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Historically, the Dominican Republic has been linked to MLB since Ozzie Virgil, Sr. became the first Dominican to play in the league.

Historically, it was of particular relevance to sailing warships which used them to outmaneuver opponents when the wind had dropped but might be used by any vessel in confined, shoal water to place it in a more desirable position, provided she had enough manpower.

Historically, women's bicycle frames had a top tube that connected in the middle of the seat tube instead of the top, resulting in a lower standover height at the expense of compromised structural integrity, since this places a strong bending load in the seat tube, and bicycle frame members are typically weak in bending.

Historically, the Upper Houses each had their own table.

Historically, this proceeded from the labours of Jean de Launoy ( 1603 – 1678 ), " le dénicheur des saints ", and Louis Sébastien le Nain de Tillemont, who had shown the falsity of numerous lives of the saints ; while theologically it was produced by the Port Royal school, which led men to dwell more on communion with God as contrasted with the invocation of the saints.

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, the form of the gallery evolved during the 10th century from the increasingly long hallways which had earlier been used to surround the central sanctuary of a temple.

Historically, the church had censured Knapp for deviating at several points from Eddy's teaching, and had refused to publish the work.

Historically, in Canada, whisky that had some rye grain added to the mash bill to give it more flavour came to be called “ rye ”.

Historically, the term originated in the mainframe field, where it had a well-defined meaning, very close to contemporary computer file.

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, the majority of fiddle music was dance music, while violin music had either grown out of dance music or was something else entirely.

Historically, manual alphabets have had a number of additional applications — including use as ciphers, as mnemonics, and in silent religious settings.

Historically, John likely had a larger presence in the public mind than Jesus.

Historically, a marble or limestone edge runner mill, running on a limestone bed was used in Great Britain ; however, by the mid 19th century AD this had changed to either an iron shod stone wheel or a cast iron wheel running on an iron bed.

Historically it has had many definitions, but there are three definitions in current use: the imperial gallon (≈ 4. 546 L ) which since metrication is used colloquially in the United Kingdom and semi-officially within Canada, the United States ( liquid ) gallon (≈ 3. 79 L ), and the lesser used US dry gallon (≈ 4. 40 L ).

Historically, the Indo-European languages had eight morphological cases, though modern languages typically have fewer, using prepositions and word order to convey information that had previously been conveyed using distinct noun forms.

Historically, each of the several hundred small towns of Indiana had its own small school system.

Historically, land owners developed most roads and later Turnpike Trusts collected tolls so that as early as 1800 Ireland had a road network.

Historically, the telephone system on the Isle of Man had been run as a monopoly by the British General Post Office, and later British Telecommunications, and operated as part of the Liverpool telephone district.

Historically the Arvand Roud / Shatt-al-Arab waterway ( called Arvand Roud in Iran and Shatt-al-Arab in Iraq ) and Khuzestan Province was all that remained of their prior holdings in Mesopotamia, which had been lost to Turkey centuries earlier.

Historically, Jamaica has had close ties with the UK, but trade, financial, and cultural relations with the United States are now predominant.

Historically, religion has also functioned as a tremendous engine of vindication, enforcement, sanction, and perpetuation of various other institutions.

Historically re is the formative that is employed also in republic, and al is the common suffix.

Historically, bootstrapping also refers to an early technique for computer program development on new hardware.

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, a connection from Etruscan to the Semitic languages has also been discussed.

Historically, other groups of people have also been excluded from voting.

Historically, the concept of entropy evolved in order to explain why some processes ( permitted by conservation laws ) occur spontaneously while their time reversals ( also permitted by conservation laws ) do not ; systems tend to progress in the direction of increasing entropy.

Historically, fiddle also referred to a predecessor of today's violin.

Historically, the American film industry portrayed the Foreign Legion as, in the words of Neil Tweedie of The Daily Telegraph, having " a reputation as a haven for cut-throats, crooks and sundry fugitives from justice " and also having many men escaping failed romances.

Historically, the term has also been used in some fields of computer science and information technology to denote the gibibyte, or ( 1024 < sup > 3 </ sup > or 2 < sup > 30 </ sup >) bytes.

Historically the Governor-General has also served as Chief Scout of Australia.

Historically, there were also mixed systems:

Historically, blame has often been laid on Abbey as legal guardian, but he may also have been unaware.

Historically, it was occasionally used as armor after hardening, and it has also been used for book binding.

Historically, Newfoundland was also home to unique varieties of French, and Irish, as well as the now-extinct Beothuk language.

Historically, the country's contacts with the rest of the world were by sea, which not only provided access to foreign lands but also linked the coastal towns of Oman.

Historically speaking, the dogma of the equality of man is the result of the adoption of the purely practical machinery of the majority but the adoption of the majority principle is also responsible for another institution of modern times: the party system.

Historically it has also been known as weird fiction.

Comedy of manners, sometimes also called satire of manners, criticizes mode of life of common people ; political satire aims at behavior, manners of politicians, and vices of political systems ; Historically, Comedy of manners, which first appeared in British theater in 1620, has uncritically accepted the social code of the upper classes.

Historically the language has also been known as Wendish or Lusatian.

Historically the fiqh also came to include comparative law, local customs ( urf ) and laws motivated by public interest, so long as they were allowed by the above four sources.

Historically, Deerhounds also could be seen with true brindle, yellow, and red fawn coats, or combinations.

Historically, statements on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church have claimed her ecclesiastical structures to be a fulfillment and replacement of Jewish ecclesiastical structures ( see also Jerusalem as an allegory for the Church ).

Historically, broadcast AM receivers using vacuum tubes would save costs by employing a single tube as a mixer and also as the local oscillator.