Previously called hokku, haiku was given its current name by the Japanese writer Masaoka Shiki at the end of the 19th century.

Previously, people investigating nature called themselves natural philosophers.

Previously, Atal Bihari Vajpayee had taken office in October 1999 after a general election in which a BJP-led coalition of 13 parties called the National Democratic Alliance emerged with a majority.

Previously, it was called Quintilis in Latin, since it was the fifth month in the ancient Roman calendar, which traditionally set March as the beginning of the year before it was changed to January at the time of the decemvirs about 450 BC.

Previously, the government had been experimenting with teleportation technology, and upon development of a working prototype called a " Slipgate ", this enemy has compromised the human connection with their own teleportation system, using it to insert death squads into the " human " dimension, supposedly in order to test the martial capabilities of humanity.

Previously a private house, 4 Whitehall Place backed onto a street called Great Scotland Yard.

Previously, any letter or symbol had been called a sarat ( from * sar " incise ").

Previously in 2001, Baker had presented his framework plan, called Baker I, where the dispute would be finally solved through an autonomy within Moroccan sovereignty, but Algeria and the Polisario front refused it.

Previously in April, 1880 there had been a Congressional investigation into corruption in the Post Office Department, where profiteering rings allegedly stole millions of dollars, employing bogus mail contracts called " star routes ".

Previously in 1884, Dow had composed an initial stock average called the Dow Jones Averages, which contained nine railroads and two industrial companies that appeared in the Customer's Afternoon Letter, a daily two-page financial news bulletin which was the precursor to The Wall Street Journal.

Previously, they had simply been called " phenols " or referred to by various trade names, such as Aroclor, Kennechlor, Pyrenol, Chlorinol and others.

Previously the entire Basidiomycota were called Basidiomycetes, an invalid class level name coined in 1959 as a counterpart to the Ascomycetes, when neither of these taxa were recognized as phyla.

Previously executed instructions were saved in an eight-word cache, called the " stack ".

Previously, other researchers created a ring-shaped molecule which could be placed on an axle connecting two sites ( called A and B ).

Previously called Porte Dauphine, this gate was one of the entries into the city.

Previously Lac de Guiers was called Lac du Panier Foule or Pania Fuli, referring to the Fula people.

Previously inhabited by the Choctaw Native Americans, the area now called Meridian was obtained by the United States under the terms of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek in 1830.

** Previously co-produced and served as presenter in a documentary for BBC television called In Search of the Spirit.

Previously, the town was called " Clayton Cut ," due to the pathway cut that ran through the area where the railroad later resided, and also " Prince's Siding ," after a man named Prince who owned a sawmill on this land.

Previously inhabited by the Choctaw Native Americans, the area now called Hattiesburg was obtained by the United States under the terms of the Treaty of Mount Dexter in 1805.

Previously, Willoughby South High School and current rival Eastlake North High were housed in the same building called Union High, but following the division, the then-abandoned Union High became the location of Willoughby Junior High School until 1972.

Previously, on February 24, 2004, Bush called for an amendment which would have outlawed gay marriage, and which would have disallowed states from recognizing or enforcing gay civil unions.

Previously the genre term was just called " Rock and Roll "

Previously, the central message of Occupy X-mas and Occupy Christmas differed in that Occupy X-Mas called for a " buy nothing Christmas " and Occupy Christmas called for support of local economy, artists and craftspeople in holiday shopping.

Previously, americium was named after a continent as its analogue europium, and curium honored scientists Marie and Pierre Curie as the lanthanide above it, gadolinium, was named after the explorer of the rare earth elements Johan Gadolin.

Previously hindered by years of mismanagement, economic reforms of the past decade have put Nigeria back on track towards achieving its full economic potential.

Previously, when naming it as one of the most wanted games for the platform in November 2008, Eurogamer stated that problems emulating the Mode 7 graphics were responsible for its absence.

Previously, the league alternated the Super Bowl broadcast among its television networks, except for Super Bowl I in which both NBC and CBS televised it simultaneously.

Previously its degrees were awarded by the Victoria University of Manchester.

Previously, Microsoft had released Windows Media Connect for Windows XP to stream media content with its built-in UPnP media server.

Previously, Baltimore County was more known as a geographical entity than a political one, with its territorial limits consisting of the present day Baltimore City, Cecil and Harford Counties, as well as parts of Carroll, Anne Arundel, Frederick, Howard and Kent Counties.

Previously, the Hope Diamond had been displayed as a loose gem since late summer of 2009 ( see above image ) when it was removed from its former Cartier-designed setting.

Previously, one of the most prominent systems was LETS, local exchange trading system, a trading network supported by its own internal currency.

Previously in 1943, the Free India Government in Exile had opened its consulate in Omsk.

Previously, while the Monotype system, due to its flexibility, was widely used for setting mathematical formulas, the typeface Modern Series 7 was usually used for this purpose.

Tolworth is the home of its own community arts centre: The CornerHOUSE ( Previously known as the Douglas Centre ).

Previously Chinatown was noted for its crowded tenements and primarily Chinese residents.

Previously named Katherine Gorge National Park, its northern edge borders Kakadu National Park.

Previously, the Court had held that lack of judicial trial and the narrow way in which the law rationally achieved its goals were the only tests.

Previously affiliated with the Liberal Party of Canada, the British Columbia Liberal Party has been independent of its federal counterpart since the late 1980s and subsequently displaced the British Columbia Social Credit Party as the province's de facto liberal-conservative coalition opposed to the social democratic, pro-union British Columbia New Democratic Party.

Previously it was held by Granada Television which was founded by Sidney Bernstein and based at Granada Studios since its inception, and which was the only surviving company out of the original four Independent Television Authority franchisees from 1954 before it merged with Carlton Communications to form ITV plc in 2004.

Previously to his becoming president of the Orange Free State, he had acted as its Chief Justice, and still earlier in life he had practiced as an advocate in the Cape Colony.

Previously, the airline had its head office functions inside other buildings in Fornebu, but in 2010 moved to Diamanten, which had been the former Braathens, and later SAS Norway, head office.

Previously unnamed, the mare received its name in 1964 in reference to its selection as the target for the successful impact probe Ranger 7, the first American spacecraft to return close up images of the Moon's surface.

Previously, Ballard had its focus within the automobile market, and fleet services, as well as co-generation systems and the manufacture of materials for the fuel-cell sector.

Previously the site was occupied by a blacksmith and cutler – the coat of arms of the Worshipful Company of Cutlers features an elephant with a castle ( possibly meant to be a howdah ) on its back, which in turn was used because of the use of elephant ivory in handles.