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- '''Cotton''' is one of the oldest known crops in the world, being found in archeologi humans from both the Old World and the New World. The cotton plant (''Gossypium sp.'') is in the mallow family, being closely5 KB (923 words) - 19:48, 14 February 2010
- ...y because their industrial economy depended on textiles, which depended on cotton. It proved a failure. ==Cotton supply and demand==5 KB (779 words) - 10:05, 6 August 2023
- '''Sydney Cotton''' (1894-1969) was an [[Australia]]n-born aviation pioneer and adventurer. ...he machine should always be faster that the fastest fighters in use" wrote Cotton.<ref>{{citation3 KB (519 words) - 10:29, 8 April 2024
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- * Lebergott, Stanley. "Through the Blockade: The Profitability and Extent of Cotton Smuggling, 1861-1865," ''The Journal of Economic History,'' Vol. 41, No. 4 * Owsley, Frank Lawrence. ''King Cotton Diplomacy: Foreign relations of the Confederate States of America'' (1931,1 KB (199 words) - 17:10, 24 March 2008
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- Plants grown for the production of fibres, such as cotton.94 bytes (13 words) - 13:18, 13 December 2008
- ===Economics of tobacco and cotton===349 bytes (43 words) - 09:39, 2 August 2023
- * Lebergott, Stanley. "Through the Blockade: The Profitability and Extent of Cotton Smuggling, 1861-1865," ''The Journal of Economic History,'' Vol. 41, No. 4 * Owsley, Frank Lawrence. ''King Cotton Diplomacy: Foreign relations of the Confederate States of America'' (1931,1 KB (199 words) - 17:10, 24 March 2008
- ...an nation with significant gold reserves and an economy based primarily on cotton; formerly a French colony (population about 18 million).194 bytes (25 words) - 14:05, 19 July 2013
- ...y because their industrial economy depended on textiles, which depended on cotton. It proved a failure. ==Cotton supply and demand==5 KB (779 words) - 10:05, 6 August 2023
- Raincoat made of waterproof heavy-duty cotton drill or poplin, wool gabardine, or in some cases leather, and is usually k179 bytes (25 words) - 04:17, 11 September 2009
- ...socialist, who established several utopian communities; at his New Lanark cotton mill in Scotland, experimented with social and industrial welfare programs.234 bytes (29 words) - 13:39, 6 April 2018
- '''Cotton''' is one of the oldest known crops in the world, being found in archeologi humans from both the Old World and the New World. The cotton plant (''Gossypium sp.'') is in the mallow family, being closely5 KB (923 words) - 19:48, 14 February 2010
- ...hich David took advantage of. He said that the somewhat boring work in the cotton mill gave him the skill of endurance and persistence. At the age of 26 he d2 KB (297 words) - 15:01, 23 March 2012
- ...o the industrial revolution in Britain, which featured the organization of cotton and wool yarn and cloth factories, and the subsequent spread of the industr304 bytes (47 words) - 08:37, 29 June 2008
- '''Sydney Cotton''' (1894-1969) was an [[Australia]]n-born aviation pioneer and adventurer. ...he machine should always be faster that the fastest fighters in use" wrote Cotton.<ref>{{citation3 KB (519 words) - 10:29, 8 April 2024
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- Auto-populated based on [[Special:WhatLinksHere/King Cotton]]. Needs checking by a human.526 bytes (72 words) - 12:52, 7 March 2023
- * [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15327 A Library Primer], by John Cotton Dana, 1903, setting out the basics of organising and running a library1 KB (150 words) - 21:51, 22 November 2010
- {{r|Cotton}}682 bytes (90 words) - 10:06, 6 August 2023
- ...of the Cape of Good Hope, and which was dissolved in 1874. It traded in cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, saltpetre, tea and opium, mainly in India, and it597 bytes (91 words) - 05:05, 16 May 2012
- {{r|F. Albert Cotton}}635 bytes (84 words) - 03:46, 1 November 2010
- {{rpl|Cotton}} {{rpl|King Cotton}}2 KB (251 words) - 10:54, 9 September 2023
- ...ent in 1960 and is today driven by an [[economy]] based primarily around [[cotton]] and its significant [[gold]] reserves. Its capital is [[Ouagadougou]]. [[772 bytes (105 words) - 14:14, 19 July 2013
- {{r|F. Albert Cotton}}848 bytes (105 words) - 13:43, 11 May 2010
