Originally known as mi hou tao ( 猕猴桃 ) or yang tao ( 杨桃 ), it is declared as a " National Fruit " of China.

Originally voluntarist or nihilist figures like Li Shicen and Zhu Qianzhi made similar turns to the Left as the 1920s saw China become increasingly turbulent.

Originally, the reindeer was found in Scandinavia, eastern Europe, Russia, Mongolia, and northern China north of the 50th latitude.

Originally inhabited by a mixture of tribal groups known to the Chinese as the Hundred Yue ( Baiyue ), the region first became part of China during the Qin Dynasty.

*" Xirong " Originally an ancient ethnic group, it became used to refer to all non-Han ethnic groups in northwestern China, such as the Uyghurs.

*" Beidi " Originally an ancient ethnic group, this term was later used to refer to all non-Han ethnic groups in northern China beyond the Great Wall, including Mongolians and the Manchu.

*" Dongyi " Originally ancient ethnic groups who lived east of the Huaxia along the coast of modern China.

Originally, the National Assembly elected the President and Vice President of the Republic of China.

Originally, Catai was the name applied by Central and Western Asians and Europeans to northern China ; it obtained wide currency in Europe after the publication of Marco Polo's book ( he referred to southern China as Manji ).

Originally issued by the Bank of Taiwan, it has been issued by the Central Bank of the Republic of China since 2000.

Originally, neither China nor Japan wanted the skirmish to escalate into a full-scale war.

Originally, Chiang believed that China needed at least several years of internal peace and unity to build up a national army and sufficient industries to fight Japan on the same footing.

Originally aired on Japanese TV in 1975, the anime has been dubbed into 42 languages and screened on television in various territories, including China, Australia, Germany, the United States, South Africa, Portugal, Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Latin America, Chile, Israel, Iran, Italy, Greece, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Republic of Macedonia, Bosnia, Slovakia, Spain, Serbia, Finland, Poland, Croatia, Hungary, Russia, Turkey, Lebanon as " Zena ", and Iran as " Nikoo " ( نیکو ).

Originally made in Mexico, Chia Pets are now produced in China.

Originally a production of Watermark Inc. ( later a division of ABC Radio, now Citadel Media ), it is now distributed by Premiere Radio Networks in the United States, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, Singapore, China, India, the United Kingdom, Malaysia and several other territories worldwide.

Originally spun off from Continental Motors Company in 1929 and owned by Teledyne Technologies until December 2010, the company is part of AVIC International, which is owned by the government of the People's Republic of China.

Originally built as an Imperial Japanese Navy Air Squadron base in 1938 during the Taiwan under Japanese rule era, Kaohsiung Airport retained its military purpose when the Republic of China government first took control of Taiwan.

Originally, China was to host the 2003 Women's World Cup, but the outbreak of SARS in that country forced that event to be moved to the United States.

Originally founded as Russian Training School of Southwest Military University of PLA in May 1950, it is the only university specialized in foreign language studies in the Southwest region of China.

Originally, the Wokou were mainly soldiers, ronin, merchants and smugglers from Japan ; however in later centuries most of the pirates actually originated in China.

Originally from China, silk comforters are now more common throughout the world.

Originally it was thought that this was based on the 300 km-range Raduga Kh-15 ( AS-16 ' Kickback '), but it now appears that it was the Kh-55 that was transferred to China.

* Rennie, David Field, The British Arms in North China and Japan Originally published 1864.

Originally, the Society had disallowed female members.

Originally known as Buckingham House, the building which forms the core of today's palace was a large townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1705 on a site which had been in private ownership for at least 150 years.

Originally the word " broadband " had a technical meaning, but became a marketing term for any kind of relatively high-speed computer network or Internet access technology.

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

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, Rogers ' mask was a separate piece of material, but an early engagement had it dislodged, thus almost exposing his identity.

Originally, the procedure was used in clinical trials only on dachshunds that had suffered previous back incidents.

Originally an earthly king ruling by divine appointment (" the anointed one ", as the title Messiah had it ), the " son of David " became in the last two pre-Christian centuries the apocalyptic and heavenly one who would deliver Israel and usher in a new kingdom.

Originally, however, the Egyptians believed that only the pharaoh had a ba, and only he could become one with the gods ; dead commoners passed into a dark, bleak realm that represented the opposite of life.

Originally from Massachusetts, William Wright had been a Baptist minister, but he later joined his wife's family in the Unitarian faith.

Originally they had no wings, but late in the artistic representations, they are depicted.

Originally, the association had not set out to create its own language.

Originally, the court had the power to mete out sentences, with excommunication as its most severe penalty.

Originally his work focused on technique-some argue that it had that focus at the cost of relevance, especially in Rain ( Regen, 1929 ), a 10-minute short filmed over 2 years which features impressive cinematography and a number of ' characters ' but no information about them aside from what was visible, and in The Bridge ( De Brug, 1928 ), which showed a frank admiration of engineering and also featured a number of " characters " but again did not give any information about them.

Originally conceived in 1982, this Japanese-American co-production had a long and tumultuous history which included a 1984 pilot by Ghibli director Yoshifumi Kondō.

Originally the Arms Park had a cricket ground to the north and a rugby union stadium to the south.

Originally, it had blocks of sponsored airtime that played music from a live orchestra.

Originally, the government, advised by prominent historians, had wanted to disestablish Opolskie and partition its territory between the more historically ‘ Polish ’ regions of Lower Silesia and Silesia.

Originally, Sanskrit had no punctuation.

Originally, the deck had to be composed by combining two poker, piquet or euchre decks and removing unneeded cards ( a piquet deck does not have the 2-6, making it easier to modify, and a euchre deck is exactly half a pinochle deck ), but with the game's popularity in the United States in the early 1900s, a single boxed deck with the necessary cards was marketed, and these specialized pinochle decks are now widely available in similar styles to common 52-card counterparts.

" ( Originally, only three quarks had been discovered.

Originally scientists believed that the elongation of the giraffe's neck had been a result of foraging selection.

Originally, Enterprise had been intended to be refitted for orbital flight, which would have made it the second space shuttle to fly after Columbia.

Originally, Columbia had 32, 000 tiles — the upgrade reduced this to 24, 300.

Originally intended to be an outer-space variation on Lord of the Flies, the project at first was titled " Asteroid Ship Icarus " and had a multinational teenage crew journeying through space in a hollowed-out asteroid in search of the planet Iscandar.