Formerly the Department of the Ancient Near East, with a collection numbering some 330, 000 works, the British Museum possesses by far the world's largest and most important collection of Mesopotamian antiquities outside Iraq.

Formerly self-styled as the " World's Greatest Newspaper " ( for which WGN radio and television are named ), it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is currently the eighth largest newspaper in the United States by circulation ( and became the second largest under Tribune's ownership after the Chicago Tribune's parent company purchased the Los Angeles Times ).

Formerly one of the four largest lakes in the world with an area of, the Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects.

Formerly known as the township of Michipicoten, the township was officially renamed for its largest and best-known community in 2009.

* Formerly, Tayto Crisps, Ireland's largest factory for potato crisps, which closed in 2005

Formerly, the IC & E was jointly owned with the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad by Cedar American Rail Holdings ( CARH ), making the combined system the largest class II railroad in the US.

Formerly known as the Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis, the school's name was changed in December 2011 in recognition of a $ 24 million gift from Robert H. McKinney, who previously served as chairman and CEO of First Indiana Corporation and is among the founders of Bose McKinney & Evans LLP, one of the largest law firms in Indianapolis.

Formerly the Australian based Soulmates Technology, Match. com International is the largest international dating service in the world ( by comScore Media Metrix 1 / 05 ).

Formerly an independent sheikhdom, Abu Dhabi is now the capital and second largest city of the United Arab Emirates.

Formerly an affiliate of Rangoon University, Mandalay University is the second oldest university in the country, and the largest university in Upper Myanmar.

Formerly, he's worked as an Open Source Evangelist at the Mozilla Corporation, and has been a long-time contributor to open source projects, notably with Mozilla, Red Hat, and One Laptop Per Child.

Formerly the Germanisches Museum, it was founded by a group of individuals led by the Franconian baron, Hans von und zu Aufsess, whose goal was to assemble a " well-ordered compendium of all available source material for German history, literature and art ".

Van Vliet has been the subject of at least two documentaries, the BBC's 1997 The Artist Formerly Known As Captain Beefheart narrated by John Peel, and the 2006 independent production Captain Beefheart: Under Review.

DU Players, one of the most prolific student-drama societies in Europe which hosts more than 50 shows and events a year in the Samuel Beckett Theatre ; The DU Film Society ( Formerly DU Filmmakers, formerly the DU " Videographic Society ", founded in 1987 ) which organises film-makers and film-lovers on campus through workshops, screenings, production funding, etc.

Formerly heard weekdays at 10: 40 p. m. ( 11: 10 p. m. in Newfoundland ), following The Arts Tonight, the program no longer airs on Radio One's terrestrial network, although it is still in production as a weekly podcast and continues to air on CBC Radio's Sirius Satellite Radio channel.

Formerly, the bark itself, prepared in different forms, was used as a drug, but later in the nineteenth and early 20th centuries, natural harvesting of immense quantities formed the base of the production of cinchona alkaloids.

Formerly produced in London and Dublin, Gallagher's moved its production to Belfast ( cigarettes ) and Wales ( cigars ) in the early 20th century.

Formerly one of the lead singers of pop group S Club, she launched a solo single after the group's split in 2003, which cut short the production of a proposed album following an appearance on Celebrity Big Brother.

Formerly abundant, it was last seen in 1989.

Formerly Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in April 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the newly erected Times Building site of the annual ball drop on New Year's Eve.

Formerly it was obtained almost exclusively from the area of Miass in the Ilmen mountains, 50 miles southwest of Chelyabinsk, Russia, where it occurs in granitic rocks.

Formerly the name " carbohydrate " was used in chemistry for any compound with the formula C < sub > m </ sub > ( H < sub > 2 </ sub > O ) < sub > n </ sub >.

Formerly, standard was different from.

Formerly an interdisciplinary major at the University of Virginia the Department of Media Studies was officially established in 2001 and has quickly grown to wide recognition.

( Formerly, the year on the seal was 1664, the year of the provisional Articles of Transfer, ensuring New Netherlanders that they " shall keep and enjoy the liberty of their consciences in religion ", negotiated with the English by Pieter Stuyvesant and his council ).

Formerly this was the site of Mutley Station, opened 1 August 1871 and known as the ' Station of the Gentry '.

Formerly, the peerage bestowed was usually an earldom ( which was always hereditary ), with Churchill offered a dukedom.

Formerly little more than a gap in the customs wall, it was replaced by a much grander affair consisting of two matching Doric-style stone gate-houses, like little temples ( a nod to Friedrich Gilly perhaps ), facing each other across Leipziger Straße.

Formerly it was identical to the French franc, although it has not been so since the 1920s.

Formerly, when Muscle Shoals was a mere village, this region was known a " Tri-Cities ", Alabama.

Formerly this was two separate companies: Orange and T-Mobile, which was originally called One-2-One

* William Gladstone Primary School ( Formerly St. Thomas ' and recently renamed as Rimrose Hope ) is a Primary School located in Seaforth, in which he was raised and educated.

The Time Warner merger was almost derailed when Paramount Communications ( Formerly Gulf + Western, later sold to Viacom ), launched a $ 12. 2 billion dollar hostile takeover bid for Time Inc., forcing Time to acquire Warner for $ 14. 9 billion dollar cash / stock offer.

Formerly, the focus was on trading cheese and small and big animals.

Formerly, the only way to seal a small gap between moving machine parts was to use leather soaked in oil.

Formerly a boys ' house, it was the first house to undergo a sex change in the early 1990s when the school became fully co-educational.

Formerly known as the Great Hall, it was renamed the Shirley Hall after the former headmaster, Fred Shirley.

Formerly the piece was called the castle, tower, marquess, rector, and comes.

Formerly known as Aeronautica Macchi, the company was founded in 1913 by Giulio Macchi at Varese in north-western Lombardy.

Formerly, in both India and Sri Lanka, it was a custom of the royalty to chew areca nut with betel leaf.

Formerly, when a word or phrase in quotation marks came at the end of a phrase or clause that ended with a semicolon, the semicolon would be put before the trailing quotation mark ; now, however, the magazine follows the more commonly observed style and puts the semicolon after the second quotation mark.

Formerly, in a conversation scene for instance, you simply brought down two or three chairs, and people sat down and talked, and when the conversation was ended the chairs were replaced.

Formerly, the retreat began after school and ended the following day.