Originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of Florence Cathedral, the statue was instead placed in a public square, outside the Palazzo della Signoria, the seat of civic government in Florence, where it was unveiled on 8 September 1504.

Originally known as the 1201, the chip was commissioned by Computer Terminal Corporation ( CTC ) to implement an instruction set of their design for their Datapoint 2200 programmable terminal.

Originally commissioned in 1815 as the stables for the proposed Government House of New South Wales, the oldest Conservatorium building was designed by the convict architect, Francis Greenway.

Originally commissioned by Chicagoan Christopher Carley, the building site for the project was purchased by Irish developer Garrett Kelleher in July 2006 when Carley's financing plans fell through.

Originally commissioned for the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool it transferred to the West End in 1974.

Originally composed as a ballet commissioned by Russian ballerina Ida Rubinstein, the piece, which premiered in 1928, is Ravel's most famous musical composition.

Originally a German firm was commissioned to print the currency, but their newly printed batches of banknotes were destroyed after Britain successfully lobbied the German Government to halt the order.

Originally enlisting into the Artists Rifles he was commissioned in the South Wales Borderers in World War I.

Originally commissioned for and published by Interpresse, it has been published by Carlsen Comics since 1987.

Originally commissioned to celebrate the centennial of Captain Cook ’ s arrival to the Hawaiian Islands and to stand in front of the Aliʻiolani Hale government building in Honolulu, extenuating circumstances during its delivery to Hawaiii delayed its arrival, and resulted in its being placed instead in Kapaau, near Kamehameha I ’ s birthplace.

Originally commissioned by the East German Navy as the Rudolf Egelhofer, the Hiddensee is a built at the Petrovsky Shipyard in 1984, located near the Soviet city of Saint Petersburg ( formerly Leningrad ).

Originally commissioned by HBO, the project moved to competing network Showtime, where it debuted in January 2011.

Originally commissioned as an officer in the British Army's Rifle Brigade ( Special Reserve ), he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps as a Lieutenant in 1918.

Originally commissioned as the family seat of the Melville family, the house became an RAF hospital during World War II, lay derelict in the 1970s and 1980s, underwent restoration and conversion into a luxury retirement home in the late 1980s, and has now been restored and converted into a popular hotel.

Originally separately commissioned by director Michael Anderson, Pinter stripped it of its first-person narrator, its yellow book snobbery and the arguably anti-Semitic characterisation of Barrett-oiliness, heavy lids-replacing them with an economical language that implied rather than stated the slippage of power relations away from Tony towards Barrett.

Originally, BMW commissioned Lamborghini to work out the details of the car's chassis, assemble prototypes and manufacture the vehicles, but Lamborghini's financial position meant that BMW reassumed control over the project in April 1978, after seven prototypes were built.

Originally three copies of the Bible were commissioned by Ceolfrid in 692.

Originally ITV had commissioned a television series based on the books, which had a predicted air date of 2009, but it was later scrapped.

Originally built for theatre, one of three theaters commissioned in Boston by Eben Dyer Jordan, son of the founder of Jordan Marsh, a Boston-based chain of department stores.

Originally commissioned for a Belgian ballet, Les Etapes mixed tape samples, electronics, soprano, and violin ; the following year, he finished a musique concrète piece called " Lullaby for a Cat.

Originally commissioned by the NBC network as two separate specials, it spoofs the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, and features the voices of Billy Crystal, Gilda Radner, Harry Shearer and Michael Fremer.

Originally commissioned by NBC in 1978, it was produced as two separate shows intended to air along with the network's 1980 summer Olympics coverage.

Originally commissioned by the Venetian noble Gabriele Vendramin, the painting is housed in the Gallerie dell ' Accademia of Venice, Italy.

Originally a law student at the University of Santiago de Compostela, he enlisted in the Spanish army and went to Peru in 1817 as one of the commissioned officers in the fight against the pro-independence nationalist forces.

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

Originally called Rijndael, the cipher was developed by two Belgian cryptographers, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, who submitted to the AES selection process.

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 applied to any group of infantry primarily armed with projectile weapons, artillery has over time become limited in meaning to refer only to those engines of war that operate by projection of munitions far beyond the effective range of personal weapons.

Originally, the B ( wireline ) side license was usually owned by the local phone company, and the A ( non-wireline ) license was given to wireless telephone providers.

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 voiced by Mike Judge in " The Crush ", later by Rottilio Michieli, Todd is a trashy deadbeat and a violent criminal.

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 developed by Ericsson, Bluetooth technology is now used in many different products by many different manufacturers.

Originally, poorly organised Lions teams regularly suffered defeat at the hands of their hosts, but by 1955 the tourists took the matches seriously enough to obtain a 2 – 2 draw in South Africa.

Originally published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1976, only two years after the first role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons was published, this edition is now long out of print.

Originally written as a novel series by Wang Du Lu starting in the late 1930s, the film is adapted from the storyline of the fourth book in the series, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

; CMUCL: Originally from Carnegie Mellon University, now maintained as free and open source software by a group of volunteers.

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 called the Pioneer Mill, it was built by John R. Yale.

Originally intended as a patent medicine when it was invented in the late 19th century by John Pemberton, Coca-Cola was bought out by businessman Asa Griggs Candler, whose marketing tactics led Coke to its dominance of the world soft-drink market throughout the 20th century.

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 rebuffed by her in the early-1920s, Chiang managed to ingratiate himself to some degree with Soong May-ling's mother by first divorcing his wife and concubines, and promising to eventually convert to Christianity.

Originally performed with two-handed comb scoops, dry picking is today accomplished by motorized, walk-behind harvesters which must be small enough to traverse beds without damaging the vines.

Originally published in 2010 by Allen Lane, a Penguin Books imprint.