- {{r|Cotton Candy Land}}723 bytes (121 words) - 10:37, 6 March 2014
- {{r|Cotton}}936 bytes (120 words) - 19:37, 11 January 2010
- Auto-populated based on [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Cotton]]. Needs checking by a human.940 bytes (124 words) - 10:05, 6 August 2023
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- ...s to combine power, machinery, semi-skilled labor, and a new raw material (cotton) to create, more than a century before [[Henry Ford|Ford]], mass production ...reparatory and spinning processes, and he began to establish water-powered cotton mills even as far away as Scotland. His success encouraged many others to c5 KB (754 words) - 10:17, 14 November 2007
- {{r|Cotton swab}}861 bytes (132 words) - 06:39, 2 October 2008
- ...solid]], [[striped]], [[polka-dot]], or "athletic", which are usually 100% cotton white-colored socks meant to be worn during [[exercise]] or [[sports]].3 KB (429 words) - 13:51, 24 May 2009
- As one of the top cotton-producing states in the U.S., Mississippi also has the dubious distinction994 bytes (152 words) - 13:54, 9 September 2023
- ...is cautious about economic development, wanting to build on petroleum and cotton reserves. Foreign investment has been limited.899 bytes (138 words) - 18:41, 3 March 2024
- ...(F) Sqn RIC was added in April 2003. 1 PRU's lineage goes back to [[Sydney Cotton]], before the Second World War.889 bytes (130 words) - 10:29, 8 April 2024
- {{r|Sydney Cotton}}1 KB (141 words) - 08:51, 20 March 2024
- ...ajor financial center in Texas and served a a major port for the export of cotton and the import of many goods. Historically, Galveston was home to pirates985 bytes (148 words) - 17:31, 1 June 2008
- {{r|Sydney Cotton}}2 KB (195 words) - 08:31, 4 May 2024
- #'Cotton Candy Land' (Ruth Bachelor, Bob Roberts) - 1:331 KB (180 words) - 10:15, 6 March 2014
- *{{cite paper | author=Berners-Lee, Tim; Bray, Tim; Connolly, Dan; Cotton, Paul; Fielding, Roy; Jeckle, Mario; Lilley, Chris; Mendelsohn, Noah; Orcha2 KB (311 words) - 03:12, 2 December 2009
- * Farnie, Douglas Antony, and Mike Williams. ''Cotton Mills in Greater Manchester'' (1992) 212 pages ...uglas Antony, and David J. Jeremy. ''The Fibre That Changed the World: The Cotton Industry in International Perspective, 1600-1990s'' 20049 KB (1,287 words) - 22:39, 27 June 2008
- ..., it is usually made from [[gabardine]] fabric of [[wool]] or heavy duty [[cotton]], but in modern times [[leather]] trench coats have become popular as well2 KB (272 words) - 10:38, 9 May 2024
- {{r|King Cotton}}2 KB (223 words) - 01:46, 31 July 2023
- * the [[undershirt]] is usually a white, cotton t-shirt of a slightly thinner variant that is worn underneath a regular shi2 KB (359 words) - 23:19, 17 October 2007
- ...ific picture of a beaten South, "when the northern soldier would tread her cotton fields, when the slave should be made free and the proud Southerner stricke ...d fever. He managed to maintain his wealth during the Civil War by selling cotton to U.S. Treasury agents. After the war, he was estimated to be among the fi6 KB (948 words) - 10:48, 19 June 2023
- ...cially the ante-bellum and Civil War eras. His most important book, ''King Cotton Diplomacy'' (1931), remains the major study of Confederate diplomacy. ...the position of the South vis-à-vis the North was created not by slavery, cotton, or states' rights, but by the two regions' misunderstanding of each other.8 KB (1,124 words) - 09:25, 27 June 2008
- ...or tent fabrics. In some areas, tribal weavers also use cotton. Although [[cotton]] is actually more stable than wool, it is less durable and often more expe ...using a weighted object called a spindle. When a twist of the raw wool or cotton is attached to the spindle and the spindle is spun and dropped, it pulls th7 KB (1,167 words) - 03:38, 14 October 2009
- Modern belts can be made from [[leather]], [[nylon]], [[cotton]], [[chain]], or other decorative material. Most belts are made from a mat2 KB (370 words) - 14:21, 27 January 2008
- ...d commercial center in the region. Uzbekistan is the world's third-largest cotton producer, although its intensive farming has caused great ecological damage2 KB (317 words) - 08:11, 29 February 2024
- | quote = In 1924, a fire in the hold of a steamship carrying cotton prompted the Houston Fire Commissioner to declare that the Port of Houston3 KB (358 words) - 05:23, 5 March 2024
