Some scholars who support the Los Angeles school board's decision say that what's called for is a more responsible -- meaning historical -- edition of the Koran.
This coincides with the publication of the first volume of the New Penguin Ibsen, a four-book project – backed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs – that contains the first English translations based on a 2005 Scandinavian historical-critical edition of the plays, featuring revised texts.
Nothing the N.E.H. can do is more central to its mission than fostering the kind of research and historical enlightenment these editions provide.
Initially, Bavaria, for instance, had pledged $575,000 to directly support publication of the new edition for historical purposes.
He was succeeded by a lawyer named Frederick James Furnivall, who in 1864 founded the Early English Text Society with a view to making all the earlier literature available to historical lexicographers in competent editions.
As for the grandfather Erasmus, Charles gives public credit in only two sentences in a footnote in the "Historical Notes" in later editions of the Origin, and in part of a paragraph in his autobiography.
Paul McCartney took a Grammy for best historical album for a deluxe edition of "Band on the Run".
In 2001, the year before the Red Sox hired him, James published a revised edition of his Historical Abstract, which included an essay about the evolution of the modern relief pitcher.
Teaming up with Attitude magazine, on their 20th birthday, to mark the historical occasion with a special edition book, we posted about the first legal marriages throughout the day and launched a competition for one lucky same-sex couple to win the honeymoon of their dreams with Virgin Holidays and HIP Hotels.
Copies of the second edition of "An Historical Guide to Afghanistan," published in Tokyo, were delivered to the Ministry of Tourism just a few weeks after the Communists took power in 1978, shortly before she and Mr. Dupree were expelled from the country.
The most recent edition includes 1034 historical earthquakes (between 2300 BC and AD 1911) and 4289 modern earthquakes (AD 1912 1990).
