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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 ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 03:59, 2 May 2024
- 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
- [[Image:Sharecroppers chopping cotton - 1941.jpg|thumb|400 px|Preparing ... slavery system the slaves who had to work cotton or sugar were worked all ...20 KB (3,132 words) - 16:23, 14 February 2024
- counted as property then. High prices for cotton, the primary crop, added ... When cotton was king during the 1850s, Mississippi plantation owners—especially ...35 KB (5,105 words) - 11:10, 10 March 2023
- in the Great Lakes Bowl, Orange Bowl, and Cotton Bowl. Kentucky's final ... year, 1957, Bryant's star back John David Crow won the Heisman ...18 KB (2,706 words) - 03:11, 26 September 2023
- a common practice. Moses Carver hired John Bentley to find them. Only ... with soil depleted by repeated crops of cotton, Carver was one of many agricultural ...18 KB (2,882 words) - 01:30, 23 November 2022
- on his return voyage back to Europe.John Logan Allen (ed.), North American ... were ordered to bring 25 lb (11 kg) of cotton. This also gave way to a ...23 KB (3,719 words) - 18:05, 20 January 2024
- monde (1578), was said to have influenced John Milton's own classic ... aboard the Arbella, under the leadership of John Winthrop, during the Great ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 01:58, 26 June 2021
- half of its irrigated land is planted in cotton, placing the country in the ... center. The principal industries are cotton textiles, carpet-weaving ...13 KB (1,843 words) - 04:04, 18 August 2023
- our allies. If the slaves no longer raised cotton and rice, tobacco and grain ... [[Image:Bingham-Stevens.jpg|thumb|left|260px|[[John Bingham|John A ...9 KB (1,431 words) - 02:49, 19 April 2023
- business on his own with three mules as a cotton spinner. During 1792, Owen ... Richard Moulson, who undertook to erect cotton mills on land bought from ...26 KB (4,155 words) - 01:46, 16 December 2022
- John Ray (1627-1705) also known as John Wray, was an English naturalist ... William Derham (1657-1735), was a friend and disciple of John Ray ...12 KB (1,729 words) - 15:21, 11 November 2022
- movement, was the owner of successful cotton mills. He believed in putting ... A Welshman who made his fortune in the cotton trade, Owen believed in putting ...22 KB (3,153 words) - 02:54, 8 January 2024
- Phosgene was synthesized by the chemist John Davy (1790-1868) in 1812 ... * Cotton, F. Albert, and Geoffrey Wilkinson. 1980. Advanced Inorganic ...10 KB (1,416 words) - 22:44, 28 March 2023
- second most-visited, after that of President John F. Kennedy. ... for a dollar a day, plowing and picking cotton. He became very skilled with ...27 KB (4,174 words) - 18:26, 21 August 2023
- * McMurry, John. Organic Chemistry, 6th ed. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole ... B. Organic Chemistry, 8th ed. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, 2004. ISBN 0471417998. ...11 KB (1,427 words) - 21:32, 20 March 2024
- or Nowell Codex (British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A.xv), along with ... known, though its official designation is Cotton Vitellius A.XV due to its ...26 KB (4,193 words) - 10:54, 28 September 2023
- Indian Independence under the influence of John Stuart Mill who argued that ... and the Elphinstone Circle (now Lord John Elphinstone his nephew, who ...23 KB (3,481 words) - 17:48, 10 November 2022
- sharing perhaps as much in common with John Milton, Geoffrey Chaucer, ... 1870s, of which Fifine at the Fair and Red Cotton Night-Cap Country were the ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 03:13, 15 December 2022
- Maury County, he built a family chapel, St. John's Church, at Ashwood ... * Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher. Civil War High Commands. Palo ...10 KB (1,572 words) - 08:03, 6 March 2023
