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Appalachian FiguresLewis County TNHistory and Archaeology
Published in Appalachianhistorian.org
Author Alex Hall

Appalachian Figures A Lewis County start David Fain “Dave” Sisco was born June 26, 1937, the son of Ira Guy Sisco and Cuba Irene Fain. He later made his home in Bon Aqua and died on July 25, 2016. He was a U. S. Army veteran and was buried at Edwards Cemetery in Hohenwald. Those core facts come straight from the funeral home record and contemporaneous obituary, which also list the service and burial details.

Appalachian FiguresKemper County MSHistory and Archaeology
Published in Appalachianhistorian.org
Author Alex Hall

Appalachian Figures John Jones Pettus is usually remembered as Mississippi’s fiery secession governor. He helped pull the state out of the Union and tried to hold it in the Confederate war effort through conscription, militia policy, and heavy use of enslaved labor. Yet before Pettus ever signed a proclamation in Jackson, he was a boy on the move and then a young lawyer on the cotton frontier of Kemper County along the Alabama line.

Appalachian FiguresKemper County MSHistory and Archaeology
Published in Appalachianhistorian.org
Author Alex Hall

Appalachian Figures On paper, Henry “Hank” Presswood’s life reads like a tidy baseball biography. Born in a Mississippi company town in 1921, he worked in the lumber mill, served in the Army during the Second World War, played shortstop and third base in the Negro American League, then spent three decades in a steel mill in industrial Chicago. The reality is harder and more interesting.

Appalachian FiguresKemper County MSHistory and Archaeology
Published in Appalachianhistorian.org
Author Alex Hall

Appalachian Figures John Cornelius Stennis started life on a small Kemper County farm and ended it as one of the longest serving United States senators in history. Born near De Kalb in 1901, he spent more than sixty years in elected office, from the Mississippi House of Representatives to national prominence on the Armed Services and Appropriations Committees. For Kemper County, his story is both local and global.

AllgemeinAktuellesVeranstaltungshinweiseLegal HelpdeskOther Social SciencesGerman
Published in Open Research Office Berlin

Der fünfte und finale Workshop im Jahr 2025 zum Aufbau des Legal Helpdesk Berlin findet statt am 8. Dezember im Jüdischen Museum Berlin. Als Referenten konnten wir Paul Klimpel von iRights.Law gewinnen, das Thema ist „Künstliche Intelligenz und Urheberrecht in Wissenschafts- und Kulturerbe-Einrichtungen“. Um Anmeldung wird gebeten.

SoftwareSoftwareSecurityComputer and Information Sciences
Published in Abhishek Tiwari

SummaryJWTForge is a lightweight, open-source JSON Web Token (JWT) (RFC 7519) vending service designed specifically for developers and security researchers who need to test or surface vulnerabilities in the OAuth2 (RFC 6749) and OpenID Connect (OIDC) (see here) implementations.

Retrieval Augmented GenerationLarge Language ModelAi SearchOther Social Sciences
Published in Aaron Tay's Musings about librarianship
Author Aaron Tay

The recent addition of Consensus Deep Search mode is a great boost to its retrieval capabilities. On top of that, it has one of the most appealing interfaces out there, with color-coded references, and the Consensus Meter, for all its methodological faults, is likely to appeal to undergraduates and less advanced users.

Appalachian FiguresLetcher County KYHistory and Archaeology
Published in Appalachianhistorian.org
Author Alex Hall

Appalachian Figures Nelson Robinette “Robb” Webb grew up in a Letcher County household where school calendars and mountain stories mixed around the table. Decades later, his voice opened Sunday nights for millions of viewers as the familiar sound that introduced 60 Minutes and the CBS Evening News.

Appalachian FiguresLetcher County KYHistory and Archaeology
Published in Appalachianhistorian.org
Author Alex Hall

Appalachian Figures From Kona on the North Fork to the wider world Martin Van Buren Bates was born on 9 November 1837 in Letcher County, Kentucky, probably in the crossroads settlement of Kona near Whitesburg on the North Fork of the Kentucky River. He was the youngest of a large farm family headed by John Wallis Bates and Sarah Walthrop (Wallis) Bates, early settlers whose land lay at the foot of Pine Mountain.