Initially, balls of wool referred as ball badminton were preferred by the upper classes in windy or wet conditions, but ultimately the shuttlecock stuck.

Initially, Smith merely referred to " an angel " without identifying its name.

Initially, the event was referred as the October coup ( Октябрьский переворот ) or the Uprising of 25th, as seen in contemporary documents ( for example, in the first editions of Lenin's complete works ).

Initially, time management referred to just business or work activities, but eventually the term broadened to include personal activities as well.

Initially the fence was from home plate down the right-field line, referred to as the " short porch ", and to near right field, compared with to the deepest part of center field, nicknamed Death Valley.

Initially, the term " laudanum " referred to any combination of opium and alcohol.

Initially, a large proportion of noncoding DNA had no known biological function and was therefore sometimes referred to as " junk DNA ", particularly in the lay press.

Initially the magazine contained what was referred to as the serious side of computing, with programming tutorials, machine code features and business software reviews.

Initially, the blood was to be colored green, but the filmmakers realized that McCoy had referred to Spock as green-blooded.

Initially referred to as " Little Big Mac ", it was codenamed " Milwaukee " after Dhuey's hometown, and later went through a series of new names, including " Reno ", " Uzi " and " Paris " ( after Jean-Louis Gassee, Apple's then products manager, who protected the semi-clandestine project from cancellation ).

Initially, it may have referred to a weight of barley.

Initially licensed, sold, and marketed as MCA DiscoVision ( also known as simply " DiscoVision ") in North America in 1978, the technology was previously referred to internally as Optical Videodisc System, Reflective Optical Videodisc, Laser Optical Videodisc, and Disco-Vision ( with a dash ), with the first players referring to the format as " Video Long Play ".

Initially inscribed with the words " World Professional Football Championship " and generally referred to as the world championship trophy, it was officially renamed in 1970 in memory of legendary Green Bay Packers head coach Vince Lombardi after his sudden death from cancer and to commemorate his victories in the first two Super Bowls.

Initially, fewer studies documented risks of prenatal exposure to diethylstilbestrol on males ( referred to as " DES sons ").

Initially it referred to the shallow bank of the once much wider River Thames, before the construction of the Victoria Embankment.

Initially the settlement was referred to as the " Jewish neighborhood " of Nazareth, then as Kiryat Natzeret.

Initially, after the church's formation on April 6, 1830, Joseph Smith referred to himself as merely " an apostle of Jesus Christ, and elder of the church.

Initially, Leidy ( 1856 ) assumed they were lacertilian ( lizards ), but, by 1924, they were referred to Dinosauria by Gilmore, who suggested that they were ornithischians.

Initially leader of the Bophuthatswana National Party, Mangope left the party following what was officially referred to as ' internal strife ' and formed the Bophuthatswana Democratic Party, which then became the governing party.

Initially called " Italians ', they were first referred to as " leghorns " in 1865, in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Initially revealed through the publication Shonen Jump, the game is set around a tournament referred to as the Joker GP.

Initially, only a saloon body was offered ; a liftback version – referred to as a fastback – became available in 1988.

Initially it referred to Hindu or Muslim soldiers without regular uniform or discipline.

Initially the character was referred to only by his real name, both in the Age of Apocalypse and the primary Marvel universe.

Initially a joke designed to fill up blank space in the magazine, the weekly strip, detailing the mishaps and madcap ideas and inventions of a terminally idle office boy working at the Spirou offices, took off and became one of Franquin's best-known creations.

Initially the recruiters favoured Greeks ( who formed the largest part of the first units ) and Albanians ( who also served as gendarmes ), usually selecting about one boy from 40 houses, but the numbers could be changed to correspond with the need for soldiers.

Initially, it was a school for boy choristers to the Washington National Cathedral, a program that the school continues today.

Initially six houses were established, and membership of houses was based on the place of residence of each boy.

Initially reluctant, Aubrey finds to his surprise and delight that the boy has the mathematical skills essential for a navigator ; and he becomes a competent sailor.

Initially just using the name Andrew Smith, his " bad boy " womanising character became a big hit with viewers.

Initially as simply Ma Hunkel, the Golden Age Red Tornado originated in Sheldon Meyer's semi-autobiographical humor feature " Scribbly ", about a boy cartoonist, in All-American Comics.

Initially focused on animation, early versions of Flash content offered few interactivity features and thus had very limited scripting capability.

Initially, the plan appears to be successful, with Prometheus infecting Steel's armour with a virus, hitting the Martian Manhunter with a dart containing a toxin that destabilises his ability to control his shape, knocks out Huntress, traps Zauriel in the ' Ghost Zone ', beats Batman senseless using downloaded skills, uses a neural chaff to disrupt Green Lantern's will and informs Flash that the tower is rigged with bombs that will detonate if he moves too fast.

Initially, they wrestled as The Freedom Fighters ( Hellwig was known as Justice and Borden was called Flash ) in Memphis ' Continental Wrestling Association under manager Dutch Mantel.

Initially starring Superman, Batman, Robin, Wonder Woman, The Flash and Black Lightning, it underwent several title changes, as the focus changed to primarily feature Superman.

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.