31.   James Zogby, president of the Washington-based Arab American Institute, asserts that Jews and Palestinians co-existed in relative peace through most of recorded history.

32.   Most reference books simply say that the game pre-dates recorded history, which is close enough for me.

33.   Never before in the recorded history of the region, experts say, had there been such a big and disastrous flood.

34.   Never in recorded history has harrowing change been this much fun.

35.   Neonaticide, the killing of a newborn, is a crime as old as recorded history.

36.   Note well, though, the case of Sergei Bubka of Ukraine, the greatest pole vaulter in recorded history.

37.   No system of justice in recorded history has ever equated the life of a murdered innocent child with that of a homicidal, depraved predator.

38.   ONLINE No, the Geminids meteor shower, among the largest in recorded history, did not knock out satellites or disrupt communications back on Earth, as feared.

39.   Slavery is older than recorded human history and probably occurred in some form or another almost everywhere in the world at some time.

40.   Such earthenware dishes are among the first cooking vessels of recorded culinary history, dating back nearly four millenniums to Mesopotamia.