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...based on the act of listening, as this activity is something that everyone can take part in. As the twentieth-century American composer Aaron Copland says in his book What to Listen for in Music: "You can't develop a better appreciation of the art [of music] merely by reading a book about it. If you want to understand music better, you can do nothing more important than...

...based on their religion: Christians, Jews, Muslims (often called Mahometans), and Idolaters. For centuries, Buddhists fell into this last category. The process of their elevation to having an “ism” of their own is too long to tell here. However, one chapter in that story would be about those Jesuits, the intrepid travelers who set out from Europe to spread the Gospel...

...base for the legionary builders. When the Wall was commissioned, Vindolanda was maintained as a fort ‘on the frontier’, taking its place between Housesteads and Great Chesters. Like most Roman fort sites, Vindolanda had been used as a source of building stones by local landowners from times immemorial, but it was remote enough from the main modern roads to escape the...