In 1976 the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) revised the definition of the AU for greater precision, defining it as that length for which the Gaussian gravitational constant ( k ) takes the value when the units of measurement are the astronomical units of length, mass and time.

It probably appeared in its earliest version around 400 BC, and continued to be revised and edited for several centuries after before being accepted as scriptural around the time of Christ.

Frank Moore Cross later proposed that an early version of the history was composed in Jerusalem in Josiah's time ( late 7th century ); this first version, Dtr1, was then revised and expanded to create a second edition, that identified by Noth, and which Cross labelled Dtr2.

In 1978, Hubbard released New Era Dianetics ( NED ), a revised version supposed to produce better results in a shorter period of time.

The church membership at the time had not yet seen the Doctrine and Covenants manuscript as it had been compiled and revised solely by the committee ; however, various church members who were familiar with the work " bore record " of the book's truth.

When the army issued revised mobilization regulations in 1942, it distinguished " homosexual " recruits from " normal " recruits for the first time.

# First Council of Constantinople ( 381 ) repudiated Arianism and Macedonianism, declared that Christ is " born of the Father before all time ", revised the Nicene Creed in regard to the Holy Spirit.

During the currency of ephemeris time as a standard, the details were revised a little.

At about the same time, SOE revised the Macintosh client software to run natively on Intel processors.

Douglass published three versions of his autobiography during his lifetime ( and revised the third of these ), each time expanding on the previous one.

Starring Alberto Sordi in the title role, the film is a revised version of a treatment first written by Michelangelo Antonioni in 1949 and based on the fotoromanzi, the photographed cartoon strip romances popular in Italy at the time.

This was unusual at the time, as most non-free expansion packs also included other new or revised gameplay elements.

A number of features from Windows 98 were incorporated also, such as an improved Device Manager, Windows Media Player, and a revised DirectX that made it possible for the first time for many modern games to work on the NT kernel.

This was mainly because of the expense of adapting data processing systems each time the classification was revised.

At about this time, Russian Nostraticists, notably Sergei Starostin, constructed a revised version of Nostratic.

At the same time, the current account balance deficit significantly improved and the end-year projection was revised upward to 5. 5 % of GDP.

This likely reflects its lack of prominence both in Galilee and in Judaea .” Strange originally calculated the population of Nazareth at the time of Christ to be " roughly 1, 600 to 2, 000 people " but, in a subsequent publication, revised this figure down to “ a maximum of about 480 .” In 2009 Israeli archaeologist Yardenna Alexandre excavated archaeological remains in Nazareth that might date to the time of Jesus in the early Roman period.

At about this time Russian Nostraticists, notably Sergei Starostin, constructed a revised version of Nostratic which was slightly broader than Greenberg's grouping but which similarly left out Afroasiatic.

The first time homosexuals were differentiated from non-homosexuals in the military literature was in revised army mobilization regulations in 1942.

The Treaty of Berlin revised the earlier Treaty of San Stefano, reducing the size of newly independent Bulgaria ( a pro-Russian state at that time ).

In the English-speaking world, the Douay-Rheims Bible — translated from the Latin Vulgate by expatriate recusants in Rheims, France in 1582 ( New Testament ) and in Douai, France in 1609 ( Old Testament )— which was revised by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749 – 1752 ( the 1750 revision is that which is printed today ), was, until the prompting for " new translations from the original languages " given by Pope Pius XII in the 1942 encyclical letter Divino afflante spiritu and the Second Vatican Council, the translation used by most Catholics ( after Divino afflante spiritu, translations multiplied in the Catholic world, just as they multiplied in the Protestant world around the same time beginning with the Revised Standard Version, with various other translations being used around the world for English-language liturgies, ranging from the New American Bible, the Jerusalem Bible, the Revised Standard Version Second Catholic Edition, and the upcoming English Standard Version Catholic lectionary ).

The team repeated the experiment several times over the next few years, and in 1971, they revised the spontaneous fission half time for the isotope at 4. 5 seconds.

The Standard Alphabet by Lepsius is a Latin alphabet developed by Karl Richard Lepsius, who initially used it to transcribe Egyptian hieroglyphs and extended it to write African languages or transcribe other languages, published in 1854 and 1855, and in a revised edition ( with many languages added ) in 1863, it was comprehensive but it was not used much as it contains a lot of diacritic marks and therefore was difficult to read, write and typeset at that time.

In the time between the second and third periods, the proposed schemata were further revised on the basis of comments from the council fathers.

Haydn's gift to music was a way of composing, a way of structuring works, which was at the same time in accord with the governing aesthetic of the new style.

The group began composing and performing their own songs during this time including a Brown composition called " Goin ' Back to Rome " and a ballad Brown co-wrote with Terry titled " Please, Please, Please ".

In the Netherlands, Locke had time to return to his writing, spending a great deal of time re-working the Essay and composing the Letter on Toleration.

During this time he was also composing instrumental music in abundance: prior to 1705, he mostly wrote trio sonatas and violin concertos, but between then and 1719 he wrote solo sonatas and concertos for oboe.

In a career spanning over 50 years, writing and composing more than 52 albums, Vangelis is regarded as one of the greatest composers of electronic music of all time.

At the time he began composing, European music was dominated by the style galant, a reaction against the highly evolved intricacy of the Baroque.

He spent much of his time composing rhapsodies on the capital cities.

Recently, Lansky has shifted his focus away from electronic and computer music to invest more time in composing for acoustic instruments.

" Later, retiring to Viareggio to found a school of music, Pacini took time to assess the state of opera in Italy and, during a five-year period during which he stopped composing, laid out his ideas in his Memoirs.

In the summer of 1902 Stravinsky stayed with the composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and his family in the German city of Heidelberg, where Rimsky-Korsakov, arguably the leading Russian composer at that time, suggested to Stravinsky that he should not enter the Saint Petersburg Conservatoire, but instead study composing by taking private lessons, in large part because of his age.

Mussorgsky worked rapidly, composing first the vocal score in about nine months ( finished 18 July 1869 ), and completed the full score five months later ( 15 December 1869 ), at the same time working as a civil servant.

This may have played a part in his declining output and longer composing time during the 1920s.

At that time, much of its composing room staff was on strike, and early returns led the paper to believe that the Republican candidate Thomas Dewey would win.

Having passed the time during the plague composing prose pamphlets ( including a continuation of Thomas Nashe's Pierce Penniless ), he returned to drama with great energy, producing close to a score of plays for several companies and in several genres, most notably city comedy and revenge tragedy.

The Ainur see in the Vision that there are things none of them remember composing, and things they perhaps remember composing but did not at the time fully understand.

Richardson did not like any of the topics, and chose to spend all of his time composing letters to his friends and associates.

For much of his life composing was necessarily a part-time activity while he earned his living as a conductor, but he devoted as much time as he could to his compositions, faithfully reserving his summer months for intense periods of creative concentration, supplemented as time permitted during his active concert seasons with the tasks of editing and orchestrating his expansive works.

In 1942, Chaplin released a new version of The Gold Rush, taking the original silent 1925 film and composing and recording a musical score, adding a narration which he recorded himself, and tightening the editing which reduced the film's running time by several minutes.

He began composing songs around this time.

At the time of his death, he was still composing his ballet Aschenbrödel.

Even though he was composing music and writing music criticism in his spare time, Cui turned out to be an extremely prolific composer and feuilletonist.

Gaye began composing around this time, co-writing the song, " Barbara ", with Palmer.