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Der Exzellenzcluster PhoenixD (Photonics, Optics, and Engineering – Innovation Across Disciplines) hat erfolgreich die Bewilligung für seine zweite Förderphase erhalten und wird ab Januar 2026 für weitere sieben Jahre mit einer Millionenförderung unterstützt.

Appalachian Folklore & Myths On paper, the North Bend Rail Trail is a neatly measured thing. The official guides describe a nearly seventy two mile corridor along the old Baltimore and Ohio line from Interstate 77 near Parkersburg to Wolf Summit, with thirteen tunnels, ten of them still passable, and thirty six bridges crossing creeks and hollows between the small towns of Wood, Ritchie, Doddridge, and Harrison counties.

Appalachian Folklore & Myths Where Chiques Creek meets the lower Susquehanna, a wall of pale quartzite rises sharply above the water. Today hikers know it as Chickies Rock County Park in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, a scenic overlook with views of the broad river, rail lines, and bridges below.

Appalachian Folklore & Myths On clear evenings along the high ridges of western North Carolina, it is easy to see why people imagine something watching from the spruce and fir. The Great Balsam Mountains sit between the tourist glow of Asheville and the deep hollers that run toward Cherokee and Sylva, a high, folded country of fog, rhododendron thickets, and black bear sign.

Appalachian Folklore & Myths On a September evening in 1952, a handful of boys on a schoolyard in central West Virginia watched a bright object streak across the sky and vanish behind a hill on a neighbor’s farm.

Appalachian Folklore & Myths On a cold mountain night it does not take much to start a story. A house cat yowls in the yard. Something screams once down in the hollow. A bucket tips over on the porch. Before long somebody shakes their head and says that the wampus cat is out again. Across Appalachia that name covers a whole menagerie of fears.

Appalachian Folklore & Myths Late on a June night in 1964, a young newspaper reporter steered his car along Riverside Drive beside the Tygart Valley River at Grafton, West Virginia. On the river side of the road he saw what he later called a “huge white obstruction” that seemed alive, seven to nine feet tall, roughly four feet wide, with slick, seal like skin and no visible head.

Egal welchen Studiengang ein Studierender belegt: er muss eine Strategie haben, Wissen verarbeiten und managen zu können. An diesem Punkt im Bereich Informationskompetenz setzen Literaturverwaltungsprogramme wie Zotero an. An der IHL gab es erste Vorarbeiten, um Zotero nutzen zu können.

2018 öffnete die nach einem Konzept des niederländischen Architekten Aat Vos neu gestaltete Stadtteilbibliothek in Köln-Kalk ihre Türen. Seitdem zählt sie zu den fortschrittlichsten Stadtteilbibliotheken Deutschlands, bekannt für ihr innovatives Design und ihren Ansatz als „Dritter Ort“, vor allem für Kinder und Jugendliche. Aber entspricht sie sieben Jahre nach der Umgestaltung immer noch den Wünschen und Bedürfnissen ihrer Fokusgruppe?

Appalachian Figures In the summer of 1930, Memphis fans crowded into Lewis Park to watch their Red Sox face the best Black ballclubs in the country. Somewhere on the infield dirt of that segregated ballpark stood a third baseman whose story began in the hills of eastern Kentucky.