Until 1965, the Coast Guard used U. S. Navy hull classification codes, prepending a " W " to their beginning.

Until the beginning of the 18th century, there appears to have been no national government or national leader.

Until the beginning of the 18th century, there appears to have been no national government or national leader in Niue.

Until the beginning of the British Mandate in Palestine ( 1922 – 1948 ), the population was predominantly Arab Christian ( majority Orthodox Christians ), with an Arab Muslim minority.

Until the beginning of the next round, only the television audience knows exactly who the strongest and weakest links are statistically due to Briggs ' narration.

Until 2012 the " S " mint mark was used only on proof coins, but beginning with the El Yunque ( Puerto Rico ) design in the America the Beautiful Quarters program, the U. S. Mint began selling ( at a premium ) uncirculated 40-coin rolls and 100-coin bags of quarters with the San Francisco mint mark.

Until the beginning of the 20th century, straw-twisting was also rather important.

Until the beginning of the twentieth century, the falles were tall boxes with three or four wax dolls dressed in fabric clothing.

Until the beginning of the Jet Age, piston engines were common on propliners like the Douglas DC-3.

Until the beginning of the 20th century it was the largest German speaking city in the world, and before the first world war and the splitting of the Austro-Hungarian Empire the city had 2 million inhabitants.

Until the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the rails were made of wood, were a few inches wide and were fastened down, end to end, on logs of wood or " sleepers ", placed crosswise at intervals of two or three feet.

Until the beginning of the 18th century, no rotary winnowing fans existed in the West.

Until the beginning of the 20th century, the population stayed relatively stable at some 1, 500 persons.

Until the beginning of the 19th century, fishing remained its primary business, but then began to be replaced by the growing tourism industry.

Until 2010, it was held annually on the last teaching day of Trinity term to celebrate the end of lectures and the beginning of Trinity Week.

Until Ricky Gervais hosted the 67th annual Golden Globe Awards Ceremony in 2010, the award ceremony was one of two major Hollywood award ceremonies ( the other being the Screen Actors Guild Awards ) that did not have a regular host ; every year a different presenter introduced the ceremony at the beginning of the broadcast.

Until the beginning of the 1960s, tractors had a single register of gears, hence one gear stick, often with three to five forward gears and 1 reverse.

Until the beginning of the 20th century people generally did not care which administration Voeren came under.

Until 1888 the Thai New Year was the beginning of the year in Thailand ; thereafter 1 April was used until 1940.

Until the beginning of the 1970s, the club mainly played in local lower division leagues, except from a short visit in the Hovedserien in the 1957-58 season.

Until the beginning of the 20th century Acre belonged to Bolivia.

Until the economic downturn became worse in 2008, along with fuel prices beginning to soar, OAK was one of the nation's fastest growing airports for much of the decade.

Until the beginning January 2010, HKL was responsible for planning and organising all public transport in Helsinki.

Until the beginning of the century it had been of moderate intensity and mainly of a class nature ( under Venetian rule the Italians were employed in the most profitable activities, such as trade and administration ).

Until the 20th century, the term asphaltum was also used.

Until this point Austria and Switzerland had been the traditional and more popular destinations for winter sports, but by the end of the 20th century and into the early 21st century, France, Italy and the Tyrol began so see increases in winter visitors.

Until the early 20th century, unsure of the site of Palaepharsalos, scholars followed Arrian ( 2. 75 ) and located the battle south of the Enipeus or close to Pharsalos ( today's Pharsala ).

Until the 20th century, there was no technology capable of detecting the deviations from Euclidean geometry, but Einstein predicted that such deviations would exist.

Until the late 20th century Protestantism — especially of the Presbyterian variety — was a central value for most Scots, helping shape their identity and way of thinking.

Until the early 20th century it relied primarily on representational, religious and classical motifs, after which time more purely abstract and conceptual approaches gained favor.

Until the late 20th century, the history of science, especially of the physical and biological sciences, was seen as a narrative of true theories replacing false ones.

Until the early 20th century, formal writing and even much poetry and fiction was done in Literary Chinese, which was modelled on the classics of the Warring States period and Han Dynasty.

Until the 20th century, only a few hundred meteorite finds had ever been discovered.

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 early 20th century, scientists assumed that the majority of synaptic communication in the brain was electrical.

Until the early 20th century, it was hunted for its fur, but it is now protected throughout its range.

Until the 20th century the relationship between the Prime Minister vis-a-vis the Sovereign, Parliament and Cabinet was defined entirely by these unwritten conventions of the constitution.

Until the middle of the 20th century the paint used for the outer coating could contain high concentrations of lead and this could be ingested when the pencil was sucked or chewed.

Until the early 20th century rifles tended to be very long ; an 1890 Martini-Henry was almost 2 m ( 6 ft ) in length with a fixed bayonet.

Until the late 19th or early 20th century, those who pursued science were called " natural philosophers " or " men of science ".

Until the 20th century, people in the region used two types of distinction to identify themselves: way of life-either nomadic or sedentary-and place of residence.

Until the 20th century, wolf attacks on humans were an occasional, but widespread feature of life in Europe.

Until the early 20th century, the chief ancient buildings at Sparta were the theatre, of which, however, little showed above ground except portions of the retaining walls ; the so-called Tomb of Leonidas, a quadrangular building, perhaps a temple, constructed of immense blocks of stone and containing two chambers ; the foundation of an ancient bridge over the Eurotas ; the ruins of a circular structure ; some remains of late Roman fortifications ; several brick buildings and mosaic pavements.

Until the late 20th century bentonite clay was widely used as a mold binder in the manufacture of sand castings.

Until the coming of the 20th century, later logicians followed Aristotelian logic, which includes or assumes the law of the excluded middle.

Until the early 20th century, laudanum was sold without a prescription and was a constituent of many patent medicines.

Until the early 20th century, Greeks were uniformly distributed between the Greek peninsula, the western coast of Asia Minor, Pontus, Egypt, Cyprus and Constantinople ; many of these regions coincided to a large extent with the borders of the Byzantine Empire of the late 11th century and the Eastern Mediterranean areas of the ancient Greek colonization.