Until the middle of 2008, Latvia had the fastest developing economy in Europe.

Until the middle of the 19th century, most physicists believed in an " ethereal " medium in which the light disturbance propagated.

Until the middle of the 19th century, only some isolated documents written on papyrus were known.

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

Until the middle of the 17th century and the arrival of the Portuguese, the Thomas Christians were all one in faith and rite.

Until these restrictions were relaxed in the middle of the twentieth century, Chinese immigrants were forced to live a life apart, and to build a society in which they could survive on their own ( Chinatown ).

Until the middle of the 19th century, only members of the congregation could own houses ; others were required to lease.

Until the middle of the 20th century the city was situated in the French Flemish area ; today the local Flemish dialect, a variety of the Dutch language, can still be found but has been largely replaced by French.

Until the middle of the 19th century when it was drained to make farmland, this county was part of the 2nd largest freshwater wetland in the US, with abundant flora and fauna.

Until completion of the old high school ( which is currently the middle school ) in the 1950s, this building housed all students in K-12.

Until then, it had been known as Middletown Center, which took its name from its location, in the middle valley drained by the Hudson, Delaware and Susquehanna Rivers.

Until the middle of the 20th century, Pottsville was a popular destination for many traveling acts and vaudeville performers.

The cook house: Until the middle of the nineteenth century it was forbidden to cook over an open fire on a ship moored in the harbour.

Until the middle 19th century most fires were fought by water transported to the scene in buckets.

Until the middle of 1943, the Germans managed to settle 80, 000 colonists, the number increased by a couple of thousand more in 1944.

Until the 1920s the museum's entrance was under the portico supported by five-metre high atlantes of grey Serdobol granite from Finland in the middle of the southern facade of the New Hermitage building.

Until the middle of the 19th century increased the population in Hemsedal evenly.

Until the 1870s it was the only route to travel from Valle the middle Setesdal valley to Bykle in the north.

Until the 1870s, it was the only route to reach Bykle from the middle Setesdal valley to the south.

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 middle of the twentieth century, Tibet's official currency was also known as the Tibetan rupee.

Until the middle of the 19th century, Erlenbach remained a small village with less than 1000 inhabitants, mainly engaged in wine growing.

Until the middle of the 20th century, adapting it to " nn " was more common in English, as in the phrase " Battle of Corunna ".

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 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 beginning of the 20th century, time was believed to be independent of motion, progressing at a fixed rate in all reference frames ; however, later experiments revealed that time slows at higher speeds of the reference frame relative to another reference frame.

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

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

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.