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, however, opening credits have been the only source of crew credits and, largely, the cast, although over time the tendency to repeat the cast, and perhaps add a few players, with their roles identified ( as was not always the case in the opening credits ), evolved.

Historically, there have been seven outstanding grass players in the open era: Pete Sampras, Steffi Graf, Martina Navratilova, Björn Borg, Roger Federer, Venus Williams, Serena Williams and Billie Jean King.

Historically acclaimed football stars include the trio of players known as Gre-No-Li, who still enjoy legendary status for Italy's Milan.

Historically, the perfect game was dauntingly difficult to achieve, but with the advent of new technology in ten-pin bowling, beginning in the 1970s, it has become a slightly more feasible goal even for skilled amateur and semi-professional players.

Historically, the team is best known for being the only major league team with black players ( Moses Fleetwood Walker and his brother, Welday Walker ) prior to Jackie Robinson's appearance with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

Historically, the vast majority of NHL players had come from Canada, with a small handful of Americans ( mostly out of the Minnesota, Michigan and New England areas ); only one European-trained player made his NHL debut during the 1942 – 67 Original Six era.

Historically, players penalized for clipping are labeled as " dirty " players, as clipping is nearly always viewed as attempt to injure an opponent.

Historically, Argentina has always been a leading country in this international handicapped sport, and have been uninterrupted world champions since 1949, and Argentine players comprise most of the world's top ten players.

Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using physical laws.

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, 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, in Europe, a city was understood to be an urban settlement with a cathedral.

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, control of the Israeli government has alternated between periods of rule by the right-wing Likud in coalition with several right-wing and religious parties and periods of rule by the center-left Labor in coalition with several left-wing parties.

Historically it used to be possible to buy EPROMs with these register bits on the same chip.

Historically, the term often referred to the combination of economic liberalism, which champions laissez-faire markets, with the classical conservatism concern for established tradition, respect for authority and religious values.

Historically, it has sometimes been synonymous with " republic ".

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

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

Historically, the relationship involved a man in a higher status position, usually with a legally sanctioned wife, who maintains a second household with the lesser " wife ".

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, in the Gaelic script, bh was written with a dot over the b, rendering or.

Historically, the black leather female catsuit entered dominant fetish culture in the 1950s with the AtomAge magazine and its connections to fetish fashion designer John Sutcliffe.

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, 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 electron volt was devised as a standard unit of measure through its usefulness in electrostatic particle accelerator sciences because a particle with charge q has an energy E = qV after passing through the potential V ; if q is quoted in integer units of the elementary charge and the terminal bias in volts, one gets an energy in eV.

Historically the titles of Tennō in Japanese have never included territorial designations as is the case with many European monarchs.

Historically, several number bases have been used for representing floating-point numbers, with base 2 ( binary ) being the most common, followed by base 10 ( decimal ), and other less common varieties, such as base 16 ( hexadecimal notation ), as well as some exotic ones like 3 ( see Setun ).

Historically, Fianna Fáil has been seen as to the left of Fine Gael and to the right of the Labour Party and is generally seen as a classic " catch all " populist party-representing a broad range of people from all social classes with the belief in the coincidence of economic growth and social progress.

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, the Snake produced over 1. 5 million spring and summer Chinook Salmon, a number that has dwindled to several thousand in recent years.

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

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

Historically, Samaritans were a large community — up to more than a million in late Roman times, but were then gradually reduced to several tens of thousands a few centuries ago — their unprecedented demographic shrinkage has been a result of various historical events, including, most notably, the bloody suppression of the Third Samaritan Revolt ( 529 CE ) against the Byzantine Christian rulers, and mass conversion to Islam in the Early Muslim period of Palestine.

Historically this was a trait characterized by Bordeaux with some premium examples in favorable vintages having the potential to last for over a century, but producers across the globe have developed styles that could age and develop for several decades.

Historically, there had existed several other alternative standardized forms of Belarusian grammar.

Historically, there have been several controversial elections to the Speakership, such as the contest of 1839.

Historically, the town had a politically radical tendency, being involved in several events of note on the national stage, and was defended by its own castle.

Historically, there have been several accounts of applications for, and experimentation with, forensic entomology.

Historically, there have been several Mujtahidehs in Shi ' ism, most famously the women in the family of Allama Hilli, as well as the Baraghani family of 19th century Qazvin.

Historically, there have been several trains that ran through the county whose stops became cities and villages.

Historically, the ancient parish included several other chapelries or townships which later became separate civil parishes: Blawith, Church Coniston, Egton with Newland, Lowick, Mansriggs, Osmotherley, Subberthwaite and Torver.

Historically, there have been several different types of electronic media broadcasting:

Historically, the Highlands neighborhood was predominantly Protestant, with several churches in the area of North Main and Rock Streets.

Historically, the presence of this driftsand has caused the relocation of the village on several times.

Historically, the commercial base of the city was based almost solely on the paper mill ; however, the diversity of industries has been enhanced considerably in recent years by the influx of several white-collar, high-tech companies including Hewlett-Packard, Sharp Microelectronics, Linear Technology and WaferTech and Underwriters Labs.

Historically, Arlington was a railroad town with several different rail connections.

Historically the " lieutenant " was the deputy to a " captain ", and as the rank structure of armies began to formalise, this came to mean that a captain commanded a company and had several lieutenants, each commanding a platoon.

Historically, CAM software was seen to have several shortcomings that necessitated an overly high level of involvement by skilled CNC machinists.

Historically municipal debt predates corporate debt by several centuries: the early Renaissance Italian city-states borrowed money from major banking families.