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 early 1950s Budweiser was primarily distributed in three packages: kegs, 12-ounce bottles and quart bottles.

Until the early seventeenth century the Bandas were ruled by a group of leading citizens, the orang kaya ( literally ' rich men '), each of these was a head of district.

Until the early 1980s, they were known as video display terminals and were physically attached to the computer and keyboard.

Until the early 18th century granite could only be carved by hand tools with generally poor results.

Until the early part of the twentieth century, the highlands economy consisted primarily of mining and livestock

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 very early twentieth century, men living in the southern Appalachians would drive their pigs to market in the flatlands below each Autumn, fattening up their stock on chestnuts and fallen mast, much as their Scottish forebears did for centuries.

Until the early twentieth century, Hangul was denigrated as vulgar by the literate elite who preferred the traditional hanja writing system.

Until the 13th century, icons followed a broadly similar pattern in West and East-although very few survive from this early from either tradition.

Until the early 19th century Africans were captured, kidnapped, and forced into slavery to work on plantations when sugarcane became the most important export of the island.

Until 2004 ( in 2005 – 2007 the Jaguars went back to wearing white at home for early season games ) and then 2008, the Jaguars would always wear their white jerseys for afternoon games at home during the first half of the season.

Until the early 1990s, the Chilean wine industry mistakenly sold a large quantity of wine made from the Carmenere grape as Merlot.

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 early 1970s there was large apiary which was well known in the region and has lived on in the Scottish country dance " The Bees of Maggieknockater ".

Until the Quiet Revolution of the early 1960s, Tremblay saw Quebec as a poor, working-class province dominated by an English-speaking elite and the Roman Catholic Church.

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 early 1990s, the PLA Navy performed a subordinate role to the PLA Ground Force.

Until it closed in early 2011, a McDonald's in Edina, Minnesota claimed on its receipts to be the " World's Only Pneumatic Air Drive-Thru ," sending food from their strip-mall location to a drive-through in the middle of a parking lot.

Until the early 17th century large outline images of the giants Gog and Magog ( or Goemagot and Corineus ) had for a long time been cut into the turf of the Hoe exposing the white limestone beneath.

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 he was four years old, van Vogt and his family spoke only a dialect of Low German in the home.

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 1928 it was directed by a General Manager, after this time instead by a Governor elected by an internal commission of managers, with a decree from the President of the Italian Republic for a term of 7 years.

Until 2003 the Lower Houses were restricted to upper year students but with the double cohort of graduates from Ontario schools many of the rooms were transformed into doubles and now hold first years.

Until about 50, 000 – 40, 000 years ago the use of stone tools seems to have progressed stepwise.

Until Henry's time, Cape Bojador remained the most southerly point known to Europeans on the unpromising desert coast of Africa, although the Periplus of the Carthaginian Hanno the Navigator described a journey farther south about 2, 000 years earlier.

Until about 1750, in large part due to malnutrition, life expectancy in France was about 35 years, and only slightly higher in England.

Until the year 2000 the proportion of children 0 – 14 years of age was over 40 % of the total population.

Until about 400 years ago, however, motion was explained from a very different point of view.

Until recently, the last woolly mammoths were generally assumed to have vanished from Europe and southern Siberia about 12, 000 years ago, but new findings show some were still present there about 10, 000 years ago.

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 the late years of the Soviet Union, political science as a field was subjected to tight control of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Until the 216th assembly met in Richmond, Virginia in 2004, the General Assembly met once a year ; since 2004, the General Assembly has met biennially in even-numbered years.

Until the late nineteenth century sugar was purchased in loaves, which had to be cut using implements called ' nips ', while in later years, bags of sugar became more common.

Until 2008 this medal had been awarded every 50 years by the Linnean Society of London.

Until his death in 1969, twenty years after his return, Adorno contributed to the intellectual foundations of the Federal Republic, as a professor at Frankfurt University, critic of the vogue enjoyed by Heideggerian philosophy, partisan of critical sociology and teacher of music at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music.

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

Until the late Pleistocene, about 10, 000 years ago, the lion was the most widespread large land mammal after humans.

Until 1952, the Naturalization Acts written by Congress still allowed only white persons to become naturalized as citizens ( except for two years in the 1870s which the Supreme Court declared to be a mistake ).

Until a few years ago the ubiquity of 35 mm movie projectors in commercial movie theaters made it the only motion picture format, film or video, that could be played in almost any cinema in the world.

** Until about 100 years ago, thousands of women and children in England were employed in plaiting straw for making hats.

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

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.