The 350th anniversary of the King James Bible is being celebrated simultaneously with the publishing today of the New Testament, the first part of the New English Bible, undertaken as a new translation of the Scriptures into contemporary English.

A brisk, satirical spoof of contemporary American mores entitled `` An American Journey '' was given its first New York performance at Hunter College Playhouse last night by the Helen Tamiris-Daniel Nagrin Dance Company.

Excell altered some of Walker's music, making it more contemporary and European, giving " New Britain " some distance from its rural folk-music origins.

While being a Middle Comic poet, Alexis was contemporary with several leading figures of New Comedy, such as Philippides, Philemon, Diphilus, and even Menander.

Citing research by John Green, who found that several contemporary British Columbia newspapers regarded the alleged capture as very dubious, Clark notes that the Mainland Guardian of New Westminster, British Columbia, wrote, " Absurdity is written on the face of it.

In 2010 the New York Guitar Festival commissioned new scores on some of Chaplin's silent films from a number of contemporary artists, including Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, Marc Ribot, David Bromberg, and Alex de Grassi.

As time progressed, English country dances were spread and reinterpreted throughout the Western world, and eventually the French form of the name came to be associated with the American folk dances, especially in New England ( this Gallicized name change may have followed a contemporary misbelief that the form was originally French ).

New Confucianism is an intellectual movement of Confucianism that began in the early 20th century in Republican China, and revived in post-Mao era contemporary China.

The River North neighborhood features the nation's largest concentration of contemporary art galleries outside of New York City.

The act renamed the northeasterly portion of the former French province of New France as Province of Quebec, roughly coextensive with the lower third of contemporary Quebec.

The contemporary period of the history of the Preachers begins with restorations in provinces, undertaken after revolutions destroyed the Order in several countries of the Old and New World.

Potential for comedy lay in his use of ' contemporary ' characters, in his sophisticated tone, his relatively informal Greek ( see In Greek below ), and in his ingenious use of plots centred on motifs that later became standard in Menander's New Comedy, such as the ' recognition scene '.

He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors and he epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, that includes Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, William Friedkin, Philip Kaufman and George Lucas, who emerged in the early 1970s with unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary film-making.

From 1955 onwards, the works of directors of the so-called Polish Film School had a great influence on the contemporary trends such as French New Wave, Italian neorealism or even late Classical Hollywood cinema.

The changes under critical geography have led to contemporary approaches in the discipline such as Feminist geography, New cultural geography, and the engagement with postmodern and post structural theories and philosophies.

Hildegard has also become a figure of reverence within the contemporary New Age movement, mostly due to her holistic and natural view of healing, as well as her status as a mystic.

Ada Louise Huxtable wrote in The New York Times that Pei's building was " a palatial statement of the creative accommodation of contemporary art and architecture ".

There are a number of toponyms that attest to the presence of the Jutes in the area, such as Ytene, which Florence of Worcester states was the contemporary English name for the New Forest.

No Wave was a short-lived but influential underground music, film, performance art, video, and contemporary art scene that had its beginnings during the mid-1970s in New York City.

While contemporary sources will still speak of early prime ministers of Canada as premier, the modern practice is such that the federal head of government is known almost exclusively as the prime minister, while the provincial heads of government are termed premiers ( save for within Quebec and New Brunswick, where the premiers are addressed in French as Premier ministre du, literally translated as Prime Minister of ).

The album was the worst-reviewed of their career, as the group tried to re-create itself musically with ill-advised forays into New Jack Swing ( a then-popular style of production that sonically merged hip hop and contemporary R & B ) and sometimes-preachy lyrical content.

On New Year's Eve, 1922 / 1923, the building burned to the ground ; contemporary police reports indicate arson as the probable cause.

This assumption, of course, is rightly dismissed in light of contemporary New Testament scholarship.

While almost every contemporary postmark includes a location as well as a date, in 2004 New Zealand Post announced plans to eliminate the location on their postmarks and include only the date ; however, information about this can be determined by a three-number code on the postmarks.

Fragmentary remains of a probably " ptilinopine " Early Miocene pigeon were found in the Bannockburn Formation of New Zealand and described as Rupephaps ; " Columba " prattae from roughly contemporary deposits of Florida is nowadays tentatively separated in Arenicolumba, but its distinctness from Patagioenas needs to be more firmly established.

In contemporary New Zealand English, the word " mana ", taken from the Maori, refers to a person or organization of people of great personal prestige and character .. Sir Edmund Hillary, is considered to have great mana both because of his accomplishments and of how he gave his life to service.

It is an example of the contemporary fusion of traditions of drama in Australia with Pitjantjatjara actors being supported by a multicultural cast of Greek, Afghan, Japanese and New Zealand heritage.

The Feel The Seasons Change project combined Salmonella Dub ’ s contemporary music and production values with elements of te reo Maori, the ancient arts of taonga puoro ( traditional Maori instruments ) and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's classical music tradition.

John Kenton Britten ( 1 August 1950 – 5 September 1995 ) was a New Zealand mechanical engineer who designed a world-record-setting motorcycle with innovative features which are still ahead of contemporary design.

Inglewood has produced a good share of All Blacks ( John Major, Dave " Trapper " Loveridge, Chris Masoe ), and also a leading contemporary artist, Michael Stevenson, who represented New Zealand at the 2003 Venice Biennale.

In 2002 tenor Geoff Sewell, originally from New Zealand, alongside renowned classical crossover manager Nadia Raibin came up with the idea of an " opera band " mixing traditional opera with contemporary pop.

Tenor Geoff Sewell, originally from New Zealand, came up with the idea of an " opera band " mixing traditional opera with contemporary pop.

In New Zealand, the album was a surprise hit, reaching the top 10 and amassing gold sales after " Go Your Own Way " topped the country's adult contemporary radio chart for several weeks.

MORE FM is a New Zealand radio network playing adult contemporary music or Pop music.

Snorri does not relate here whether this Dan is also descended from King Fridfrodi or Peace-Fróði whom Snorri presented as ruling in Zealand as a contemporary of Fjölnir son of Frey six generations before King Dygvi.

Spats worked with the Limbs Dance Company, a contemporary dance company based in New Zealand.

The group combined early music with contemporary works ( many written expressly for the ensemble ) in concerts and radio broadcasts throughout Europe and America and on tours in Australia and New Zealand.

Southern Star is a New Zealand Christian radio network that plays classic contemporary Christian music and hymns.

The Breeze is a group of New Zealand adult contemporary radio stations owned by RadioWorks, a MediaWorks New Zealand company.

ZM ( pronounced zed-em ) is a New Zealand contemporary hit radio network owned by The Radio Network.

He was born in Ngaruawahia, New Zealand and grew up in Armathwaite, England, and was educated at Barnard Castle School where he was a contemporary of England Rugby Internationals Rory Underwood and Rob Andrew.

* Lifestyle and contemporary culture-Classic fly fishing in New Zealand Rivers by David Hallett and John Kent

It is an example of the contemporary fusion of traditions of drama in Australia with Pitjantjatjara actors being supported by a multicultural cast of Greek, Afghan, Japanese and New Zealand heritage.

Life FM is a New Zealand Christian RBG-owned radio network broadcasting popular contemporary Christian music across New Zealand and online with MMS.

Cream tea has gone out of fashion in the contemporary New Zealand dining scene, and scones are baked at homes rather than served in eateries.