Appalachian Figures On paper, Henry “Hank” Presswood’s life reads like a tidy baseball biography. Born in a Mississippi company town in 1921, he worked in the lumber mill, served in the Army during the Second World War, played shortstop and third base in the Negro American League, then spent three decades in a steel mill in industrial Chicago. The reality is harder and more interesting.

Appalachian Figures John Cornelius Stennis started life on a small Kemper County farm and ended it as one of the longest serving United States senators in history. Born near De Kalb in 1901, he spent more than sixty years in elected office, from the Mississippi House of Representatives to national prominence on the Armed Services and Appropriations Committees. For Kemper County, his story is both local and global.

Y ou are warmly invited to the Graphic Refuge panel event with Dr Dominic Davies (City St George’s Media, Culture and Creative Industries) and Dr Candida Rifkind (University of Winnipeg, Canada) on Wednesday the 19th of November, at 5pm [UK time], at City St. George’s University of London.

Der fünfte und finale Workshop im Jahr 2025 zum Aufbau des Legal Helpdesk Berlin findet statt am 8. Dezember im Jüdischen Museum Berlin. Als Referenten konnten wir Paul Klimpel von iRights.Law gewinnen, das Thema ist „Künstliche Intelligenz und Urheberrecht in Wissenschafts- und Kulturerbe-Einrichtungen“. Um Anmeldung wird gebeten.

SummaryJWTForge is a lightweight, open-source JSON Web Token (JWT) (RFC 7519) vending service designed specifically for developers and security researchers who need to test or surface vulnerabilities in the OAuth2 (RFC 6749) and OpenID Connect (OIDC) (see here) implementations.

The recent addition of Consensus Deep Search mode is a great boost to its retrieval capabilities. On top of that, it has one of the most appealing interfaces out there, with color-coded references, and the Consensus Meter, for all its methodological faults, is likely to appeal to undergraduates and less advanced users.

Appalachian Figures Nelson Robinette “Robb” Webb grew up in a Letcher County household where school calendars and mountain stories mixed around the table. Decades later, his voice opened Sunday nights for millions of viewers as the familiar sound that introduced 60 Minutes and the CBS Evening News.

Appalachian Figures From Kona on the North Fork to the wider world Martin Van Buren Bates was born on 9 November 1837 in Letcher County, Kentucky, probably in the crossroads settlement of Kona near Whitesburg on the North Fork of the Kentucky River. He was the youngest of a large farm family headed by John Wallis Bates and Sarah Walthrop (Wallis) Bates, early settlers whose land lay at the foot of Pine Mountain.

Appalachian Figures William Miller Drennen began life in a brand new coal camp on Elkhorn Creek and ended it as a nationally known judge who helped reshape the United States Tax Court.

Appalachian Figures If you grew up in Jenkins, you probably heard the name Burpo in two different settings. Older railroad hands remembered engineer H. L. Burpo at the throttle of the first passenger train into town. Younger fans might remember another Burpo: a tall left handed pitcher who clawed his way from the coalfields to a brief stint with the Cincinnati Reds.

«Si je réussis mon projet de terrain, je m’attends à avoir au moins vacciné 345 enfants». Cet engagement n’a pas été pris par un ministre dans la capitale, mais par Jérémie Mpata Lumpungu, infirmier titulaire dans la province du Kasaï. Il n’était pas seul. Lundi 10 novembre 2025, un appel a résonné à travers la République démocratique du Congo.