Until recent years, few people without some genuine claim to fame wrote or published autobiographies for the general public.

Until recent years the Air Force suffered somewhat from fuel shortages ; a problem which was overcome in 2008.

Until fairly recent times, there has been a remarkable homogeneity in the culture throughout this area, which traditionally relied on fish, sea mammals, and land animals for food, heat, light, clothing and tools.

Until recently, the Preclassic was regarded as a formative period, consisting of small villages of farmers who lived in huts and few permanent buildings, but this notion has been challenged by recent discoveries of monumental architecture from that period, such as an altar in La Blanca, San Marcos, from 1000 BC ; ceremonial sites at Miraflores and El Naranjo from 801 BC ; the earliest monumental masks ; and the Mirador Basin cities of Nakbé, Xulnal, El Tintal, Wakná and El Mirador.

Until the recent development of flood control, Baghdad and other cities were subject to the threat of inundation.

Until recent centuries, pilgrimage had been a fairly difficult and arduous adventure.

Until recent years, the preservative thiomersal was used in many vaccines that did not contain live virus.

Until fairly recent times, the raiment of the Veddhas was remarkably scanty.

Until 1998, when world prices for tropical timber fell steeply, timber was Solomon Islands main export product, and, in recent years, Solomon Islands forests were dangerously overexploited.

Until their recent deaths modern-day artists such as R. C. Gorman, Bill Rane and J. D.

Until the 1980s, many of Austria's largest industry firms were nationalised ; in recent years, however, privatisation has reduced state holdings to a level comparable to other European economies.

Until recent decades, Somerset's reputation with historians was high, in view of his many proclamations that appeared to back the common people against a rapacious landowning class.

Until the recent increase in popularity of Texas hold ' em, seven-card stud was the most popular poker variant in home games across the United States, and in casinos in the eastern part of the country.

Until recently, the stink badgers had been classified with the other badgers on the basis of physical examination, but genetic testing has proven correct those who believed stink badgers share a more recent common ancestor with skunks than they do with the weasel family ; stink badgers have therefore been transferred from the Mustelidae to the skunk family.

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 recent years, it was the location of the electric chair until this was replaced by lethal injection.

Until recent years, Indian artifacts were found frequently throughout Wenham, and a representative collection in the possession of the Wenham Museum.

Until recent times, there were several Indian Trail Trees in the area.

Until a highway was built in recent years linking Ourense with Vigo in the west and Benavente in the east, the only quick way for people to enter or leave the province was by railway.

Until the recent advent of non-invasive medical techniques, brain surgery was the preferred way for language researchers to discover how language works in the brain.

Until about 2001, Ely made appearances on popular TV shows, his most recent being Sheena and Renegade.

Until recent years there was no substantial evidence of related mathematical writing that might have preceded it, with the exception of mathematical work by those such as Jing Fang ( 78 – 37 BCE ), Liu Xin ( d. 23 ), and Zhang Heng ( 78 – 139 ) and the geometry clauses of the Mozi of the 4th century BCE.

Until recently it was thought that there were 28 cycles in the 309 years between 1699 and 2008, giving an average length of 11. 04 years, but recent research has showed that the longest of these ( 1784 – 1799 ) seems actually to have been two cycles, so that the average length is only around 10. 66 years.

Until the recent German spelling reform, the traditional rules ( which are still widely adhered to, although not taught in schools ) also capitalized the informal 2nd person singular pronoun Du ( and its derivatives, such as Dein ) when used in letters or similar texts, but this is no longer required.

Until the wolves returned, Yellowstone National Park had one of the densest and most stable coyote populations in America due to a lack of human impacts.

Until the 1970s this makes no substantial difference to human history, beyond some minor differences in myths.

Until Vesalius pointed this out, it had gone unnoticed and had long been the basis of studying human anatomy.

Until recently, the technique was relatively insensitive to small slope movements and could not be automated because it relied on human detection of changes in the reflectance trace over time.

That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned ; That until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation ; That until the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes ; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race ; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained ; And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes that hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique and in South Africa in subhuman bondage have been toppled and destroyed ; Until bigotry and prejudice and malicious and inhuman self-interest have been replaced by understanding and tolerance and good-will ; Until all Africans stand and speak as free beings, equal in the eyes of all men, as they are in the eyes of Heaven ; Until that day, the African continent will not know peace.

Until 1962, the flag's emblems, the sun and the crescent moon, had human faces.

Until the 17th Century the Pequots, along with the Niantics and Narragansetts, were the human residents in this area of southeastern Connecticut and adjacent parts of Rhode Island.

Until Europeans first settled the islands in the sixteenth century the Mascarenes are not known to have harboured any human populations, so much of the island's wildlife, which would have gone extinct much earlier had any native people lived there, was still flourishing during the early days of settlement.

Until series VII, he was presumed to be the last human being alive, due to a radiation leak on the mining ship Red Dwarf which killed the crew while he was in stasis.

Until the 19th century and into the early 20th century heavy machines were drawn under human or animal power.

" Until almost the twentieth century, one simple tool constituted the primary earthmoving machine: the hand shovel-moved with animal and human powered, sleds, barges, and wagons.

Until older human remains were discovered in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, Dubois ' and Koenigswald's discoveries were the oldest hominid remains ever found.

But I would like people to be able to stay in one community for a lifetime, to travel away from it to see the world, but always to come home again ,... Until recent times, you know, human beings usually had a permanent community of relatives.

Until 1985, growth hormone for treatment was obtained by extraction from human pituitary glands collected at autopsy.

Until recently, human clinical trials with neuroprotective agents have failed, with the probable exception of deep barbiturate coma.

Until the end, he remained an adherent of socialism with a human face, was critical of social inequality and consumerist cynicism in China, and stressed that the Communist Party of China, which he had joined as a youth, had many positive achievements before the Maoist crimes and its transformation into the " foul, reactionary force " that it was today.

Until increasing challenges in the first decade of the 21st century to the Clovis theory based on this site and others, it was unusual for archaeologists to dig deeper than the layer of the Clovis culture, as they then believed that no human artifacts would be found older than Clovis.

Until Mai 2012, 76 agents had been condemned for violations of human rights and 67 were convicted: 36 of the Army, 27 of Carabineros, 2 of the Air Force, one of the Navy and one of the PDI.

Until Mai 2012, 76 agents had been condemned for violations of human rights and 67 were convicted: 36 of the Army, 27 of Carabineros, 2 of the Air Force, one of the Navy and one of the PDI.

Until the invention of vacuum tube ( valve ) oscillators in 1913 such as the Armstrong oscillator, the Alexanderson alternator was an important high-power radio transmitter, and allowed amplitude modulation radio transmission of the human voice.

Until 2007, in the United States of America, Lugol's solution was unregulated and available over the counter as a general reagent, an antiseptic, a preservative, or as a medicament for human or veterinary application.

Until 1991, human headhunting was practiced among the Naga tribes, and both the government and missionaries have taken steps to ban the practice of headhunting, which is now restricted to animals.