Appalachian History A Courthouse Town On The Edge Of The Mountains In the early 1860s Powell County sat where the Bluegrass began to wrinkle into mountains. The Red River threaded past small farms, iron works, and timber land on its way toward the Kentucky River. Stanton, a modest crossroads town, had been chosen as county seat after Powell County was carved out of surrounding counties in 1852 and named for Governor Lazarus W. Powell.

Appalachian History Mt. Olivet did not yet have a county of its own when the Civil War came through on tired horses in June 1864. The crossroads village sat on the old Maysville–Lexington road, between the mineral springs at Blue Licks and the market towns strung along the Licking River. On paper it belonged partly to Bracken, partly to Harrison, Mason, and Nicholas.

Appalachian History A border county on the Cumberland In the summer of 1863, Williamsburg was a small courthouse town on the Cumberland River, better known as Whitley Court House than as a battlefield. Whitley County itself was relatively young, carved from Knox County in 1818 with Williamsburg planted at the center as the county seat. The county sat in a dangerous place. Its southern edge touched the Tennessee line.

Remarks about implementation science for planetary health by Reda Sadki, Executive Director, The Geneva Learning Foundation at the Centre for Planetary Health’s research corner meeting, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) on December 17, 2025. Pauline Paterson (LSHTM): We are really delighted to welcome Reda Sadki.

Der Franc-CFA steht im Zentrum der neokolonialen Beziehungen Frankreichs zu mehreren westafrikanischen Staaten. Kritiker:innen werfen der Währung vor, die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung der Region zu behindern und dadurch Flucht- und Migrationsbewegungen nach Europa zu begünstigen. Diese Kritik wird zunehmend von rechtspopulistischen Akteur:innen oft mit irreführenden Argumenten aufgegriffen.

Milad Haghani, Stephan Winter e Abbas Rajabifard1 HAGHANI, Milad; WINTER, Stephan; RAJABIFARD, Abbas. Por que é hora de colocar a ética e a humanidade no centro da educação em engenharia. (trad. Marcio Miotto e...

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An investigation of the kinetics of the reaction between titanocene pentasulfide and sulfenyl chloride leading to the formation of the S7 allotrope of sulfur was accompanied by supporting DFT calculations which led to the conclusion that of five possible mechanisms for the reaction, the most probable corresponded to a variant of the concerted σ-bond metathesis (Scheme 1, […]