Originally colonized by the French, Diego Garcia was ceded, along with the rest of the Chagos Archipelago, to the United Kingdom in the Treaty of Paris ( 1814 ) at the conclusion of a portion of the Napoleonic Wars.

Originally, it was one of only two ways to score points, along with the place kick.

Originally, the Duke held the electorate personally, but it was later made hereditary along with the duchy.

Originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of Florence Cathedral, the statue was instead placed in a public square, outside the Palazzo della Signoria, the seat of civic government in Florence, where it was unveiled on 8 September 1504.

Originally shot as a silent, Blackmail was restaged to include dialogue sequences, along with a score and sound effects, before its premiere.

Originally a farm, on the far outskirts of Toronto, Mount Pleasant Cemetery opened on November 4, 1876 with more than twelve miles ( 19 km ) of carriage drives along rolling hills and ponds.

Originally seen as a spur route, to be designated Interstate 297, it was planned to be built along the Maryland Route 3 corridor, but the proposed route was canceled because of local opposition.

Originally, it ran along the entire western border of Wyoming, including Yellowstone National Park.

Originally named Clackamas District, it was one of the four original Oregon districts created by Oregon's Provisional Legislature on July 5, 1843 along with Twality ( later Washington ), Champooick ( later Marion ), and Yamhill.

Originally it was an area characterised by villages clustered around the City walls or along the main roads, surrounded by farmland, with marshes and small communities by the River, serving the needs of shipping and the Royal Navy.

Originally known as Cold Spring Ranch until 1902 ( because of an icy spring ), the town sits on State Route 4 and historically was a stopping point along the toll road between Murphys and Ebbetts Pass, often serving as a resort for visitors to what is now Calaveras Big Trees State Park.

Originally platted along the right-of-way for the Hennepin Canal, in 1837, the village site was called in land speculation papers " Hampton " ( not the town in Illinois, approximately 13 miles north-northeast, on the Mississippi River — see Hampton, Illinois for more ).

Originally, inhabited by the Tchoupitoulas Indians, the area along the Mississippi River was the first land in the New Orleans Metropolitan Area on which Europeans set foot.

Originally named for Oliver Partridge, one of the three purchasers of the town ( along with Governor Francis Bernard ), the name was officially changed to Peru in 1805, possibly because of its high altitude.

Originally called Great Harbor, it was incorporated in 1671, and is one of the two original towns on Martha's Vineyard, along with Tisbury.

Originally a lumber town and port, Saugatuck, along with the adjacent city of Douglas became a noted art colony and tourist destination in the arts and crafts movement of the late 19th century.

Originally called " Short Mill ," Shortsville began its existence in 1804 when Theophilus Short built two mills along the shores of the Canandiagua Outlet ; the village was then incorporated in 1889.

Originally, U. S. 33 ran from Bellefontaine along a portion of the present-day County Road 540 then southwards entering on Water Street through Zanesfield and then southeast along Columbus Street before its move to its current location outside the village in 1964.

Originally served by a canal along the Frankstown Branch Juniata River, the canal was abandoned in 1872.

Kershaw County ’ s official web site states, “ Originally laid out in 1732 as the town of Fredericksburg in the Wateree River swamp ( south of the present town ) when King George III ordered eleven inland townships established along South Carolina's rivers, few of the area settlers chose to take lots surveyed in the town, choosing the higher ground to the north.

Originally part of the rural surroundings of the Washington, D. C. area, the town of Herndon developed into a hub of dairy farming and vacationing for area residents, aided by its presence along the Alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad ( later to become the Washington and Old Dominion ( W & OD ) Railroad ).

Originally called Little Falls in the 1870s, the community was established by the Union Lumbering Company along the Chippewa River and came to be known as Holcombe years later.

Originally set in an apartment building in New York City, I Love Lucy centers on Lucy Ricardo ( Lucille Ball ) and her singer / bandleader husband Ricky Ricardo ( Desi Arnaz ), along with their best friends and landlords Fred Mertz ( William Frawley ) and Ethel Mertz ( Vivian Vance ).

Originally designed as a lightweight anchor for seaplanes, this design consists of two plow-like blades mounted to a shank, with a folding stock crossing through the crown of the anchor.

Originally a cupbearer ( Rabshaqe ) to a king of Kish with a Semitic name, Ur-Zababa, Sargon thus became a gardener, responsible for the task of clearing out irrigation canals.

Originally called the Binghamton Public Library, it was created with a gift of $ 75, 000 from Carnegie.

Originally applied to any group of infantry primarily armed with projectile weapons, artillery has over time become limited in meaning to refer only to those engines of war that operate by projection of munitions far beyond the effective range of personal weapons.

Originally published in modern Hebrew, with a running commentary to facilitate learning, his Steinzaltz edition of the Talmud has also been translated into English, French, Russian and Spanish.

Originally the teachers communicated with the children via radio, but now satellite telecommunication is used instead.

Originally combined with the Book of Nehemiah in a single book of Ezra-Nehemiah, the two became separated in the early centuries of the Christian era.

Originally, demonstration aircraft were navy blue ( nearly black ) with gold lettering.

Originally established in 1983, it has since become an international enterprise with branches and subsidiaries in North America, Europe, and East Asia.

Originally, the Spanish had ordered regulations on trade with Cuba, which kept the island from becoming a dominant sugar producer.

Originally rebuffed by her in the early-1920s, Chiang managed to ingratiate himself to some degree with Soong May-ling's mother by first divorcing his wife and concubines, and promising to eventually convert to Christianity.

Originally active from 1985 to 1996, the band have had consistent commercial and critical success in Australia and New Zealand and international chart success in two phases, beginning with their self-titled debut album, Crowded House, which reached number twelve on the US Album Chart in 1987 and provided the Top Ten hits, " Don't Dream It's Over " and " Something So Strong ".

Originally performed with two-handed comb scoops, dry picking is today accomplished by motorized, walk-behind harvesters which must be small enough to traverse beds without damaging the vines.

Originally simply a list of kings with reign lengths, the other details contained in the Poppleton Manuscript version were added from the tenth century onwards.

Originally simply a list of kings with reign lengths, the other details contained in the Poppleton Manuscript version were added in the 10th and 12th centuries.

Originally during his appearances in Action Comics and later in his own magazine, the Man of Steel would strip to his costume and stand revealed as Superman, often with the transformation having already been completed.

Originally presented with an opportunity to rock out Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 " From the New World " by their new stereophonic label, the band instead forged ahead to unify their own orchestral-based threads of a day in the life of a common man.

Originally, it was a summer program for disadvantaged youth, although it has grown into an AmeriCorps-sponsored non-profit organization with six regional offices that serve Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and North and South Dakota.

Originally the IDF issued two circular aluminium tags ( 1948 – late 1950s ) stamped in 3 lines with Serial number, Family Name, and First Name.

Originally, strips featuring the President of the United States would show an external view of the White House, with dialogue emerging from inside.

Originally, the names of these APIs all began with Direct, such as Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, DirectSound, and so forth.

Originally DBMSs were found only in large organizations with the computer hardware needed to support large data sets.

Originally, the Alpha processors were designated the DECchip 21x64 series, with " DECchip " replaced in the mid-1990s with " Alpha ".