Until recently, androids have largely remained within the domain of science fiction, frequently seen in film and television.

Until the 1960s, the predominant forms of music played on the flat-top, steel-string guitar remained relatively stable and included acoustic blues, country, bluegrass, folk, and several genres of rock.

Until Henry's time, Cape Bojador remained the most southerly point known to Europeans on the unpromising desert coast of Africa, although the Periplus of the Carthaginian Hanno the Navigator described a journey farther south about 2, 000 years earlier.

Until 2000, KornShell remained AT & T ′ s proprietary software.

Until 1945, however, the labour movement remained weak, impeded by lack of legal rights, anti-union legislation, management-organized factory councils, and political divisions between “ cooperative ” and radical unionists.

Until the Renaissance, navigational technology remained comparatively primitive.

Until 1948 it remained owned by Munn & Company.

Until after Wilde's death his name remained disgraced and few discussed, let alone performed, his work.

Until its final dissolution in 1806 the House of Habsburg remained the ruling dynasty.

Until 1060 the kings of Uppsala ruled most of modern Sweden except the southern and western coastal regions, which remained under Danish rule until the 17th century.

Until the 1224 AD / CE, however, there remained a strong Muslim segment of society.

Until the 10th century, Coptic remained the spoken language of the native population outside the capital.

Until 1998, the leadership of Aryan Nations remained firmly in the hands of Richard Girnt Butler.

Until the mid 1990s, Yangon remained largely constrained to its traditional peninsula setting between the Bago, Yangon and Hlaing rivers.

Until 1848 he remained on friendly terms with the German communists, occasionally calling himself a communist and writing articles on communism in the Schweitzerische Republikaner.

Until the 20th century he remained the major inspiration for such classically oriented artists as Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Paul Cézanne.

Until recently, cassettes remained the dominant medium for purchasing and listening to music in some developing countries.

Until the English army came into view the invaders remained unaware of the presence of a hostile army anywhere in the vicinity.

Until 1985, when the first of twenty-four Saab 35 Draken were delivered, the country had remained essentially without the capacity to contest violations of its airspace.

Until 1936, Belgium remained allied to France and the United Kingdom.

Until the era of the Byzantine Empire, the interior of the enclosure remained exposed to the sky.

Until after the defeat of Cannae it remained faithful to Rome, but, after a vain demand that one of the consuls should always be selected from it or perhaps in order to secure regional supremacy in the event of a Carthaginian victory, it defected to Hannibal, who made it his winter quarters: he and his army were voluntarily received by Capua.

Until the late nineteenth century many Alpine valleys remained mainly shaped by agrarian and pastoral activities.

Until the early modern period, the two remained separate cities: Clermont, an episcopal city ; Montferrand, a comital one.

Until 1970, no woman had been named a doctor in the church, but since then three additions to the list have been women: Saints Teresa of Ávila ( St. Teresa of Jesus ), Catherine of Siena by Pope Paul VI, and Thérèse de Lisieux ( St. Therese of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face ), " the Little Flower " by Pope John Paul II.

Until the Euro-crisis, profits from the bank financed the Palio di Siena, Siena's historic-building renovations and " biotech programs intended to turn the Tuscan plain into a research hub.

Until the 17th century, art referred to any skill or mastery and was not differentiated from crafts or sciences, but in modern usage the fine arts, where aesthetic considerations are paramount, are distinguished from acquired skills in general, and the decorative or applied arts.

Until recently, photovoltaics were most commonly used in remote sites where there is no access to a commercial power grid, or as a supplemental electricity source for individual homes and businesses.

Until his retirement in late 2010 he was a professor at Xiamen University, where he taught theoretical physics and computer science, and ran the Artificial Brain lab.

Until 1963 when the line was closed, Terrier steam locomotives pulled carriages along the Hayling Billy line from Havant station on the mainland to a station which was located at the northern end of Staunton Avenue, passing through Langstone where there was a Halt.

Until 1987 New South Wales had twenty peremptory challenges for each side where the offence was murder, and eight for all other cases.

Until 1923 when he was 10, Barbie, a shy and quiet youth, went to the local school where his father taught.

Until the age of six, Dunst lived in Brick Township, New Jersey, where she attended Ranney School.

Until recently it was also common practice for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 to repeat classic shows from their archives, but this has more or less dried up in favor of newer ( and cheaper ) formats like reality shows, except on the BBC where older BBC shows, especially sitcoms like Dad's Army and Fawlty Towers, are frequently repeated.

Until the Orioles ' move to Camden Yards in 1991, a flag labeled " HERE " was flown at the spot where the ball left the stadium.

Until the last century the city was distinguished into three different groups: the walled city where the castle stood, and that was identified with the ancient acropolis greek-Roman urban center, the Village or the Upper Town on the hill slope and the New Town, plain.

Until 1964, offending boys could be summoned to the Head Master or the Lower Master, as appropriate, to receive a birching on the bare posterior, in a semi-public ceremony held in the Library, where there was a special wooden birching block over which the offender was held.

Until today Germany is the country where the most radio dramas are produced and listened to.

Until 1992, it was assumed that the rare, later ( younger ) banded iron deposits represented unusual conditions where oxygen was depleted locally, and iron-rich waters could form and then come into contact with oxygenated water.

Until the 15th century, the funeral service for a deceased doge would normally be held at St Mark's Basilica, where some early holders of this office are also buried.

Until 2008, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne were the only departments where the Communist Party had a majority in the general councils but the 2008 cantonal elections saw the socialists become the strongest group at the Seine-Saint-Denis general council ( while the Communist Party gained a majority in Allier ).

Until a courthouse was built, the county business was conducted at Hazelwood where Joseph W. McClurg, later Governor of Missouri, operated a general store.

Until the 1980s and before the Fuzhou influx, what is now the western section of Chinatown or known as the Old Chinatown of Manhattan was the original size of Manhattan's Chinatown with The Bowery at the time serving as the original eastern borderline of Chinatown and this was where the Chinese population mostly concentrated on the Lower East Side, mostly the Cantonese.

Until 1874, the settlement where present day Carmel now sits was called Bethlehem.

Until 1874 congresses where held in the tavern ' de Pynas '.

Until that time, the city had simply been known as Campground because this forested site was where pioneers often stopped to spend the night and compose themselves before moving on to Portland and the Willamette Valley.

Until 1984, the festivities took place in Paulo de Lima park, in the center of Barretos, where memorable expositions of cattle took place during the 60s through the 80s.

Until 31 March 1942, " Salzgitter " was the name of a town where the borough Salzgitter-Bad now is.

Until 1964 the Derwent was crossed by the unique Hobart Bridge, a floating concrete structure just upstream from where the Tasman Bridge now stands.

Until the Umayyad era, those markets were only an open space where the merchants would bring in their movable stands during the day and remove them during the night ; no one had a specific right to a spot in the market and it was usually first-come first-serve.