21.   Graham said the cooling trend should signal an end to the longest drought in recorded Australian history.

22.   How about the most disgraceful performance in the entire recorded history of the species.

23.   In a glutted market, any new recording competes not only with its contemporaries but also with virtually all of recorded history.

24.   If the ballot initiative is approved, wildlife would winter in the Colorado Rockies this year without fear of traps for the first time in recorded history.

25.   In all of recorded history, that has never happened before.

26.   In a market hopelessly glutted with reissues and repackagings, any new recording competes not only with its contemporaries but also with virtually all of recorded history.

27.   In one of the truly dumbest moments in recorded history, the guy to whom Gates sent them blew off the meeting.

28.   In its thousand years of recorded history, it has survived invasions, fires and plagues.

29.   It should be of particular interest to members of my own generation, the first in recorded history that steadfastly refuses to grow old, AARP memberships notwithstanding.

30.   It was a fortnight so fraught as to seem surreal, a standoff scholars have come to call the most dangerous moment in recorded history.