Historically part of the parish of St Margaret in the county of Middlesex, the name Westminster was the ancient description for the area around Westminster Abbey – the West Minster, or monastery church, that gave the area its name – which has been the seat of the government of England ( and later the British government ) for almost a thousand years.

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 area was important to the fur trade, and the county itself takes its name from one of Wyoming's early fur traders, William L. Sublette.

Historically Hereford has been the county town of Herefordshire.

Historically, the region was called the county of Toulouse, a county independent from the kings of France.

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

Historically, Sipson was in the county of Middlesex, which was abolished as a local government entity when Greater London was created in 1965.

Historically the Arkansas Boys ' Industrial School and the Arkansas Negro Boys ' Industrial School were in the county.

Historically, it was one of four county seats of Campbell County.

Historically, Texas County has consistently voted Democratic in elections, however, the southern end of the county has more competitive elections with nearly equal vote distribution between Democrats and Republicans.

Historically the town was in the county of Suffolk.

Historically, constables in California were attached to the justice courts, the lowest tier of the state court system ( whereas sheriffs were attached to the county superior courts, and marshals to the municipal courts ).

Historically the county town of Berkshire, since 1974 it has been the seat of the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire.

Historically, Lanarkshire was the most populous county in Scotland and, in earlier times, had considerably greater boundaries, including neighbouring Renfrewshire until 1402.

Historically within the county of Westmorland, it is situated at the head of Windermere, England's largest lake.

Historically, the Quorum was a select group of the Justices of the Peace in each county in the Early Modern Britain.

Historically part of County Durham, it joined a new county in 1974 with the creation of Tyne and Wear.

Historically part of Lincolnshire, in 1889 the area was included in the Lincolnshire, Parts of Lindsey administrative county.

Historically, the term shire would simply mean the district appropriated to some city, town, or castle, and did not necessarily refer to a county.

Historically it was in the county of Surrey.

Historically it was part of the county of Staffordshire, but in 1974 it was incorporated into the West Midlands county.

Historically, it is one of two burghs within the county of Caithness.

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

An alternate explanation of the red fox's gains involves the gray wolf: Historically, it has kept red fox numbers down, but as the wolf has been hunted to near extinction in much of its former range, the red fox population has grown larger, and it has taken over the niche of top predator.

Historically, directors ' duties have been owed almost exclusively to the company and its members, and the board was expected to exercise its powers for the financial benefit of the company.

Historically, cryptography was split into a dichotomy of codes and ciphers ; and coding had its own terminology, analogous to that for ciphers: " encoding, codetext, decoding " and so on.

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, Ecuador depended on a wide variety of foreign suppliers for virtually all of its equipment needs.

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

Historically, therefore, Palestine was an anomaly within the Mandate system, in a class of its own – initially referred to by the British as a “ special regime ”:

Historically Maldives has had a strategic importance because of its location on the major marine routes of the Indian Ocean.

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, Mozilla had been used internally as a codename for the Netscape Navigator web browser from its beginning.

Historically, Manama has been restricted to what is now known as the Manama Souq and the Manama Fort ( now the Ministry of Interior ) to its south.

Historically, ML stands for metalanguage: it was conceived to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover ( whose language, pplambda, a combination of the first-order predicate calculus and the simply typed polymorphic lambda calculus, had ML as its metalanguage ).

Historically this has led to its use for plating metals such as iron and brass, to its use for chemical apparatus, and its use in certain alloys that will retain a high silvery polish, such as German silver.

Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 50s, when it helped to coin the term " cartoon " in its modern sense as a humorous illustration.

Historically, the group achieved a number of notable firsts in hip hop music and are credited with being the act most responsible for pushing hip hop into mainstream popular music, initiating its musical and artistic evolution and enabling its growth as a global phenomenon.

Historically, this issue has been a major cause of conflict between Somalia and some of its neighbors.

Historically, spectroscopy originated through the study of visible light dispersed according to its wavelength, e. g., by a prism.