- Arthur Hugh Clough, the son of James Clough, a cotton merchant, and Anne Perfect, was born in Rodney Street, [[Liverpool]] on Jan2 KB (350 words) - 13:14, 16 February 2017
- {{r|King Cotton}}2 KB (266 words) - 14:24, 15 March 2024
- ...cotton thread and textiles. This policy failed because of resistance from cotton textile industrialists, who relocated textile facilities and capital to Hon10 KB (1,534 words) - 10:07, 28 February 2024
- ...oleskin]], originally the skin of a mole, but later a heavy, soft, durable cotton fabric, or clothing made from this3 KB (383 words) - 07:12, 17 February 2008
- * Aiken, Charles S. ''The Cotton Plantation South Since the Civil War'' Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998 * Phillips, Ulrich B. "The Economic Cost of Slaveholding in the Cotton Belt," ''Political Science Quarterly'' 20#2 (Jun., 1905), pp. 257-275 [http10 KB (1,394 words) - 01:34, 26 February 2008
- ...rge irrigation systems were developed and the region became specialized in cotton growing. Both of these landlocked countries are losing arable land to soil2 KB (384 words) - 03:21, 4 March 2024
- ...Lower South to East Texas where the climate and soil allowed for intensive cotton cultivation. Most of these plantations produced for an export market. Thi ...mmer, and their smaller size and hooves were well suited for such crops as cotton, tobacco, and sugar. The character of soils and climate in the lower South10 KB (1,498 words) - 17:45, 11 July 2013
- {{rpl|King Cotton}}2 KB (308 words) - 02:06, 31 July 2023
- ...ood for a settlement of the slavery issue at any price for the sake of the cotton trade. The terms "Woolly Heads" and "Amalgamationistss" were also given to * Brauer, Kinley J. ''Cotton versus Conscience: Massachusetts Whig Politics and Southwestern Expansion,8 KB (1,263 words) - 16:50, 22 March 2023
- ...avily polluted and is drying up, mostly as a result of badly implemented [[cotton]] [[irrigation]] schemes.3 KB (373 words) - 03:51, 8 April 2009
- ...cloth in every country, to the industrial revolution in Britain, driven by cotton and wool yarn and cloth factories, which then spread to Europe, America, Ja ...rments and bedding. Demand for Indian cotton textiles, especially the 100% cotton fabric known as calico, increased in the 16th century. European textile mak24 KB (3,500 words) - 07:39, 31 August 2008
- ...sidered in terms of large plantations with more than 20 slaves that grew [[cotton]] and other crops for export, and the "plain folk", who owned few or no sla ...Historians define a plantation as having 20 or more slaves (of all ages). Cotton was the main crop in a broad swath (called the "Black Belt") that included12 KB (1,770 words) - 23:41, 20 December 2008
- Sueded silk, sueded cotton and similar sueded fabrics are brushed, sanded or chemically treated for ex3 KB (457 words) - 04:05, 17 September 2009
- * Daniels, G. W. "American Cotton Trade with Liverpool under the Embargo and Non-intercourse Acts." ''America3 KB (429 words) - 22:32, 14 September 2013
- ...responsibilities of this subcommittee are program and markets related to [[cotton]] and cottonseed, [[wheat]], feed grains, [[soy]]beans, oilseeds, [[rice]],3 KB (369 words) - 12:26, 12 May 2024
- [[Image:Cotton field 7904.JPG|thumb|South Carolina cotton field ready for harvest|300 px]] ...wn upstate, but the thinner soils eroded and played out; today most of the cotton is grown in the upper coastal plain.14 KB (2,251 words) - 09:01, 9 August 2023
- ...&printsec=titlepage&dq=%22%27%27A+History+of+Transportation+in+the+Eastern+Cotton+Belt online edition] * "The Economic Cost of Slaveholding in the Cotton Belt," ''Political Science Quarterly'' 20#2 (Jun., 1905), pp. 257-275 [http8 KB (1,140 words) - 04:51, 22 March 2010
- ::Congress passes the '''Cotton Control Act'''.4 KB (453 words) - 00:34, 21 June 2009
- | quote = In 1924, a fire in the hold of a steamship carrying cotton prompted the Houston Fire Commissioner to declare that the Port of Houston4 KB (515 words) - 05:23, 5 March 2024
- ...dogi, usually just called gi. The modern gi is a quilted cotton jacket and cotton drawstring pants, fastened by an [[obi]], or belt. The obi is usually color8 KB (1,254 words) - 08:31, 30 September 2019
