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.

* 2007 – An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.

* 1966 – Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an " F5 " on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US $ 100 million in damages.

Canada's first reported Fujita Scale F5 tornado approaching Elie, Manitoba | Elie

The tornado was the first EF5 to hit the state since 1957.

* 1948 – The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

The current tower is at least the second Eiffel Tower replica built in Paris ; the first was constructed of wood and later destroyed by a tornado.

** Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an " F5 " on the Fujita Scale, the first to exceed US $ 100 million in damages.

* The first West Virginia tornado is recorded.

** Lubbock Tornado: An F5 tornado hits downtown Lubbock, Texas, the first to hit a downtown district of a major city since Topeka, Kansas in 1966 ; 28 are killed.

* July 8 – The first documented tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

As the first mesocyclone and associated tornado dissipate, the storm's inflow may be concentrated into a new area closer to the center of the storm.

The first public tornado warnings were issued in 1950 and the first tornado watches and convective outlooks in 1952.

A tornado often occurs as this happens or shortly after ; first, a funnel cloud dips and in nearly all cases by the time it reaches halfway down, a surface swirl has already developed, signifying a tornado is on the ground before condensation connects the surface circulation to the storm.

This was the first major tornado to strike Fort Worth proper since the early 1940s.

The tornado first touched down near the Colonial Heights Middle School football field, damaging the field clubhouse roof, then causing roof damage and spill onto I-95 from Medallion Pool business.

The first tornado of the outbreak was also the strongest – an F4 ( see Fujita scale ) tornado that left a-long damage path through rural Culpeper and Fauquier Counties in Virginia.

A first tornado ( F0 ) was confirmed in the Quantico and Prince William Forest Park areas ; this was soon followed by an F1 tornado that left a-long path parallel to I-95 and I-395 through Franconia, western Alexandria and Arlington.