Originally, the main types used were various compositions of polyesters.

Originally pebbles ( calculi ) were used.

Originally intended as assistants to the tribunes, they exercised certain police functions, were empowered to inflict fines and managed the plebeian and Roman games.

Originally BBSes were accessed only over a phone line using a modem, but by the early 1990s some BBSes allowed access via a Telnet, packet switched network, or packet radio connection.

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

Originally, climes were defined in Ancient Greece to describe the weather depending upon a location's latitude.

Originally, individuals were recognized as saints without any formal process ( as it is still done in the Orthodox Church ).

Originally, however, this referred to certain key priests of important churches of the Diocese of Rome, who were recognized as the cardinal priests, the important priests chosen by the pope to advise him in his duties as Bishop of Rome ( the Latin cardo means " hinge ").

Originally, cane toads were used to eradicate pests from sugar cane, giving rise to their common name.

Originally, the members of the Cheka were exclusively Bolshevik ; however, in January 1918, the Left SRs also joined the organization The Left SRs were expelled or arrested later in 1918, following the attempted assassination of Lenin by an SR, Fanni Kaplan.

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, computer monitors were used for data processing while television receivers were used for entertainment.

Originally, the runtimes were only installed by games or explicitly by the user.

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

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

Originally electricity and magnetism were thought of as two separate forces.

Originally ælf / elf and its plural ælfe were the masculine forms, while the corresponding feminine form ( first found in eighth century glosses ) was ælfen or elfen ( with a possible feminine plural-ælfa, found in dunælfa ) which became the Middle English elven, using the feminine suffix-en from the earlier-inn which derives from the Proto-Germanic *- innja ).

( Originally, the Fujiwara were descended from relatively minor nobility, thus their kami is an unremarkable one in the Japanese myth world.

Originally, faunal stages were only defined regionally ; however as additional stratigraphic tools, and especially geochonological ones, were developed, stages were defined over broader and broader areas.

Originally lesbians formed the majority of the movement, however modern Dianic groups may be all-lesbian, all-heterosexual or mixed.

Originally, the Great Pyramid was covered by casing stones that formed a smooth outer surface ; what is seen today is the underlying core structure.

Originally formed as International Telecommunications Satellite Organization ( INTELSAT ), it was — from 1964 to 2001 — an intergovernmental consortium owning and managing a constellation of communications satellites providing international broadcast services.

Originally, plasma was generated in the process chamber, but as the need to get rid of free radicals has increased, many machines now use a downstream plasma configuration, where plasma is formed remotely and the desired particles are channeled to the wafer.

Originally a left-wing party, the PSL formed a coalition with the Democratic Left Alliance ( SLD ) after winning 132 seats in the Sejm at the 1993 election, with PSL leader Waldemar Pawlak as Prime Minister until 1995.

Originally known as the Navy / NOAA Joint Ice Center, which was established on December 15, 1976 in a memorandum of agreement between the U. S. Navy and NOAA, the National Ice Center was formed in 1995 when the U. S. Coast Guard became a partner.

Originally, they formed a community by themselves and most of them were Saivite non-Brahmins.

Originally, they formed a community by themselves and most of them were Shaivite non-Brahmins.

Originally coined by the Dopyera brothers when they formed the Dobro Manufacturing Company, in time it came, in common language, to mean any resonator guitar, or specifically one with a single inverted resonator.

Originally known as the Mid-South Conference, the Gulf South Conference was formed by six universities in the summer of 1970: Delta State, Florence State ( now North Alabama ), Jacksonville State, Livingston ( now West Alabama ), Tennessee – Martin and Troy State ( now Troy ).

Originally called Scratch Band, this ministry-based quartet formed in the late 1970s in Sacramento, California, by Roe, keyboardist / guitarist Mark Tootle, bassist Jan Eric Volz, and drummer Mark Proctor.

Originally part of Camden District, Kershaw County was formed in 1791 from parts of Claremont, Lancaster, Fairfield, and Richland counties.

Originally formed in 1912 as the New Haven Council of the Boy Scouts of America, its headquarters was located in New Haven.

Originally part of Henry County, Dothan became the county seat of the newly formed Houston County on May 9, 1903.

Originally just Cherbourg, it was formed when the city absorbed Octeville on 28 February 2000, and was officially renamed Cherbourg-Octeville.

Originally built on a pig farm that covered much of modern day Rowland Heights, the Rowland Homestead was mostly orange groves until the eastward sprawl from Los Angeles spawned working-class communities and affordable housing developments then formed.

Originally formed by the stream of business expansions from Monterey Park ( now a heavily mainland Chinese enclave ), which is the undisputed " Chinatown " of Los Angeles, Rowland Heights has become an area comparable to a " Chinatown " by itself largely populated by Taiwanese.

Originally called the Bartak Depression after the owners of the land, it was redubbed the Merna Crater by University of Kansas geology professor Wakefield Dort, Jr. Further research showed the crater to be more likely formed by wind and water erosion, but memories of the flurry of importance in the small town remain.

Originally Birkerød consisted of eight individual villages ( Birkerød, Kajerød, Bistrup, Ravnsnæs, Isterød, Høsterkøb, Sandbjerg and Ubberød ) and did so until the 1940s when the construction of villa neighborhoods slowly erased the village borders and formed one town.

Originally formed as an epic / symphonic black metal band with strong death metal elements, vocalist / lyricist Byron Roberts took the name ' Bal-Sagoth ' from the Robert E. Howard short story " The Gods of Bal-Sagoth ".

Originally envisioned as a reshuffled version of the London Symphony Orchestra, Beecham and Sargent formed the orchestra after the LSO balked at weeding out and replacing underperforming players.

Originally formed as a gospel quartet, following the death of brother Vernon, the remaining trio launched a career into doo-wop scoring with their first million-selling hit single, " Shout ", in 1959.

Originally formed in their native Louisville, Kentucky as the Crazy Sounds, the group moved to Cleveland, where disc jockey Alan Freed renamed them ' the Moonglows ' ( after his own nickname, ' Moondog ').

Originally these choirs where formed as the tenor and bass sections of chapel choirs, and embraced the popular secular hymns of the day.