Until that time, neutron stars, like black holes, were regarded as just theoretical curiosities ; but the discovery of pulsars showed their physical relevance and spurred a further interest in all types of compact objects that might be formed by gravitational collapse.

Until the discovery of the Library of Nag Hammadi in 1945, Against Heresies was the best-surviving description of Gnosticism.

Until the discovery of Nanoarchaeum in 2002, M. genitalium was also considered to be the organism with the smallest genome.

Until the discovery by Tischendorf of the Sinaiticus text, the Codex Vaticanus was unrivaled.

Until the discovery of the second moon Nereid in 1949, Triton was commonly known as simply " the satellite of Neptune ".

Until the 1980s this idea was not taken seriously, but opinions changed following the discovery of the Chicxulub Crater, which was further reinforced by witness to the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 event.

Until his discovery, liquid perfumes were mixtures of oil and crushed herbs or petals, which made a strong blend.

Until the discovery by Tischendorf of the Sinaiticus text, the Codex was unrivaled.

Until the mid-20th century, it was not readily apparent at the time of discovery whether a body has been buried in a bog for years, decades, or centuries.

Until the discovery of the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy in 1994, they were the closest known galaxies to our own.

Until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls ( DSS ), the only surviving manuscripts of Jubilees were four complete Ge ' ez texts dating to the 15th and 16th centuries, and several quotations by the Church fathers such as Epiphanius, Justin Martyr, Origen, Diodorus of Tarsus, Isidore of Alexandria, Isidore of Seville, Eutychius of Alexandria, John Malalas, George Syncellus, and George Kedrenos.

Until the recent discovery of an obituary, the Narrative was the only significant source for the life of Gronniosaw.

Until the discovery of VIC, it was generally thought that a double transposition alone was the most complex cipher an agent, as a practical matter, could use as a field cipher.

Until the discovery of even larger deposits of jade near Cassiar, the Lillooet area was the world's largest source of the nephrite form of jade.

Until the discovery of an almost complete early 8th century edition of the Qieyun in 1947, the Guangyun was the most accurate available account of the Qieyun phonology, and was heavily used in early work on the reconstruction of Middle Chinese.

Until its discovery in the 20th century, many references and images of this structure were incorrectly attributed to Rostra Augusti and debate continues as to whether the form of the Augustin monument is correctly reconstructed.

Until the discovery of the Nag Hammadi library in 1945, the Askew Codex was one of three codices that contained almost all of the gnostic writings that had survived the suppression of such literature both in East and West, the other two codices being the Bruce Codex and the Berlin Codex.

Until 1994, the systematic naming of comets ( the " Old Style ") involved first giving them a provisional designation of the year of their discovery followed by a lower case letter indicating its order of discovery in that year ( e. g. the first Comet Bennett is 1969i, the 9th comet discovered in 1969 ).

Until the discovery of quantum mechanics, no distinction was made between the question of whether matter is infinitely divisible and the question of whether matter can be cut into smaller parts ad infinitum.

His discovery of the 6th, that corresponding to p = 17 in the formula M < sub > p </ sub >= 2 < sup > p </ sup >- 1, exploded a many-times repeated number-theoretical myth ( Until Cataldi, 19 authors going back to Nicomachus are reported to have made the claim in L. E. Dickson's History of the Theory of Numbers — with a few more repeating this afterward ) that the perfect numbers had units digits that invariably alternated between 6 and 8 ; and that of the 7th ( for p = 19 ) held the record for the largest known prime for almost two centuries, until Leonhard Euler discovered that 2 < sup > 31 </ sup >-1 was the eighth Mersenne prime.

Until the discovery of the closely related Suchomimus, Baryonyx was the only known piscivorous ( fish-eating ) dinosaur.

Until the discovery of Rapetosaurus, the 30 or so genera were represented by just a few bones, a partial skeleton or a skull.

Until the discovery of Gnostic works among the hidden cache at Nag Hammadi, few authentic Gnostic works survived.

Until today, historiographical debates oppose the followers of a foundation of Kanem-Bornu by populations from the ancient Near East and followers of a more local development.

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 15th century introduction of the contratenor bassus, the tenor was usually the lowest voice, assuming the role of providing a harmonic foundation.

Until the foundation of the city of Ravenstein, Herpen was the main city of this region.

