Originally hired as an easel painter, in 1935 Alston became the first African American supervisor to work for the WPA's Federal Art Project in New York, which would also serve as his first mural work.

Originally known as Reno Junction ( descendants of Major Reno from Custer's troop resided in the area ), the town was renamed " Wright " after the owner of the Long Branch Bar, Dale Wright, who agreed to sell land to Atlantic Richfield Corporation, the developer of the Black Thunder Mine, who planned to build the town to accommodate the work force that would be hired to operate the mine.

Originally unsatisfied with Allen ’ s script, he hired Hugh Wheeler to rewrite and revise Allen ’ s work.

Originally, rumors swirled that former Chicago Bears defensive coordinator and Philadelphia Eagles head coach Buddy Ryan would be hired as the team's coach ; ultimately, Hall of Fame linebacker Dick Butkus was hired for the position.

Originally, he was hired to work as a wiring assistant but because of his willingness to learn, he quickly became an electrician.

Originally, she was hired for only one episode, and her character was supposed to die at the end of the hour.

Originally, Diaghilev approached the Russian composer Anatoly Lyadov, but later hired Stravinsky to compose the music.

Originally hired to rule panel borders, erase pencils and fill in blacks for other illustrators, he sat next the teenaged artist Frank Frazetta.

Originally hired to work on DirectX, he co-wrote the initial Xbox proposal, and helped assemble the team that designed and built the device.

Originally hired for the nine-to-noon slot, he was shifted to morning drive shortly after his arrival, and soon became the number one deejay in town.

* Elizabeth " Betty " Roberts ( Amanda Naughton ) – Originally an unpaid writing intern at WENN, Betty is hired as a salaried writer after resolving a crisis at the station in the first episode.

Originally, some 20, 000 soldiers from various Pashtun tribes ( Yusafzai, Ghori, Ghilzai, Barech, Marwat, Durrani, Tanoli, Tareen, Kakar, Afridi and Khattak ) were hired by Mughals to provide soldiers to the Mughal armies and this was appreciated by Aurangzeb Alamgir, an additional force of 25, 000 men was given respected positions in Mughal Army.

Originally hired as a writer for the station, Tong was asked to do an on-air test and was immediately promoted to a street reporter, where her first on-air story was a report on the new carts that transported people around the airport.

Originally hired to write the Zoo TV tour programme, he played music from inside a Trabant on the B-stage, while providing commentary and wearing a cape and top hat.

Originally hired as an editorial researcher at Life Magazine, he eventually became the magazine ’ s movie editor before moving to Time Magazine, where he was the film critic.

Originally Douglas Trumbull was to do the special effects, but that was not to be so Jodorowsky hired Dan O ’ Bannon to replace him.

Originally, Taylor's band was initially hired to accompany Dick Whitmore, but Whitmore quit after three nights, giving the job to Taylor.

Originally, when the film came to Columbia and looked ready to be made, Aratow hired David Newman to write the script.

Originally, some 20, 000 soldiers from various Pashtun Tribes ( Yusafzais, Ghoris, Lodis, Ghilzai, Barech, Marwat, Durrani, Tanoli, Tarin, Kakar, Khattak, Afridi and Baqarzai ) were hired by Mughals to provide soldiers to the Mughal armies and this was appreciated by Aurangzeb Alamgir, an additional force of 25, 000 men was given respected positions in Mughal Army.

Originally a magazine named Casseta Popular and a humour newspaper called O Planeta Diário ( in a nod to Clark Kent's Daily Planet ), the two teams joined forces and were hired by Rede Globo to become writers for the network's comedy shows, starting with TV Pirata in 1988.

Originally hired by the club as Special Assistant to the General Manager in the fall of 1984, McIlhargey was responsible for establishing the Canucks Alumni Association and a number of scouting assignments.

" Byrnes was hired on a tight schedule and says, " Originally, I knew I was doing this one episode Watchers " where we were going to introduce the character and then we were going to take it from there.

Originally, an acre was understood as a selion of land sized at forty perches ( 660 ft ) long and four perches ( 66 ft ) wide ; this may have also been understood as an approximation of the amount of land an ox could plough in one day.

Originally, Jewish Christians met in synagogues, such as the Cenacle, and in one another's homes, known as house churches.

Originally an earthly king ruling by divine appointment (" the anointed one ", as the title Messiah had it ), the " son of David " became in the last two pre-Christian centuries the apocalyptic and heavenly one who would deliver Israel and usher in a new kingdom.

Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and called the Portsmouth Spartans, the team began play in 1929 as an independent professional team, one of many such teams in the Ohio and Scioto River valleys.

Originally, it was one of only two ways to score points, along with the place kick.

( Originally, the Fujiwara were descended from relatively minor nobility, thus their kami is an unremarkable one in the Japanese myth world.

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 it consisted of paper or bamboo barrels that would have incendiary gunpowder within it, that could be lit one time and would project flames at the enemy.

Originally scheduled to be only one show, the performance expanded to nine due to incredibly high demand, with all nine shows ( equaling about 140, 000 tickets ) selling out in under two hours.

Originally, the Iceman / Beast friendship was one of the cornerstones of the X-Universe, but has recently been ignored by writers.

Originally written simply for the monks of a neighboring monastery, the Ladder swiftly became one of the most widely read and much-beloved books of Byzantine spirituality.

Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today ; only Fortran is older ( by one year ).

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 deriving from the manufacture of ceramics and its putative derivative metallurgy, materials science is one of the oldest forms of engineering and applied science.

The First Creation: Originally, good and evil existed in two completely separate realms, one the World of Light, ruled by the Father of Greatness together with his five Shekhinas ( divine attributes of light ), and the other the World of Darkness, ruled by the King of Darkness.

Originally one could insert a nut in the big-toothed mouth, press down and thereby crack the nut.

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, it was said to have 21 different " combinations " and would melt if the key was placed in the wrong one (" The Daleks ", 1963 ).

Originally one thought that if there were a half dozen large computers in this country, hidden away in research laboratories, this would take care of all requirements we had throughout the country.

Originally scheduled for May / June 1977 but first published one month later on a bimonthly schedule with an initial ( and speculative ) print run of 4, 000, White Dwarf continued the fantasy and science fiction role-playing and board-gaming theme developed in Owl and Weasel but, owing to the increase in available space, began to produce reviews, articles and scenarios to a greater depth than had previously been possible.

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, this was the only day one should eat semlor.

Originally a hit for Frank and Nancy Sinatra, the song became Williams ' fifth number one hit in the UK.

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.