- He next combined nitroglycerin with another high explosive, [[gun-cotton]], and obtained a transparent, jelly-like substance, which was a still more ...less gunpowder]]s, containing in its latest forms about equal parts of gun-cotton and nitroglycerin. This powder was a precursor of [[cordite]], and Nobel's7 KB (1,127 words) - 09:02, 4 May 2024
- ...er.com/files/2007/08/green-basics-organic-cotton.php Green Basics: Organic Cotton,] 2007-08-23.</ref> According to the study the water and energy used in wa10 KB (1,582 words) - 00:28, 26 October 2013
- * Lebergott, Stanley. "Through the Blockade: the Profitability and Extent of Cotton Smuggling, 1861-1865." ''Journal of Economic History'' 1981 41(4): 867-888.3 KB (411 words) - 15:51, 24 March 2008
- ...Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta'' (2007) [http://www.amazon.com/High-Cotton-Seasons-Mississippi-Delta/dp/1582433534/ref=sr_1_2/103-4827826-5463040?ie=U ...in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta'' (1990). [http://www.amazon.com/Steamboats-Cotton-Economy-River-Yazoo-Mississippi/dp/1578066220/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-54630410 KB (1,316 words) - 10:31, 19 June 2023
- ...th started early to build railways, it concentrated on short lines linking cotton regions to oceanic or river ports. Its lack of a real network was a major h3 KB (494 words) - 10:16, 5 March 2024
- | quote = In 1924, a fire in the hold of a steamship carrying cotton prompted the Houston Fire Commissioner to declare that the Port of Houston5 KB (645 words) - 12:04, 14 July 2022
- ...eir use quickly became widespread in crop production. With crops such as [[cotton]], [[tobacco]] and many fruits, it became standard practice to spray on a r4 KB (593 words) - 07:55, 12 February 2009
- ...some time during the year 2000 for release in 2001. They were printed on a cotton fibre paper by [[Chan Wanich Security Printing Company Limited]], [[Thailan Cotton fibre paper. The date "2001" in 3 corners. The notes have an [[albatross]]9 KB (1,497 words) - 05:57, 9 June 2009
- ...f 1824]], favored New England and Middle State manufacturers of woolen and cotton textiles and of metal goods. With [[Henry Clay]]'s backing, Kentucky got p4 KB (594 words) - 16:50, 22 March 2023
- ...The South imported very little machinery from Europe; it mostly imported cotton and woolen cloth. Politically the southerners had their way with tariffs;8 KB (1,266 words) - 16:50, 22 March 2023
- ...o engines, each of 110 horse-power. The other engines were used in the 107 cotton mills, many of which contained several. The average engine had a 26 horse-p ...bed cotton with wire brushes and spun it by hand; the father then wove the cotton on a hand loom. Output was expensive and consumed locally. Most of Britain'20 KB (3,016 words) - 10:16, 5 March 2024
- ...|id=ISBN 0-471-50532-3}} First published in 1976 with Professor F. Albert Cotton of [[Texas A and M University]] as the main author.</ref> ...nd explained below were drawn from many of the available sources:<ref name=Cotton/><ref name=Cox>{{cite book|author=P.A. Cox|title=Inorganic Chemistry|editio13 KB (1,921 words) - 09:37, 6 March 2024
- ...o engines, each of 110 horse-power. The other engines were used in the 107 cotton mills, many of which contained several. The average engine had a 26 horse-p ...[[cotton]] with wire brushes and spun it by hand; the father then wove the cotton on a hand [[loom]]. Output was expensive and consumed locally. Most of Brit20 KB (3,013 words) - 07:31, 20 April 2024
- ...ooks.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=y2yF9ngbPF0C&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=arkwright+cotton&ots=ReuNE4QY3A&sig=Ipw2LusetesJVGNZ17DGaan5oeQ#PPP3,M1 online edition] ...Isaac. ''American Management and British Labor: A Comparative Study of the Cotton Spinning Industry'' (1990) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=15109128 on17 KB (2,454 words) - 08:14, 11 October 2013
- ...er for shipping local regional products to northern and eastern factories. Cotton became the region's principal cash crop, and Elm Street in Dallas was its m ...s in the increasingly white-collar city, which was now the world's leading cotton center. Businessmen took control of civic affairs; with little municipal pa10 KB (1,532 words) - 00:18, 31 July 2023
- ...gotiation. 2. Fighting on the sea or privateering. S. Fighting on land. 4. Cotton. Two of these instrumentalities have failed." Such is the "Quadrilateral" o5 KB (676 words) - 14:12, 2 February 2023
