Historically, the Carron Company, which developed east of Stenhousemuir, was a major employer.

Historically, the use of two guns at once, one in each hand, is most associated with the American Old West, where revolvers holding only six rounds of ammunition were the highest capacity handguns available and reloading was a slow process.

Historically almost all early computers were accumulator machines ; and many microcontrollers still popular as of 2010 ( such as the 68HC12, the PICmicro, the 8051 and several others ) are basically accumulator machines.

Historically, all living things were grouped as either animals or plants, and botany covered the study of all organisms not considered to be animals.

Historically the languages were spoken over a larger area: West to the mouth of the Vistula river in present-day Poland, at least as far East as the Dniepr river in present-day Belarus, perhaps even to Moscow, perhaps as far south as Kiev.

Historically, allegations of cannibalism were used by the colonial powers to justify the enslavement of what were seen as primitive peoples ; cannibalism has been said to test the bounds of cultural relativism as it challenges anthropologists " to define what is or is not beyond the pale of acceptable human behavior ".

Historically, in Socialist systems collectivist economics were carried to their furthest extreme, with a minimum of private ownership and a maximum of planned economy.

Historically, the baudot and braille keyboards were standardized to some extent, but they are unable to replicate the full character set of a modern keyboard.

Historically, Charlton's most successful period was the 1930s, when the club's highest league finishes were recorded, including runners-up of the First Division in 1937.

Historically, Japanese attempts to normalize their relationship with China were met with Taiwanese accusations of ingratitude.

Historically, cranberry beds were constructed in wetlands.

Historically, RT-11 also served as the inspiration for many microcomputer OS's, as these were generally being written by programmers who cut their teeth on one of the many PDP-11 models.

Historically, lawyers in most European countries were addressed with the title of doctor, and countries outside of Europe have generally followed the practice of the European country which had policy influence through modernization or colonialization.

Historically, division rings were sometimes referred to as fields, while fields were called “ commutative fields ”.

Historically, some encyclopedias were contained in one volume, but some, such as the Encyclopædia Britannica or the world ´ s largest Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana, became huge multi-volume works.

Historically, distances were often measured by chains such as Gunter's chain, and angles using graduated circles and, later, the theodolite.

Historically, elliptic functions were discovered as inverse functions of elliptic integrals.

( Historically, division rings were sometimes referred to as fields, while fields were called commutative fields.

Historically, the hadrons ( mesons and baryons such as the proton and neutron ) and even whole atoms were once regarded as elementary particles ( indeed, the word " atom " means " indivisible ").

Historically, this area of Lochaber was strongly Clan Cameron country, and there were a number of mainly Cameron settlements in the area ( such as Blarmacfoldach ).

Historically they were sometimes called Feynman-Dyson diagrams or Dyson graphs, because when they were introduced the path integral was unfamiliar, and Freeman Dyson's derivation from old-fashioned perturbation theory was easier to follow for physicists trained in earlier methods.

Historically the first decade of semiconductor electronics were entirely based on germanium, although its production for such use today is a small fraction ( 2 %) of that of ultra-high purity silicon, which has largely replaced it.

Historically, Mahopac had five one-room school houses that were united into one central school ( now Lakeview School ) in 1935.

Historically, the Saint Thomas Christians were united in leadership and liturgy, and were part of the Church of the East centred in Persia.

Historically, when Qin Shi Huang united China in 221 BC, he felt that his achievements had surpassed those of all the rulers who had gone before him.

Historically, there has been strong support for a united Ireland within the left of the Labour Party, and in the 1980s it became official policy to support a united Ireland by consent.

Historically, there have been five tribal groups, all referring to themselves as Wanyamwezi to outsiders: Kimbu, Konongo, Nyamwezi, Sukuma, and Sumbwa, who were never united.

Historically, tanks are divided into 3 categories:

Historically, cryptography was split into a dichotomy of codes and ciphers ; and coding had its own terminology, analogous to that for ciphers: " encoding, codetext, decoding " and so on.

Historically, cavalry was divided into light and armoured cavalry and horse archers.

Historically, the international community would have targeted weak states for territorial absorption or colonial domination or, alternatively, such states would fragment into pieces small enough to be effectively administered and secured by a local power.

Historically, civil defendants could be taken into custody under a writ of capias ad respondendum and be forced to post bail before being released.

Historically, the word " order " ( Latin ordo ) designated an established civil body or corporation with a hierarchy, and ordinatio meant legal incorporation into an ordo.

Historically, three railways were built in Liberia to export ore from mines ; they were damaged during civil war, and as of August 2010 only one had been brought back into service.

Historically, Lesser Poland was divided into two lands-Kraków Land and Sandomierz Land, both of which emerged after the Testament of Bolesław III Krzywousty.

Historically, throughout the Christian world and in the context of Christian missionary activity, the New Testament ( or portions thereof ) has been that part of the Christian Bible first translated into the vernacular.

Historically, the most obvious way of combining the two ( such as treating gravity as simply another particle field ) ran quickly into what is known as the renormalization problem.

Historically, the group achieved a number of notable firsts in hip hop music and are credited with being the act most responsible for pushing hip hop into mainstream popular music, initiating its musical and artistic evolution and enabling its growth as a global phenomenon.

Historically, the most prominent stars on the celestial sphere were grouped together into constellations and asterisms, and the brightest stars gained proper names.

Historically, the pestilential swamps of the Sudd discouraged expansion into the deeper south of the country.

Historically, the small Härjapea River flowed from Lake Ülemiste through the town into the sea, but the river was diverted for sewage in the 1930s and has since completely disappeared from the cityscape.

Historically, a wide range of non-SI units were used in the United States and in Britain, but many have fallen into disuse.

Historically, the XSL Working Group in W3C produced a draft specification under the name XSL, which eventually split into three parts:

Historically, all fossil Onychophora and lobopods were lumped into the taxon Xenusia, further subdivided by some authors to the Paleozoic Udeonychophora and the Mesozoic / Tertiary Ontonychophora ; living Onychophora were termed Euonychophora.

Historically, Europe has always been a mixture of Latin, Slavic, Germanic, Uralic, Celtic, Hellenic, Illyrian, Thracian and other cultures influenced by the importation of Hebraic, Christian, Muslim and other belief systems ; although the continent was supposedly unified by the super-position of Imperial Roman Christianity, it is accepted that geographic and cultural differences continued from antiquity into the modern age.

Historically, Grand Touring cars had to be in series production, but in 1976 the class was split into production based Group 4 Grand Touring Cars and Group 5 Special Production Cars which were essentially pure-bred racing cars with production-lookalike bodies.

Historically, the focus of Portuguese diplomacy has been to preserve its independence, vis-à-vis, the danger of annexation by Spain, and the maintenance of the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance, which officially came into being in 1386, and with the United Kingdom as a successor to England, it is still in place today.

Historically, China has been divided, numerous times, into smaller kingdoms under separate rulers or warlords.

Historically, systematic works on phylum-level taxa since Linnaeus have largely been about splitting up Vermes and sorting the animals into natural systematic units.

Historically the term was used for a route into or through wild territory used by emigrants ( e. g. the Oregon Trail ).

Historically, kimberlites have been subdivided into two distinct varieties termed ' basaltic ' and ' micaceous ' based primarily on petrographic observations ( Wagner, 1914 ).