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

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, it was traditional to use up all of the household's eggs before Lent began.

* Historically, valve amplifiers often used a class-A power amplifier simply because valves are large and expensive ; many class-A designs use only a single device.

Historically, manual alphabets have had a number of additional applications — including use as ciphers, as mnemonics, and in silent religious settings.

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 it has had many definitions, but there are three definitions in current use: the imperial gallon (≈ 4. 546 L ) which since metrication is used colloquially in the United Kingdom and semi-officially within Canada, the United States ( liquid ) gallon (≈ 3. 79 L ), and the lesser used US dry gallon (≈ 4. 40 L ).

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, 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, the prayer rope would typically have 100 knots, although prayer ropes with 50 or 33 knots can also be found in use today.

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, simulations used in different fields developed largely independently, but 20th century studies of Systems theory and Cybernetics combined with spreading use of computers across all those fields have led to some unification and a more systematic view of the concept.

Historically, military fiat had no relation to particular theories of economics or how to use the power of the state (" political science ").

Historically, the word ninja was not in common use, and a variety of regional colloquialisms evolved to describe what would later be dubbed ninja.

Historically, dating from ancient Sumerian use of sheep or goats, other peoples using pigs, rare seashells, or other items as commodity money, people have sought ways to standardize and trade contracts in the delivery of such items, to render trade itself more smooth and predictable.

Historically, the use of representative money predates the invention of coinage.

Historically schools incorporated sparring under a variety of conditions, from using solid wooden bokutō to use of bamboo sword ( shinai ) and armor ( bogu ).

Historically, and sometimes today, tolls are collected as a type of tax for the use of the local government or lord.

Historically, the area was renowned for mineral extraction, including clay, aggregates and notably the digging of huge amounts of chalk from the West Thurrock area for use in the now defunct cement industries.

Historically, the term barbarian has seen widespread use, in English.

Historically optical microscopes were easy to develop and are popular because they use visible light so that samples may be directly observed by eye.

Historically, the ace had the lowest value and this still holds in many popular European games ( in fact most European decks, including the French Tarot Nouveau, do not use the " A " index, instead keeping the numeral " 1 ").

Historically the term latten was used for such alloys.

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, the term originated in the mainframe field, where it had a well-defined meaning, very close to contemporary computer file.

Historically, defendant was a legal term for a person prosecuted for misdemeanour.

Historically, the term ferromagnet was used for any material that could exhibit spontaneous magnetization: a net magnetic moment in the absence of an external magnetic field.

Historically, the term has also been used in some fields of computer science and information technology to denote the gibibyte, or ( 1024 < sup > 3 </ sup > or 2 < sup > 30 </ sup >) bytes.

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

Historically the term GMT has been used with two different conventions for numbering hours.

Historically, there have been cases where the term " nybble " was used for a set of bits fewer than 8, but not necessarily 4.

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 term was probably influenced by Gothic haiþi " dwelling on the heath ", appearing as haiþno in Ulfilas ' bible as " gentile woman " ( translating the " Hellene " in ).

Historically, the term “ priest ” has been more associated with the “ High Church ” or Anglo-Catholic wing, whereas the term “ minister ” has been more commonly used in “ Low Church ” or Evangelical circles.

Historically, the term system operator applied to operators of any computer system, especially a mainframe computer.

Historically, the term terrorism was used to refer to actions taken by governments against their citizens whereas now it is more often perceived as targeting of civilians as part of a strategy directed against governments.

Historically, the term Tory has been applied in various ways to supporters of the British monarchy.

Historically, the term " Wends " has also occurred in the following contexts:

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

Historically the term referred to a mortal inhabitant of the Earth as opposed to spiritual or divine entities.

Historically the term has often been used interchangeably with the term ' sonnet '.

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, IBM introduced the term to cover three different device types: