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, the court had the power to mete out sentences, with excommunication as its most severe penalty.

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 defined as part of HTML 4. 0, it is most commonly used for submitting files via HTTP.

Originally published in the 1970s, the NIV was most recently updated in 2011.

Originally, the term referred to the presiding officer of a ceremony or meeting ( i. e., chairman ), but today it most commonly refers to an official.

Originally, the programme was part of a BBC children's television series titled Watch with Mother, with a different programme each weekday, most of them involving string puppets.

Originally, Frosh Week was celebrated by students in all faculties, but its current iteration is exclusive to individual departments ; most notably engineering and commerce.

Originally available at a strength of 4. 9 % ABV, Victoria Bitter is now sold at an ABV of 4. 6 % ( which is equal to virtually every other major Australian lager ) and the price stayed the same when most other beers increased.

Originally intended as a B-side, " Fools Gold " quickly became the Roses ' most famous song and a performance of it on Top of the Pops cemented their national fame.

Originally, each of the four major television networks only broadcast a few hours of programs a week to their affiliate stations, mostly between the hours of 7 and 10 PM when most viewers were watching television.

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, most center pivots were water powered.

Originally made of yew, green hart, and later split bamboo ( Tonkin cane ), most modern fly rods are constructed from man-made composite materials, including fibreglass, carbon / graphite, or graphite / boron composites.

Originally, most center pivots were water-powered.

Originally, they formed a community by themselves and most of them were Saivite non-Brahmins.

Originally, they formed a community by themselves and most of them were Shaivite non-Brahmins.

Originally from southern Mexico ( particularly Chiapas and Veracruz ), Central America, and northern South America, the papaya is now cultivated in most tropical countries.

Originally called Falcon Island until around 1795, today it is known as Falkner Island on most charts and maps.

Originally developed for Commodore Amiga, Lemmings was one of the most popular video games of its time, and several gaming magazines gave it some of their highest review scores at the time.

Originally, this demultiplexing was performed entirely passively, except for some telemetry, as most SONET systems can receive 1550-nm signals.

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 about in the center of Carbon County were once part of the Spanish Empire, then part of the Republic of Texas ( 1835-1845 ) and part of the State of Texas until 1852 when the northern most part of that state was ceded to the U. S. government.

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.

Originally much of the west shore of Upper New York Bay consisted of large tidal flats which hosted vast oyster banks, a major source of food for the Lenape population who lived in the area prior to the arrival of Dutch settlers.

Originally, the capital of the Demerara-Essequibo colony was located on Borselen Island in the Demerara River under the administration of the Dutch.

Originally built as the Dutch Reformed " Diaconie " ( poor house and orphanage ) in 1768, it was built to house up to 900 people, indicating the extent of the economic crisis in Haarlem that existed in the 18th century as a result of losing shipping power to Amsterdam.

Originally a rendezvous place for Portuguese, Dutch, and Spanish pirates, it later became a refuge for criminals, who mixed with Native American and African women and actively participated in the capturing and selling of Guaranís as slaves.

Originally part of the region of Salland, Hellendoorn is now administratively considered part of Twente ; a fact reflected in the inclusion of Hellendoorn in the city region of Twente ( Kaderwetgebied Regio Twente ) as defined by the Dutch government.

Originally called Wahatquenak by the local Lenni Lenape Native Americans, the Maurice River is said to be named for a local legend, in which a Dutch ship on the river, the Prince Maurice, was sunk by the local Native Americans in 1657.

Originally part of Burlington County, Little Egg Harbor took its name from the portion of a bay called Egg Harbor ( known today as Little Egg Harbor ) by the Dutch sailors because of the eggs found in nearby gull nests.

Originally called the Dutch Reformed Church of Bound Brook, it has gone through very few changes over the years.

Originally, the Congers Church was named the Waldberg Dutch Reformed Church.

Originally, the three youth organisations, the CPN-linked General Dutch Youth League, the PSP-linked Pacifist Socialist Young Working Groups and the PPR-linked Political Party of Radical Youth refused to merge under pressure of the government, who controlled their subsidies they did merge to form DWARS.

Originally named Nankersey, the village was given its name by Dutch engineers from Vlissingen in the Netherlands who built the three main quays in the village.

Originally there was a large central attic window of ' Dutch ' type ( as can be seen in the woodcut from Lipscomb's History of the County of Buckingham ( 1847 )).

Originally the phrase ' Dutch courage ' referred to the courage that results from indulgence in Dutch gin ( jenever ), but ' Dutch courage ' can also refer to the gin itself.

Originally a soldier and bookkeeper, he rose to high colonial ranks in service of the Dutch West India Company, serving many terms as burgomaster and alderman.

Originally named Costermansville ( in French ) or Costermansstad ( in Dutch ) until 1954, it had a prominent European population under colonial rule.

Originally inhabited by the Lenape Native Americans and settled in 1623 by French Waloons in an attempt to escape puritan oppression, Flatlands was given right to local rule in 1661 by Peter Stuyvesant as one of the five Dutch Towns on Long Island.

Originally spelled Cape Hinlopen, Cape Henlopen is named after Thijmen Jacobsz Hinlopen who was a prominent Dutch trader.

Originally established as a colony of the Dutch Republic, Java remained in Dutch hands throughout the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, during which time the French invaded the Republic and established the Batavian Republic in 1795, and the Kingdom of Holland in 1806.

Originally the Dutch government claimed that Erkel was rescued in a “ special operation ” conducted jointly by the Russian ( Federal Security Service ) FSB and local Dagestani police and that Arjan was slightly hurt in the " storming " of the hideout.

Originally inhabited by Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages-speaking peoples, the region was colonized in the 16th century by the Portuguese and Spanish, then in the 17th century by the Dutch.

Originally the Stadium was named after former Dutch Queen Wilhelmina, but the name was changed in 1994 after the renovations were completed.