For the most part, however, the new version is contemporary and, as such, should be the means for many to attain a clearer comprehension of the meaning of those words recorded so many hundreds of years ago by the first followers of Christ.

There's more reading and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's first experiment in recorded sound.

If, as a home movie maker, you shoot the inevitable footage of your child taking its first steps, you have merely recorded an historical event.

Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra recorded the work for RCA Victor, including one of the first stereo recordings of the music.

The X3 committee also addressed how ASCII should be transmitted ( least significant bit first ), and how it should be recorded on perforated tape.

The first case recorded of the partial exemption of an abbot from episcopal control is that of Faustus, abbot of Lerins, at the council of Arles, AD 456 ; but the exorbitant claims and exactions of bishops, to which this repugnance to episcopal control is to be traced, far more than to the arrogance of abbots, rendered it increasingly frequent, and, in the 6th century, the practice of exempting religious houses partly or altogether from episcopal control, and making them responsible to the pope alone, received an impulse from Pope Gregory the Great.

The first recorded English antitrinitarian was John Assheton who was forced to recant before Thomas Cranmer in 1548.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination was first remixed in 1987 for release on CD, and included narration by Orson Welles which had been recorded in 1975, but arrived too late to be included on the original album.

* 1457 BC – Likely date of the Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh, the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.

Another verse was first recorded in Harriet Beecher Stowe's immensely influential 1852 anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.

It was recorded with musical accompaniment for the first time in 1930 by Fiddlin ' John Carson, although to another folk hymn named " At the Cross ", not to " New Britain ".

Sargon is even recorded as having organised naval expeditions to Dilmun ( Bahrein ) and Magan, amongst the first organised military naval expeditions in history.

The first universally accepted inscription containing the use of the 0 glyph is first recorded in the 9th century, in an inscription at Gwalior in Central India dated to 870.

He is noted for ordering the first recorded local expulsion of Jews, when he did so in Poitou in 1249.

The first recorded aircraft hijack took place on February 21, 1931, in Arequipa, Peru.

Since the start of the 2008 season, the Falcons have recorded four consecutive winning seasons for the first time in franchise history.

The name of the Angles is first recorded in Latinized form, as Anglii, in the Germania of Tacitus.

Possibly the first instance of the Angles in recorded history is in Tacitus ' Germania, chapter 40, in which the " Anglii " are mentioned in passing in a list of Germanic tribes.

The word autobiography was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English periodical the Monthly Review, when he suggested the word as a hybrid but condemned it as ' pedantic '; but its next recorded use was in its present sense by Robert Southey in 1809.

* 1804 – High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil.

* 1893 – The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.

Ælle (; also Aelle or Ella ) is recorded in early sources as the first king of the South Saxons, reigning in what is now called Sussex, England, from 477 to perhaps as late as 514.

Ælle was the first king recorded by the 8th century chronicler Bede to have held " imperium ", or overlordship, over other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

In the late 9th-century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ( around four hundred years after his time ) Ælle is recorded as being the first bretwalda, or " Britain-ruler ", though there is no evidence that this was a contemporary title.

The first, " Nemesis of the Daleks " (# 152-155 ), with the Seventh Doctor, features an appearance of a Dalek Emperor.

George Dragas, and the 1848 Encyclical of the Eastern Patriarchs ( which refers explicitly to the " Eighth Ecumenical Council " and was signed by the patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Antioch, and Alexandria as well as the Holy Synods of the first three ), regard other synods beyond the Seventh Ecumenical Council as being ecumenical.

Another scholar of the time interested in grimoires, the antiquarian bookseller Johann Scheible, first published the Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses, two influential magical texts that claimed to have been written by the ancient Jewish figure Moses.

* The Seventh Doctor regained his sonic screwdriver in the Virgin New Adventures novels, with its first reappearance in The Pit.

The first Seventh Day Baptist church in America was at Newport, Rhode Island in December 1671.

* 787: The Empress Irene of Athens convenes the Seventh Ecumenical Council, ending the first phase of Byzantine Iconoclasm.

* August 4 – American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the Seventh Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clashes for the first time with the Sioux, near the Tongue River ( only 1 man on each side is killed ).

* December – The first Seventh Day Baptist church in America is founded at Newport, Rhode Island.

* 1254 – King Louis IX of France, having exhausted his funds and being needed at home, abandons the Seventh Crusade ( which he had conducted first in Egypt and then Syria ) and returns to France.

* April – The first Shepherds ' Crusade, a domestic French uprising in response to events in Egypt during the Seventh Crusade, occurs.

* King Louis IX of France captures Damietta in Egypt, the first major military engagement of the Seventh Crusade.

* King Louis IX of France, having exhausted his funds and being needed at home, abandons the Seventh Crusade ( which he had conducted first in Egypt and then Syria ) and returns to France.

One of the most popular actresses of the silent film era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in three films: Seventh Heaven ( 1927 ), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans ( 1927 ) and Street Angel ( 1928 ).

Her performances in Seventh Heaven ( the first of twelve movies she would make with actor Charles Farrell ) and both Sunrise, directed by F. W. Murnau, and Street Angel ( in 1927, also with Charles Farrell ) earned her the first Academy Award for Best Actress in 1928.

Seventh Heaven ( 1927 ) is a silent film and one of the first films to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture ( then called " Best Picture, Production ").

After rereleasing a few silent feature hits, such as Seventh Heaven, with recorded music, Fox came out with its first original Movietone feature on September 23: Sunrise, by acclaimed German director F. W. Murnau.

On March 5, 1942, Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony was first performed in the city's Opera and Ballet House by the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra conducted by S. A. Samosud.

Some of his most memorable film roles include knight Antonius Block in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal ( the first of his eleven films with Bergman, and the film that includes the iconic scenes in which he plays chess with Death ), Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told, Oktober in The Quiller Memorandum, Father Merrin in The Exorcist, Karl Oskar in The Emigrants, Joubert the assassin in Three Days of the Condor, Ming the Merciless in the 1980 version of Flash Gordon, the villain Blofeld in Never Say Never Again, Frederick in Hannah and Her Sisters, and Lassefar in Pelle the Conqueror, for which he received his first Academy Award nomination.

After becoming part of the Oklahoma Territory in 1890, Beaver County ( first called Seventh County ) covered the entire Oklahoma Panhandle.

After some success with short films, he graduated to features in 1942, turning out two crisp B mysteries, Eyes in the Night and Kid Glove Killer before getting his big break with The Seventh Cross ( 1944 ), starring Spencer Tracy, which was his first hit.

The first suburban shopping area was Twelve Points, on the northeast side of town ; later, Idaho Station developed near Seventh Street and Lockport Road.

* Samuel Etheridge, one of Michigan's first state senators, representing the Seventh Senatorial District from 1838-1840