Until now, almost 700 fish species have been recorded from the Congo River Basin, and large sections remain virtually unstudied.

Until the middle of the 19th century, the Congo was at the heart of independent Africa, as European colonialists seldom entered the interior.

Until the end of the Cold War, the memories of the Congo haunted the UN as well as convinced the international organization that peacekeeping should remain consensual and non-threatening in nature, an attitude it maintained for almost three decades.

Until the Civil War, the Appalachians were not significantly different from other rural areas of the country.

Until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Miró habitually returned to Spain in the summers.

Until May 31, 2003 Tocumen International Airport was managed by the Civil Aeronautics Directorate ( which is known today as the Civil Aeronautics Authority ).

Until replaced by the Juris Doctor in 1967, the Bachelor of Civil Law was the degree granted by the first law school in the United States, the William & Mary School of Law founded in 1779.

Until 1989, while Communists held power in the People's Republic of Poland, the Polish – Soviet War was omitted or minimized in Polish and other Soviet bloc countries ' history books, or was presented as a foreign intervention during the Russian Civil War to fit in with Communist ideology.

Until the time of the Civil War, the building was used as a private school, then as a boarding house.

The family of five girls and two boys subsisted on a small piece of land, and Bageshwari also held a low-paying clerical position in a nearby sugar mill. Until the age of 15 he studied at the Gang Baksh Kanodiya High School in Sahpur and then joined junior college at Allahabad, about three hundred kilometers away. He was admitted to the Civil Engineering Department of IIT Kanpur in 1990, graduated in 1994.

Until the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949 Yan's arsenal in Taiyuan was the only factory in China sufficiently advanced to produce field artillery.

Until 1992 it accepted boarders who resided in Whiteladies house, a building that is rumoured to contain hidden treasure from Charles I from when he sought refuge there during the Civil War.

Until the English Civil War the Chancellor of the Exchequer was a judicial office with little political standing ; after the War, however, it became seen as a " stepping stone " to higher political appointments.

Until 1975, the physical locations of all faculties and institutions were in Beirut and its suburbs, but during 1976 and due to the Lebanese Civil War additional branches were founded in Beirut and the governorates of Mount Lebanon, North Lebanon, South Lebanon and Bekaa.

Until the war, the U. S. had largely abandoned the government of Chiang Kai-Shek, which had retreated to Taiwan, and had no plans to intervene in the Chinese Civil War.

Until 1912, there had been no new police stations constructed in Boston in 30 years and the existing stations had not been significantly altered since before the Civil War.

Until 1931, while its headquarters, which had been destroyed during the Irish Civil War was being rebuilt, it met in St. Patrick's Hall in Dublin Castle.

Until the Lebanese Civil War, their community was close-knit and entirely endogamous.

Until the Spanish Civil War of 1936, most islanders arrived in Cuba, and it is difficult to find a Canary Island family today in which some family member did not go to Cuba during the early decades of the 20th century.

Until 1935 he worked for the Communist Party in the French occupied Saarland and fought as an officer in the Spanish Civil War after 1936.

Until World War II there were many Gothic, renaissance and baroque houses in Elbląg's Old Town ; some of them are reconstructed.

Until fairly recently, about the end of the Second World War, such weapons were characterized by a barrel length 15 to 25 times the caliber of the gun.

Until 1935, the 1926 manual Directives for the Conduct of the Operational Air War continued to act as the main guide for German air operations.

Until then, Valéry had, briefly, earned his living at the Ministry of War before assuming the relatively flexible post as assistant to the increasingly impaired Lebey, a job he held for some twenty years.

Until 1961, the commemoration only related to the Dutch victims of World War II.

Until after World War II, the landlocked British possession of Southern Rhodesia was not developed as an indigenous African territory, but rather as a unique state which reflected its multiracial character.

Until the end of the Cold War nearly all men reaching the age of military service were conscripted.

Until the Second World War, no more theoretical framework for social geography was developed, though, leading to a concentration on rather descriptive rural and regional geography.

Until recently the history of the Viking Age was largely based on Icelandic Sagas, the history of the Danes written by Saxo Grammaticus, the Russian Primary Chronicle and The War of the Irish with the Foreigners.

Until recently, the history of the Viking Age was largely based on Icelandic sagas, the history of the Danes written by Saxo Grammaticus, the Russian Primary Chronicle and The War of the Irish with the Foreigners.

Until World War I, he was posted to various positions in the US and the Philippines.

Until World War Two, the world's largest wind tunnel was built in 1929 and located in a suburb of Paris, Chalais-Meudon, France.

Until after World War II, wedding celebrations were most commonly held in the bride's home, in whatever style of entertainment was within the means of the family.

Until the period following World War II, governmental affairs in French West Africa were administered from Paris.

* Until the First World War, the Moulin Rouge became a real temple of operetta.

Until the Winter War ( 1939 – 40 ), Finland's territory also reached to the Barents Sea, with the harbor at Petsamo being Finland's only ice-free winter harbor.

Until World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ), most Māori people spoke Māori as their first language.

Until the early 1970s, the Republic of China was recognized as the sole legitimate government of China by the United Nations and most Western nations, refusing to recognize the People's Republic of China on account of the Cold War.

Until after the Second World War the western part of the island of New Guinea was part of the Dutch colony of the Netherlands Indies.

Until the Cold War ended, the area never experienced an economic downfall, due in part to its defense-heavy industries.

Until the War of the Ring the Easterlings did not launch any invasion.

Until at least 1908, the British took the Macdonald line to be the boundary, but in 1911, the Xinhai Revolution resulted in the collapse of central power in China, and by the end of World War I, the British officially used the Johnson Line.

Until the outbreak of World War II the Jews of Rzeszów numbered 14, 000, more than one-third of the total population.