Like most biblical books, there are differences between the earliest surviving manuscripts of Acts.

However the dates assigned to most of the early crosses surviving in good condition, whether at Ruthwell and Bewcastle, the Western Ossery group in Ireland, Iona or the Kildalton Cross on Islay, have all shown a tendency to converge on the period around or slightly before 800, despite the differences between the Northumbrian and Celtic types.

His fur color has not been definitively established, and the surviving copyright synopsis for the short suggests significant differences between Thomas and the later Felix.

To put the matter into perspective it must be emphasized that all Jewish liturgies in use in the world today are in substance Babylonian, with a small number of Palestinian usages surviving the process of standardization: in a list of differences preserved from the time of the Geonim, most of the usages recorded as Palestinian are now obsolete.

Part of the reason for three Gospels is the presence of differences in the surviving fragments, particularly the presence of three separate accounts of Christ's baptism, while another factor was the scepticism towards the reliability of the evidence of Jerome.

Apart from the stylistic differences between Il ritorno and Monteverdi's other surviving late opera, L ' incoronazione di Poppea, the main issue which raised doubts was the series of discrepancies between the score and the libretto However, much of the uncertainty concerning the attribution was resolved through the discovery of contemporary documents, all confirming Monteverdi's role as the composer.

Sharna's loss of what would have been her second child raises questions about the sustainability of the small colony as well as bringing up differences of opinion on how ( and whether ) to use the remaining technology and resources ( including their surviving planetary shuttle ).

This alliance proved longer lasting, surviving till 1998 when it collapsed over differences over Kalabagh Dam and renaming the province Pakhtunkhwa.

Jaynes himself, noting that the most complete version of the Gilgamesh epic dates to post-bicameral times ( 7th century BC ), dismisses these instances of introspection as the result of rewriting and expansion by later conscious scribes, and points to differences between the more recent version of Gilgamesh and surviving fragments of earlier versions.

His fleet consisted of Japan's four surviving battleships Mikasa, Asahi, Fuji, and Shikishima, the armoured cruisers Nisshin and Kasuga, as well as eight protected cruisers, 18 destroyers, and 30 torpedo boats.

* Axs ( アックス Akkusu Ax ): The last surviving member of the Knights of Lexford ; a group that once consisted of himself, Rooks ' father and Ariel's father.

Its surviving remains indicate that it consisted of parallel banks and ditches.

The Texas & Pacific Depot, commonly referred to as the T & P Depot, is the only surviving structure of the Texas and Pacific Railway shops complex which originally consisted of fifty-seven buildings spanning.

Judging from the large number of surviving manuscripts ( twelve complete and seventeen partial ), it must have been very popular, and it was twice continued in the 13th century: the first addition, " Bavarian continuation ", comprised 800 verses, while the second, the " Swabian continuation ", which brought the poem to the Interregnum ( 1254 – 73 ), consisted of 483 lines.

The fleet consisted of the frigate HMS Plymouth and the submarine HMS Onyx, both from the Falklands War ; the minehunter HMS Bronington ; the German U-Boat U-534 and LCT 7074, the last surviving tank landing craft that took part in D-Day.

Putting together the different dates in the Chronicle for birth, death, and length of reign, it appears that Æthelberht ’ s reign was thought to have been either 560 – 616, or 565 – 618, but that the surviving sources have confused the two traditions.

On noting the large number of surviving ancient manuscripts, Bruce Metzger sums up the view on the issue by saying " The more often you have copies that agree with each other, especially if they emerge from different geographical areas, the more you can cross-check them to figure out what the original document was like.

The two surviving brothers, Bayezid and Selim, were given command in different parts of the empire.

Commander Kaagh, a surviving pilot from the tenth Sontaran battle fleet, had slightly different armour due to being from the special forces.

There are only 250 known examples of surviving Pony Express mail / postmarks in various collections today bearing one of more than a dozen different types of postmarks.

The surviving French Crown Jewels and main Regalia including a set of historic crowns are principally on display in the Galerie d ' Apollon of the Louvre, France's premier museum and former royal palace, and scattered in different museums like the National Library of France, the Basilica of Saint Denis the Natural history museum, the École des Mines or in Reims.

Although now much damaged, the stone can be reconstructed from the different surviving pieces.

The archive of networked programmes made by Southern Television, for example, is now owned by the Australian media company Southern Star Group ( no connection ) – but Southern's regional output is in the hands of ITV plc, whilst the few surviving tapes of Associated-Rediffusion belong to many different organisations ( the majority of Associated-Rediffusion's tapes were recorded in monochrome and therefore deemed of no use upon the arrival of colour broadcasting ; as such they were disposed of by their successor Thames Television ), although in recent years there have been occasional discoveries such as a 1959 episode of Double Your Money and the remaining missing episode of Around the World with Orson Welles, found by Ray Langstone in 2011.