- often compared to Sidney Lanier and John Greenleaf Whittier. Timrod ... Cemetery, Charleston, S.C., 1867 and The Cotton Boll. The Ode, in particular ...9 KB (1,541 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- * Cotton, F. Albert, and Geoffrey Wilkinson. Advanced Inorganic Chemistry ... * Farndon, John. The Practical Encyclopedia of Rocks & Minerals: ...10 KB (1,587 words) - 19:37, 20 November 2023
- the Division of Labor in the Early English Cotton Mills]. Retrieved on April ... plaintiffs had to proceed anonymously, as John Does, because of feared retaliation ...16 KB (2,455 words) - 15:28, 10 December 2023
- Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) fiber is birefringent because of high ... Krane. Physics. Vol. 2, 5th ed. New York: John Wiley, 2001. ISBN 0471401943 ...9 KB (1,136 words) - 17:57, 31 October 2023
- that was upgraded in 1838 by a man named John Deere. Plows are actually ... *Cotton picker *Forage harvester (or silage harvester) *Huller ...11 KB (1,529 words) - 06:48, 16 June 2023
- alliterative patterns. The theory of John C. Pope (1942) inferred that ... Consolation of Philosophy contained in the Cotton manuscript. Another is The ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- them, and traders brought in more as the cotton plantations expanded. The ... chiefly rural and its economy tied to cotton. Planters resisted working ...36 KB (5,209 words) - 04:22, 17 June 2023
- two Confederate diplomats, James Mason and John Slidell. The envoys were ... the beginning that European dependence on cotton for its textile industry ...21 KB (3,294 words) - 16:44, 2 May 2023
- four verses in the Bible--in the epistles 1 John and 2 John. In these verses ... This is how we know it is the last hour" (1 John 2:18) ...17 KB (2,693 words) - 06:20, 31 July 2023
- * Cotton, F. Albert, and Geoffrey Wilkinson. 1980. Advanced Inorganic ... * McMurry, John. 2004. Organic Chemistry, 6th ed. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole ...12 KB (1,710 words) - 14:43, 5 December 2023
- , and Lelia (1879). In 1879, Oscar's cotton brokerage failed, and the ... ; "A Lady of Bayou St. John" "A Lady of Bayou St. John ...17 KB (2,711 words) - 17:09, 5 October 2022
- Cecil John Rhodes, PC, DCL (July 5, 1853 – March 26, 1902 was a ... he was to help his brother Herbert on his cotton farm.Anthony Thomas, Rhodes: ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 20:13, 4 January 2024
- historical importance as a center for the cotton and oil industries, its position ... as the city in which U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated ...34 KB (5,022 words) - 18:06, 24 January 2024
- in his tradition include Junior Wells and James Cotton, both of whom began their careers filling Little Walter's shoes as harmonica players with ...9 KB (1,411 words) - 07:45, 9 March 2023
- of the main islands of Saint Croix, Saint John, and Saint Thomas, along with ... of four main islands: Saint Thomas, Saint John, Saint Croix, and Water Island ...22 KB (3,252 words) - 01:22, 3 May 2023
- in Louisiana and Mississippi, picking cotton. She was orphaned at age ... at the age of 20. Her second marriage to John Davis on August 11, 1894 failed ...18 KB (2,870 words) - 10:48, 9 March 2023
- England, the eldest son of the Reverend John Raven Senior, vicar of Durnford ... and more practical. He criticized John Stuart Mill and others who ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
- Watson, John B. [[File:John Broadus Watson.JPG|thumb|300px|John B. Watson]] ...19 KB (2,797 words) - 20:40, 1 April 2024
- removed of Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin. Sherman's mother ... * Rommel, John G. Connecticut’s Yankee Patriot: Roger Sherman. Hartford: ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 02:41, 16 December 2022
- disease to effect," according to John Hale, minister in Beverly ... Griggs may have been influenced in his diagnosis by Cotton Mather ...24 KB (3,678 words) - 01:48, 23 December 2022
- Cotton farming and copper mining, two of Arizona's most important ... the "Five C's": copper, cotton, cattle, citrus, and climate ...21 KB (2,995 words) - 02:46, 15 August 2023
