He recorded his observations — of wind and water conditions, eagles and ospreys, and human behavior — and other free-associative thoughts on a New York State Road Atlas, writing tidily in block letters, a habit left over from his Navy days spent keeping the ship's log: Pelfershire was originally called Pilfershire as local folks were renowned cattle rustlers!
Originally called Squirrel (as in squirreling money away), Square set out to make it far easier for small merchants to accept plastic, with a smartphone peripheral that can swipe cards, for a 2.75% transaction fee.
Founded in 2012, and originally called Pinfluencer, as it was then focused on serving the needs of Pinterest marketers, Piqora has since expanded to serve the wider niche of social networking services it refers to as the "visual social web" – meaning those sites where users mainly post photographs and other images.
Zuckerberg created Thefacebook.com, as it was originally called, in early 2004, as an extracurricular project while he was at Harvard.
Remember, the Internet or DARPA as it was originally called, was created as a fail-safe, global network with no 'single point of failure.' If one part goes down, data takes another route and nothing is lost.
If you start your calendar in March, then count forward, you have July as the fifth month (which was originally called Quntillis), August as the sixth (originally Sextillis), and then a numerical run of September (seven), October (eight), November (nine) and December (ten).
It was originally called Ettl Studios, as it was founded by John Ettl and his sons Alex and Charles.
The course was established in 1947 at Radcliffe College in Cambridge (and originally called the Radcliffe Publishing Course) as a summer program in which recent college graduates were taught the basics of book and magazine editing, design, production and publicity.
Mr Obama had originally called for rises, as in California, for those earning more than $250,000.
The lodge house was originally called the wheelhouse as it contained the mechanism used to open and close the iron gates to the asylum.
