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

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 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 named Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International, it changed its name to Fairtrade International in 2009, when its producer certification and standard setting activities were separated into two separate, but connected entities.

Formerly, in cases when the Chancellorship was vacant, the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench would act as Chancellor pro tempore.

* Formerly, there was the Saint John Fisher Roman Catholic Junior High School in Hull, East Yorkshire, that operated between c. 1966 – c. 1988, when the school system in the city was restructured.

Formerly, the Log Cabin Association Consolidated School served the township, but it closed when Smokey Mountain Elementary opened in 1980.

The old Building which now used for Baker County Headstart Center ( Formerly Baker-Mitchell Headstart Center. In 2001 when Headstart Students from Camilla is got its own Center ).

Formerly known as " Fort Barbee " and " Girty's Town ", St. Marys was the county seat of Mercer County from 1824 until 1840 when the seat was moved to Celina.

Formerly a supporter of Smetana's, Pivoda was aggrieved when the conductor recruited singing talent from abroad rather than from Pivoda's school.

Formerly, when the office was held by ecclesiastics, a " Keeper of the Great Seal " acted in the Lord Chancellor's absence.

Formerly, when peers had the right to be tried for felonies or for high treason by other peers in the House of Lords ( instead of commoners on juries ), the Lord High Steward, instead of the Lord Chancellor, would preside.

Formerly, when a speaker delivered a speech in the Forum, he turned his face to the right in the direction of the curia, the Senate house, and the Comitium.

Formerly a railroad bridge constructed by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad in 1855, the bridge was sold off when the new one upstream was constructed.

Formerly, when mathematicians spoke of " groups ", they had meant permutation groups.

Formerly the clergy only wore the surplice when conducting the service, and exchanged it during the sermon for the " black gown ", i. e. either a Geneva gown or the gown of an academic degree.

Formerly known as Kyushu INAX SC, it changed its name when INAX's parent company LIXIL took over.

Formerly, the women used to tattoo their faces when they reached the age of twelve or thirteen.

Formerly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange, the publicly listed company went private in 2004 when it was bought by Dallas-based Hicks Muse Tate & Furst Inc. ( now HM Capital ), TD Capital Canadian Private Equity Partners ( now Birch Hill Equity Partners ) and CIBC World Markets Inc.

Formerly part of JNR, the freight operation was not divided and became a single separate company when JNR was privatized and split.

Formerly a member of the Social Credit Party of Saskatchewan, Bailey joined the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan when the Social Credit and PC parties merged under the PC name in 1971.

Formerly a parish in its own right, it was annexed into the parish of Great Kimble in the late medieval period when its manor was purchased by Lord Griffith Hampden ( ancestor of John Hampden ) who was also the lord of Great Kimble manor.

Formerly, 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 was the main line of the Najdorf, when White threatens to attack the pinned knight with 8. e5.

Formerly the Northern Rock Building Society, the bank was formed in 1997 when the society floated on the London Stock Exchange ( with the ticker symbol NRK ).

Formerly and variously known as Paislay, Passelet, Passeleth, and Passelay the burgh's name is of uncertain origin ; some sources suggest a derivation either from the Brythonic word, pasgill, " pasture ", or more likely, passeleg, " basilica ", ( i. e. major church ), itself derived from the Greek βασιλική basilika.

Formerly, the Spanish word joropo meant " a party ", but now it has come to mean a type of music and dance that identifies Venezuelans.

Formerly the word shōji could apply to both fusuma and shōji although with a formal distinction of " karagami shōji " 唐紙障子 ( fusuma ) and " akari shōji " 明り障子 ( shōji ).

Formerly known as Whitlock, the community's main thoroughfare was originally named Bay Terrace Avenue ; however, by the late 1940s the word " Avenue " had been dropped and the street's name became simply Bay Terrace.

Formerly Finnish Security Police, on August 27, 2010, the agency changed its English name thereby removing the word police.

Formerly the southern portion of the Collier Pine Plantation, Karawara is an Aboriginal word meaning green.

Formerly, San Jose was known as the barrio of “ Kabaritan ” derived from “ barit ”, an Ilocano word for a plant that belongs to the rattan family.

Formerly, it included the phrase that " the Lamanites shall be a dark, filthy, and loathsome people ..." The new version deleted the phrase " dark, loathsome, and filthy " and now reads, "... the Lamanites will be scattered, and the Spirit will cease to strive with them.

Formerly most decorative items affixed to cars were referred to as " chrome ", by which phrase was actually meant steel that had undergone several plating processes to endure the temperature changes and whether that a car was subject to outdoors.

Formerly, motorcycles used a different set of registration marks.

Formerly classified UK security service papers reveal that, while working on the project, Wilkins came under suspicion of leaking atomic secrets.

Formerly, the Herero were exclusively herders, but they gradually came to engage in some cultivation.

Formerly, baseball caps came in standard hat sizes.

Formerly known as the Association of Thai Industries ( ATI ), the Federation of Thai Industries ( FTI ) came into existence in November 13, 1967 and upgraded on December 29, 1987.

Formerly Yodels used a different formula, with thicker, denser cake and came packaged in foil.

Formerly, on the market days at Bayonne and Bordeaux, long files of peasants were seen coming in on stilts, and, although they were loaded with bags and baskets, they came from the villages situated at 10, 15, or 20 leagues distance.

Formerly known as " hysteria ", the disorder has arguably been known for millennia, though it came to greatest prominence at the end of the 19th century, when the neurologists Jean-Martin Charcot and Sigmund Freud and psychiatrist Pierre Janet focused their studies on the subject.

Formerly Eleutherae formed the boundary ( of Boeotia ) on the side towards Attica, but when it came over to the Athenians henceforth the boundary of Boeotia was Mount Cithaeron.

Formerly, when all garments were hand-knit, it was possible to identify which parish or family the wearer came from.

Formerly known as Papal Chamberlains of The Sword and Cape () before the Second Vatican Council, many came from families that had long served the Papal Court over the course of several centuries, while others were appointed as a high honor, one of the highest the Papacy conferred on Catholic laymen ( often prominent politicians or wealthy philanthropists ).

Formerly the singer of a now defunct project Unity, she came onto the radar of Everything But The Girl producer Ben Watt who released their EP Love in the Dead of Night on his Buzzin Fly label ( 2004 ).