- in Boston, Massachusetts in 1761, by John Wheatley, who bought her to ... Mather Byles, a nephew of the puritan leader Cotton Mather. ...13 KB (1,993 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- This was followed by the English chemist John Newlands, who noticed ... * Cotton, F. Albert, G. Wilkinson, C.A. Murillo, and M. Bochmann. ...13 KB (1,942 words) - 00:40, 24 November 2022
- John Dee (July 13, 1527–1609) was a noted Welsh mathematician, geographer ... in his twenties. As an natural philosopher, John was an ardent promoter of ...34 KB (5,268 words) - 02:25, 9 February 2023
- The group consisted of singer, lead guitarist, and songwriter John ... Lead singer John Fogerty retreated from music in the late 1980s but ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 06:21, 11 January 2024
- Freetown is the seat of St John's Maroon Church, which was built ... * The Cotton Tree, which is a treasured symbol of the city, is in ...24 KB (3,436 words) - 21:04, 27 November 2023
- lithographic firm of William S. & John Pendleton. Currier & Ives ... to the Boston printing firm of William and John Pendleton. The Pendletons ...14 KB (2,141 words) - 06:47, 12 January 2024
- Hollywood Gold Cup (8)Santa Anita Derby (8)John C. Mabee Handicap (5)San Diego ... His father worked in cotton mills and at odd jobs, and the family ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 16:08, 31 October 2023
- "They brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other ... few years. The settlers attempted to grow cotton, but the lime soil wasn& ...26 KB (3,773 words) - 15:29, 30 April 2023
- Lake Assad, that is used for irrigating cotton. Syria has dammed its two ... * Batchelor, John, and Julie Batchelor. 1981. The Euphrates. Rivers ...12 KB (1,782 words) - 04:26, 23 March 2024
- Manville Mills in Rhode Island, and Moodus Cotton Factory in Connecticut. Berkshire ... , making it one of the largest cotton textile companies in the world ...33 KB (4,479 words) - 11:02, 28 September 2023
- *Textiles—Cotton spinning using Richard Arkwright's water frame ... The application of steam engines to power cotton mills and ironworks enabled ...56 KB (8,479 words) - 16:09, 28 September 2021
- later made the land attractive to cotton and sugar planters. The importation ... port and crossroads, giving rise to vast cotton kingdoms along the river ...32 KB (4,608 words) - 04:12, 4 November 2022
- Guinea, and Mauritania, became rich trading cotton and salt. ... grouped in villages. The cultivation of cotton and rice was encouraged through ...22 KB (3,196 words) - 17:23, 10 February 2023
- The noted states rights advocate John C. Calhoun was born just outside ... prior to the American Revolution. Dr. John de la Howe, a French Huguenot ...17 KB (2,385 words) - 04:41, 14 June 2023
- . The capital of Antigua and Barbuda is St. John's located at St. John ... An agricultural people, they cultivated cotton, indigo, sweet potatoes, ...27 KB (3,940 words) - 06:23, 31 July 2023
- quot;Willy" Low, the son of a wealthy cotton merchant in Savannah, Georgia ... * Brown, G. Fern and John. Marie De Daisy and the Girl Scouts: The ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 21:13, 4 October 2022
- factory. Other claims have been made for John Lombe's silk mill in ... Cotton mills used inventions such as the steam engine and the power ...10 KB (1,387 words) - 23:24, 26 June 2022
- Frederick John Perry (May 18, 1909 – February 2, 1995) was an English ... a sports shirt made from white knitted cotton pique, with short sleeves ...12 KB (1,846 words) - 09:54, 11 April 2024
- of nine lived in a humble single room in a cotton mill tenement. At the young ... appointed to work under Livingstone, John Kirk, Charles Meller, and ...18 KB (2,693 words) - 08:06, 28 January 2024
- quot; candidacy helped Buchanan defeat John C. Fremont, the first Republican ... the presidency, incumbent Vice President John C. Breckinridge, whom Buchanan ...17 KB (2,451 words) - 21:06, 20 March 2024
- John Bell Hood (June 1 John H. Eicher and David J. Eicher, Civil War ... Bath County, Kentucky, and was the son of John W. Hood, a doctor, and Theodosia ...20 KB (3,137 words) - 05:57, 3 August 2022
