Abstract: An inscribed late second century AD milestone has been recently re-erected on the edge of the Jordan Valley road near Tell Deir ‘Alla. It provides new evidence for a road from al-Salt down to the better-known Roman route running down the Valley, probably in the modern fields to the west of the present road. In addition, Roman epigraphic references to Salt using its Hellenistic name, Gadora or Gedora, are rare if non-existent.

Abstract: Abstract In the past several years debates about climate change have moved from speculation about likely impacts to how to detect and prepare for expected impacts. The Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a major milestone.

Abstract: Abstract Berg began work on Wozzeck in 1914, shortly after having witnessed a stage performance of the masterpiece by Georg Buchner (1813-37). Called up in the Austrian army at the outbreak of World War I, he was forced to interrupt work for three years, during which he had a taste of military life at first hand, though only on the home front. Completion of the opera proceeded slowly, and the full score was not finished until April 1922. The premiere took place at the Berlin Staatsoper under Erich Kleiber on 14 December 1925. Surrounded by controversy because perceived by many as a dangerous example of “atonality” and because of political intrigues against Kleiber, Wozzeck nevertheless was a great public success from the start, and there were critics even then who recognized it as a milestone in the history of opera. One view of it that became fashionable among critics was that, by concentrating on traditional musical forms, Berg had intended to reform opera (“reform” again!), leading it into a post-Wagnerian era. When in 1927 Berg was asked by the League of Composers in New York to contribute an article on Wozzeck to their magazine, he addressed himself to this issue.