Originally the site of a Roman fort, Gobannium, it became a medieval walled town within the Welsh Marches.

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 known as the Fair Park Bowl, it is located in Fair Park, site of the State Fair of Texas.

Originally introduced as a seductive dance by the courtesans who operated from the site, the can-can dance revue evolved into a form of entertainment of its own and led to the introduction of cabarets across Europe.

Originally based in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral, the current site was donated by Lady Milner following the death of Lord ( Alfred ) Milner in 1925.

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 located in the convent of St Barbara, the university moved to the Faliede Bagijn Church in 1577 ( now the location of the University museum ) and in 1581 to the convent of the White Nuns, a site which it still occupies, though the original building was destroyed by fire in 1616.

Originally known as Patrick Henry Field ( hence its airline code letters " PHF "), it was built on the site of Camp Patrick Henry, formerly a World War II facility.

Originally the site of the Forum had been marshy ground, which was drained by the Tarquins with the Cloaca Maxima.

Originally extending west to the California line, it included the site of present day Las Vegas, Nevada.

Originally, the city pursued construction of an auto mall on the entire Savi Ranch site.

Originally inhabited by the Maidu and Miwok Indians, by the mid-19th century the city site was known as Alder Grove ; however, as development increased the city became known as Illinoistown.

Originally brought to life by the pioneers of the timber industry, the town of Graeagle was the site of the Graeagle Lumber Company and its “ Box Factory ” owned by the California Fruit Exchange.

Originally platted along the right-of-way for the Hennepin Canal, in 1837, the village site was called in land speculation papers " Hampton " ( not the town in Illinois, approximately 13 miles north-northeast, on the Mississippi River — see Hampton, Illinois for more ).

Originally a site known as Pond Grove, Otterbein's first 60 lots were laid out by John Levering and his wife on October 25, 1872, with an addition by Mary A. Clancey on April 24, 1883.

Originally Stables, Louisiana, the town was renamed when 200 members of the Socialist commune Llano Del Rio Cooperative Colony in California relocated to this site in 1917, giving the town its present name.

Originally settled by the Nauset tribe, Eastham was the site where in 1621 a hunting expedition comprised from the crew of the sailing vessel Mayflower, which had stopped in Provincetown harbor on Cape Cod Bay after a rough crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, which led to the first encounter of the Pilgrims and the local Nauset Indians at First Encounter Beach.

Originally an important fur trading site in early years of French colonization, St. Ignace declined in importance by the early 19th century with changes in ruling classes and the regional economy.

Originally named " Fairchild City ," or just " The City ," after Alpheus Fairchild, who bought most of today's village in 1798 from John A. DeWitt, Fairchild had a dwelling erected on part of the site where the George and John R. Hunt Memorial Building stands today.

Originally, the site belonged to Echo Bay Technology Group, Omidyar's consulting firm.

Kershaw County ’ s official web site states, “ Originally laid out in 1732 as the town of Fredericksburg in the Wateree River swamp ( south of the present town ) when King George III ordered eleven inland townships established along South Carolina's rivers, few of the area settlers chose to take lots surveyed in the town, choosing the higher ground to the north.

Originally called Rockport or Rockland Flats, this was the site of the first Ferry crossing in the area, beginning in 1854.

Originally the site where the windmill now resides was a farm that produced hay, vegetables, fruit and dairy products.

Originally worn as a part of a military uniform by youth wishing to present a tough or militaristic image, dog tags have since seeped out into wider fashion circles.

Originally the rank structure of all three services was similar to that of the British Armed Forces, but some modifications were introduced in light of the small size of the Libyan military establishment.

Originally a Cossack born in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Russian Turkestan ( now Kazakhstan ) in a family of Cossack Chorąży and his wife of kazakh origin, Kornilov entered military school in Omsk in 1885 and went on to study at the Mikhailovsky Artillery School in St. Petersburg in 1889. in August 1892, he was assigned as a lieutenant to the Turkestan Military District, where he led several exploration missions in Eastern Turkestan, Afghanistan and Persia, learned several Central Asian languages, and wrote detailed reports about his observations.

Originally, " maschinenpistole " was simply the German word for personal, automatic military weapons, while " submachine gun " was a term coined by John T. Thompson, American inventor of the Thompson submachine gun.

Originally a training exercise in land navigation for military officers, orienteering has developed many variations.

Originally, the state was a military organization.

Originally, the title of Sei-i Taishōgun ( Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Force Against the Barbarians ) was given to military commanders during the early Heian Period for the duration of military campaigns against the Emishi who resisted the governance of the Imperial court based in Kyoto.

Originally developed to support military requirements, ALE is useful to many organizations who find themselves managing widely-located units.

Originally created to protect Northern Ugandans from the 1986 military coup by the People's National Resistance Army, Joseph Kony began the LRA-Lord's Resistance Army in 1987.

Originally it was erected between 1787 and 1790 at the Hanover military parade place ( now called Waterlooplatz ); later it was transferred to the Georgengarten.

Originally home of the Coast Miwok native people, the Mexican government granted Rancho Cotate to Captain Juan Castaneda in July 1844 for his military services in the region.

Originally an area called Port Dixie, the town " sprang up out of the woods " in 1943-1944 as a community of 160 houses to be used as housing for military officers by developer Clifford Meigs.

Originally picked due to the abnormal S-curve in the Hudson at this point, it was founded by one of the best military engineers of the time, Polish General Tadeusz Kościuszko.

Originally the town developed around the water meadows next to several bends in the river, but in time has spread onto the valley hillsides and absorbed part of the military airfield at Boscombe Down.

Originally a critic of the military regime headed by Omar Torrijos, he served as its Vice-Minister of Health.

Originally it was probably a sacrum entrusted to the gens Horatia that allowed the desacralisation of the iuvenes at the end of the military season, later transferred to the state.

Originally built as a military airport in 1938 it was taken over by the British in 1945.

Originally developed for hunters in the frigid zones of the US and Canada, eventually most military organizations copied them.

Originally recruited and welcomed into Russia in the 18th century, when they were promised the practice of their own language and religions, and exemption from military service, the German people found increasing hardship.

Originally less common as a military weapon than the jian-the straight, double-edged blade of China-the dao became popular with cavalry during the Han dynasty due to its sturdiness, superiority as a chopping weapon, and relative ease of use-it was generally said that it takes a week to attain competence with a dao / saber, a month to attain competence with a qiang / spear, and a year to attain competence with a jian / straight sword.

Originally, a civil engineer worked on public works projects and was contrasted with the military engineer, who worked on armaments and defenses.

Originally, the polemarch was a commander of the army, but after 487 / 486 BC, when the Athenian magistrates were appointed by lot, the military duties were handled by the strategoi.

Originally, the connector was designed to carry signals at frequencies up to 1 GHz in military applications, but today's common Type N easily handles frequencies up to 11 GHz.