Historically, a great number of coinage metals ( including alloys ) and other materials ( e. g. Porcelain ) have been used practically, artistically, and experimentally in the production of coins for circulation, collection, and metal investment, where bullion coins often serve as more convenient stores of assured metal quantity and purity than other bullion.

Historically, the distinction between a privateer and a pirate has been, practically speaking, vague, often depending on the source as to which label was correct in a particular circumstance.

Historically, the jobs of farrier and blacksmith were practically synonymous, shown by the etymology of the word: farrier comes from Middle French: ferrier ( blacksmith ), from the Latin word ferrum ( iron ).

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, sounds may move along this cline toward less stricture in a process called lenition.

Historically, the Castilian Kingdom and people were considered to be the main architects of the Spanish State by a process of expansion to the South against the Muslims and of marriages, wars, assimilation, and annexation of their smaller Eastern and Western neighbours.

Historically, women were not allowed to sing in the Church so the soprano roles were given to young boys and later to castrati — men whose larynxes had been fixed in a pre-adolescent state through the process of castration.

Historically, each approach had its advantages: ARCNET added a small delay on an inactive network as a sending station waited to receive the token, but Ethernet's performance degraded drastically if too many peers attempted to broadcast at the same time, due to the time required for the slower processors of the day to process and recover from collisions.

Historically, because large groups of people have been able to bring about dramatic and sudden social change in a manner that bypasses established due process, they have also provoked controversy.

Historically, the term referred to a Jew who transgressed the halakhah ( Jewish law ) and completed a process of introspection to " return " to the straight path.

Historically, the probing process was performed in two steps because of the relative ease of producing primary and secondary antibodies in separate processes.

Historically water vehicles have been propelled by poles, paddles or oars, through manipulation of sailing rigs that propel by lifting using the wind, and a variety of engineered machinery that creates subsurface thrust through the process or internal combustion.

Historically important concurrent formalisms have included the Actor model and process calculi ;

Historically, in the professionalization process by which trades have transformed themselves

Historically, the chemical engineer has been primarily concerned with process engineering.

Historically, debt restructuring has been the province of the large corporation with the in-house or retained resources to undertake the process and the financial wherewithal to successfully see it to conclusion.

Historically the LIMS, LIS, and process development execution system ( PDES ) have all performed similar functions.

Historically there was a process by which projective geometry added more points ( e. g. complex points, line at infinity ) to simplify the geometry by refining the basic objects.

Historically, this helped in the process of weather forecasting and train travel.

Historically, although the first successful Design for Six Sigma projects in 1989 and 1991 predate establishment of the DMAIC process improvement process, Design for Six Sigma ( DFSS ) is accepted in part because Six Sigma organisations found that they could not optimise products past three or four Sigma without fundamentally redesigning the product, and because improving a process or product after launch is considered less efficient and effective than designing in quality.

Historically, less organisation went into holding Māori elections than general elections, and the process received fewer resources.

Historically that concluding phrase, now legally superfluous, represents the last trace of the process by which the royal courts assume jurisdiction over all offences, and gradually eroded the jurisdiction of the sheriff and of lords of manor and franchises, making crime a matter of national concern as distinguished from civil wrongs or infractions of the rights of local magnates.

Historically Ukrainian Canadians were among Canada's poorest and least educated minorities ; but as the process of cultural integration has accelerated, this is no longer the case and Ukrainian Canadians are currently near the national economic average.

: Historically, the process by which the bourgeoisie became in the course of the eighteenth century the politically dominant class was masked by the establishment of an explicit, coded and formally egalitarian juridical framework, made possible by the organization of a parliamentary, representative regime.

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

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

Historically, the flaming sword laid across this Eden is the Civil War.

Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat, while in modern times, its main use is that of a recreational activity.

Historically carving was a male art and leadership attribute ; in today ’ s world it is an art of both sexes.

Historically, the star was frequently used in celestial navigation in the maritime trade, because it is listed as one of the 57 navigational stars.

Historically, a byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the basic addressable element in many computer architectures.

Historically, MLB had also used a 2-3 format in a best-of-5 series, but is rarely used.

Historically, the left bank is more developed.

Historically notable among the Louisiana code's differences from common law is the role of property rights among women, particularly in inheritance gained by widows.

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, hedonistic utilitarianism is the paradigmatic example of a consequentialist moral theory.

Historically, most states where the official religion is Buddhism have imposed capital punishment for some offenses.

Historically, the landscape is littered with instances of low adoption rates.

Historically, call centres have been built on PBX equipment that is owned and hosted by the call centre operator.

Historically, Jews have considered it of central importance: traditionally, children began their study of the Torah with Leviticus, and the midrashic literature on Leviticus is among the longest and most detailed of midrashic literature ( see Bamberger 1981: 737 ).

Historically the å has developed from a ligature by writing a small a on top of the letter a ; if an å character is unavailable, some Scandinavian languages allow the substitution of a doubled a.

Historically, it is of course impossible to prove or disprove that these records speak of the same flag, or if the flag of 1208 or 1219 ever existed.

Historically an increasingly complex division of labour is closely associated with the growth of total output and trade, the rise of capitalism, and of the complexity of industrialisation processes.

Historically, where comparative psychology researches animal behaviour in the context of what is known about human psychology, ethology researches animal behaviour in the context of what is known about animal anatomy, physiology, neurobiology, and phylogenetic history.