Historically, the First Army was the most politically significant because of Rio de Janeiro's position as the nation's capital through the 1950s.

Historically, crossbows played a significant role in the warfare of East Asia, Europe and the Mediterranean.

Historically, Latvia has had significant German, Russian, Jewish and Polish minorities.

Historically, " plumbism " ( lead poisoning ) was a significant health concern to those glazing pottery.

Historically significant towns and cities, such as Antioch, were created or renamed with more appropriate Greek names.

Historically, local governments have exercised authority over the grid and have significant disincentives to take action that would benefit states other than their own.

Historically, the organized labor ( largely tied to the Justicialist Party ) and the armed forces have also played significant roles in national life.

Historically, and in modern times, female virginity has been regarded as more significant than male virginity.

Historically a rural area, Nibley has experienced significant growth within the last decade, more than doubling its population in under 10 years.

Historically part of Lancashire, Denton grew as a significant centre of hat manufacture, though today it is a predominantly residential town.

Historically, the industry has suffered from the absence of global rules and a tendency towards ( state-supported ) over-investment due to the fact that shipyards offer a wide range of technologies, employ a significant number of workers, and generate income as the shipbuilding market is global.

Historically, in the British Empire ( most of which would become the Commonwealth ) High Commissioners were envoys of the Imperial Government appointed to manage protectorates or groups of territories not fully under the sovereignty of the British Crown, while Crown colonies ( which were British sovereign territory ) would normally be administered by a Governor and the most significant possessions, large confederations and the independent Commonwealth Dominions would be headed by a Governor-General.

Historically, feng shui was widely used to orient buildings — often spiritually significant structures such as tombs, but also dwellings and other structures — in an auspicious manner.

Historically, the bay has been significant from a military standpoint.

Historically the party had a strong base in the ' free churches ' ( Protestant congregations not part of the state church that turned into powerful grass-roots movements in the late 19th century ), but with the exception of certain regions, that is not a significant feature today.

Historically this movement was nomadic, often causing significant conflict with the indigenous population and their displacement or cultural assimilation.

Historically, department stores were a significant component in Canadian economic life, and chain stores such as Eaton's, Spencer's, Simpsons, Morgan's, and Woodward's were staples in their respective communities.

Historically the Maghreb was home to significant Jewish communities called Maghrebim who predated the 7th century introduction and conversion of the region to Islam.

Historically it was a significant shareholder in the former ITV company Southern Television.

Historically, Girvan was significant as the home of the Hairy Tree.

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 significant is the 1 / 8-schisma tuning of Hermann von Helmholtz and Norwegian composer Eivind Groven.

Historically significant in American history as an early fighter for African Americans ' rights and playing a leading role in protesting the lynchings of African Americans in the South, the Communist Party, in its national program today, calls racism the " classic divide-and-conquer tactic ...." From its New York City base, the Communist Party's Ben Davis Club and other Communist Party organizations have been involved in local activism in Harlem and other African American and minority communities.

Historically significant in Latino working class history as a successful organizer of the Mexican American working class in the Southwestern United States in the 1930s, the Communist Party regards working-class Latino people as another oppressed group targeted by overt racism as well as systemic discrimination in areas such as education, and sees the participation of Latino voters in a general mass movement in both party-based and nonpartisan work as an essential goal for major left-wing progress.

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 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, FPTP has been a contentious electoral system, giving rise to the concept of electoral reform and a multiplicity of different voting systems intended to address perceived weaknesses of plurality voting.

Historically, HTTPS connections were primarily used for payment transactions on the World Wide Web, e-mail and for sensitive transactions in corporate information systems.

Historically, there were also mixed systems:

Historically these systems are most commonly combined, either formally or informally, in some manner.

Historically, the use of neural networks models marked a paradigm shift in the late eighties from high-level ( symbolic ) artificial intelligence, characterized by expert systems with knowledge embodied in if-then rules, to low-level ( sub-symbolic ) machine learning, characterized by knowledge embodied in the parameters of a dynamical system.

Historically, most psychophysiologists tended to examine the physiological responses and organ systems innervated by the autonomic nervous system.

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, SYSTRAN systems used Rule-based machine translation ( RbMT ) technology.

Historically, the nobility were supported by taxes on the poor ; modern social security systems are intended to support the poor, the disabled, or the retired by taxes on those who are still working.

Historically, the uncertainty principle has been confused with a somewhat similar effect in physics, called the observer effect, which notes that measurements of certain systems cannot be made without affecting the systems.

Historically, many systems had a batch window where online subsystems were turned off and the system capacity was used to run jobs common to all data ( accounts, users, or customers ) on a system.

Historically, these kinds of " market socialist " systems attempt to retain state ownership of the commanding heights of the economy, such as heavy industry, energy, and infrastructure, while introducing decentralised decision making and giving local managers more freedom to make decisions and respond to market demands.

Historically, this term was essentially associated with IBM's line of mainframe operating systems starting with OS / 360.

Historically, many of the cities now thought the most beautiful are the result of dense, long lasting systems of prohibitions and guidance about building sizes, uses and features.

Historically freedom of religion has been used to refer to the tolerance of different theological systems of belief, while freedom of worship has been defined as freedom of individual action.

Historically, the rail gauge has had considerable variations, with narrow gauge common in many early systems.

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, in geocentric systems, apsides were measured from the center of the Earth.

Historically, the terms YUV and Y ' UV were used for a specific analog encoding of color information in television systems, while YCbCr was used for digital encoding of color information suited for video and still-image compression and transmission such as MPEG and JPEG.

Historically, zoologists and botanists have developed various classification systems that take into account the world's plant and animal communities.

Historically, there have been differences in systems of succession, mainly revolving around the question of whether succession is limited only to males, or if females are also eligible to succeed.