Historically, in some Celtic monasteries abbesses presided over joint-houses of monks and nuns, the most famous example being Saint Brigid of Kildare's leadership in the founding of the monastery at Kildare in Ireland.

Historically, the blót was an event that focused on a communal sacrifice at various times of the year for a number of purposes.

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

Historically the term GMT has been used with two different conventions, sometimes numbering hours starting at midnight and sometimes starting at noon.

Historically Apex was the place where most Inuit lived when Iqaluit was a military site, and as such it was off − limits to anyone not working at the base.

Historically, the tribe lived in bands near the mouth of the Grand River at its confluence with the Missouri River ; the mouth of the Missouri at its confluence with the Mississippi River, and in present-day Saline County, Missouri.

Historically, common law courts relied little on legal scholarship ; thus, at the turn of the twentieth century, it was very rare to see an academic writer quoted in a legal decision ( except perhaps for the academic writings of prominent judges such as Coke and Blackstone ).

Historically, leprosy has affected people since at least 600 BCE, and was well recognized in the civilizations of ancient China, Egypt and India.

Historically an amateur sport, in 1995 the International Rugby Board ( IRB ) removed restrictions on payments to players, making the game openly professional at the highest level for the first time.

Historically other reference media ( e. g., air at a standardized pressure and temperature ) have been common.

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 there was a Soviet air base at Aste during the Cold War.

Historically, the city is situated at the heart of the Armenian Highland, in Kotayk canton ( Kotayk gavar, not to be confused with the current Kotayk Province ) of Ayrarat province, within Armenia Major.

Historically, the Kingston waterfront was Jamaica's main port with many finger piers at which freighters and passenger liners could dock.

Historically, Schrödinger himself arrived at this equation before the one that bears his name, but soon discarded it.

Historically, the Kingdom of Sicily had at times controlled parts of the eastern Adriatic seaboard, and Manfred possessed the island of Corfu and the towns of Butrinto, Avlona and Suboto, which had formed the dowry of his wife Helena.

* Note 3: Historically, if an " F " precedes the " T ", optical fiber cables are utilized at the same rates.

Historically, the Church of the East was the widest reaching branch of Eastern Christianity, at its height spreading from its heartland in Persian ruled Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean, India, and China.

Historically, the artifact was kept at the now-ruined Scone Abbey in Scone, near Perth, Scotland.

Historically, a crossbar switch consisted of metal bars associated with each input and output, together with some means of controlling movable contacts at each cross-point.

Historically, Fermat's principle has served as a guiding principle in the formulation of physical laws with the use of variational calculus ( see Principle of least action ).

Historically, Horse Cave has been a major center of agricultural commerce for Hart County, Metcalfe County, Green County, and the northeastern part of Barren County since at least the 1870s.

Historically, this could include echosoundings being conducted under settings biased toward least depths, but in modern practice hydrographic surveys typically attempt to best measure the depths observed, with the adjustments for navigational safety being applied after the fact.

Historically, even though the word sock is at least as ancient in origin, what men normally wore were often referred to as stockings, probably especially when referring to longer hose at times when they were the fashion for men.

Historically it is not uncommon for elective monarchies to transform into hereditary ones over time, or for hereditary ones to acquire at least occasional elective aspects.

Historically, the same islands were popular stopover and replenishing sites for whalers and other seafarers since at least the early 18th century.

Historically, many came with the British military or as civil servants, with many marrying locals, and registering as Gibraltarians themselves, although any British citizen resident on The Rock for at least six months may vote.

Historically, at least a significant portion of people have engaged in premarital sex, although the number willing to admit to having done so was not always high.

Historically part of Peeblesshire, the original village of Hawkshaw was destroyed when the Fruid Reservoir was constructed in 1963, and is remembered as the ancestral family home of the Porteous family, dating from at least 1439.

: Historically both pinniped species were abundant natives in the harbor until hunting and other human activity extirpated them from the area by at least the late 19th century.

Historically this was a distinct activity from trading but the boundary between a desk quantitative analyst and a quantitative trader is increasingly blurred, and it is now difficult to enter trading as a profession without at least some quantitative analysis education.

Historically, the strip has been updated more or less every day, but the period leading up to the split saw significantly fewer comics, with two unexplained dry-spells lasting at least a month.

Historically lesbianism has been closely associated with feminism, going back at least to the 1890s.

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, this component has been the least developed component of the transportation planning model.

Historically significant ( at least to the Vancouver scene ) The K-Tels were the first punk band to play the Smilin ' Buddha.

Historically, Makushin is one of the most active volcanoes in the Aleutian Islands, erupting at least two dozen times over the past several thousands years, the last in 1995.

Historically a part of Cumberland, it is situated next to the town of Workington and the village of Camerton along the River Derwent and dates back at least to Medieval times.

Historically, Jewish communities used letters of credit to transport large quantities of money without the risk of theft from at least classical times.

Historically Iranians were ruled by an absolute monarchy for several thousand years, at least since the time of the Achaemenid Empire ( 550 B. C. E.

Historically the breed has been known for at least 400 years, but its origins are probably as old as the Hittite civilization.

Historically, the Zahiri school has been closely associated with the Hanbali school or methodology, at least in the earlier parts of the Hanbali's school's history.