Originally administered by the Board of Education of the City of New York, it was conducted as a grammar school that taught common school subjects ( along with nautical classes ) during the winter term, and then held practical cruises during the summer term.

Originally speed was measured by paying out a line from the stern of a moving boat ; the line had a knot every, and the number of knots passed out in 30 seconds gave the speed through the water in nautical miles per hour.

Originally, his father was an artillery lieutenant and commander in Mosteiros, and left the army after the Concession of Evoramonte, and without means, he opened a nautical school and mathematics in Ponta Delgada, eventually finding a position at the local secondary school in Ponta Delgada.

Originally, the term antioxidant specifically referred to a chemical that prevented the consumption of oxygen.

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 a neutral term, since the mid-1960s it has acquired a somewhat derogatory meaning, implying a paranoid tendency to see the influence of some malign covert agency in events.

Originally the term " Bronze Age " meant that either copper or bronze was being used as the chief hard substance for the manufacture of tools and weapons.

Originally the term FAQ referred to the Frequently Answered Question itself, and the compilation of questions and answers was known as a FAQ list or some similar expression.

Originally a router was called gateway, but the term was changed to avoid confusion with other types of gateways.

Originally the standard English term was " mercantile system ".

Originally, " maschinenpistole " was simply the German word for personal, automatic military weapons, while " submachine gun " was a term coined by John T. Thompson, American inventor of the Thompson submachine gun.

Originally, the term nori was generic and referred to seaweeds including hijiki.

Originally, the term referred to the presiding officer of a ceremony or meeting ( i. e., chairman ), but today it most commonly refers to an official.

Originally the penstock was the name of the valve, but the term has been extended to include all of the fluid supply hydraulics.

Originally, in the time of the Man ' yōshū, the term was used to distinguish " short " poems from the longer chōka.

Originally the term was used literally, for a matrix switch controlled by a grid of crossing metal bars, and later was broadened to matrix switches in general.

Originally, a " local and popular term " first applied to the Ismailis of Syria, the label was orally transmitted to Western historians and thus found itself in their histories of the Nizaris.

Originally, therefore, the term " creole language " meant the speech of any of those creole peoples.

Originally, this term was used for all factitious disorders.

Originally the term was associated with mid-1960s white artists who performed soul and R & B that was similar to the music released by Motown Records and Stax Records.

Originally the term referred to smaller guns that could accompany a field army on the march and when in combat could be moved about the battlefield in response to changing circumstances ( field artillery ), as to opposed guns installed in a fort ( garrison artillery / coastal artillery ), or to siege cannon or mortars which were too large to be moved quickly, and would be used only in a prolonged siege.

Originally, the term was used to describe the use of waste food by second animals, like the carcass eaters that follow hunting animals, but wait until they have finished their meal.

Originally the term was used to describe a ridiculous but amusing person.

Originally a specific class of poet, contrasting with another class known as fili in Ireland and Highland Scotland, the term " bard ", with the decline of living bardic tradition in the modern period, acquired generic meanings of an epic author / singer / narrator, comparable with the terms in other cultures ( minstrel, skald, scop, rhapsode, udgatar, griot, ashik ) or any poets, especially famous ones.

Originally, the term " coarse wavelength division multiplexing " was fairly generic, and meant a number of different things.

Originally entitled Called Home ( which is the Amish term for death ), it ran 182 pages long, the equivalent of three hours of screen time.

Originally referring to the location of a venue and its productions on a street intersecting Broadway in Manhattan's Theatre District, the hub of the theatre industry in the United States, the term later became defined by the League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers as a professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, or a specific production that appears in such a venue, and which adheres to related trade union and other contracts.

Originally a lumbering town, the name derives from an Indian term meaning " place of echoes ".

Originally, the Church of England was self-contained and relied for its unity and identity on its own history, its traditional legal and episcopal structure and its status as an established church of the state.

Originally used in Baker House to signify the Ivy League university tradition, on his return to Finland Aalto used it in a number of key buildings, in particular, in several of the buildings in the new Helsinki University of Technology campus ( starting in 1950 ), Säynatsalo Town Hall ( 1952 ), Helsinki Pensions Institute ( 1954 ), Helsinki House of Culture ( 1958 ), as well as in his own summer house, the so-called Experimental House in Muuratsalo ( 1957 ).

Originally based on the date used to calculate the age of fruit trees for tithing as mandated in Leviticus 19: 23 – 25, the holiday now is most often observed by planting trees, or raising money to plant trees.

Originally exercised by a single person, the office of Lord High Admiral was from the 18th century onward almost invariably put " in commission " and exercised by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, who sat on the Board of Admiralty.

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

Originally based on Martin Caidin's novel, Cyborg.

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 at Texas Stadium, the ring is now on display at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.

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

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 a street party held on Princes Street and the Royal Mile, the Hogmanay event has been officially organised since 1993.

Originally intended to be unkillable, SOE prevented a raid of several guilds on Rallos Zek server from potentially killing him, claiming the existence of a bug.

Originally focused largely on fashion, the exhibition now delves deeper into the contributions of first ladies to the presidency and American society.

; The Original Flatland Role Playing Game: Originally published in 1998 as an ' extra ' on the Forgotten Futures CD-ROM, and relaunched as a stand-alone PDF with additional material in 2006, this game uses a streamlined version of the Forgotten Futures rules adapted to the setting of Edwin A. Abbott's Flatland.

Originally developed on IRIX, Freeciv has been ported to many different operating systems: it is distributed with many Linux distributions, offers installers for Microsoft Windows, and has been known to run on Mac OS X, Solaris, Ultrix, QNX, OS / 2, Cygwin, AmigaOS, RISC OS, Maemo, ZETA, SkyOS and various BSDs.

Originally developed by IBM at their campus in south San Jose, California in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications, Fortran came to dominate this area of programming early on and has been in continual use for over half a century in computationally intensive areas such as numerical weather prediction, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, computational physics and computational chemistry.

Originally based on the still-existent village of Inverlochy, the town lies at the southern end of the Great Glen, on the shores of Loch Linnhe and Loch Eil.

Originally used on gut-strung instruments, the strength of the system allowed the guitar to withstand the additional tension of steel strings when this fortunate combination arose in the early 20th century.

Originally, in the event of the death, resignation or impeachment of the governor, or absence from the state, the lieutenant governor would take on the governor's duties and powers.

Originally modeled on the Psalms and other poetic passages ( commonly referred to as " canticles ") in the Scriptures, Christian hymns are generally directed as praise and worship to the monotheistic God.

Originally based on linen, this quickly moved to wool and factories multiplied, driving the growth of the town.