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 Government allowed private companies to bid for Railtrack plc.

Originally intended as a private palace, from 1784 on it was used to accommodate Bavarian and English knights.

* The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy: Originally the private collection of Peggy Guggenheim, after her death passed to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1979.

Originally designed as a Summer Room for Lady Burlington, in terms of expense the contents of this private room doubled that of any other interior.

Originally, the concept of a detachable magazine was opposed in some British Army circles, as some feared that the private soldier might be likely to lose the magazine during field campaigns.

Originally, it belonged to a private house which was torn down at the end of the 19th century.

Originally, the money was raised to provide pension support for district nurses ; 609 private gardens were opened and £ 8, 191 was raised.

Originally a private home, it became a brewery in 1777.

Originally a private school, St. Stephen's College became a government-funded public school during the late 1900s.

Originally founded on rented premises in 1942, Carleton would grow in size to meet the needs of returning WWII veterans and later became Ontario's first private, non-denominational college.

Originally, the duties now performed by the Chief of Staff belonged to the President's private secretary and was fulfilled by crucial confidants and advisers like George B. Cortelyou, Joseph Tumulty, and Louis McHenry Howe to presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin Roosevelt, respectively.

Originally a private company, the Gartner Group was launched publicly in the 1980s, then acquired by Saatchi & Saatchi, a London-based advertising agency, and then acquired in 1990 by some of its executives, with funding from Bain Capital and Dun & Bradstreet.

Originally the term " socialist " was often used interchangeably with " co-operative ", " mutualist ", " associationist " and " collectivist " in reference to the organization of economic enterprise socialists advocated, in contrast to the private enterprise and corporate organizational structures inherent to capitalism.

Originally the term was limited to public offerings of equity investments, but over time it has come to be associated with investigations of private mergers and acquisitions as well.

Originally it was planned to name as " Yokohama University ", but at that time the previous Yokohama City Economics College and private Yokohama vocational school were also wanted to apply their name as Yokohama University.

Originally a heavily wooded area dotted with private homes and swampland, the current shoreline and the Kew Gardens private park grounds were appropriated by the Toronto Harbour Commission in the early 1900s.

Originally, funding was completely based on private sources — association member dues and members ’ donations.

Originally, the Islamic Ottoman Empire didn't have a concept of private ownership of land.

Originally, like all private television stations in Canada from 1953 to 1959, CKCO was an affiliate of the CBC, but changed its affiliation to CTV in 1964.

Since February 2006, Lindesfarne has had her own blog cleverly titled “ Virtual Quill .” Originally, she was posting it as a sort of private journal, using the interdimensional portal to make sure that if it were ever seen by others, it would only be seen by humans from her native dimension ( namely, our world ), not the dimension she ’ s called home for the vast majority of her life.

Originally a family owned business run from Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 2004 Dennis Tippmann Sr. sold a majority ownership stake to Summit Partners, a private equity firm.

Originally founded in 1998 as There, Inc., Forterra Systems built private and secure distributed virtual worlds using their OLIVE ( On-Line Interactive Virtual Environment ) technology platform and industry-standard PC server and client hardware.

Originally a Cossack born in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Russian Turkestan ( now Kazakhstan ) in a family of Cossack Chorąży and his wife of kazakh origin, Kornilov entered military school in Omsk in 1885 and went on to study at the Mikhailovsky Artillery School in St. Petersburg in 1889. in August 1892, he was assigned as a lieutenant to the Turkestan Military District, where he led several exploration missions in Eastern Turkestan, Afghanistan and Persia, learned several Central Asian languages, and wrote detailed reports about his observations.

Originally operated in affiliation with the Methodist Church, the school mandated from the start that " no student would be denied admission because of race.

Originally aimed at the pre-adolescent female market, the Hello Kitty product range has expanded and goes all the way from dolls, stickers, greeting cards, clothes, accessories, school supplies and stationary to purses, toasters, televisions, other home appliances, massagers, and computer equipment.

Originally designated in 1891 as the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial School, UNCG was established as a school to train women educators, based on the assumption that if women received training they would, in turn, educate their children and ultimately improve the level of education and literacy in the state.

Originally a flying school operator the company took on maintenance work in 1938.

Originally an industrial pigment supply company, Crayola soon shifted its focus to art products for home and school use, beginning with chalk, then crayons, followed later by colored pencils, markers, paints, modeling clay, and other related goods.

Originally, a boy's boarding school, in 1971 the Academy began accepting girls.

Originally known as The Maroons, the Zipper nickname came about in the late 1930s when the school had a fast basketball team that would " Zip " up and down the court.

Originally discovered in 1883 by two school children, it today offers guided tours.

Originally named Glen Alpine School because of its nearness to the pioneer post office of the same name, the school was known by many other names, including the Campbell School, Mtichell School and Willats School.

Originally founded in 1998, the school changed its name from The Darcy School after finding a permanent campus in Chatham Township in 2005.

Originally the school was one building that housed all classes, however it has been expanded twice.

Originally a school around the turn of the 20th century, it was later used as a daycare center beginning in the 1950s.

Originally, Edison had its own high school, but by the late 1940s, Edison had partnered with nearby Burlington to create the Burlington-Edison School District, including a new high school called Burlington-Edison High School.

Originally created to serve high school students, the FFA has recently moved into middle schools where membership may begin as early as age 12, allowing members to become active earlier and stay active for longer.

Originally a clothing store, Topeka gradually grew to include food, school items, electronics, toys and other consumer products in their stores.

Originally from rural Indiana, they moved to New Rochelle, New York, where, after performing in high school productions, Booth went on to study drama in New York City, where she worked as a waitress.

Originally set to become a doctor, Hanssen took the opportunity to enroll in the dental school at Northwestern University.

Originally, the school provided education for 153 children of " all nacions and countries indifferently ", primarily in literature and etiquette.

It is one of the original nine Clarendon Schools ( including Eton College, Harrow and Charterhouse School ) that were defined by the Public Schools Act 1868 Originally a boarding school for boys, girls have been admitted into the Sixth Form since 2008 and its mixed gender roll of around 720 includes approximately 130 day pupils.

Denzil ( Paul Barber ) 1983-2003 — Originally cast because Sullivan wanted Del to have had a black friend from his school days, easy-going Liverpudlian Denzil was often on the receiving end of Del's scams.