In west Belfast's Ballymurphy, a civilian population was massacred by British paratroopers in a forerunner of the war crime that would become universally known as Bloody Sunday.
That was really the forerunner of Star Wars and used a lot of the same technology".
There was a general election in Belgium, the Americans were preparing to support the French army in Indo-China (a forerunner of the Vietnam war) and Abdullah Atalar – who went on to become a Turkish academic – was born.
The protagonist, named Bornstellar, awakens an exiled warrior, the Didact, who recruits Bornstellar and his companions, reveals the history of Forerunner-human war and the existence of Halo superweapons, giant rings with the potential to kill every conscious being in the galaxy.
She never looked back, touring with CEMA, the forerunner of the Arts Council, during the war years, and then moving to London, giving the concerts and making the recordings that still resonate so movingly today.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then an assistant secretary of labor, cited it prominently in his 1965 report "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action," which proposed intensive job training and education for blacks and was considered a forerunner of the Johnson administration's War on Poverty.
In the same vein as its forerunners, "Katyn" remembers the 1940 massacre of 15,000 Polish prisoners of war by Soviet troops, an atrocity for which the Soviets tried to blame the Nazis.
V-2 missile, German in full Vergeltungswaffen-2 ("Vengeance Weapon 2"), also called V-2 rocket or A-4, German ballistic missile of World War II, the forerunner of modern space rockets and long-range missiles.
V-1 missile, German in full Vergeltungswaffen-1 ("Vengeance Weapon 1"), also popularly called flying bomb, buzz bomb, or doodlebug, German jet-propelled missile of World War II, the forerunner of modern cruise missiles.
And in World War II, the forerunner of the CIA hid escape kits within the rectum.
