Originally called the " Magic Cube ", the puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Ideal Toy Corp. in 1980 via German businessman Tibor Laczi and Seven Towns founder Tom Kremer, and won the German Game of the Year special award for Best Puzzle that year.

Originally licensed in Galveston, KGUL was the second television station to launch in the Houston area after KPRC-TV.

Originally issued by the Monotype Corp. in England, perhaps in 1931, 1933 or 1943, the face design was also licensed to Linotype, because The Times newspaper used Linotype equipment for much of its production.

Originally a basement-run role-playing game publisher, the company popularized the collectible card game genre with Magic: The Gathering in the mid-1990s, acquired the popular Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game by purchasing the failing company TSR, and experienced tremendous success by publishing the licensed Pokémon Trading Card Game.

Originally licensed by Central Park Media, the OVA is currently licensed by Media Blasters.

Originally based in and broadcast from Springfield, Massachusetts, WBZ is the first licensed commercial radio station in the United States.

Originally, NBC licensed these rights to Worldvision Enterprises, since networks could not own syndication arms at the time.

Originally, the series was licensed in North America by Nutech ; because of litigation, the company lost the license, which is now owned by Critical Mass.

Originally available through the Quantum Chemistry Program Exchange, it was later licensed out of Carnegie Mellon University, and since 1987 has been developed and licensed by Gaussian, Inc.

Originally the anime was licensed by Pioneer Entertainment ( later Geneon Entertainment ).

Originally launched on February 1, 1983 under the name Premier Choix, the channel was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) to provide a national 24-hour a day French-language pay television service.

Originally, in the USA, many ( if not most ) broadcast licensing authorities required a licensed board operator to run every station at all times, meaning that every DJ had to pass an exam to obtain a license to be on-air, if their duties also required them to ensure proper operation of the transmitter.

Originally W22AH on channel 22, it was licensed in 1988 to serve Columbus, Georgia, over 100 km away.

Originally, the area was not allowed to have any premises selling alcohol, and although that is no longer the case, there are only a small number of licensed premises.

Originally s 1000 watt daytime-only station, in the mid-80s WAEC increased power to 5, 000 watts, then was licensed for a 24 hour signal with 500 watts during nighttime hours and 2, 500 watts during critical hours.

Originally acquired the Big Boy rights to northern West Virginia through Shoney's and quickly expanded Big Boy into bordering Ohio counties, licensed through Frisch's, and into Pennsylvania.

Originally published in Japan by Kadokawa Shoten, it has been licensed and translated into English by Tokyopop.

Originally licensed as a clergyman by the Church of Scotland, Purves relocated to the United States in 1978.

Originally released by MicroGraphicImage for the Atari 8-bit computers in 1983, the game was later ported to the Commodore 64 and re-released by Brøderbund in 1984, with European publishing rights licensed to Ariolasoft.

Originally available on CD, Malleus Crease was issued in Long Play by Italian independent record company W Dabliu ( licensed by Nuggetphase, the group's then recently founded independent label ) in 1997, in gatefold cover, including three posters, each one portraying the covers of the band's first and second albums, and of the album in question.

Originally conceived by its engineers to be an open bus, it was forced to be a tightly licensed bus by Digital's marketing and management, and was not nearly as successful as had originally been hoped-for.

Originally, WCKY was licensed to Covington, Kentucky, and was treated as a Kentucky-based station.

Originally recorded by hand, these words have been copied and recopied, translated and retranslated through the ages.

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

Originally, these privileges and immunities were granted on a bilateral, ad hoc basis, which led to misunderstandings and conflict, pressure on weaker states, and an inability for other states to judge which party was at fault.

Originally using print-based media, these sub-cultures have migrated much of their communications and interaction onto the internet, which they also use for the purpose of archiving detailed information pertinent to their given fanbase.

Originally Weiss made Jorgensen several offers to appear in the film, but these were turned down.

Originally, Lusitania included the territories of Asturia and Gallaecia, but these were later ceded to the jurisdiction of the new Provincia Tarraconensis and the former remained as Provincia Lusitania et Vettones.

Originally she was believed to be either Rabbi Meir's wife mentioned above, or Rabbi Chaninyah's daughter mentioned above, however over the past 3-4 centuries Rabbinic scholars have realized that these generations do not correspond to Beruryah's law decisions, and life, therefore she today is just ' Beruryah ' and of heretofore unknown lineage.

Originally, these recordings documented speedruns — attempts to complete a level as quickly as possible — and multiplayer matches.

Originally these included EPROM versions that have a " window " on the top of the device through which program memory can be erased by ultraviolet light, ready for reprogramming after a programming (" burn ") and test cycle.

Originally established with strong ties to the Department of Transportation, these ties were later severed under the Independent Safety Board Act of 1974.

Originally these were the Mullard Research Laboratories.

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 the Principes were armed with a short spear called a hasta, but these gradually fell out of use, eventually being replaced by the Gladius.

Originally, kansui was named after the water from Inner Mongolia's Lake Kan which contained large amounts of these minerals and was said to be perfect for making these noodles.

Originally the instruments relied on the Earth's magnetic field to provide the restoring force for the compass needle ; these were called " tangent " galvanometers and had to be oriented before use.

Originally, these lights were accompanied by a warning buzzer whenever the transmission was in any position except park if either the driver was not buckled up or, as determined by a pressure sensor in the passenger's seat, if there was a passenger there not buckled up.

Originally these were granted only to individuals, but were afterward made hereditary in England by King Richard I, during his crusade to Palestine.

Originally, according to the myth, the year was only 360 days long and Nut was sterile during these days, unable to bear children.

Originally, these playoffs were introduced in 1974 and were part of the Second Division, to determine which team was promoted to the highest level together with the division champions.

Originally these were called, in Latin, the four operations of quadripartita ratio.

Originally these made equal space for the members of the Papal Chapel within the sanctuary near the altar and the pilgrims and townsfolk without.

Originally these were from specialist high-end computer manufacturers such as Concurrent, Encore, Harris, IBM, etc., but with the increasing power of the PC, arrays of high-end PCs are now also used as the primary computing medium in flight simulators.

Originally, Stanley Heaps, head of the Underground's Architects Office was to design the stations, but after seeing these designs Frank Pick, Assistant Joint Manager of the UERL, decided Holden should take over the project.

Originally simple ' on-off ' systems, these evolved to use complex systems of relays to control a rubber powered escapement's speed and direction.