Appalachian History Series Blountville, the old Sullivan County seat on the road between Knoxville and Bristol, saw a sharp engagement on September 22, 1863. The fight came amid Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside’s East Tennessee operations, when Federal mounted troops probed toward the Virginia line to secure the railroad and pressure Confederate forces back toward the Holston River and the saltworks beyond.

https://doi.org/10.64000/r2zgm-99706Crossref and PKP gear up for collaboration on enriched metadata, interoperability, community engagement around upgrading, and educational resources. Crossref and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) have been working closely together for many years, sharing resources and supporting our overlapping communities of organisations involved in communicating research.

Appalachian History Series On the foggy morning of November 6, 1863, Confederate cavalry swept into Rogersville and struck the Union outposts along Big Creek. The short fight ended with Federal batteries and wagon trains in Confederate hands, hundreds of prisoners on the road south, and a shaken Union command regrouping toward Morristown and Knoxville.

por Paula Erijman Si pudiéramos viajar al otoño de 1882 y entrar al Palacio de la Exposición Continental Sud-Americana de la industria, ubicado en la actual Plaza Miserere de Buenos Aires, encontraríamos a Eulalia Manso de pie en una tribuna.

Appalachian History Series On December 14, 1863, in the hills where Hawkins County meets Grainger County, Confederate Lieutenant General James Longstreet tried to spring a trap at Bean’s Station. His infantry struck hard at Brigadier General James M. Shackelford’s mixed force of Union cavalry and mounted infantry, but darkness, rain, and missed connections let most of the Federals slip away toward Blain’s Cross Roads.

KOALA ("Konsortiale Open Access Lösungen aufbauen") was initially the name of a BMBF-funded project (2021–2023) that developed a consortial funding model for Diamond Open Access publishing. During this phase, the foundational KOALA model was conceptualized, and two pilot consortia were launched. Since 2023, the TIB Hannover has continued the initiative as a regular service under the KOALA name.

Crossref and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) have been working closely together for many years, sharing resources and supporting our overlapping communities of organisations involved in communicating research.

I became aware of just while watching Hynek’s second video on uv a few months ago. I immediately fell in love with its elegance and simplicity, so I have begun replacing task running in my repositories that relied on tox with just. This post gives a bit of background, context, and walks through making the switch on one of my repositories that has some annoying dependencies.

I’ve been teaching phonetics for the first time in a while, and I wanted to make some animations illustrating how sounds are pressure waves in propagating through the air. I worked how how to do this in a fairly tidy way, again leveraging the new stat_manual() from ggplot2, and gganimate.

When Pygmalion carved Galatea from ivory, he fell so deeply in love with his creation that he begged Aphrodite to bring her to life. The goddess, moved by his devotion, granted his wish. ¹ It’s a beautiful myth about art, obsession and the blurring lines between creation and creator. What the myth doesn’t tell us is whether Galatea charged a monthly subscription fee. ¹ Ovid, Metamorphoses , Book 10, 243-297.

Warning: This article is divided into two parts but both have detailed descriptions of sexual violence in the book and TV series, Rivals. In episode one of the 2024 television period drama Rivals, middle-aged Lizzie Vereker (Katherine Parkinson) tells her new 20-year-old neighbor, Taggie O’Hara (Bella Maclean), “It’s 1986.