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 rebuffed by her in the early-1920s, Chiang managed to ingratiate himself to some degree with Soong May-ling's mother by first divorcing his wife and concubines, and promising to eventually convert to Christianity.

Originally hired as an easel painter, in 1935 Alston became the first African American supervisor to work for the WPA's Federal Art Project in New York, which would also serve as his first mural work.

Originally designed as a follow-on to the PDP-11, DEC's VAX-11 series was the first widely used 32-bit minicomputer, sometimes referred to as " superminis ".

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 focused largely on fashion, the exhibition now delves deeper into the contributions of first ladies to the presidency and American society.

Originally a male-only occupation, the first knitting trade guild was started in Paris in 1527.

Originally from West-Central Africa, Bantus began a millennium-long series of migrations referred to as the Bantu expansion that first brought them to East Africa about 2000 years ago.

Originally, his dream included between 200 and 300 lines, but he was only able to compose the first 30 before he was interrupted.

Originally in Astounding Science Fiction ( February, 1950 ), this story was first anthologized in Groff Conklin's Omnibus of Science Fiction ( Crown, 1952 ) and has also been published under the title " The Pyramid in the Desert.

Originally published in Latin, the first Italian edition came out in 1546. and the standard Italian edition by Cosimo Bartoli was published in 1550.

Originally a goldsmith, his famous gold and enamel Salt Cellar ( 1543 ) was his first sculpture, and shows his talent at its best.

Originally titled VALISystem A, it was his first attempt to deal in fiction with his experiences of early 1974.

Originally a member of Stetsasonic, he produced tracks on hip-hop albums such as 3rd Bass ' 1989 debut album The Cactus Album and De La Soul's first three albums.

Originally called simply Paint Shop, the first version, 1. 0, was a basic picture converter between BMP, GIF and PCX formats, released in August 1990.

Originally the small settlement was controlled by abbots from the local abbey, and when the first weekly market was set up in 1107 by Henry I, he decreed that the proceeds go to Evesham Abbey.

Originally intended to be an outer-space variation on Lord of the Flies, the project at first was titled " Asteroid Ship Icarus " and had a multinational teenage crew journeying through space in a hollowed-out asteroid in search of the planet Iscandar.

Originally proposed by Alcoholics Anonymous ( AA ) as a method of recovery from alcoholism, the Twelve Steps were first published in the book Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism in 1939.

Originally, the Constitution provided that the annual meeting was to be on the first Monday in December unless otherwise provided by law.

Originally, under Article I, Section 4, Clause 2, the Congress was required to convene at least once each year on the first Monday in December.

Originally, the President was directly in charge of the first campus, Berkeley, and in turn, all other UC locations ( with the exception of Hastings College of the Law ) were controlled by the Berkeley campus.

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 called the " Collegiate School ", the institution opened in the home of its first rector, Abraham Pierson, in Killingworth ( now Clinton ).

Originally called the Character Connection, Epcot Character Spot welcomed its first guest in May 2007.

Originally " honeymoon " simply described the period just after the wedding when things are at their sweetest ; it is assumed to wane in a month.

Originally described in A Guide to the Star Wars Universe in 1984 as being long, Executor-class ships more recently are described as being long.

Originally, Hayakawa's character was described as a Japanese ivory merchant.

Originally producer Wanger and Siegel wanted to shoot Invasion of the Body Snatchers on location in the town Jack Finney described in his novel: Mill Valley, just north of San Francisco.

Originally they were described as a powerful and wise race from the planet Gallifrey, from which the Doctor was a renegade ; details beyond this were very limited for the first decade of the series.

Originally described as Labrus niloticus, among the marine wrasses, the species has also been referred to as Centropomus niloticus.

Originally described as the chief of evil spirits in Vedic-era texts, Kubera acquired the status of a Deva ( god ) only in the Puranas and the Hindu epics.

Originally a logging community, it was a dairy community for most of its history, but could now be best described as a bedroom community, since most of its working population finds employment in nearby Duluth, Grand Rapids, Hibbing and Cloquet.

Originally known as Bromley, the town name was changed to Peru by the land grantees as a way of attracting land buyers to an area that had been described as of " trees and bears.

Originally the song described a child being recruited into hobo life by tales of the " big rock candy mountain ".

Originally described by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788, it is closely related to Sanford's Sea Eagle of the Solomon Islands, and the two are considered a superspecies.

Originally a Finnish god, he was described as an old and wise man, and he possessed a potent, magical voice.

An illustration of some important differences between " analytic " and " continental " styles of philosophy can be found in Rudolf Carnap's " Elimination of Metaphysics through Logical Analysis of Language " ( Originally published in 1932 as " Überwindung der Metaphysik durch Logische Analyse der Sprache "), a paper some observers have described as particularly polemical.

Originally described by Scottish writer and naturalist Robert Kerr in 1793 as Psittacus hollandicus, the Cockatiel ( or cockateel ) was moved to its own genus, Nymphicus, by Wagler in 1832.

Originally described by Linnaeus, Liriodendron tulipifera is one of two species in the genus Liriodendron in the magnolia family.

Originally solicited as Excalibur: Sword of Power, the subtitle was absent from the published issues, and, due to an error, the indicia described it as Excalibur volume 1.

Originally called Santa Barbara Song Sparrow ; birds from the Coronado Islands were described as M. m. coronatorum, those from San Miguel Island as M. m. micronyx and those from San Clemente, Santa Rosa and Anacapa Islands as M. m. clementae.

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 called MDMA ( Massive Dance Music Alert ), they first had chart success under the name Utah Saints with the singles " What Can You Do For Me " ( UK No. 10 ), " Something Good " ( their biggest UK success at No. 4 ) and " Believe In Me ", a UK No. 8 chart hit, which they described as their vocal sample trilogy as those singles sampled Gwen Guthrie, Kate Bush and The Human League respectively (" What Can You Do For Me " also featured a sample from Eurythmics ).

Originally described in the genus Procellaria it has been placed under the genus Oceanites.

Originally it was described with the name Kimberia.

Originally, in 1824, Sadi Carnot described a thermodynamic system as the working substance under study.

Originally, it described an attitude toward study and research.

Originally intended as a winter residence for David and Mary Gamble, the three-story Gamble House is commonly described as America's Arts and Crafts masterpiece.