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

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 its proclamation as a British settlement in 1836, the area around Adelaide was inhabited by the indigenous Kaurna Aboriginal nation ( pronounced " Garner " or " Gowna ").

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 his death, according to the Book of Jubilees, Amram was among those who went to Egypt and recovered the bones of the sons of his grandfather and great uncles ( excluding those of Joseph which had already been brought to Canaan ), so that they could be reburied in the cave of Machpelah.

Prior to the First Buddhist Council, it was proposed that Ananda not be permitted to attend on the grounds that he was not yet an arahant.

Prior to the 1950s, Alberta was a primarily agricultural economy, based on the export of wheat, beef, and a few other commodities.

Prior to creating the Asterix series, Goscinny and Uderzo had previously had success with their series Oumpah-pah, which was published in the Tintin magazine.

Prior to the Revolution, New Englanders consumed large quantities of rum and beer, as maritime trade provided them relatively easy access to the goods needed to produce these items: Rum was the distilled spirit of choice, as the main ingredient, molasses, was readily available from trade with the West Indies.

Prior to the emergence of the term Mizrahi, the term " Arab Jews " was sometimes used to describe Jews of the Arab world.

Prior to this definition, it was used by Persian-speakers ( and others influenced by Persian ) to denote the Pashtun people.

Prior to the tunnel being built, the LIRR's western terminus was Atlantic Street at Clinton Street.

Prior to burial in the Panthéon, the body of Victor Hugo was exposed under the Arc during the night of 22 May 1885.

Prior to the controversy surrounding Agent Orange, there was already a large body of scientific evidence linking 2, 4, 5-T to serious negative health effects and ecological damage.

Prior to 1991 the law was stricter, when changes more clearly defined which businesses were exempt such as pharmacies, hospitals, and restaurants.

Prior to the release of the VHS Volumes, a laserdisc titled Beavis and Butt-Head: The Essential Collection was issued in 1994, containing sixteen episodes from the second and third seasons.

Prior to 1969, the National League champion ( the " pennant winner ") was determined by the best win-loss record at the end of the regular season.

Prior to 1931, as soon as the first necessary run to win the game scored, the play was over, and the batter was credited only with the number of bases needed to drive in the winning run.

Prior to the South African tour, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and a planned tour of Germany in the fall of 1980 was canceled.

Prior to the 1963 Act, it was chaired by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker of the House of Commons.

Prior to Islam the Kaaba of Mecca was covered in symbols representing the myriad demons, djinn, demigods, or simply tribal gods and other assorted deities which represented the polytheistic culture of pre-Islamic Arabia.

Prior to its creation as the Territory of the Saar Basin by the League of Nations after World War I, the Saarland ( or simply " the Saar ", as is frequently referred to ) did not exist as a unified entity.

Prior to 1975, and occasionally in more recent work, Post Keynesian could simply mean economics carried out after 1936, the date of Keynes's The General Theory.

Prior to their encounter with Europeans, the Guaraní referred to themselves simply as Abá, meaning " men " or " people.

Prior to the name change from Écore Fabre to Camden, the location was simply known as " The Bluff ".

Prior to this date, the government had had a policy of simply leasing property for its military installations.

Prior to the Nag Hammadi library discovery, the sayings of Jesus found in Oxyrhynchus were known simply as Logia Iesu.

The Order is under the supervision of a Prior General in Rome, and as an international Order they are divided into various Provinces throughout the world, with each Province being led by a Prior Provincial ; ( 3 ) As an Order, they have a special commitment to corporate poverty as opposed to simply the poverty professed by the individual friar.

Prior to that, food production was expanded by simply cultivating new areas rather than through technical improvements in production methods, which was possible only because of China's vast size.

Prior to this, stage and movie credits used phrases such as " ensembles staged by " " dances staged by " or simply " dances by " to denote the choreographer.

Prior to the introduction of Schräge Musik in 1943, the Nachtjagdgeschwadern ( NJG, night fighter wings ) were simply equipped with heavy fighters fitted with radar in the nose and a combination of front-firing and defensive weapons.

Prior to this, the integration between sequencing and synthesis was generally a manual function based on wiring of components in large modular synthesizers, and the storage of notes was simply based on potentiometer settings in an analog sequencer.

Prior to 1944, Chams were often called by Greek sources Albanophones ( Greek: Αλβανόφωνοι ), or simply Albanians of Epirus.

Prior to issue 20, Weekly Shōnen Jump was originally called simply Shōnen Jump as it was originally a semi-weekly magazine.

Prior to this period, ligatures were far less standardized ; a quaternaria ligature that, under the above rules, would mean a series like SSLB would simply mean BBBB.

Prior references list it simply as " Cliptone " in 1086 AD and " Cliftun ultra Tamedan " in 934 AD.

Prior to surgery, transsexual men and women are often referred to as pre-operative ( pre-op ); those who have already had the surgery may be referred to as post-operative ( post-op ) or simply identified as members of the sex to which they have transitioned.

Prior to this, he had simply been known as " the little blue thing.

Prior to 1967, both states were known in short form simply as " Yemen.

Prior to the season, FCK was seen as a dark horse for a place in the UEFA Cup, but Rehhagel's team simply steamrollered the opposition.

Prior to reconstruction, the interior was far more intricate, but today the walls are simply white, much of the detail, artistry, and color taken out.

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 to the opening of the Taipei Metro lines at the station in 1997, the region was simply known as " Taipei Station " or " Taipei Railway Station ".