Originally written as a novel series by Wang Du Lu starting in the late 1930s, the film is adapted from the storyline of the fourth book in the series, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

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 published in Polish, it was written in collaboration with the Polish phenomenologist Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka.

Originally titled Chant de guerre pour l ' Armée du Rhin (" War Song for the Army of the Rhine "), the song was written and composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in 1792.

Originally written simply for the monks of a neighboring monastery, the Ladder swiftly became one of the most widely read and much-beloved books of Byzantine spirituality.

Originally written by Wiccan High Priestess Doreen Valiente in the mid-1950s, Harvey noted that the recitation of the Charge in the midst of ritual allows Wiccans to gain wisdom and experience deity in " the ordinary things in life ".

Originally written for a contest, he instead sold it to Astounding for significantly more than the contest's first-prize payoff.

Originally written in Hebrew as an epic poem, the story centers on Job, a perfectly just and righteous person.

Originally all manuscripts of the Samaritan Pentateuch consisted of unvocalized text written using only the letters of the Samaritan alphabet.

Originally from the Greek, meaning deep ( or heavy ) sounding, music for this voice is typically written in the range from the second F below middle C to the F above middle C ( i. e. F < sub > 2 </ sub >– F < sub > 4 </ sub >) in choral music, and from the second G below middle C to the G above middle C ( G < sub > 2 </ sub > to G < sub > 4 </ sub >) in operatic music, but can be extended at either end.

Originally written as incidental music, it did not have words when it was adopted as the national anthem of the Philippines and subsequently played during the proclamation of Philippine independence on June 12, 1898.

Originally intended to be called The Beat Generation the title Pull My Daisy was taken from the poem of the same name written by Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Cassady in the late 1940s.

Originally the role was written for and to be played by Dabney Coleman.

Originally intended only to be featured in the first chapter, he proved so popular with test players that he was written to re-appear at several points later in the game.

Originally written in French, it first appeared as a series of articles in the anarchist journals Le Révolté and La Révolte ( both edited by Kropotkin ).

Originally, her character was written to be white and Jewish ( however, Lark aced the audition and they awarded her the role ).

Originally Gentoo's rc system was written entirely in Bash and was part of the baselayout package, which contains the basic filesystem layout and critical files needed for the system.

Originally a planned ongoing title, Justice League: Cry For Justice is a mini-series written by James Robinson and drawn by Mauro Cascioli.

Originally written in German, the book will be translated into English in 1788.

Originally, the name Xiamen was written "" (, BP: ), possibly referring to its position at the mouth of the Nine Dragon River.

It is the most influential Galenic document of the Middle Ages Originally written in the Arabic language, the book was later translated into a number of other languages, including Persian, Latin, Chinese, Hebrew, German, French, and English with lots of commentaries.

Originally written as a small part, Topanga became a recurring role.

Originally written as a history of the Britons in an attempt to document a legitimate past, the Historia Brittonum contains stories of legend and superstition alike.

Originally he is written as having mixed feelings about Maria ( to the extent of wondering, during the wedding ceremony, whether it is not too late to back out ).

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 designed as a lightweight anchor for seaplanes, this design consists of two plow-like blades mounted to a shank, with a folding stock crossing through the crown of the anchor.

Originally referred to as Baby for several months, she was eventually named Abby May after her mother.

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 based on the date used to calculate the age of fruit trees for tithing as mandated in Leviticus 19: 23 – 25, the holiday now is most often observed by planting trees, or raising money to plant trees.

Originally released for the IBM 6150 RISC workstation, AIX now supports or has supported a wide variety of hardware platforms, including the IBM RS / 6000 series and later IBM POWER and PowerPC-based systems, IBM System i, System / 370 mainframes, PS / 2 personal computers, and the Apple Network Server.

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 intended for writing compilers for other languages, BCPL is no longer in common use.

Originally the word " broadband " had a technical meaning, but became a marketing term for any kind of relatively high-speed computer network or Internet access technology.

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 the term " Bronze Age " meant that either copper or bronze was being used as the chief hard substance for the manufacture of tools and weapons.

Originally, computer monitors were used for data processing while television receivers were used for entertainment.

Originally, it was a summer program for disadvantaged youth, although it has grown into an AmeriCorps-sponsored non-profit organization with six regional offices that serve Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and North and South Dakota.

Originally released for PC DOS, the games have later been ported to numerous other platforms.

Originally, these privileges and immunities were granted on a bilateral, ad hoc basis, which led to misunderstandings and conflict, pressure on weaker states, and an inability for other states to judge which party was at fault.

Originally much of the west shore of Upper New York Bay consisted of large tidal flats which hosted vast oyster banks, a major source of food for the Lenape population who lived in the area prior to the arrival of Dutch settlers.

Originally employed by the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam, he held a professorship at the Eindhoven University of Technology, worked as a research fellow for Burroughs Corporation in the early 1980s, and later held the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, in the United States.

Originally researched by Dr. Jon Parmentola for the U. S. Army, it has grown into a very plausible successor to a standard solid propellant tank gun.

Originally, the event was for amateurs only, however, since the 1984 Summer Olympics professional players have been permitted, albeit with certain restrictions which prevent countries from fielding their strongest sides.

Originally developed on IRIX, Freeciv has been ported to many different operating systems: it is distributed with many Linux distributions, offers installers for Microsoft Windows, and has been known to run on Mac OS X, Solaris, Ultrix, QNX, OS / 2, Cygwin, AmigaOS, RISC OS, Maemo, ZETA, SkyOS and various BSDs.

Originally developed by IBM at their campus in south San Jose, California in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications, Fortran came to dominate this area of programming early on and has been in continual use for over half a century in computationally intensive areas such as numerical weather prediction, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, computational physics and computational chemistry.