Initially thought to be a hoax, the story became something of an internet sensation.

Initially, Pius IX had been something of a reformer, but conflicts with the revolutionaries soured him on the idea of constitutional government.

Initially for common law, recourse to the King's courts was unusual, and something for which a plaintiff would have to pay.

Initially The Leninist appeared to some to be a Stalinist publication in its politics, but over time it mutated into something very different.

Initially, such rulers of Europe as Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, viewed the revolution in France as an event between the French king and his subjects, and not something in which they should interfere.

Initially American Flyer — aka " Chicago Flyer " -- was something of a budget brand, undercutting the prices of Ives, which was at the time the market leader.

Initially, Mego figures were released in boxes but S. S. Kresge's did not have shelves on which to place them so they requested that something be designed for their " peg board " displays.

Initially depressed by this turn of events, Mr Pewtey has a flash of courage and decides to " be a man " and do something about this ... but fails miserably.

Initially a small, faint nebulosity, subsequent observations showed that something remarkable had happened to it.

Initially, the rulers of Europe, such Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, viewed the revolution in France as an event between the French king and his subjects, and not something in which they should interfere.

Initially, Ritchie seems to regard the young, inexperienced Kennedy as something of a lightweight, but his enthusiasm to build a crew and refurbish the " 109 " to operational status eventually earns Ritchie's grudging respect.

Initially the process was handled by a clerk writing something like " Due 3 cents " on the cover, but this was subject to abuse by mail carriers, who might write it on themselves and pocket the difference.

Initially, the group had quite an impact on the press and on television which elevated the status of lesbians into something that could be discussed in ordinary society.

Initially Caesar met with little Gallic resistance: the 60 or so tribes that made up Gaul were unable to unite and defeat the Roman army, something Caesar exploited by pitting one tribe against another.

Initially an astronaut, he was first seen being saved by Spider-Man when his craft malfunctioned on re-entry, something that did nothing to endear the wall-crawler to his father, who resents Spider-Man's form of heroism.

Initially, John Romero gave him a couple of heavy metal records and told him to create something similar for Doom.

Initially it was successful, however something survived the exposure.

Initially Flyg and Kilbom attempted to reconcile with the Comintern, something that soon proved fruitless.

Initially portrayed as wholly evil, but it is soon found that his profound hatred of robots stems from something more personal ; he is the polar opposite of Duke Red.

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

Initially, multiprocessing was built using multiple discrete CPUs and boards to implement the interconnect between the processors.

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 the United States, there was a market separation between " music " CD-Rs and " data " CD-Rs, the former being several times more expensive than the latter due to industry copyright arrangements with the RIAA.

Initially, power swapped between the People's National Party and the Jamaican Labour Party regularly.

Initially the development was fairly piecemeal, but in 1828 this area just to the west of Potsdamer Platz, sandwiched between the Tiergarten and the north bank of the future Landwehrkanal, received Royal approval for a more orderly and purposeful metamorphosis into a residential colony of the affluent, and gradually filled with houses and villas of a particularly palatial nature.

Initially, it was fought largely as a religious war between Protestants and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire, although disputes over internal politics and the balance of power within the Empire played a significant part.

Initially striving for a synthesis between Hegelian-Marxism and Heidegger's phenomenology, Marcuse later rejected Heidegger's thought for its " false concreteness " and " revolutionary conservativism.

Initially unaware of Gibbs's contributions in that field, Albert Einstein wrote three papers on statistical mechanics, published between 1902 and 1904.

Initially the Kingdom of England was divided between the two half-brothers.

*; Polikarpov Po-2: Initially Po-2s were used for training ( between 1 and 18 December 1942 ), later were used for liaison and courier duties.

Initially, the fjord flows to the northwest, to then turn southwest at, splitting into three arms in its lower run, with three big islands in between the arms: Sermitsiaq Island, Qeqertarsuaq Island, and Qoornuup Qeqertarsua.

Initially, the operation was marginally successful and several bridges between Eindhoven and Nijmegen were captured.

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 only airing a single game weekly, the modern incarnation airs a weekly double-header, various segments during the intermissions and between games ( such as Don Cherry's Coach's Corner ), and pre and post-game coverage of the night's games.

Initially a dispute between formerly Spanish Guatemala and the United Kingdom's colony of British Honduras, Guatemala continued its claim after Belizean independence in 1981 ; it recognized its neighbour's independence one decade later, in 1991.

Initially dismissing Luther's theses as " an argument between monks ", he later outlawed Luther and his followers in that same year but was tied up with other concerns and unable to take action against Protestantism.

Initially, they believe the planet is uninhabited, due to the difference in scale between them and human beings.

Initially, the Tokugawa regarded them as potentially rebellious, but for most of the Edo period, marriages between the Tokugawa and the tozama, as well as control policies such as sankin kōtai, resulted in peaceful relations.

Initially it operated between Sheringham and Weybourne ; later it was extended to the eastern edge of Holt.

Initially, the similarities between their voices made it difficult for listeners ( as opposed to stage audiences ) to tell them apart due to their rapid-fire repartee.

Initially trains had to be ferried across the river between Marquette and Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, in order to continue their journey, but this system came to an end when Prairie du Chien businessman John Lawler had a permanent pontoon bridge built to connect the two cities ' rail lines.

Initially, they met in private homes ; between 1683 and 1687, Francis Collings constructed a hexagonal meeting house of brick.

Initially it had sold between 40, 000 to 60, 000 copies.

Initially it was divided between the parishes of Strensall and Driffield.