Bellamy meets two of the surviving Combe sisters, said to have been notorious in the 1930s and 40s for their extreme political views, now living together in a strained relationship in the dramatically different political realities of 2010.

The language shares its basic structure with other Berber languages, but specific details are quite different ; in fact, it is probably the most divergent surviving Berber language, with a significantly different sound system made even more distant by sound changes such as / l / > / dj / and / x / > / k /, as well as a difficult-to-explain profusion of glottal stops.

Although performances striving for authenticity are now usual, it is generally agreed that there can never be a definitive version of Messiah ; the surviving manuscripts contain radically different settings of many numbers, and vocal and instrumental ornamentation of the written notes is a matter of personal judgment, even for the most historically informed performers.

Now she herself took power and soon also killed her oldest surviving son Seleucus V. Two different motives are given as reason for this deed: According to one version he had attempted to claim the throne without her agreement, according to the other version she was afraid that he might avenge the assassination of his father.

The exact rules of the game of Liubo are not known, and some of the surviving descriptions of the game are conflicting, which suggests that the game may have been played according to different rules at different times or in different places.

While there are no complete surviving manuscripts of the Hebrew texts on which the Septuagint was based, many scholars believe that they represent a different textual tradition (" Vorlage ") from the one that became the basis for the Masoretic texts.

A comparison of surviving Roman religious calendars suggests that official festivals were organized according to broad seasonal groups that allowed for different local traditions.

Many of them were presented as different species ( e. g., " monkey man ") and described as being the missing link, but it was also common for them to be presented as the last surviving Aztec.

Derives from an aria of a lost wedding cantata ( 1725 ) which Bach also re-used as the alto aria of his Ascension Oratorio Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen, BWV 11 but as the two different surviving versions are markedly different, it is thought they share a common model.

The music is now highly specialized and uses just two different surviving melodies.

Destroyed by a fire in 1696, the stables were immediately rebuilt in the design of Nicodemus Tessin the Younger ( 1654 – 1728 ), a structure surviving different alternations until the beginning of the 20th century.

The gesture of the raised right arm or hand in Roman and other ancient cultures that does exist in surviving literature and art generally had a significantly different function and is never identical with the modern straight-arm salute.

The oldest surviving writing to explicitly consider the rules by which reason operates are the works of the Greek philosopher Aristotle, especially Prior Analysis and Posterior Analysis.

* There are nine surviving deities of Ragnarök, including Baldr and Hödr, Magni and Modi, Vidar and Váli, Hoenir, the daughter of Sól and a ninth " powerful, mighty one, he who rules over everything ".

Some form of chess had almost certainly reached Japan by the 9th century, if not earlier, but the earliest surviving Japanese description of the rules of chess dates from the early 12th century, during the Heian period.

As the credits roll, Shorty-parodying the rules of a trilogy in Scream 3-explains via videocassette that he may be in prison or deceased, but provides rules for surviving such a situation ... which turn out to be instructions for surviving a snatch-and-run.

There are a few surviving tournament books describing the style, horsemanship and rules of the tournaments of the 15th and 16th centuries, as well as accounts of tournaments dating back to the 13th century.

Lasnik and Sobin argue that surviving occurrences of whom are not part of ordinary English grammar, but the result of extra-grammatical rules for producing " prestige " forms.

On 17 August 2010, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled that the surviving partners of registered partnerships are entitled to the same inheritance tax rules as the survivors of mixed-sex marriages.

According to the rules of primogeniture, Richard II's heir presumptive was the seven-year-old Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, grandson and heir of Lionel of Antwerp, the second surviving son of Edward III.

** 1730: The earliest surviving rules of an Oddfellows Lodge – the Loyal Aristarcus Lodge in London

Angelou demonstrates, through her involvement with the black community of Stamps, as well as her presentation of vivid and realistic racist characters and " the vulgarity of white Southern attitudes toward African Americans ", her developing understanding of the rules for surviving in a racist society.

In Canada, Governor-General Custer rules the former dominion with an iron-felt glove, surviving several assassination attempts by Manitoban farmer Arthur McGregor.

It asserts that " World Jewish Zionism " constitutes " the last racist ideology still surviving " and that Israel is " the last outpost of Apartheid in the World ", which, " by its mere existence " demonstrates " a complete defiance to all international laws, rules and principles ".

Some form of chess almost certainly reached Japan by the 9th century, if not earlier, but the earliest surviving Japanese description of the rules dates from the early 12th century ( c. 1120, during the Heian period ).