- opponents, a term coined by Horace Greeley. John Brown and his sons helped ... South Carolina (famous for his "King Cotton" speech) characterized ...12 KB (1,759 words) - 02:44, 5 October 2022
- house band for Frank Sebastian's New Cotton Club, a popular Los Angeles ... Los Angeles to play the Palomar Ballroom. John Hammond brought Goodman to ...10 KB (1,597 words) - 04:19, 29 October 2022
- century official of the Byzantine church, John Mauropos, prayed that on the ... Johnson. Other admirers include Ben Jonson, John Dryden, Alexander Hamilton ...17 KB (2,619 words) - 08:08, 24 November 2022
- Italian-Americans. His night club, the Cotton Club, became a hot-spot for ... *Kobler, John. Capone: The Life and Times of Al Capone, Da Capo Press ...18 KB (2,835 words) - 04:20, 17 June 2023
- as the house band for Harlem's famed Cotton Club, and the offer fell ... of the time. During his tenure at the Cotton Club, Ellington developed ...22 KB (3,452 words) - 17:20, 12 February 2024
- strings from llama or alpaca hair or cotton cords with numeric and other ... of China, vol. 1, Denis Twitchett and John K. Fairbank (eds.). Cambridge: ...12 KB (1,796 words) - 23:49, 3 December 2023
- [[Image:Carib indian family by John Gabriel Stedman.jpg|thumb|200px ... Carib woman in traditional dress, typically cotton pants.]] ...16 KB (2,321 words) - 19:15, 26 November 2023
- John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 - January ... John Birks Gillespie was born October 21, 1917, in Cheraw, South Carolina ...17 KB (2,671 words) - 09:19, 15 January 2023
- as a dye for temporary hair colorants, cotton, wool, leather, and paper. ... Carlson, John, [http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/may99/925860441 ...13 KB (1,911 words) - 16:28, 9 November 2022
- " playing harmonica and guitar with John Brim, with whom he also recorded ... by Kim Wilson, Delbert McClinton, James Cotton, Lou Ann Barton, and Gary ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 13:23, 1 August 2022
- Some twentieth century historians such as John Clapham and Nicholas ... sectors—agriculture of subsistence and cotton, and technical innovation ...43 KB (6,275 words) - 12:45, 1 February 2024
- * Cotton, F. Albert, and Geoffrey Wilkinson. 1980. Advanced Inorganic Chemistry. 4th ed. New York: Wiley. ISBN 0471027758. * Greenwood, N.N., ...12 KB (1,535 words) - 22:14, 30 November 2022
- and infrastructure. Farming shifted from cotton and tobacco to include soybeans ... growing tobacco, rice, and indigo. Cotton became dominant after 1800 ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 15:40, 4 February 2023
- Olmsted was born in Hartford, Connecticut. His father, John Olmsted ... "Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom" (1861), published ...19 KB (2,631 words) - 10:28, 11 April 2024
- 400 plants native to Germany and Austria. John Gerard (1545-1611/12) published ... * Cotton, C. M. 1996. Ethnobotany: Principles and Applications. New ...15 KB (2,113 words) - 04:35, 22 March 2024
- port benefiting exporters of cattle, cotton, and in particular, the soybean ... * Carey, John. 1987. Eyewitness to History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 07:45, 18 November 2022
- calling it the Church of St. Cyrus and St. John, later on enlarged and called ... is access to the Temple Mount through the Cotton Market. Visitors undergo ...22 KB (3,569 words) - 16:41, 29 January 2024
- to fluctuations in world prices for cotton, its main export, along with gold. ... *Reader, John. Africa: A Biography of the Continent. New York: Alfred ...14 KB (2,194 words) - 03:27, 17 September 2023
- of the interaction of chemical substances,John B. Russell, [http://chemweb ... * Cotton, F. Albert, and Geoffrey Wilkinson. Advanced Inorganic Chemistry ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- John Jay (December 12, 1745 – May 17, 1829) was an American politician ... John Jay was born on December 12, 1745 to a wealthy family of merchants ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 22:16, 31 October 2023
