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, the term " litharge " has been combined to refer to other similar substances.

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 the term latten was used for such alloys.

Historically, the remedy for such violations have been petitions for common law writs, such as quo warranto.

Historically, some women have cross-dressed to take up male-dominated or male-exclusive professions, such as military service.

Historically, the international community would have targeted weak states for territorial absorption or colonial domination or, alternatively, such states would fragment into pieces small enough to be effectively administered and secured by a local power.

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, electronics labs have consisted of electronics devices and equipment located in a physical space, although in more recent years the trend has been towards electronics lab simulation software, such as CircuitLogix, Multisim, and PSpice.

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, several number bases have been used for representing floating-point numbers, with base 2 ( binary ) being the most common, followed by base 10 ( decimal ), and other less common varieties, such as base 16 ( hexadecimal notation ), as well as some exotic ones like 3 ( see Setun ).

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, special-purpose narrow gauge railways, such as that in the village of Qoornoq in the Nuuk fjord, have operated.

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, some theocratic Islamic states known as imamates have been led by imams as head of state, such as in what is now Oman, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia.

Historically Apex was the place where most Inuit lived when Iqaluit was a military site, and as such it was off − limits to anyone not working at the base.

Historically, model organisms include a handful of species with extensive genomic research data, such as the NIH model organisms.

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, such algorithms were developed within the overlapping field of operations research.

Historically, both peaceful and violent competition and integration between Oromos and other neighboring ethnicities such as the Amhara, Sidama and the Somali had an impact on politics within the Oromo community.

Historically, common law courts relied little on legal scholarship ; thus, at the turn of the twentieth century, it was very rare to see an academic writer quoted in a legal decision ( except perhaps for the academic writings of prominent judges such as Coke and Blackstone ).

Historically, photolithography has used ultraviolet light from gas-discharge lamps using mercury, sometimes in combination with noble gases such as xenon.