- ...hot topic." In one study, conspicuous marks were applied to the heads of [[cotton-top tamarin]]s<ref name=Hauser1/>. Some of the monkeys reportedly met the c <blockquote>"Overall, results suggest that cotton-top tamarins fail to exhibit any evidence of mirror-guided behavior….Take13 KB (2,003 words) - 23:28, 9 July 2011
- ...tably the production of carriages. Kinston also became a major tobacco and cotton trading center. By the start of the twentieth century, more than five milli ...entury saw a variety of industries come to Kinston including lumber mills, cotton mills, and even professional sports in the form of a minor league [[basebal9 KB (1,325 words) - 13:17, 2 February 2023
- # ''kachera'', a cotton undergarment; and5 KB (724 words) - 11:15, 6 April 2024
- Industrialisation began in the 1860s, with the building of the first [[cotton]] textile factory in Kagoshima in 1867.5 KB (675 words) - 10:07, 28 February 2024
- ...s expand to include larger items, such as chipmunks ([[Tamias striatus]]), cotton rats ([[Sigmodon hispidus]]), squirrels ([[Sciurus]]spp.), and rabbits ([[S5 KB (686 words) - 14:20, 8 March 2024
- | quote = In 1924, a fire in the hold of a steamship carrying cotton prompted the Houston Fire Commissioner to declare that the Port of Houston6 KB (779 words) - 22:23, 14 July 2022
- ...s of America]] designed to prevent the local and international movement of cotton, supplies, soldiers and arms into or out of the Confederacy. The vast majo ...unners carried only a small fraction of the usual cargo. Thus, Confederate cotton exports were reduced 95% from 10 million bales in the three years prior to28 KB (4,319 words) - 03:04, 18 October 2013
- ...f Memphis, showing the city's cotton industry|Memphis became known as the "Cotton Capital of the World" in the years following the Civil War]] ...rialized cities in the South.<ref name=jsh/> Memphis became known as the "Cotton Capital of the World" during the late 19th century, and Nashville, Knoxvill14 KB (1,930 words) - 14:40, 19 August 2023
- ...ioning the patient, or using instruments as simple as a [[reflex hammer]], cotton-tipped wooden swab, and small vials of ammonia and ground coffee.6 KB (751 words) - 13:35, 12 June 2010
- ...ized brushes, foam-tipped tools, and spatula-like metal tools. An ordinary cotton swab can be useful, as can be a soft wood or plastic burnisher.6 KB (960 words) - 18:26, 1 June 2021
- ...was great because of the falling prices for export crops such as wheat and cotton. [[Coxey's Army]] was a highly publicized march of unemployed men from Ohio5 KB (708 words) - 01:41, 10 March 2024
- ...roduced a number of national leaders. [[World War II]] brought prosperity. Cotton faded in importance as the state developed a manufacturing and service base The state became a prosperous center of slave plantations growing cotton in the Black Belt, with subsistence farmers (with few slaves) eking out a l23 KB (3,627 words) - 14:22, 15 March 2024
- ...th and 19th centuries for the production of thread and cloth, especially [[cotton]] with the distinctive [[Paisley Pattern]]. ...iddle of Gordon Street at the junction with Bridge Street and Loanend, and Cotton Street. It is of the [[Art Nouveau]] in style. Designed by local architect17 KB (2,739 words) - 07:31, 20 April 2024
- ...hbrush, this may help. Otherwise, cotton balls, makeup sponges, or quilted cotton makeup pads, wetted with 3% hydrogen peroxide, can help. Dab, don't rub, an11 KB (1,557 words) - 00:26, 9 September 2010
- ...ROP EXPECTED Opposition of North Carolina's Executive Settles the Matter --Cotton Also Discussed. Tobacco Position Settled. Expect Smaller Crop.8 KB (1,070 words) - 08:48, 5 October 2022
- ...ley, Neil. ''The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture'' (1997). [http://www.amazon.com/White-Scourge-Mexicans-American-Cr * Sharpless, Rebecca. ''Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940.'' (1999). 319 pp. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&se=20 KB (2,775 words) - 22:47, 20 September 2013
- ...the Currimbhoy Ebrahims) who owned half the spindles and looms of Bombay's cotton mills<ref name = "system" />.13 KB (1,939 words) - 08:53, 2 March 2024
- ...h originally the word tartan referred to the type of cloth (like linen, or cotton) and not the pattern of colors as the word almost exclusively signifies tod6 KB (1,037 words) - 10:49, 11 June 2009