Historically, religion has also functioned as a tremendous engine of vindication, enforcement, sanction, and perpetuation of various other institutions.

Historically, the blót was an event that focused on a communal sacrifice at various times of the year for a number of purposes.

Historically most of the music published in Esperanto has been in various folk traditions ; in recent decades more rock and other modern genres has appeared.

Historically, there have been numerous episodes of hyperinflation in various countries followed by a return to " hard money ".

Historically, kickboxing can be considered a hybrid martial art formed from the combination of elements of various traditional styles.

Historically, dog meat has been consumed in various part of the world, such as Hawaii, Japan, Switzerland and Mexico.

Historically, manganese is named for various black minerals ( such as pyrolusite ) from the same region of Magnesia in Greece which gave names to similar-sounding magnesium, Mg, and magnetite, an ore of the element iron, Fe.

Historically, Burma was a monarchy ruled by various dynasties prior to the 19th century.

Historically, melanin is another name for the various oxidized polyacetylene, polyaniline, and Polypyrrole " blacks " and their mixed copolymers, all commonly used in present day organic electronic devices.

Historically, this has led to various growth stages ( including growth stages of related pterosaurs ) being mistaken for new species of Pterodactylus.

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

Historically, cosmologies and cosmogonies were based on narratives of gods acting in various ways.

Historically, science incorporated various aether theories to explain the transmission medium.

Historically, various media were used to transfer messages, some of them only supporting 7-bit data, so an 8-bit message had high chances to be garbled during transmission in the 20th century.

Historically, once the condemned person was attached to the chair, various cycles ( differing in voltage and duration ) of alternating current would be passed through the individual's body, in order to cause fatal damage to the internal organs ( including the brain ).

Historically, these rivers and streams were used to power various types of mills ( i. e. grist mills, fulling mills, etc.

Historically, Malay has been written using various scripts.

Historically Leith was governed by the Town Council of Edinburgh, with separately organised baillies appointed by various bodies without contact with each other.

Historically, encryption modes have been studied extensively in regard to their error propagation properties under various scenarios of data modification.

Historically and to the present day, various social and political movements ( such as Social credit ) have criticized the involvement of the private sector in " creating money ," claiming that only the government should have the power to " make money.

Historically, in Southern Africa, the protectorates of Bechuanaland ( now Botswana ), Basutoland ( now Lesotho ) and Swaziland were administered as High Commission Territories by the Governor-General of South Africa, who was also the British High Commissioner for Bechuanaland, Basutoland, and Swaziland, until the 1930s, with various local representatives, and subsequently by the British High Commissioner ( from 1961 Ambassador ) to South Africa, who was represented locally in each territory by a Resident Commissioner.

Historically, several names in various languages have identified Daugavpils.

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

Historically, head lice ( especially in children ) have been, and still are, subject to various eradication campaigns.

Historically, Latin or Romance languages have been the official languages in this region.

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 the å has developed from a ligature by writing a small a on top of the letter a ; if an å character is unavailable, some Scandinavian languages allow the substitution of a doubled a.

Historically, a connection from Etruscan to the Semitic languages has also been discussed.

Historically, the Indo-European languages had eight morphological cases, though modern languages typically have fewer, using prepositions and word order to convey information that had previously been conveyed using distinct noun forms.

Historically, this office has held the title of Pope, " Παπας " ( papas ), which means " Father " in the Greek and the Coptic languages, since Pope Heracleus, the 13th Alexandrine Bishop ( 232 – 249 AD ), was the first to associate the appellation of Pope with the title of the Bishop of Alexandria.

Historically, Message Queuing has used proprietary, closed protocols, restricting the ability for different operating systems or programming languages to interact in a heterogenous set of environments.

Historically, some languages treat vowel sounds that were formerly diphthongs as monophthongs.

Historically, the Nganasan language and a Taymyr Pidgin Russian were the only languages spoken among the Nganasan, but with increased education and village settlement, Russian has become the first language of many Nganasans and the Dolgan language is also spoken by some Nganasans who live in mixed villages such as Ust '- Avam.

Historically, Bhumthangkha and its speakers have had close contact with speakers of Kurtöpkha to the east, Nupbikha to the west, and Khengkha to the south, to the extent that they may be considered part of a wider collection of " Bumthang languages.

Historically, Khengkha and its speakers have had close contact with speakers of Kurtöpkha, Nupbikha, and Bumthangkha to the north, to the extent that they may be considered part of a wider collection of " Bumthang languages.

Historically, the Turkic languages are believed to have arrived in Iran from Central Asia from the 11th or 12th centuries onwards.

Historically, American Indian peoples from the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Muskogee, Choctaw and Seminole nations ; ethnic European Americans from England, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, and Spain ; and African-descended peoples originally speaking numerous languages from a variety of ethnic cultures of West Africa, are all represented at the fort.

Historically, different methods and languages were required for every repository, including each different database, file system, etc., and many of these repositories stored their content in different and incompatible formats.

Historically, this sound often derives from a former voiceless velar stop ( as in English, Slavic languages and Romance languages ), or a voiceless dental stop by way of palatalization, especially next to a front vowel.

Historically, only few such languages were successful in both establishing themselves and maintaining strong market position ; a short description of those languages follows below.

Historically, the " erosion " of word-final sounds ( strongest in Livonian, Võro and Estonian ) may leave a phonemic status to the morphophonological variations caused by the agglutination of the lost suffixes, which is the source of the third length level in these languages.