Originally, the main types used were various compositions of polyesters.

Originally pebbles ( calculi ) were used.

Originally intended as assistants to the tribunes, they exercised certain police functions, were empowered to inflict fines and managed the plebeian and Roman games.

Originally BBSes were accessed only over a phone line using a modem, but by the early 1990s some BBSes allowed access via a Telnet, packet switched network, or packet radio connection.

Originally, demonstration aircraft were navy blue ( nearly black ) with gold lettering.

Originally, climes were defined in Ancient Greece to describe the weather depending upon a location's latitude.

Originally, individuals were recognized as saints without any formal process ( as it is still done in the Orthodox Church ).

Originally, however, this referred to certain key priests of important churches of the Diocese of Rome, who were recognized as the cardinal priests, the important priests chosen by the pope to advise him in his duties as Bishop of Rome ( the Latin cardo means " hinge ").

Originally, cane toads were used to eradicate pests from sugar cane, giving rise to their common name.

Originally, the members of the Cheka were exclusively Bolshevik ; however, in January 1918, the Left SRs also joined the organization The Left SRs were expelled or arrested later in 1918, following the attempted assassination of Lenin by an SR, Fanni Kaplan.

Originally simply a list of kings with reign lengths, the other details contained in the Poppleton Manuscript version were added from the tenth century onwards.

Originally simply a list of kings with reign lengths, the other details contained in the Poppleton Manuscript version were added in the 10th and 12th centuries.

Originally, computer monitors were used for data processing while television receivers were used for entertainment.

Originally, the runtimes were only installed by games or explicitly by the user.

Originally DBMSs were found only in large organizations with the computer hardware needed to support large data sets.

Originally, these privileges and immunities were granted on a bilateral, ad hoc basis, which led to misunderstandings and conflict, pressure on weaker states, and an inability for other states to judge which party was at fault.

Originally, the Alpha processors were designated the DECchip 21x64 series, with " DECchip " replaced in the mid-1990s with " Alpha ".

Originally electricity and magnetism were thought of as two separate forces.

Originally ælf / elf and its plural ælfe were the masculine forms, while the corresponding feminine form ( first found in eighth century glosses ) was ælfen or elfen ( with a possible feminine plural-ælfa, found in dunælfa ) which became the Middle English elven, using the feminine suffix-en from the earlier-inn which derives from the Proto-Germanic *- innja ).

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

Originally, faunal stages were only defined regionally ; however as additional stratigraphic tools, and especially geochonological ones, were developed, stages were defined over broader and broader areas.

Originally, costume or fashion jewelry was made of inexpensive simulated gemstones, such as rhinestones or lucite, set in pewter, silver, nickel or brass.

Originally Weiss made Jorgensen several offers to appear in the film, but these were turned down.

Originally, the Duke held the electorate personally, but it was later made hereditary along with the duchy.

Originally made of rock, flint, and obsidian, knives have evolved in construction as technology has, with blades being made from bronze, copper, iron, steel, ceramics, and titanium.

Originally made from wood, shells are now almost always made from a composite material ( usually a double skin of carbon-fibre reinforced plastic with a sandwich of honeycomb material ) for strength and weight advantages.

Originally, Enterprise had been intended to be refitted for orbital flight, which would have made it the second space shuttle to fly after Columbia.

Originally flintlocks, Halls later were made as or converted to percussion locks.

Originally, attempts were made at velodromes with reputations for being fast ( such as the Velodromo Vigorelli in Milan ).

Originally, Curry rehearsed the character with a German accent and peroxide blond hair, but the character evolved into the sly, very upper class English mad scientist and transvestite that carried over to the film version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and made Curry both a star and a cult figure.

Originally for Keen 1 he drew some graphics for Exit signs which he made look a bit more alien by changing the ordinary Latin letters a bit.

Originally preying on Puglia's substantial wine and olive oil industries, the group moved into fraud, gunrunning and drug trafficking and made alliances with international criminal organizations such as the Russian and Albanian mafias, Colombian drug cartels, Chinese Triads, and Japanese Yakuza.

Originally, Marsala wine was fortified with alcohol to ensure that it would last long ocean voyages, but now it is made that way because of its popularity in foreign markets.

Originally scientists thought that the varnish was made from substances drawn out of the rocks it coats.

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, EEPROMs were limited to single byte operations which made them slower, but modern EEPROMs allow multi-byte page operations.

Originally, an observer had to enter an actual room, in a which a pinhole was made on one wall.

Originally a women's dormitory, the building was made with a " drawbridge " to symbolically keep men out.

Originally these were granted only to individuals, but were afterward made hereditary in England by King Richard I, during his crusade to Palestine.

Originally based in Tunisia, the Fatimid dynasty extended their rule across the Mediterranean coast of Africa, and ultimately made Egypt the centre of their caliphate.

Originally an agricultural market town, the construction of the Erie Railroad ( now Norfolk Southern ) in the 1840s made Binghamton the commercial and then the manufacturing hub of the Southern Tier of New York and the adjacent counties in Pennsylvania.

Originally intended to pair Davis with Joan Crawford, Davis made it clear that she would not appear in any " dyke movie ".

Originally, in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, the balls were probably made of stone.

Originally voluntarist or nihilist figures like Li Shicen and Zhu Qianzhi made similar turns to the Left as the 1920s saw China become increasingly turbulent.