Originally only one shipping company, Vesteraalens Dampskibsselskab, was willing to take on the job of sailing the then poorly charted waters ; the voyage was especially difficult during the long, dark winters.

Originally made of whitewashed rocks and only measuring 25 feet by 25 feet, the very first " M " was poorly constructed and ultimately replaced by a wooden " M " in 1912, which cost $ 18.

Originally, she was a poorly paid chef at a restaurant called Iridium.

Originally, the purpose of the tissue was to reduce smudging or blotting, especially on invitations poorly printed or hastily mailed before the ink was fully dried, but improved printing techniques mean they are now simply decorative.

Originally, Rocket Science Games was set to publish The Space Bar, but when their previous games sold poorly, Rocket Science looked to outside publishers for the needed cash to keep developing, SegaSoft then became Rocket Science's sole publisher.

Originally a street party held on Princes Street and the Royal Mile, the Hogmanay event has been officially organised since 1993.

Originally, it was organised every four years, but this changed in 1991, and it has since been organised biennially.

Originally, a Chinese-inspired legal system and constitution known as ritsuryō was enacted in the 6th century ( in the late Asuka period and early Nara period ); it described a government based on an elaborate and theoretically rational meritocratic bureaucracy, serving under the ultimate authority of the emperor and organised following Chinese models.

Originally the Australian government pledged to supply 20, 000 men organised as one infantry division and one light horse brigade plus supporting units.

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

Originally, UCI and the organisers of the Grand Tours had been unable to come to terms on the 2006 UCI ProTour, with the result that the status of both the Grand Tours and some of the other races organised by those organisations behind the Grand Tours was unclear until well into the season, but they were eventually included.

Originally intended to be held somewhere in the north west of Ireland and organised by the City of Derry & District Motor Club, the initial event was moved to the north coast but the name was never changed.

Originally, the Bill proposed that the offence would require a company's or organisation's activities to be so managed or organised by its senior managers as to cause a person's death, and to amount to a " gross breach " of a duty of care owed to the deceased.

Originally the development of the settlement was organised by The Plymouth Company but they merged with the New Zealand Company in 1840, resulting in New Plymouth becoming the next Wakefield settlement.

Originally, William Farquhar who had governed Singapore from 1819 until 1823 had allowed the colony to flourish under the sheer volume of trade that passed through her port, but had not organised the colony, and thus it grew haphazardly.

Originally, New Zealand Māori had been invited, but they declined because it would clash with their fixture with the British and Irish Lions.

Originally this involved special facilities and army level teams.

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, the ancestor to NFL Europe had 10 teams playing a 10-game regular season: six teams from the United States, three European teams, and one Canadian team.

Originally, teams representing Belgium, France, Great Britain, and the Netherlands were scheduled to compete in the tournament.

Originally, the competition was between all-star provincial teams formed by adding players to the provincial champion.

Originally, Wake Forest's athletic teams were known as the Fighting Baptists, due to its association with the Baptist Convention ( from which it later separated itself ).

*** Originally, the game pitted Eastern Conference and Western Conference all-star teams.

Originally devised for wildland fire teams, today the ICS is used by a variety of agencies throughout North America.

Originally considered a starter, Quantrill eventually found consistency as a reliever after several years of splitting time between the bullpen and the starting rotation for several teams.

Originally formed at the end of World War II in 1945 as the Canadian Armament Research and Development Establishment ( CARDE ), the intent was to keep the research teams built up during the war in Canada, as opposed to moving to the United States.

Originally, both teams wore red uniforms, but after Double Dare entered syndication in 1988 one team wore blue uniforms while the other wore red.

Originally, Adams and Iceman were one of the eight teams participating, and Taylor was teamed with Sam Houston.

Originally called " Octopush " ( and still known primarily by that name in the United Kingdom today ) the original rules called for teams of eight players ( hence " octo -"), a bat reminiscent of a tiny shuffleboard stick, called a " pusher " ( hence the "- push "), an uncoated lead puck called a " squid ", and a goal known at first as a " cuttle " but soon thereafter a " gully ".

Originally all of the teams qualifying for the tournament were invited to New York City, and all games were played at Madison Square Garden.

Originally playing as the Aggies, men's teams compete in football, basketball, track, cross-country, skiing, rodeo and tennis.

Originally, two 15-minute halves of extra time were held and if the teams remained equal at the end of the halves, kicks from the penalty mark were held.

Originally Kosar had meant a comparison to the " Air Coryell " system used by west coast teams in the 1970s, the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders.

Originally a Super League initiative and one of six NRL teams which are privately owned, the Melbourne club is currently 100 % owned and operated by News Limited.

Originally the competition included as many qualifying rounds as were required to reduce the number of teams to 32.

Originally, the PRUs were known as " Counter Terror " teams, but they were renamed to " Provincial Reconnaissance Units " after CIA officials " became wary of the adverse publicity surrounding the use of the word ' terror '".

Originally consisting of eight teams, the tournament field has been expanded three times, to 10 in 1986, 12 in 1987 and the current 16 in 2003.

Originally hosted by Gilbert Harding and Lionel Hale, teams from various regions around the UK play in a tournament of head-to-head battles.

Originally styled BBC2, it was the third British television station to be launched ( starting on 20 April 1964 based in London ), and from 1 July 1967, Europe's first television channel to broadcast regularly in colour.

Originally they were worn simply to give greater warmth than would an open cloak to people who regularly spent long hours in unheated and drafty churches.

Originally from the Newtownards area, they played their first gig at the West Winds Roadhouse in the same year, and regularly played around Bangor, Belfast and the Ards area for the next two years, occupying the same scene as the band Stalag 17.

Originally a marginal seat, it switched regularly between the Liberals and Labor.

Originally a predominantly blue-collar suburb with a high proportion of public housing, Ainslie has gradually gentrified, with properties regularly fetching more than $ 1 million.

Originally established by Stu Hart in 1948, the promotion competed with other promotions such as NWA All-Star Wrestling and Pacific Northwest Wrestling and regularly ran events in Calgary's Victoria Pavilion, Ogden Auditorium and the Stampede Corral between 1948 and 1984.

Originally called the Rhythm and Blues Quartette, the band performed regularly in the city.