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Appalachian HistoryRobertson County KY
Published in Appalachianhistorian.org
Author Alex Hall

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 HistoryWhitley County KY
Published in Appalachianhistorian.org
Author Alex Hall

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.

DeutschForschungAbhängigkeitAntikolonialismusFranc CFAGerman
Published in Netzwerk Fluchtforschung
Author Robin Frisch

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.

Tech NotesGithubMaintenanceHelpInfrastructure

rOpenSci makes heavy use of GitHub for our projects and services, including software peer-review.GitHub is by far the most widely used git or code-hosting platform, and the combination of its popularity and freemium services have made it central to open-source and R communities.However, for a variety of reasons, some of our community members or potential members may prefer or need to use other platforms.These reasons may include concerns about

Year In Review
Published in Research Organization Registry (ROR)
Author ROR Core Team

This time last year, when we reflected on ROR’s milestones in 2024, one of the major highlights was the launch of version 2 of the ROR schema and API. Now, as we think back on 2025, where we were a year ago makes a nice bookend to one of the major highlights of the current year: last week’s sunset of version 1 of the ROR schema and API.

Reaction Mechanism
Published in Henry Rzepa's Blog

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, […]

OPENNESSFORSCHUNG & PROJEKTESERVICESTIB AV-PortalWissenschaftliche FilmeGerman
Published in TIB-Blog
Author Sven Strobel

read this article in English Wie in den vergangenen Jahren möchten wir auch diesmal einen Überblick über die wichtigsten technischen und funktionalen Erweiterungen des TIB AV-Portals geben. Das Scrum-Team hat 2025 erneut zahlreiche Verbesserungen umgesetzt, die sowohl die infrastrukturelle Basis als auch die Nutzungsmöglichkeiten des Portals ausgebaut haben.