Originally, skates were merely sharpened, flattened bone strapped to the bottom of the foot.

Originally these wonders functioned as second palaces in the cities in which they were built, but subsequent patches removed that function for corruption and merely made them reduce overall corruption in every city.

Originally, " Distant Drums " had been recorded merely as a " demo " for its composer, Cindy Walker, believing it was for her personal use and had been deemed " unsuitable " for general release by Chet Atkins and RCA Victor.

Originally the division merely supplied the first-line Territorial divisions with drafts to replace losses through casualties.

Originally called merely the MRPP, the party's political orientation has been Maoist since its foundation.

Originally entitled the " Professorship of Moral Theology or Casuisticall Divinity ", with the holder often known as simply the " Professor of Casuistry ", the scope of the professorship was officially broadened from merely moral to general philosophy under its present name in 1965.

Originally, the German government decided merely to restore the earlier Olympiastadion ( German Stadium ) of 1916, with Werner March again retained to do this.

Originally, government-issued official descriptions merely gave out a primary name such as " red " for a whole range of shades.

Originally seen as less important than the cave paintings that also marked prehistoric art, portable art was thought to be merely preceding sketches or plans to be developed in later, larger parietal, or permanent, art.

Originally considered merely a Canadian Bonanno crew, the Rizzutos responded by taking even less heed from New York.

Etymology: Originally introduced from India, where the word is found in several Indian languages, as Hindi varandā, Bengali bārāndā, modern Sanskrit baranda, but appears to be merely an adoption of Portuguese and older Spanish varanda ( baranda ) railing, balustrade, balcony.

Originally, his Tech Spec statistics were printed upside down, resulting in a grossly inaccurate representation of his abilities ( suggesting, for example, that his Strength was merely 3 ).

Originally believed to be using the handle of " Cloaker ", it is revealed that his codename is in fact " Giotto " and that " Cloaker " is merely one of his lieutenants.

Originally, the area now known as Greenisland was merely an unnamed area of the town of Carrickfergus with the Silverstream river, now the western boundary of Greenisland, marking the westernmost boundary of the large town.

Originally, the word referred merely to an adjournment of the Code of Canon law, as John XXIII said himself in his 1959 speech.

Originally active from 1985 to 1996, the band have had consistent commercial and critical success in Australia and New Zealand and international chart success in two phases, beginning with their self-titled debut album, Crowded House, which reached number twelve on the US Album Chart in 1987 and provided the Top Ten hits, " Don't Dream It's Over " and " Something So Strong ".

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 connected to the Dorset coast, the Ridgeway provided a reliable trading route to The Wash in Norfolk.

Originally, the Constitution provided that the annual meeting was to be on the first Monday in December unless otherwise provided by law.

Originally called New Durham Gore because of rocky upland areas, or " gores ," the town was settled in 1770, mainly by farmers because the highland areas provided less frost.

Originally 150 days work was provided in the forests, but “ In practice, of course, these smallholdings attracted the cream of our men whom we were glad to employ on fulltime …” Existing and often derelict agricultural dwellings were adapted and new ones built to a small number of basic designs.

Originally just wanting a single female singer to replace the high backing vocals originally provided by Martyn Ware, he says that he thought having two female vocalists / dancers would also add potential glamour to the band.

Originally run by English Presbyterians, it was one of several dissenting academies that provided religious nonconformists with higher education, as at the time the only universities in England, Oxford and Cambridge, were restricted to Anglicans.

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

Originally Northern Line trains ran to a terminus at bypassing London Bridge, but the construction of a new station at Bank to provide greater capacity and allow northward extension required a new tunnel alignment, and provided the opportunity for a station at London Bridge.

Originally William trained as a soldier, which provided a much greater insight into the details of war than the typical medieval clerical writer.

Originally, a movie's sound was provided by speakers on the screen and later by an individual speaker hung from the window of each car, which would be attached by a wire.

Originally the industry took physical possession of the goods, provided cash advances to the producer, financed the credit extended to the buyer and insured the credit strength of the buyer.

Originally the bipolar circuits provided higher speed but consumed more power than the competing 4000 series of CMOS devices.

Originally, provided with four lifts between ground and platform levels, the station was rebuilt in the early 1930s to operate with escalators.

Originally a salt marsh on the Charles River between Boston and Cambridge, Kendall Square has been an important transportation hub since the construction of the West Boston Bridge in 1793, which provided the first direct wagon route from Boston to Cambridge.

Originally these " Oh-eight-hundred " numbers were provided by Telecom NZ and " 0508 " by rival company Clear ( now TelstraClear ), although now both numbers can be provided by either company.

Originally, Intershop was organised as a division of Mitropa, the company that provided catering services to the Deutsche Reichsbahn.

Originally, plans provided for light rail vehicle service in mixed traffic on the streets, from Washington Street to Dudley Square, then diverting southeast-ward on Warren Street towards Dorchester.

Originally the British Royal Navy provided total security for the colony of New Zealand, but in 1846 the settlers bought a gunboat.

Originally formed to coordinate protests at the Quebec City Summit of the Americas in April, 2001, it continued to operate afterwards, and provided the engine for the Take the Capital!

Originally, the distinction being initially between the Doric and Ionic orders, with the Corinthian order provided a third alternative in the late 3rd century BC.

Originally introduced by Sir Isaac Newton in Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, the concepts of absolute time and space provided a theoretical foundation that facilitated Newtonian mechanics.

The International Boxing Research Organization describes the early NBA in this way: " Originally more comparable to the present American Association of Boxing Commissions than to its offspring and successor, the NBA sanctioned title bouts, published lists of outstanding challengers, withdrew titular recognition, but did not attempt to appoint its own title bout officials or otherwise impose its will on championship fights.

Originally developed in 2000 as a native file format for Radio UserLand's outliner application, it has since been adopted for other uses, the most common being to exchange lists of web feeds between web feed aggregators.

By 1976 John “ Jay ” David ( ex Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show ) had replaced Franz on drums, and they issued a single “ Bar in my Car ”, on Buffalo Records, but the record company “ tanked as soon as the record came out .” Originally titled " I'm Gonna Put a Bar in the Back of My Car ( And Drive Myself to Drink )", the song appears on numerous internet lists of " worst country song titles " as being from their album Fear of Frying, but this is incorrect.

Originally, OWL used BIDS ( Borland International Data Structure ) library as ' class library ' ( library for managing data structures like vectors, lists, etc.

Originally catalogs were just dealers ' price lists, and in most cases, that is still one of their functions.

Originally developed by UserLand as a native file format for the outliner application in its Radio UserLand product, it has since been adopted for other uses, the most common being to exchange lists of web feeds between web feed aggregators.

Originally coined in the 1970s to designate networks which were isolated from ARPANET ( which evolved into the Internet ) for security purposes, darknets were able to receive data from ARPANET but had addresses which did not appear in the network lists and would not answer pings or other inquiries.

Originally created so that listeners could create their own games for the Phile to play, it is currently cycling between two games, " Who's The Smarty ", a game in which members try to answer a difficult question with clues that gets easier each round, and " Todd's Top Ten ", a game where the Phile splits into two teams and tries to guess the top ten on a variety of different lists.