.

Prior to the 1996 – 97 season, Odelein was traded by the Canadiens to the New Jersey Devils for Stéphane Richer on August 22, 1996.

Prior to his NHL career, McCauley was named CHL Player of the Year for 1996 – 97 while a member of the Ottawa 67's.

* Karrer, Robert N. " The National Right to Life Committee: Its Founding, Its History, and the Emergence of the Pro-Life Movement Prior to Roe V. Wade ," Catholic Historical Review Volume 97, Number 3, July 2011 pp 527-557 in Project MUSE

Prior to the 1996 – 97 season, Schneider was a member of the 1996 World Cup champion Team USA squad.

Prior to the 1996 – 97 NHL season, he was named Vancouver full-time amateur scout, then was promoted to head European scout prior to the 1998 – 99 NHL season, remaining in that position into the 2006 – 07 NHL season.

Prior to 1954 I imagine that a majority of Southerners would have voted against the Confederacy.

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

Prior to 1960, in order to provide matching for the minimum ( base ) allotment, State funds had to equal 1954 State funds.

Prior to and since 1960 the rest of the support allotment is matched at rates related to the fiscal capacity of the State, with a pivot of 40% State ( or 60% Federal ) participation in total program costs.

Prior to World War 2, there was a higher percentage of endogamous marriages than after World War 2.

Prior to the featured race, the stewards announced that apprentice James P. Verrone is suspended ten days for crowding horses and crossing the field sharply in two races on Wednesday.

Prior to that he was associated with Long Island University in Brooklyn.

With the Prior Analytics, Aristotle is credited with the earliest study of formal logic, and his conception of it was the dominant form of Western logic until 19th century advances in mathematical logic.

Prior to Kennedy Center, it screened films in the auditorium of the National Gallery of Art.

Prior to meeting Mallowan, Christie had not had any extensive brushes with archaeology, but once the two married they made sure to only go to sites where they could work together.

Alastair Cook scored 189 and both Ian Bell and Matt Prior made centuries.

Prior to this, the monastery would be a mere priory, headed by a prior who acts as superior but without the same degree of legal authority that an abbot has.

Abbot Francis Michael and Prior Anthony Delisi ( on the left ) of Monastery of the Holy Spirit, a Trappist monastery in Conyers, Georgia, USA.

* Accreditation of Prior Learning ( UK ) refers to a reduction in the amount of study required to pass a degree, due to previous experience or study.

Prior to modern times, there was no distinction between architects, engineers and often artists, and the title used varied depending on geographical location.

# Prior to being drawn and enabled, one is unable to believe … able only to resist.

Prior to leaving Mahallat, Hasan Ali Shah equipped himself with letters appointing him to the governorship of Kerman.

Prior to the Akkadian period the progressive salinisation of the soils, produced by poorly drained irrigation, had been reducing yields of wheat in the southern part of the country, leading to the conversion to more salt-tolerant barley growing.

He wrote many commentaries on the works of Aristotle, extant are those on the Prior Analytics, Topics, Meteorology, Sense and Sensibilia, and Metaphysics.

* J. Barnes, S. Bobzien, K. Flannery, K. Ierodiakonou, 1991, Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Prior Analytics 1. 1-7.