Initially, half of Connecticut was a part of the Dutch colony, New Netherland, which included much of the land between the Connecticut and Delaware rivers.

Initially in medieval Latin European documents, a land grant in exchange for service was called a beneficium ( Latin ).

Initially, western ballistic missiles could not even reach such targets, which would be located deep within interior of the Sino-Soviet land mass in Asia.

Initially located downtown at in Foggy Bottom ( near the Lincoln Memorial ), the observatory moved in 1893 to its present location on a 2000-foot circle of land atop Observatory Hill overlooking Massachusetts Avenue.

Initially, there was tension between the people of the Mission and those in the nearby Pueblo de San Jose over disputed ownership rights of land and water.

Initially making only tentative forays onto land, tetrapods adapted to terrestrial environments over time and spent longer periods away from the water, while also spending a longer part of their juvenile stage on land before returning to the water for the rest of their life.

Initially those who held land directly from the king by military service, from earls downwards, all bore alike the title of baron, which was thus the factor uniting all members of the ancient baronage as peers one of another.

Initially in size, the cemetery was expanded to in 1905, but reduced to in 1912, when a portion of its land was sold to the neighboring Gate of Heaven Cemetery.

Initially GM refused, but after settling an unresolved tax dispute ( GM potentially owed the city of Norwood millions of dollars in back taxes ) GM agreed to demolish the remaining buildings and to donate ownership of the land to the City of Norwood.

Initially horses were scarce, owned only by large land owners, as they required more winter feed and were only slightly more productive as farm animals than oxen which could live on poorer food and be eaten.

* Egypt: Initially, Egyptian land reform essentially abolished the political influence of major land owners.

Initially, few Seminoles had any interest in moving to the reservation land or in establishing more formal relations with the government.

Initially the RNZAF remained a tenant on the land, however all remaining units based there have now relocated to other defence sites.

Initially, the war on land went badly for the French and their allies, with German forces invading France and an urgent need to gather all possible troops to send to France to resist them.

Initially, the only income the farm produced was from wagonloads of firewood Almanzo sold for 50 cents in town, the result of the backbreaking work of clearing the trees and stones from land that slowly evolved into fertile fields and pastures.

Initially, the hijackers were granted safe passage to Tunisia, but U. S. President Ronald Reagan ordered a U. S. fighter plane to force the get-away plane to land at Naval Air Station Sigonella in Italy.

Initially the British, Eighth Army under the command of General Bernard Montgomery, were to land on the south-eastern corner of the island and advance north to the port of Syracuse.

Initially believing that a piece of sash could not provide enough land to build a temple, they were surprised when Jijang threw the kasaya in the air, and the robe expanded in size, covering the entire mountain.

Initially the land was owned by a number of noble families and abbeys.

Initially Fitzroy and Wakefield clashed seriously, particularly when FitzRoy declined to take any action against his brother's killers, as the settler party was acting illegally over a questionable land claim.

Initially, Fox was opposed to government negotiations with Māori over land, stating that Māori had a right only to land that they used.

Initially the White House reaction was that the bitter exchanges with Moscow over Cuba and the conflict in Laos had dampened prospects for a meeting.

Initially, Hamrick's reaction to A-Z going into the passenger car market was discouraging.

Initially the festival was held in October, but due to the inclement weather and local heavy clay soil ( like the battle ) making the festival difficult it was moved to July.

Initially in a literary revival Renaissance was determined to move away from the religion-dominated Middle Ages and to turn its attention to the plight of the individual man in society.

Initially it was conceived as a difference engine curved back upon itself, in a generally circular layout, with the long store exiting off to one side.

Initially led by Canovas del Castillo as moderate prime minister, what was thought at one time as a coup aimed at placing the military in the political-administrative positions of power, in reality ushered in a permanent civilian regime tat lasted until the 1931 Second Republic.

Initially Aster computer b. v. was called MCP ( Music print Computer Product ), because it was specialized in producing computer assisted printing of sheet music.

Initially the work was not well received, due, in part, to the many gaps in arguments and complicated equations.

Initially, it was " Thürer ," meaning doormaker, which is " ajtós " in Hungarian ( from " ajtó ", meaning door ).

Initially, Raimi invited Scott Spiegel to co-write Army of Darkness because he had done a good job on Evil Dead II, but he was busy on rewrites for the Clint Eastwood film The Rookie.

Initially built from wood, the fort was eventually rebuilt in stone.

Initially the source was Latin, later Gascon ( a branch of Occitan ) in the northeast, Navarro-Aragonese in the southeast and Spanish in the southwest.

Initially, a wireless room was established at Bletchley Park.

Initially bronze was made out of copper and arsenic to form arsenic bronze.

Initially, Old English was a diverse group of dialects, reflecting the varied origins of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of England.

Initially his mother was reluctant to let him commit to an insecure football career, so he began an apprenticeship as an electrical engineer ; however he went on to turn professional in October 1954.

Initially, ice on the wings was blamed, but a later inquiry declared that slush on the runway had made a safe take-off almost impossible.

Initially he was counting the tempo with a metronome and looking for records with the same tempo.

Initially, the plan was also to include a rail connection between Boston's two major train terminals.

Initially, it was relatively unsuccessful, staying at the charts for only one week, but Haley soon scored a major worldwide hit with a cover version of Big Joe Turner's " Shake, Rattle and Roll ", which went on to sell a million copies and became the first ever rock ' n ' roll song to enter British singles charts in December 1954 and became a Gold Record.

Initially the frigate squadron was mistaken for French warships and chased away by Swiftsure, returning the following day once the error had been realised.

Initially it was difficult to obtain a digital satellite or terrestrial receiver without a subscription to Sky or ONdigital respectively, but now the channel forms an important part of the Freeview package of channels.

Initially designed to run on AT & T Hobbit-based hardware, BeOS was later modified to run on PowerPC-based processors: first Be's own systems, later Apple Inc .' s PowerPC Reference Platform and Common Hardware Reference Platform, with the hope that Apple would purchase or license BeOS as a replacement for its then aging Mac OS.