Originally a cupbearer ( Rabshaqe ) to a king of Kish with a Semitic name, Ur-Zababa, Sargon thus became a gardener, responsible for the task of clearing out irrigation canals.

Originally called Dominion Day (), the name was changed in 1982, the year the Canada Act was passed.

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

Originally written by four graduate students at the Computer Systems Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley ( UCB ), the name originates as an acronym from Berkeley Internet Name Domain, reflecting the application's use within UCB.

Originally known as " Eastern Swing " by Arthur Murray Studios, the name East Coast Swing became more common between 1975 and 1980.

Originally this name referred to the polders surrounding Bruges and dates from a period before the counts of Flanders expanded their territory.

Originally, per its name, it was used as the college gymnasium.

" Originally, the name was to be changed to, " The Knights Who Go Ni ...

Originally, the only symbol for the litre was l ( lowercase letter L ), following the SI convention that only those unit symbols that abbreviate the name of a person start with a capital letter.

Originally the word was a colloquial name for a group of the harmless buriers of the dead during the Black Death, in the 14th century, known as Alexians, Alexian Brothers or Cellites.

Originally two distinct peoples, Sklavines and Bulgars, the Bulgars assimilated the Slavic language / identity whilst maintaining the Bulgarian demonym and name of the empire.

Originally, nebula was a name for any extended astronomical object, including galaxies beyond the Milky Way.

Originally established as the Wrexham School of Science and Art in 1887, it was until the name change known as the North East Wales Institute or " NEWI ".

Originally, the name " POSIX " referred to IEEE Std 1003. 1-1988, released in 1988.

Originally the penstock was the name of the valve, but the term has been extended to include all of the fluid supply hydraulics.

The official tourism website of the nation explains this alternative name by stating: Originally called “ Guardia Nobile ” ( Noble Guard ), this name is still sometimes used today to underscore the highly prestigious institutional duties the Corps is called upon to perform.

Originally following a campaign of the Roman Army to Britain, he eventually decided to settle in Caledonia ( the Roman name for Scotland ) among the populations of the Picts.

Originally named " Mortimer ", the mouse was later re-christened " Mickey " by Lillian Disney who thought that the name Mortimer did not fit.

Originally marketed as the " Soundabout " in the U. S., the " Stowaway " in the U. K., and the " Freestyle " in Sweden, Sony soon had the new name " Walkman " embossed into the metal tape cover of the device.

Originally called Weatherman, the group became known colloquially as the Weathermen although its full name, as given in official communiques, was the Weather Underground Organization or WUO.

Originally named " UP Movietone ", in view of a partnership with the Movietone News service of 20th Century Fox, it went through several partnerships and name changes and was known as United Press International Television News or simply as UPITN, a name which also credited UPI's film and video service partner at the time, Britain's ITN television news service.

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 published by FASA Corporation, the game is now produced by Catalyst Game Labs under license from WizKids.

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 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.