Search results for "John Cotton" - New World Encyclopedia
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- More specifically, he founded the American cotton-textile industry. After ... Slater, also invented a type of thread made of cotton. In 1793, now ...8 KB (1,244 words) - 03:02, 23 December 2022
- is best remembered as the inventor of the cotton gin. Whitney also affected ... Whitney saw that a machine to clean the seed from cotton could make ...15 KB (2,202 words) - 16:11, 13 February 2024
- lived in the parish of St. Dunstan, where John Donne was a vicar, and the ... From time to time he visited Charles Cotton in his fishing house on the ...8 KB (1,221 words) - 23:10, 10 March 2018
- in decline, but despite the tariff, its cotton industry flourished as the ... " which was enunciated anonymously by John C. Calhoun, Jackson's ...7 KB (1,113 words) - 00:42, 17 November 2022
- (1639 – 1723) and the grandson of John Cotton and Richard Mather, both ... paternal (Richard Mather) and maternal (John Cotton). He attended Boston Latin ...26 KB (3,857 words) - 08:24, 10 January 2024
- fabrics made from natural fibers, such as cotton. However, polyester fabrics ... * Scheirs, John, and Timothy E. Long (eds.). Modern Polyesters: Chemistry ...8 KB (1,111 words) - 17:38, 9 October 2021
- to as the Lower South or the "Cotton States." ... cultural characteristics of the Deep South.John Shelton Reed and Dale Volberg ...16 KB (2,381 words) - 08:36, 15 January 2023
- State Prison in Louisiana by folklorists John and Alan Lomax. Gaining early ... Night Irene," "Pick a Bale of Cotton," "Midnight Special ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 18:43, 25 October 2022
- In 1940, John W. Eckelberry of DuPont stated that the letters "nyl ... U.S. currency. At the outset of the war, cotton accounted for more than 80 ...10 KB (1,452 words) - 10:12, 11 March 2023
- and French. Interestingly, he gave the poet John Milton lessons in Dutch in ... Massachusetts Puritan leader Reverend John Cotton to British authorities ...17 KB (2,483 words) - 02:41, 16 December 2022
- to commit suicide and was sent to Dr. Cotton's asylum at St. Albans ... house, moving with them to Olney, where John Newton, a former slave trader ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 15:56, 7 May 2023
- followed the teachings of the Reverend John Cotton, their religious mentor. a polity based on Puritan beliefs. John Cotton was relocated to the Puritan ...18 KB (2,765 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- John Milton featured Beelzebub as the second-ranking of the many fallen ... repeatedly during the Salem witch trials. Cotton Mather wrote a pamphlet entitled ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 10:24, 26 September 2023
- Manuscripts," in James Campbell, Eric John, & Patrick Wormald. 1991 ... that is now separate (British Library MS. Cotton Tiberius Aiii, f. 178) was ...32 KB (4,981 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- John Philip Sousa (November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932) was an American ... Sousa was born in Washington, D.C., to John António de Sousa and ...15 KB (2,115 words) - 07:04, 3 August 2022
- of the surrounding region, mainly wheat, cotton, pistachios, olives, and sheep. ... a tomb associated with Zechariah, father of John the Baptist. During the Crusades ...14 KB (2,080 words) - 05:11, 17 June 2023
- Poland, where wooden gears used to drive cotton mills caught his attention ... Citroën studied the wooden gear drives in the thriving cotton mills ...12 KB (1,874 words) - 20:01, 26 July 2023
- irrigate the Gezira Plain, which produces cotton, wheat, and other crops. ... which is most famous for its high quality cotton. The region also produces ...11 KB (1,678 words) - 18:33, 9 March 2023
- * Cotton, F. Albert, Geoffrey Wilkinson, Carlos A. Murillo, and Manfred ... * Farndon, John. 2006. The Practical Encyclopedia of Rocks & Minerals: ...9 KB (1,269 words) - 22:04, 29 January 2023
- Josephina Augusta Easton. Her father was a cotton merchant. She attended the ... the beginning of the twentieth century by John Dewey, could be applied successfully ...7 KB (1,084 words) - 16:14, 13 February 2024
