Originally called the Binghamton Public Library, it was created with a gift of $ 75, 000 from Carnegie.

Originally created with the intentions to " come up with a good, marketable character ", Garfield has spawned merchandise earning $ 750 million to $ 1 billion annually.

Originally, hints for the game were provided as a " pay-per-hint " service created by Mike Dornbrook called the Zork User's Group ( ZUG ).

Originally stemmed from ideas of Sierra's adventure game Softporn Adventure created by designer Chuck Benton, the " Larry " games were one of Sierra's most popular game series during the genre's heyday when it was first released in the mid 1980s.

Originally they were thought to have a body cavity ( pseudocoel ), but this was an artifact created by preservation methods, and they are now known to be acoelomate.

Originally named Twality when created in 1843, the territorial legislature renamed it for the first president of the United States, George Washington, in 1849.

Originally created by Rand MacIvor ( under Art Director John C. Galt ), who was inspired by Terry Gilliam's " gilliamations ", the opening animation sequence was a sequence of surreal images set to Rossini's William Tell Overture, performed in a Dixieland jazz arrangement by The National Press Club and Allied Workers Jazz Band.

Originally known as PCMCIA Card, short for Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, the PC Card standard as well as its successors were defined and developed by the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association ( PCMCIA ), which itself was created by a number of computer industry companies in 1986 by Jacob D. Holm.

Originally created as Lafayette National Park in 1919, the first National Park East of the Mississippi, The forest fire was one of a series of fires that consumed much of Maine's forest as a result of a dry year.

Originally, TSR Hobbies was created as a separate division to market miniatures and games from several companies, an enterprise which was also connected to the opening of the Dungeon hobby shop in Lake Geneva.

Originally created as Richland County in 1864, the name was shortened to Rich in 1868.

Originally created with eight colors, pink and turquoise were removed for production purposes and as of 1979, it consists of six colored stripes, which should always be displayed with red on top or to left.

Originally created to protect Northern Ugandans from the 1986 military coup by the People's National Resistance Army, Joseph Kony began the LRA-Lord's Resistance Army in 1987.

Originally part of Escambia and later Gadsden County, Leon County was created in 1824.

Originally created by Shigeru Miyamoto, Peach is the Princess of the fictional Mushroom Kingdom, which is constantly under attack by Bowser, and often plays the damsel in distress role within the series and is the lead female.

Originally the plan was to run GEM on top of CP / M-68K, both ostensibly ported to the Motorola 68000 by DRI prior to the ST design being created.

Originally, the experiment splintered the universe into the multiverse and created the evil anti-matter universe.

Originally named Clackamas District, it was one of the four original Oregon districts created by Oregon's Provisional Legislature on July 5, 1843 along with Twality ( later Washington ), Champooick ( later Marion ), and Yamhill.

Originally called County 5, Kingfisher County was created with the Organic act of May 2, 1890.

Originally created as a memorial garden to the fallen in the First World War, the name refers to the practice of netting weird or " wares " to catch fish.

Originally built in 1960, it was one of four " Sun Cities " designed by Del Webb who later created retirement communities in Arizona, Nevada and Florida in the 1970s and ' 80s.

Originally naming it Newark Station, ( not to be confused with nearby Newark ), he and Wentworth worked extensively to create the community and also to get the railroad stop created.

Originally called " Dallas ", Fowler was created when John Parks settled the area and became its first postmaster in 1849.

Originally the polder would have been created after the completion of the Afsluitdijk, but there was a severe lack of agricultural ground.

Originally created by the Methodist Church close to the depot for the summer church meetings popular at the time, it soon became part of the Chautauqua movement, which appealed to a desire for self-improvement.

Originally known as the Regina Rugby Club from 1910 to 1923, they changed their name to the Regina Roughriders in 1924 and finally to the current moniker in 1946.

Originally, the entire length of the highway featured stylized light standards with the letters ER ( for Elizabeth Regina, Latin for " Queen Elizabeth ") on them.

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

Originally, it was a summer program for disadvantaged youth, although it has grown into an AmeriCorps-sponsored non-profit organization with six regional offices that serve Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and North and South Dakota.

Originally intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the Earth ′ s equator to the North Pole ( at sea level ), its definition has been periodically refined to reflect growing knowledge of metrology.

Originally established as the Wrexham School of Science and Art in 1887, it was until the name change known as the North East Wales Institute or " NEWI ".

Originally displacing 4. 5 L and featuring a single overhead camshaft design, it produced 219 hp ( 163 kW / 222 PS ) for the North American market and 237 hp ( 176 kW / 240 PS ) in other markets.

Originally based largely in North America and Europe, its membership is now heavily weighted toward groups in the developing world.

Originally a player in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball ( NPB ), Ichiro moved to North America in 2001 to play in MLB for the Seattle Mariners, with whom he spent 12 seasons.

Originally there were two branches from that point: the Oosterschelde ( Eastern Scheldt ) and the Westerschelde ( Western Scheldt ) but in the 19th century the river was cut off from its eastern ( actually: northern ) branch by a dyke that connects Zuid-Beveland with the mainland ( North Brabant ).

Originally, Walcheren was an island, but polders and a dam across the Oosterschelde have connected it to the ( former ) island of Zuid-Beveland, which in turn has been connected to the North Brabant mainland.

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 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 born in North Carolina as Cornelius Calvin Sale, Jr., he was ten months old when his mother, Ada Mae ( née Kirby ), died in the 1918 Flu Pandemic.

Originally called the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway, the line was constructed by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London ( UERL ) and opened between Baker Street and Lambeth North ( then called Kennington Road ) on 10 March 1906.

Originally to be named Orange, it was named Corbin Town ( for Francis Corbin, a member of the governor's council and one of Granville's land agents ), and renamed Childsburgh ( in honor of Thomas Child, the attorney general for North Carolina from 1751 – 1760 and another one of Granville's land agents ) in 1759.

Originally a part of Lebanon, known as the North Society or Lebanon's Crank, Columbia was incorporated in May, 1804.

Originally North Broward Preparatory School was located in Lighthouse Point.

Originally named Fulford in 1926 after Captain William H. Fulford of the United States Coast Guard, the city was incorporated in 1927 as Fulford, but was renamed North Miami Beach in 1931.

Originally known as the " Sun Valley International Open ," the Harriman Cup races were the first major international ski competitions held in North America, beginning in 1937.

* Nathaniel Allen Recreation Area ( NARA ): Originally named the North Acton Recreation Area, NARA's name was changed in 2012 to honor an Acton resident who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Civil War.

Originally a northern suburb across the Missouri River from Kansas City, Missouri, it is now almost completely surrounded by Kansas City, which has annexed far to the north of North Kansas City's northern city limits.

Originally, the town ran from 14th Avenue to North Avenue, about half its present size.

Originally known as Unionville, the village was incorporated in 1885 as North Parma.

Originally named " Havelock Station " in the late 1850s when the Atlantic and North Carolina railroad built a depot where its right-of-way crossed what is now Miller Boulevard in Havelock.

Originally established in the early 19th century as an outpost and stop on the stage line that ran between Salisbury, North Carolina, and Danville, Virginia, called Wrights Crossroads, the Reidsville community grew from a single home and inn owned by the family of Reuben Reid ( a local farmer, businessman, and justice of the peace who was the father of David S. Reid ) into a thriving farming community primarily supporting tobacco production and cigarette manufacturing.

Originally developed in Germany by scoliosis sufferer Katharina Schroth, this method is now taught to scoliosis patients in clinics specifically devoted to Schroth therapy in Germany, Spain, England, and North America.