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 winter of 1978-79, when a major mixing event took place, the Dead Sea was composed of two stratified layers of water that differed in temperature, density, age, and salinity.

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 after the defeat of Cannae it remained faithful to Rome, but, after a vain demand that one of the consuls should always be selected from it or perhaps in order to secure regional supremacy in the event of a Carthaginian victory, it defected to Hannibal, who made it his winter quarters: he and his army were voluntarily received by Capua.

Until the 20th century, the islands were completely isolated during the winter, since the pack ice made the trip to the mainland impassable by boat.

Until the 18th century Oostmalle was known for its black pottery, such as " Lollepotten " which were small stoves used for personal heating in winter.

Until the 1970s, there was only one type of blight ( A1 ) in the UK, and this was unable to produce resistant spores that could survive the winter.

Until recently, Balanced Rock had a companion-a similar, but much smaller balanced rock named " Chip Off The Old Block ", which fell during the winter of 1975 / 1976.

Until the age of eleven, he visited a winter school run by a priest in the neighbouring village Personico.

Until recent history, humans in temperate climates were exposed to few hours of ( blue ) daylight in the winter ; their fires gave predominantly yellow light.

Until the unusually hard winter of 1709 killed most of the olive trees, Gandria was known for its olive oil.

Until the severe winter of 1916 – 17 the Goldcrest was abundant and widespread, nesting in all the wooded portions of our islands ; in 1920 it could have little more than an obituary notice, for the nesting stock was practically " wiped out.

Until the construction of modern roads, the peninsula was almost inaccessible in winter due to the band of marshland cutting off the higher ground of the promontory itself.

Until December 2007, its main competitor was Atlanta's other AC, Peach 94. 9 ( which became Lite FM in 2002 ), and which also played Christmas music during the winter holiday season.

Until 1990 this had always been a summer only operation but instead of closing at the end of September the funicular continued through the winter.

Until approximately the 1870s men from Rothiemurchus annually, in the spring, cleared the track of rocks that had fallen on to it during the winter.

Until the 1940s Grassmere's bed was a mud bath in winter and a dustbowl in summer, with the occasional natural deposit of salt.

Until 2011, during the winter, between the last Sunday of October and the last Sunday of March, Moscow Standard Time ( MSK, МСК ) was 3 hours ahead of UTC, or UTC + 3 ; during the summer, Moscow Time shifted forward an additional hour ahead of Moscow Standard Time to become Moscow Summer Time ( MSD ), making it UTC + 4.

Until 1967 a ferry boat provided service across the Miramichi River at Chatham, except during the period of winter freeze up.

Until the polio epidemic, the water was kept at a substantial depth to support the fish over winter.

Until the addition of a stabiliser in 1927, oil pastels came in two types: winter pastels with additional oil to prevent hardening and summer pastels with little oil to avoid melting.

Until the winter of 1941 / 42 supporting troops organic to these divisions consisted of a motorised artillery regiment ( of one heavy and two light battalions ), and one each reconnaissance, motorcycle, anti-tank, pioneer, field replacement, and communications battalions.

Until the late 19th century, winter counts were recorded on buffalo hides.

Until 1999, GBC retransmitted BBC Prime, but was relaunched as a community-based service focusing on local news and other items of local interest.

Until 1999, the Gallipoli dawn service was held at the Ari Burnu war cemetery at Anzac Cove, but the growing numbers of attendees resulted in the construction of a more spacious site on North Beach, Gallipoli, known as the " Anzac Commemorative Site ".

Until 1999, these two families were not considered to be closely related.

Until 1999, there was a South East Standard Statistical Region, which also included the counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Greater London.

Until 1999, he was joined by Gene Sarazen, and until 2001, by Byron Nelson.

Until 1999 the islanders received US $ 180M for continued American use of Kwajalein atoll, US $ 250M in compensation for nuclear testing, and US $ 600M in other payments under the compact.

Until 1999, when the Butler County Veterans Highway was built, Hamilton was the second largest city in the United States without direct interstate access.

Until 1999, drum and bugle corps hornlines within DCI were required to be pitched in the key of G. That year, the DCI rules congress passed a rule change to allow " brass bell-front valve instruments in any key with the exception of sousaphones and trombones.

Until 1999, Metro ended service at midnight every night, and weekend service began at 8 AM.

Until 1999 it was in Gdańsk Voivodeship.

Until 1999 M & S's financial year ended on 31 March.

Until 1999, the Massachusetts State House displayed only portraits of influential male leaders of the state of Massachusetts.

Until 1999, standards required routers to forward such packets by default, but, in that year, the standard was changed to require the default to be not to forward.

Until 1999, the sheriff's office in Sandefjord was responsible for border control at Torp.

Until 1999, the Constitution mandated that no canton could have more than one representative on the Federal Council.

Until the 1999 breakaway of the National Republican Movement ( MNR ) led by Bruno Mégret, Jean-Marie Le Pen's success was partly explained by his unification of the various far right families ( such as Traditionalist Catholics, royalists, neofascists, etc.

Until 1998, the show was hosted by Stack, and during its brief 2-year run on CBS, co-hosted by Virginia Madsen in 1999.

Until 1999, it was believed to be non-volcanic ; that year, scientists operating from a nuclear submarine discovered active volcanos along it.

( Until taxonomic revision in 1999, Mannheimia spp.

Until 1999, the event consisted of a round-robin tournament of varying size.

Until around 1999, some service to Springfield continued east to Boston, for an alternate Inland Route between New York and Boston.

Until 1999, there was a branch line connecting Strzelce Opolskie with Kędzierzyn Koźle.

Until 1999 the town was the capital of Suwałki Voivodeship.

Until 1999 the Sutherland management and committee areas consisted of seven out of the 72 Highland Council wards.