Historically, some ideas have been advanced to explain the apparent hairlessness of humans, as compared to other species.

Historically and internationally, support for affirmative action has sought to achieve a range of goals: bridging inequalities in employment and pay ; increasing access to education ; enriching state, institutional, and professional leadership with the full spectrum of society ; redressing apparent past wrongs, harms, or hindrances, in particular addressing the apparent social imbalance left in the wake of slavery and slave laws.

Historically it has varied between apparent magnitudes 14. 5 and 17. 3, although since 1995 it has generally remained at the lower limit.

Historically, Casino traces its origin as a partner dance from Cuban Son dancing, and its rhythmic body motions from Afro-Cuban Rumba heritage.

Historically, Casino traces its origin as a partner dance from Cuban Son dancing, and its rhythmic body motions from Afro-Cuban Rumba heritage.

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 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, all living things were grouped as either animals or plants, and botany covered the study of all organisms not considered to be animals.

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, 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, 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 baudot and braille keyboards were standardized to some extent, but they are unable to replicate the full character set of a modern keyboard.

Historically, Charlton's most successful period was the 1930s, when the club's highest league finishes were recorded, including runners-up of the First Division in 1937.

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

Historically, cranberry beds were constructed in wetlands.

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, 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, division rings were sometimes referred to as fields, while fields were called “ commutative fields ”.

Historically, some encyclopedias were contained in one volume, but some, such as the Encyclopædia Britannica or the world ´ s largest Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana, became huge multi-volume works.

Historically, distances were often measured by chains such as Gunter's chain, and angles using graduated circles and, later, the theodolite.

Historically, elliptic functions were discovered as inverse functions of elliptic integrals.

( Historically, division rings were sometimes referred to as fields, while fields were called commutative fields.

Historically, the hadrons ( mesons and baryons such as the proton and neutron ) and even whole atoms were once regarded as elementary particles ( indeed, the word " atom " means " indivisible ").

Historically, this area of Lochaber was strongly Clan Cameron country, and there were a number of mainly Cameron settlements in the area ( such as Blarmacfoldach ).

Historically they were sometimes called Feynman-Dyson diagrams or Dyson graphs, because when they were introduced the path integral was unfamiliar, and Freeman Dyson's derivation from old-fashioned perturbation theory was easier to follow for physicists trained in earlier methods.

Historically the first decade of semiconductor electronics were entirely based on germanium, although its production for such use today is a small fraction ( 2 %) of that of ultra-high purity silicon, which has largely replaced it.

Historically, The Birth of a Nation was the first blockbuster.

Historically, the classical thermodynamics definition developed first, and it has more recently been extended in the area of non-equilibrium thermodynamics.

Historically, the concept of fundamental group first emerged in the theory of Riemann surfaces, in the work of Bernhard Riemann, Henri Poincaré and Felix Klein, where it describes the monodromy properties of complex functions, as well as providing a complete topological classification of closed surfaces.

Historically, the first true GUT which was based on the simple Lie group SU ( 5 ), was proposed by Howard Georgi and Sheldon Glashow in 1974.

Historically, presents were given in Scotland on the first Monday of the New Year.

He first discussed some of these oriental practices in a series of articles entitled Magic, Mesmerism, Hypnotism, etc., Historically & Physiologically Considered.

Historically, until the first third of the twentieth century or later in most jurisdictions, all committals to public psychiatric facilities and most committals to private ones were involuntary.

Historically, classical mechanics came first, while quantum mechanics is a comparatively recent invention.

Historically, international shipping to and from New Zealand started out with the first explorer-traders, with New Zealand waters soon becoming a favourite goal for whalers as well as merchants trading with the Maori and beginning European colonies.

Historically, throughout the Christian world and in the context of Christian missionary activity, the New Testament ( or portions thereof ) has been that part of the Christian Bible first translated into the vernacular.

Historically, Newfoundland English was first recognized as a separate dialect by the late 18th century when George Cartwright published a glossary of Newfoundland words.

Historically, the ray-based model of light was developed first, followed by the wave model of light.

Historically, it is the Huangdi Neijing translated as, The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine ( circa 2nd century BCE ) that is credited with first establishing the pathways through which qi circulates in the human body.

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, the first attempt is 6 poems translated by Kambara Ariake in 1908.

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, one of the first topics in physics where statistical methods were applied was the field of mechanics, which is concerned with the motion of particles or objects when subjected to a force.

Historically the Dublin county area, parts of Wicklow and Louth, became under heavy exclusive influence from the first English settlements ( known as The Pale ).

Historically, the first term for optimization was " linear programming ", which was due to George B. Dantzig, although much of the theory had been introduced by Leonid Kantorovich in 1939.

Historically, a dhimmi was a person who is protected under Islamic law by a pact contracted between non-Muslims and authorities from their Muslim government: this status was first made available to non-Muslims who were People of the Book ( e. g. Jews and Christians ), but was later extended to include Sikhs, Zoroastrians, Mandeans, Hindus and Buddhists.

Historically, armorial bearings were first used by feudal lords and knights in the mid-12th century on battlefields as a way to identify allied from enemy soldiers.

Historically, the language was first called Khaskura ( language of the khas ' rice farmers '), then Gorkhali or Gurkhali ( language of the Gurkha ) before the term Nepali was taken from Nepal Bhasa.

Historically, the first successful full metal jacket rifle bullets were invented by Lt. Col. Eduard Rubin of the Swiss Army in 1882.