Appalachian History Series Introduction Martins Fork Lake is a small mountain reservoir tucked into the Smith community of Harlan County, Kentucky. Completed in 1979 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the 340-acre lake sits at river mile 15.6 on Martins Fork, just southeast of the town of Harlan.
Die Sozialwissenschaften und die Soziologie im Speziellen haben sich dem Thema Bürgerkrieg bislang vor allem als einem empirischen Gegenstand angenommen: Ursachen, Dauer, Auswirkungen auf das internationale Staatensystem oder Logiken der Mobilisierung sind zentrale Themen dieser Forschung (vgl. Newman/DeRouen 2014). Kaum Aufmerksamkeit gefunden hat der Bürgerkrieg bislang als anspruchsvoller sozial- oder ordnungstheoretischer Begriff.
Appalachian History Series Kentucky on the Brink In late 1861 Kentucky stood in a dangerous middle ground. The Commonwealth had remained in the Union, yet communities were split in loyalty and both armies moved to control key valleys and roads. In the Big Sandy country of the eastern mountains, Confederate Brig. Gen. Humphrey Marshall crossed in from Virginia to recruit, while Union commanders rushed to push him back. Col.
Appalachian History Series A county at war with itself By the turn of the twentieth century, Breathitt County, Kentucky, had become a byword for political killings and courthouse cliques. The flashpoint came on May 4, 1903, when attorney and United States commissioner James Buchanan Marcum was shot at the entrance to the Jackson courthouse.
Appalachian History Series How a wagon note, a courthouse ambush, and a hidden rifle shot pulled two Kentucky counties into years of bloodletting until state power forced a weary peace. Setting and background In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the mountain counties of Clay and Harlan balanced self reliance with thin institutions.
The “Publishing Cultures in Transition: Open Access, Critical Digital Literacy, and Digital Infrastructures” call for papers is open until November 14th, 2025. This special issue will be edited by Klaus Rummler, Natalie Marty, and PKP’s Urooj Nizami. The original, full call for papers was published at medienpaed.com.
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A lawyer and a developer use software to generate billions of melodies and make them available to the public. This hack won’t put an end to music plagiarism, but it could be a way to defend against it. It’ll definitely get people talking more about copyright in musical works. Pop music often uses short musical […] The post No more Fights over Melodies? appeared first on iRights.info.
Vorwort Die o-bib hat vor wenigen Tagen einen Call for Papers zum Themenschwerpunkt „Literatur und Daten in Gefahr – die Sicherung des freien Zugangs zu Informationen in Zeiten politischer Einflussnahme“ veröffentlicht. Wir, die Redaktion der LIBREAS rufen dazu auf, auf diesen zu reagieren und Beiträge zu diesem Themenkreis einzureichen.
Using standard CURIE prefixes and URI prefixes in semantic web artifacts such as Resource Description Framework (RDF) promotes interoperability, enables reuse in downstream data integration, and makes data more FAIR. The Bioregistry defines a set of standard CURIE prefixes and URI prefixes against which RDF files can be validated/standardized.
ISMB/ECCB 2025: Liverpool, LLMs and Lessons in Open Science The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community.