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.

Grasslands would extend, unfenced, unplowed, unbroken by silo or barn -- as the first settlers saw them.

* 2005 – The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, starts.

As the numbers of settlers from the mainland increased ( at first mostly prisoners and involuntary indentured labourers, later purposely recruited farmers ), these indigenous people lost territory and numbers in the face of punitive expeditions by British troops, land encroachment and the effects of various epidemic diseases.

The first wave of English-speaking settlers arrived in North America during the 17th century, followed by further migrations in the 18th and 19th centuries.

There, settlers built Jamestown, Virginia, England's first permanent colony, and like many other explorers before, they set out to find treasure.

England took formal control of the Caymans, along with Jamaica, under the Treaty of Madrid in 1670 after the first settlers came from Jamaica in 1661-71 to Little Cayman and Cayman Brac.

Some of the first British-sanctioned settlers to the island following the Seven Years ' War were Irish, although upon settlement, they merged with local French communities to form a culture rich in both music and tradition.

The Fortress has also led to the revival and pride of the Acadian community who were the first settlers along with the Mi ' kmaq.

The main body of the church moved first to Kirtland, Ohio in the early 1830s, then to Missouri in 1838, where the 1838 Mormon War with other Missouri settlers ensued, culminating in adherents being expelled from the state under Missouri Executive Order 44 signed by the governor of Missouri.

Dutch Calvinist settlers were also the first successful European colonizers of South Africa, beginning in the 17th century, who became known as Boers or Afrikaners.

Connecticut's first European settlers were Dutch and established a small, short-lived settlement in present-day Hartford at the confluence of the Park and Connecticut rivers, called Huys de Goede Hoop.

The name cranberry derives from " craneberry ", first named by early European settlers in America who felt the expanding flower, stem, calyx, and petals resembled the neck, head, and bill of a crane.

1821 — English and Tahitian missionaries land in Aitutaki, become the first non-Polynesian settlers.

The Late Period extended from three thousand years ago until first contact with European settlers and was dominated by the organization of First Nations peoples into the Algonquian-influenced Abenaki Nation which existed largely in present-day interior Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, and the Mi ' kmaq Nation which inhabited all of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, eastern New Brunswick and the southern Gaspé.

Included in that collection were “ Judgment Night ” ( first published in August and September, 1943 ), the lush rendering of a future galactic empire with a sober meditation on the nature of power and its inevitable loss ; “ The Code ” ( July, 1945 ), an homage to the classic Faust with modern theories and Lovecraftian dread ; “ Promised Land ” ( February, 1950 ) and “ Heir Apparent ” ( July, 1950 ) both documenting the grim twisting that mankind must undergo in order to spread into the solar system ; and “ Paradise Street ” ( September, 1950 ), a futuristic take on the Old West conflict between lone hunter and wilderness-taming settlers.

* 1606 – The Virginia Company loads three ships with settlers and sets sail to establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.

Three of them ( later to be known as Liberty, Black Tom and Ellis ) were given the name Oyster Islands by the settlers of New Netherland, the first European colony in the Mid-Atlantic states.

According to this, the first settlers in the Faroe Islands were Irish monks, who introduced sheep and oats to the Faroe Isles.

The first settlers are believed to have arrived here from North Africa-the word Mahorero ( Majorero ) or Maho is still used today to describe the people of Fuerteventura and comes from the ancient word ' mahos ' meaning a type of goatskin shoe worn by the original inhabitants.

The earliest settlers to Prehistoric Europe came during the paleolithic or " old stone " age, when humans first made use of primitve stone tools.

It became a weed of native grasslands and pastures where it was introduced with settlers ’ livestock, and was first declared under noxious weeds legislation.

The Irish first came over in large numbers as convicts ( 50, 000 were transported between 1791 and 1867 ), to be used as free labour ; even larger numbers of free settlers came during the 19th century, partly due to the Donegal Relief Fund.

A legend first recorded in the late 16th century and reported in William Camden's Britannia accounts for the town's place-name, as ' halig ' ( holy ) and ' fax ' ( face ), by stating that the first religious settlers of the district brought the ' face ' of John the Baptist with them.

Puritanism may be described empirically as that point of view, that code of values, carried to New England by the first settlers.