Originally a state fair was just a competitive exhibition of livestock in various competitions, the display of farm products which were not necessarily for sale, and the competition among various fair goers and participants in such categories as handicrafts, baked goods, jams and jellies, etc., but has since been expanded to include carnival amusement rides and games, music, races, tests of strength and skill, etc.

Originally a fair would also have had a significant number of market stalls, but today this is rare and most sidestalls only offer food or games.

Originally, the fair was held on the 21st of September, but in 1752, with the change to the Gregorian calendar, it moved to early October.

Originally, the terms fair housing and open housing came from a political movement of the time to outlaw discrimination in the rental or purchase of homes and a broad range of other housing-related transactions, such as advertising, mortgage lending, homeowner's insurance and zoning.

Originally the square was accessible by a single street and preserved an aristocratic quiet, except when the annual fair was held there.

Originally, all batted balls that cleared the fence after a bounce in fair territory or on a fly were counted as home runs.

Originally, the Council was meant to have rather technical responsibilities: ensuring that national elections were fair, arbitrating the division between statute law ( from the legislative ) and regulation ( from the executive ), etc.

Originally recognized by the United States Supreme Court in a series of cases in the mid-1940s involving racial discrimination by railway workers ' unions covered by the Railway Labor Act, the duty of fair representation also applies to workers covered by the National Labor Relations Act and, depending on the terms of the statute, to public sector workers covered by state and local laws regulating labor relations.

Originally with fair complexion, it turned dark after it survived a burning ship on its arrival from Mexico.

Originally an un-chartered hiring fair for local hay farmers, it was also renowned for dancing and country sports, and was imortalised in the lines of a song of the 1810s:

Originally occupied by large middle-class families, including much of Wearside's Jewish population, a fair number of the larger residences have been reorganised into dwellings of multiple occupancy, home to the local University of Sunderland's students and young professionals.

Originally a charter fair dating from as early as 1261 many thousands of sheep were penned on the green for sale in earlier times.

Originally, Glasgow fair was held during the second and third week in July before moving in the 1970s.

Originally the fair focused on the sale of horses, cattle and the hiring of servants.

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, 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 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.

Originally, it was scheduled to be released in August 1997, when he would promote it with a concert in Central Park.

Originally scheduled to be only one show, the performance expanded to nine due to incredibly high demand, with all nine shows ( equaling about 140, 000 tickets ) selling out in under two hours.

Originally scheduled to run 17 September through 10 October, the Morrison Hotel Gallery extended it a week to end 17 October.

Originally scheduled for May / June 1977 but first published one month later on a bimonthly schedule with an initial ( and speculative ) print run of 4, 000, White Dwarf continued the fantasy and science fiction role-playing and board-gaming theme developed in Owl and Weasel but, owing to the increase in available space, began to produce reviews, articles and scenarios to a greater depth than had previously been possible.

Originally scheduled for launch in May 1986 aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.

Originally scheduled to be premiered at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival with Janet Leigh, Walter Murch and Rick Schmidlin attending, the screening was canceled in the eleventh-hour after threats of litigation from Welles ' daughter, Beatrice Welles, who has in the past issued similar threats against some parties who try to show or alter her father's work ( such as the Touch of Evil restoration or the completion of Welles ' last film The Other Side of the Wind ).

Originally scheduled for release in January 1967, the date was continually pushed back until press officer Derek Taylor announced its cancellation in May 1967.

Originally scheduled for January 1980, delays pushed this back to mid-year.

Originally scheduled to take place in October 1960, this was postponed several time and on May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard made America's first sub-orbital spaceflight.

Originally located in unincorporated Washington County, part of the neighborhood has since been annexed by the city of Beaverton, and in a plan agreed to by the county and Beaverton the remainder is scheduled for annexation by 2010.

Originally scheduled to come back in Brussels, she eventually withdrew from the Premier tournament.

Originally scheduled to participate in Toronto and Cincinnati, Williams withdrew due to viral illness.

Originally planned to be ready for Expo 2010, final approval was granted on 18 August 2008, and construction was scheduled to start in 2010 for completion in 2014.

Originally, Mike Tyson was scheduled to be the guest referee, but following the upset, the WWF scrambled to sign on Douglas for the event.

Originally the airport had no perimeter rule ; in 1954-1960 airlines scheduled nonstop flights to California on piston-engine airliners.

Originally scheduled for 23 May, more checks were carried out on the launch vehicle and the launch was rescheduled for 30 May.

Originally scheduled for demonstration at the 1998 Comdex event, the first functional samples of the product only debuted in 3dfx's labs in December 2000.

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

Originally scheduled to run from June to September 4, the show was extended through October and subsequently moved to the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theatre for an open-ended run.

Originally scheduled to open in 2010, phase 1 of the Chess Medical Centre opened in December 2011. Chesham Fire Station

Originally scheduled to finish in 1994, the death of Sir Edward in 1986 led to increased effort and allowed for UST to open its doors early-in 1991.

Originally scheduled as a guest panelist, Levant proved so quick-witted and popular that he became a regular fixture on the show in the late 1930s and 1940s, along with fellow panelists Franklin P. Adams and John Kieran, and moderator Clifton Fadiman.

Originally conceived as a project called Control Freak, the album's first version was actually scheduled for a mid-2005 release and involving main production by Scott Storch, Dr. Dre, Lil Jon, Rockwilder and songwriter Sean Garrett.

Originally, the track was scheduled for release late 2010 but however pushed back into next year.