Until around 1830 visitors considered Accrington to be just a " considerable village ".

Until 2007, Gate House held secretive first-year initiation ceremonies called Traditionals, which involved writing slogans on campus buildings in chalk, singing songs to the all-women's residence ( who would then sing back to them ), and leading first-years around the house blindfolded.

Until European settlement, the area around Gosford was occupied by the Guringai peoples, with the Guringai being principally coastal-dwellers.

Until around 1949, Eccles believed that synaptic transmission was primarily electrical rather than chemical.

Until the 1970s there were no more than a dozen such sites around the moor, usually in the most inaccessible locations.

Until the release of The Corporation ( 2003 ), made by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan, it was the most successful feature documentary in Canadian history, played theatrically in over 300 cities around the world ; won 22 awards ; appeared in more than 50 international film festivals ; and was broadcast in over 30 markets.

Until the invention of sub-diffraction microscopy, the wavelength of the light limited the resolution of traditional microscopy to around 0. 2 micrometers.

Until the 1970s, more than 120, 000 people sometimes crammed into the venue – the record crowd standing at around 130, 000 for a Billy Graham evangelistic crusade in 1959, followed by 121, 696 for the 1970 VFL Grand Final.

Until around 1800, nails were made by hand, and were provided by an artisan known as a nailer or nailor.

Until the early 20th century, these tribes had little contact with the Nama, Damara, and Herero, who settled around the central part of the country vying for control of sparse pastureland.

Until the late eighteenth century, the principal towns were on the east coast — Al Huwayla, Fuwayrit, and Al Bida — and the modern city of Doha developed around the largest of these, Al Bida.

Until then, a king who ruled by the grace of God had been the center around which everything turned.

Until around 1800, shoes were made without differentiation for the left or right foot.

Until the 13th century, the village farming communities were mainly on the northern plains around Anuradhapura and then Polonnaruwa, but they later shifted to the southwest.

Until its repeal, most extensions to copyright law were based around provisions found in the Statute of Anne.

Until the Florida Marlins arrived in 1993, Arlington Stadium was often the hottest stadium in the Majors, with temperatures frequently topping around 100 degrees throughout the months of summer.

Until recently, the regions surrounding Bucharest were largely rural, but after 1989, new suburbs started to be built around Bucharest, in the surrounding Ilfov county.

Until around 1600, the O ' Donnells were one of Ireland's richest and most powerful Gaelic ( native Irish ) ruling-families.

Until the advent of vinyl around the 1940s, most gramophone records were pressed from shellac compounds.

Until recently, fossil findings indicated that grasses evolved around 55 million years ago.

Until the late 1980s PRC used quotation marks around terms for all official ROC positions and organisations such as " President " and " government " to imply non-recognition, a practice that was reciprocated by the ROC.

Until around the turn of the millennium, the smooth newt was named Triturus vulgaris rather than Lissotriton vulgaris, and will be found under that name in most books and many websites ..

Until about 1930, there was only one building ( part of Bath Road Farm ) on the north side of Bath Road between The Magpies ( an area around and opposite the north exit of the recent Heathrow Road ), and Longford ; other buildings were built afterwards there before WWII, including two factories ( Technicolor and Penguin Books ).

Until the 1950s, Carpentersville consisted of a street grid along the Fox River centered around Main Street, which was the only highway bridge across the Fox River between Algonquin and Dundee.

Until the early Middle Ages the region around Weesp was an uninhabited peat bog.

Until 1999, GBC retransmitted BBC Prime, but was relaunched as a community-based service focusing on local news and other items of local interest.

Until 1999, the Gallipoli dawn service was held at the Ari Burnu war cemetery at Anzac Cove, but the growing numbers of attendees resulted in the construction of a more spacious site on North Beach, Gallipoli, known as the " Anzac Commemorative Site ".

Until 1999, these two families were not considered to be closely related.

Until 1999, there was a South East Standard Statistical Region, which also included the counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Greater London.

Until 1999, he was joined by Gene Sarazen, and until 2001, by Byron Nelson.

Until 1999 the islanders received US $ 180M for continued American use of Kwajalein atoll, US $ 250M in compensation for nuclear testing, and US $ 600M in other payments under the compact.

Until 1999, when the Butler County Veterans Highway was built, Hamilton was the second largest city in the United States without direct interstate access.

Until 1999, drum and bugle corps hornlines within DCI were required to be pitched in the key of G. That year, the DCI rules congress passed a rule change to allow " brass bell-front valve instruments in any key with the exception of sousaphones and trombones.

Until 1999, Metro ended service at midnight every night, and weekend service began at 8 AM.

Until 1999 it was in Gdańsk Voivodeship.

Until 1999 M & S's financial year ended on 31 March.

Until 1999, the Massachusetts State House displayed only portraits of influential male leaders of the state of Massachusetts.

Until 1999, standards required routers to forward such packets by default, but, in that year, the standard was changed to require the default to be not to forward.

Until 1999, the sheriff's office in Sandefjord was responsible for border control at Torp.

Until 1999, the Constitution mandated that no canton could have more than one representative on the Federal Council.

Until the 1999 breakaway of the National Republican Movement ( MNR ) led by Bruno Mégret, Jean-Marie Le Pen's success was partly explained by his unification of the various far right families ( such as Traditionalist Catholics, royalists, neofascists, etc.

Until 1998, the show was hosted by Stack, and during its brief 2-year run on CBS, co-hosted by Virginia Madsen in 1999.

Until 1999, it was believed to be non-volcanic ; that year, scientists operating from a nuclear submarine discovered active volcanos along it.

( Until taxonomic revision in 1999, Mannheimia spp.

Until 1999, the event consisted of a round-robin tournament of varying size.

Until winter 1999 services was operated by Flightline, using a single BAe 146-300.

Until 1999, there was a branch line connecting Strzelce Opolskie with Kędzierzyn Koźle.

Until 1999 the town was the capital of Suwałki Voivodeship.

Until 1999 the Sutherland management and committee areas consisted of seven out of the 72 Highland Council wards.