Originally conceived in 1982, this Japanese-American co-production had a long and tumultuous history which included a 1984 pilot by Ghibli director Yoshifumi Kondō.

Originally conceived as a 52-episode story, funding cuts meant the season had to be truncated to 25 episodes, with a corresponding loss of overall story development.

Originally conceived as a solo record by John Wozniak, he later brought Dylan Keefe into the project and the record was released under the band's name.

Originally produced with collaborative input from the Ministry of Agriculture, The Archers was conceived as a means of disseminating information to farmers and smallholders to help increase productivity in the post-World War II years of rationing and food shortages.

Originally conceived as anti-ship weapons, PT boats were publicly credited with sinking several Japanese warships during the period between December 1941 and the fall of the Philippines in May 1942.

Originally conceived by Charles Addams for the character eventually named Pugsley in the 1960s television series, the name was rejected back then due to fears that 1960s network censors would not allow it because of its similarity to the words " pubic " and " puberty ".

Originally conceived by Acorn Computers for use in its personal computers, the first ARM-based products were the co-processor modules for the BBC Micro series of computers.

Originally conceived as the soundtrack to a television play that was never produced, the band's first rock opera affectionately chronicled the trials and tribulations of a working class everyman and his family from the very end of the Victorian era through World War I and World War II, the postwar austerity years, and up to the 1960s.

Originally, McCay had conceived the strip in 1905 with a tobacco theme.

Originally conceived as " Valbois " in the early 1980s, the project was revived as " WestRock " in the late 1990s and ultimately renamed " Tamarack " in 2002.

Originally conceived and implemented by programmer Bruce Horn, the resource fork was used for three purposes with Macintosh file system.

Originally conceived as a trilogy to be titled Příroda, Život a Láska ( Nature, Life and Love ), they appeared instead as three separate works, V přírodě ( In Nature's Realm ), Carnival and Othello.

Originally conceived as a code of academic honesty, the Honor Code had expanded by the 1970s to govern social interactions.

Originally it was conceived by Bill Hillier, Julienne Hanson and colleagues at The Bartlett, University College London in the late 1970s to early 1980s as a tool to help architects simulate the likely social effects of their designs.

Originally conceived in 1816 as an industrial prime mover to rival the steam engine, its practical use was largely confined to low-power domestic applications for over a century.

Originally conceived as Top Gun meets A Few Good Men, JAG was first aired on NBC on September 23, 1995, but was later canceled on May 22, 1996 after finishing 79th in the ratings, leaving one episode unaired.

Originally conceived by Rob Gretton, it was largely financed by the record label Factory Records and the band New Order along with label boss Tony Wilson.

Originally, the Underground was conceived and used like an S-Bahn, with suburban trains diverting under their termini and heading across Central London.

Originally conceived as the ' London to Basingstoke Motorway ', the road was built to relieve traffic on the A30 and A33, the congested single carriageway trunk roads that previously carried the traffic.

Originally conceived as lasting for a period of six years, the Colombo Plan was extended several times until 1980, when it was extended indefinitely.

Originally, the first President and co-founder of the University, Dr. Lam Chi-fung, conceived the idea of building a hall for University functions.

Originally conceived as an alternative to the Grammy Awards ( in the video category ), the annual MTV Video Music Awards ceremony has often been called the " Oscars for youth ", an acknowledgment of the VMA ceremony's ability to draw millions of youth from teens to 20-somethings each year.

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Originally conceived and released by Deberny & Peignot in 1957, the type library was acquired in 1972 by Haas.

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 invented in the 1980s in the Eastern Asia region, bubble tea has since become popular in Australia, USA and Europe.

Originally established in 1983, it has since become an international enterprise with branches and subsidiaries in North America, Europe, and East Asia.

Originally, however, the Egyptians believed that only the pharaoh had a ba, and only he could become one with the gods ; dead commoners passed into a dark, bleak realm that represented the opposite of life.

Originally, a woman would have to be the daughter, widow, wife, sister, or mother of a master Mason, but the Order now allows other relatives as well as allowing Job's Daughters, Rainbow Girls, Members of the Organization of Triangle ( NY only ) and members of the Constellation of Junior Stars ( NY only ) to become members when they become of age.

Originally invented in Naples, Italy, the dish has since become popular in many parts of the world.

Originally a festival held to break up the long nights of winter and mark the end of Yule, the festival has become one celebrating the isles ' heritage and includes a procession of men dressed as Vikings and the burning of a replica longship.

Originally a group of teenage friends attending Sunnydale High in a town built on top of a Hellmouth, the group gradually expanded, eventually merging with the Watchers ' Council to become a global organization dealing with demonic threats worldwide and training thousands of Slayers.

Originally developed as the " Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer " by Dartmouth College Professor Jon Appleton, in association with NED co-founders Cameron W. Jones and Sydney A. Alonso, the Synclavier would become the pioneering prototype hardware and software system for all digital non-linear synthesis, polyphonic sampling, magnetic ( hard-disk ) recording and sequencing systems technology that is commonplace in all music and sound effects / design today.

Originally the parishes of Dover St. Mary's and Dover St. James, since 1836 Buckland and Charlton have become part Dover, and Maxton ( a hamlet to the west ), River, Kearsney, Temple Ewell, and Whitfield, all to the north of the town centre, are within its conurbation.

Originally a residential zone, its growth has led it to become a major recreational center.

Originally this status was not hereditary, although the sons of pillis had access to better resources and education, so it was easier for them to become pillis.

; Minas Anor ( Minas Tirith ): Originally a fortress built by Anárion at the eastern end of the White Mountains as a precaution from the hostile natives, later having become the summer residence of the Kings and finally the capital in 1640.

Originally intended to aid integration of blacks, the ruling had a negative effect on the admissions of Chinese students, who had become the largest ethnic group in the district.

Originally voluntarist or nihilist figures like Li Shicen and Zhu Qianzhi made similar turns to the Left as the 1920s saw China become increasingly turbulent.

Originally, the Hall of Fame was not going to become involved in the issue, but was forced to act when dozens of inductees, including Bobby Orr, Ted Lindsay and Brad Park, campaigned for Eagleson's expulsion, even threatening to renounce their membership if he was not removed.

Originally Morecambe and Wise objected to sharing a bed ( which would become one of their most popular and fondly remembered character traits ), but Braben countered that if it was good enough for Laurel and Hardy it was surely good enough for Morecambe and Wise.

Originally published in 1999, the book predicts that machines with human-like intelligence will be available from affordable computing devices within a couple of decades, revolutionizing most aspects of life, and that eventually humanity and its machinery will become one and the same.

Originally apolitical, this event and a growing attachment to Mars itself leads Russell to become the physical architect of the second revolution.

Originally, I started Solid Rock as a way of helping other young artists become established.

Originally named Bytown, Ottawa did not become the Canadian capital until the mid-19th century after the original parliament in Montreal was torched by a rioting mob of English-speaking citizens on April 25, 1849.

Originally named Bytown, Ottawa did not become the Canadian capital until the mid-19th century after the original parliament in Montreal was torched by a rioting mob of English-speaking citizens on April 25, 1849.

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.