Until 1963, bass drummers used one stick or mallet and provided the foundation note in the battery.

Until recently, Halivni was the spiritual leader of Kehilat Orach Eliezer, a congregation on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a position he had held since the congregation's foundation in 1992.

Until the foundation of the Norman town Llanfair ym Muallt the main settlement was Llanafan.

Until recently, it was generally accepted that this subsidy was fair and that the foundation had a reason to be subsidised.

Until the conflict with Inform biro in 1947 Yugoslav Government blindly copied USSR ’ s social system, which had negative effects on the education -“ the reduction of criteria and leveling in work demands with higher elementary school children and secondary school children .” The church was severely criticized by the Communist regime so that religious education was put out of the curriculum for the first time since the school ’ s foundation.

Until the foundation of the College of Western Idaho in 2007, CSI was one of only two comprehensive community colleges in Idaho, along with North Idaho College in Coeur d ' Alene.

Until 1990, the club was managed by Istanbul High School foundation.

Until the foundation of the Turkish Republic the town was named Aziziye in honour of Sultan Abdülâziz.

Until 2004, fragments of only four other carnyces had been preserved, but in November 2004 archaeologists discovered a first-century-BC foundation deposit of five well preserved carnyxes under a Gallo-Roman fanum at Tintignac ( Corrèze, France ).

Until the 1936 Soviet Constitution officially declared the Party "... the vanguard of the working people ", thus legitimizing Stalin's leadership, Stalin ruled the USSR as the de facto dictator.

Until the reorganization begun by Nikolai Yezhov with a purge of the regional political police in the autumn of 1936 and formalized by a May 1939 directive of the All-Union NKVD by which all appointments to the local political police were controlled from the center, there was frequent tension between centralized control of local units and the collusion of those units with local and regional party elements, frequently resulting in the thwarting of Moscow's plans.

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

Until recently the country's oil industry was fully controlled by the state company YPFB, established in 1936 with the mission to develop, refine and distribute oil resources.

Until the early 1930s, Boyer mainly continued making French films, and Mayerling co-starring Danielle Darrieux in 1936 made him an international star.

Until 1936, Gloversville had a very active electric interurban line, the Fonda, Johnstown and Gloversville Railroad.

Until 1936, Taylor was an opponent of British rearmament as he felt that a re-armed Britain would ally itself with Germany against the Soviet Union.

Until 1936 the water was pumped into the feeder by a beam engine, whose engine house can still be seen.

Until 1936 Verney Junction railway station was the northern outpost of the Metropolitan Railway from Baker Street.

Until 1936, Williams had never broken 49 seconds for the 440 yd ( 402 m ).

Until 1936 it was held on the actual birthday of the Monarch, but after the death of George V it was decided to keep the date on the second Monday in June.

Until February 1936, seasons of opera were presented until fire then destroyed all but the facade of the Teatro Reggio.

Until 1936 the Free State Oireachtas also included an upper house known as the Seanad.

Until October 9, 1936, INO was operated inside the GUGB organization as a one of its departments.

Until late 1936, the People's Militsiya and Internal Troops of the NKVD had no personal ranks, much akin to the Red Army, Red Navy, and OGPU, and used position-ranks.

Until 1936, M-22's route was on Cherry Bend and Center roads in Leelanau County to Suttons Bay.

Until 1936, the Swiss franc was the only remaining major freely convertible currency in the world, and both the Allies and the Germans sold large amounts of gold to the Swiss National Bank.

Until 1939 Horten acquired several other department stores and enjoyed a good relationship with the Nazi government despite the fact that his grandfather, the ( later ) Catholic saint Titus Maria Horten died in custody in 1936.

Until 1936, the monarch exercised a number of important duties, including appointing the Executive Council ( cabinet ), dissolving the legislature and promulgating laws.

Until 1936, he served as rural doctor and later in Beilinson Hospital.

Until WOWO's purchase by Westinghouse Broadcasting in 1936, Zieg managed the advertising sales of both WOWO and WGL through WOWO-WGL Sales Service, Inc.

Until 1936, Münzenberg remained loyal to Joseph Stalin and to the aims of Soviet foreign policy.

Until 1936, the of land occupied east to west by the Bridgend Industrial Estate, Brackla and the Brackla Industrial Estate was farmland.

Until 1936, Old Bethpage was known as Bethpage.