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Originally, the city of Utrecht was built by the Romans at a ford ( crossing ) near the place where the Kromme Rijn forks into rivers Vecht ( north ) and Leidse Rijn ( west ); the last stretch within the city walls, however, was channelised to form the Oudegracht canal.
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( Originally, a team was supposed to be started in Buffalo, but league ownership at the last minute removed that city from their plans in favor of the expansion Boston franchise.
Originally from the city of Kozhikode, Kerala, India ( known by Europeans as Calicut in the 11th century ).
Originally founded as a Viking settlement, it evolved into the Kingdom of Dublin and became the island's principal city following the Norman invasion.
Originally the Sogdian city of Nakhshab, and the Islamic Uzbek ( Turkic ) city of Nasaf, and the Mongolian Uzbek ( East Asian ) city of Kharsh-khot, Qarshi was the second city of the Emirate of Bukhara.
Originally the duchy was called Sønderjylland ( Southern Jutland ) but in the late 14th century the name of the city Slesvig ( now Schleswig ) started to be used for the whole territory.
Originally copper pipes were running directly from the brewery and, when in the 90s the brewery moved out of the city, Thor beer replaced the centre of a star with a giant tank.
Originally founded in what is now the archaeological site Ciudad Vieja, north of the present-day city, it was moved to the Valle de Las Hamacas or the Acelhuate Valley, named so due to the intense seismic activity that characterizes it.
Originally rivals, the towns merged on December 3, 1819, and were incorporated as the city of Montgomery.
Originally a Phoenician city ( Ecdippa in Greek ), it was assigned to the tribe of Asher ( Josh.
Originally a fishing settlement called Bydgozcya (" Bydgostia " in Latin ), the city became a stronghold for the Vistula trade routes.
Originally, visitors were supposed to freely drink ice water flowing from the dolphins ' snouts with a brass cup attached to the fountain and the overflow was collected by a trough for horses, but the city tired of having to replenish the ice in a reservoir underneath the base and disconnected the supply pipes.
Originally slated to occupy the vast majority of the gates in Terminal 4, the airline had to reduce its commitment to the city of Phoenix to just 28 gates, with the growing Southwest Airlines agreeing to lease the remainder of Terminal 4.
Originally, the eastern border of Rhône was the city of Lyon itself, so that the communes immediately east of Lyon belonged to neighboring department.
Originally, the club used the same crest as the one used by the city itself.
Originally, areas including the Maylands Peninsula, Ascot and Burswood, through Claise Brook and north of the city to Herdsman Lake were swampy wetlands.
Originally an ancient village, as London expanded, Acton became absorbed into the city.
Originally it meant the period of time from the moment that something happened ( for example the founding of a city ) until the point in time that all people who had lived at the first moment had died.
Originally founded in 1902, it was incorporated as a city in 1988.
Originally book-ended on the Northern and Southern city limits by twin signs which declared, " Welcome to Valley, Alabama, Where people care and share ," the signs no longer stand, but the spirit remains.
Originally just Cherbourg, it was formed when the city absorbed Octeville on 28 February 2000, and was officially renamed Cherbourg-Octeville.
File: Charles T. Porch Center Alexander City, Alabama. JPG | Originally built as the city post office, the Charles T. Porch Center is now used as a city community center.
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Originally, the Church of England was self-contained and relied for its unity and identity on its own history, its traditional legal and episcopal structure and its status as an established church of the state.
Originally called Rijndael, the cipher was developed by two Belgian cryptographers, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, who submitted to the AES selection process.
Originally referred to as Baby for several months, she was eventually named Abby May after her mother.
Originally it was only available during a few months of the year, but it is now grown in greenhouses and is available year-round.
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 called the Binghamton Public Library, it was created with a gift of $ 75, 000 from Carnegie.
Originally it was designed as a successor to PCI type connections.
Originally it was headerless, being simply 8-bit µ-law-encoded data at an 8000 Hz sample rate.
Originally, the B ( wireline ) side license was usually owned by the local phone company, and the A ( non-wireline ) license was given to wireless telephone providers.
' Originally, it was used to cure illness and the ' thing ' was the illness, but I decided to make it the ' thing ' as in the person standing in front of me.
Originally exercised by a single person, the office of Lord High Admiral was from the 18th century onward almost invariably put " in commission " and exercised by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, who sat on the Board of Admiralty.
Originally Gaussian frequency-shift keying ( GFSK ) modulation was the only modulation scheme available ; subsequently, since the introduction of Bluetooth 2. 0 + EDR, π / 4-DQPSK and 8DPSK modulation may also be used between compatible devices.
Originally, the award was known as the J. Louis Comiskey Memorial Award, named after the Chicago White Sox owner of the 1930s.
Originally known as Buckingham House, the building which forms the core of today's palace was a large townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1705 on a site which had been in private ownership for at least 150 years.
Originally only Radiotext was available.
Originally published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1976, only two years after the first role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons was published, this edition is now long out of print.
Originally, costume or fashion jewelry was made of inexpensive simulated gemstones, such as rhinestones or lucite, set in pewter, silver, nickel or brass.
Originally money was a form of receipt, representing grain stored in temple granaries in Sumer in ancient Mesopotamia, then Ancient Egypt.
Originally called Dominion Day (), the name was changed in 1982, the year the Canada Act was passed.
Originally called the Pioneer Mill, it was built by John R. Yale.
Originally intended as a patent medicine when it was invented in the late 19th century by John Pemberton, Coca-Cola was bought out by businessman Asa Griggs Candler, whose marketing tactics led Coke to its dominance of the world soft-drink market throughout the 20th century.
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