* 1963 – The Universal House of Justice of the Bahá ' í Faith is elected for the first time.

The two highest institutions were the Universal House of Justice, and the Guardianship, for which he appointed Shoghi Effendi as the Guardian.

Seat of the Universal House of Justice, governing body of the Bahá ' ís, in Haifa, Israel

Being declared a Covenant-breaker is done by the head of the Faith — which since 1963 refers to the elected nine-member Universal House of Justice, the governing body of the Bahá ' ís.

In a letter to an individual dated 23 March 1975, the Universal House of Justice wrote:

In ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's Will and Testament, He appointed Shoghi Effendi as the Guardian of the Bahá ' í Faith, called for the eventual election of the Universal House of Justice, and defined in the same manner opposition to these two institutions as Covenant-Breaking.

Later the Universal House of Justice, initially elected in 1963, made a ruling on the subject that it was not possible for another Guardian to be appointed.

They, therefore, regard the Universal House of Justice in Haifa, Israel to be illegitimate, and its members and followers to be Covenant-breakers.

Thought lost for decades, a print was found by filmmaker Curtis Harrington in the Universal vaults in 1968 and restored by George Eastman House.

Furthermore some laws and teachings are, according to Bahá ' í teaching, not meant to be applied at the present time and their application depends on decisions by the Universal House of Justice.

In 1973 a Synopsis and Codification of the book was published the Universal House of Justice, and then in 1992 an authorized Bahá ' í translation was made available.

In 1973, on the occasion of the centenary of the revelation of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, the Universal House of Justice released a Synopsis and Codification of the text, which was supplemented by 21 passages of the Aqdas that had already been translated by Shoghi Effendi.

* explanatory notes prepared by the Universal House of Justice

# The Institution of the Universal House of Justice

Some laws and teachings of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas are, according to Bahá ' í teaching, not meant to be applied at the present time ; their application depends on decisions by the Universal House of Justice.

On the basis of the authority granted ` Abdu ' l-Bahá he extended forms of the authority vested in him to the Guardianship, who's sole member was Shoghi Effendi, and the Universal, or International, House of Justice through his Will and Testament.

The Universal House of Justice is specifically empowered to write and rescind any laws it is felt necessary aside from those of the text of scripture and actual application of the laws of the Aqdas among Bahá ' ís are dependent on the choice of the Universal House of Justice.

The Baha ' i Universal House of Justice is to levy fines against men and women for adultery, payable in gold.

When Shoghi Effendi died in 1957, he died without explicitly appointing a successor Guardian, and Remey was among the nine Hands of the Cause elected as an interim authority until the election of the first Universal House of Justice in 1963.

The council was intended to be a forerunner to the Universal House of Justice, the supreme ruling body of the Bahá ' í Faith.

During this conclave the Hands of the Cause decided that the situation of the Guardian having died without being able to appoint a successor was a situation not dealt with in the texts that define the Bahá ' í administration, and that it would need to be reviewed and adjudicated upon by the Universal House of Justice, which hadn't been elected yet.

Three years later, in 1960, Remey made a written announcement that his appointment as president of the international council represented an appointment by Shoghi Effendi as Guardian, because the appointed council was a precursor to the elected Universal House of Justice, which has the Guardian as its president.

All those that accept Mason Remey as the second Guardian do not accept the Universal House of Justice established in 1963.

However, Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ( 1728 ), and the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D ' Alembert ( 1751 onwards ), as well as Encyclopædia Britannica and the Conversations-Lexikon, were the first to realize the form we would recognize today, with a comprehensive scope of topics, discussed in depth and organized in an accessible, systematic method.

In 1998, PolyGram was in turn sold to Seagram and merged into what is now one of the Big Four record labels, the Universal Music Group, the company that today holds the rights to the entire ABBA back catalogue.

In Alfred North Whitehead's book A Treatise on Universal Algebra, published in 1898, the term universal algebra had essentially the same meaning that it has today.

That request would eventually be granted nearly two decades later by Universal and other film preservation companies, and this restored version is what is widely seen today on television and home video.

The catalogue, except for recordings by Lawrence Welk, is today owned by Universal Music Group.

He has also recorded several CDs of short pieces for Universal Classics including Made in England, Cello Moods, Cradle Song and English Idyll: " It would be difficult to find better performances of this kind of repertoire anywhere on records of today or yesterday or tomorrow "-Gramophone.

CNET's 2005 review of SpeechGear's Compadre: Interact product stated, At last, this is the StarTrek Universal Translator, and you can buy it today.

The label was distributed by Warner Bros. Records since its inception, but in 1990, the label was sold to MCA and today is part of the Interscope-Geffen-A & M division of MCA's successor, Universal Music Group, formed as the result of the 1999 merger between the MCA and PolyGram families of labels.

It is generally stated that the most popular tartans today are the Black Watch ( also known as Old Campbell, Grant Hunting, Universal, Government ) and Royal Stewart.

The movement he created continues today in a formal way as Sufi Ruhaniat International, as well as informally through the wide adoption of the Dances of Universal Peace by many other Sufi and non-Sufi groups.

One such group today is the Universal Faithists of Kosmon ( Colorado and California ), whose teachings include the virtue of unified group efforts to achieve good works.

At the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) meeting in Dublin in 1955, he had proposed the system of distinguishing between variants of Universal Time, as UT0 ( UT as directly observed ), UT1 ( reduced to invariable meridian by correcting to remove effect of polar motion ) and UT2 ( further corrected to remove ( extrapolated ) seasonal variation in earth rotation rate ), a system which remains in some use today.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is seen as a basis for all international legal standards for children's rights today.

As of today, Interscope, Def Jam, Tommy Boy, Virgin, Motown and Universal have pulled advertising from The Source.

Iovine and Field quickly aligned Interscope with the Universal Music Group ; the label, now known as Interscope-Geffen-A & M following the merger of several Universal imprints, is still run by Iovine today.

Vertigo Records today is a UK-based record label operated by Universal Music UK.

In 1999, Universal Records was pooled together with Motown Records and Republic Records to form Universal Motown Republic Group under which it operates today.

EMKA continues to exist today as an in-name-only entity ( technically a part of Universal's television division, now called Universal Television ), while holding the copyright on the classic Paramount library, even though it is now officially incorporated into Universal's film catalogue.

The Universal Serial Bus has become a standard in computers today, USB tokens are therefore often a cheaper alternative than other tokens needing a special input device.

In 1960 Walt Grealis of Toronto started in the music business with Apex Records, the Ontario distributor for Compo Company ( founded in 1918 ), Canada's first independent record company that today is part of Universal.

They say that the classification of humanity into races is still practised today and that Blavatsky and subsequent esoteric philosophers who expressed similar lines of thought intended a Universal Brotherhood of humanity.

No known prints of these scenes survive today, but photographs of the scene were used to illustrate the scene's synopsis and are included in the recent Universal Studios DVD release of the film.