Fine Cotton (29 November 1976 – 20 February 2009) was a brown Australian Thoroughbred gelding which was at the centre of a substitution scam (also known...
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Robbie Waterhouse (section Fine Cotton affair)
17-year break from bookmaking due to the fallout from betting in the Fine Cotton Affair, he returned to the track in 2001. He is currently licensed to...
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Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow...
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landed on the coast of India.: 11–13 India had been an exporter of fine cotton fabrics to other countries since ancient times. Sources such as Marco...
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Cotton candy, also known as candy floss (candyfloss) and fairy floss, is a spun sugar confection that resembles cotton. It usually contains small amounts...
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Fine Spinners and Doublers was a major cotton spinning business based in Manchester, England. At its peak it was a constituent of the FT 30 index of leading...
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Mughal Karkhanas (section Cotton)
The production of cotton goods was across India. Coarser cotton goods have majored in western sides (Gujrat and Punjab), and fine cotton goods were renowned...
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Calico (category Cotton industry in India)
white, cream or unbleached cotton and/or a very fine, light plain weave cotton fabric Gauze – extremely soft and fine cotton fabric with a very open plain...
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linen, implying only different kinds of fine plain-weave fabrics with a glossy finish. In 1907, a fine cotton batiste had 100 ends per inch in the finished...
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"bokeram" (as the word was sometimes spelled in Middle English) designated a fine cotton cloth, not stiff. The etymology of the term remains uncertain; the Oxford...
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Flannel (redirect from Cotton flannel)
fabric, of varying fineness. Flannel was originally made from carded wool or worsted yarn, but is now often made from either wool, cotton, or synthetic fiber...
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Nitrocellulose (redirect from Gun cotton)
to immerse one part of fine cotton in 15 parts of an equal blend of sulfuric acid and nitric acid. After two minutes, the cotton was removed and washed...
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production of fine cotton goods, for which the humid seaside location of New Bedford was well suited. In 1955, Hathaway merged with Berkshire Fine Spinning...
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racehorse who gained notability by being substituted for the inferior horse Fine Cotton in a race at Eagle Farm Racecourse, Brisbane on 18 August 1984. The attempted...
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Cotton paper, also known as rag paper or rag stock paper, is made using cotton linters (fine fibers which stick to the cotton seeds after processing)...
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Gossypium barbadense (redirect from Sea Island Cotton)
Gossypium barbadense is one of several species of cotton. It is in the mallow family. It has been cultivated since antiquity, but has been especially prized...
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if any, and a high waist characterized the angia, which was made of fine cotton material such as muslin. Women in India wore it beneath dresses such...
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centimetres (24 in). The white stars are made from a fine cotton lawn, and the off-white cross is cotton twill. In addition to a modern, standardised version...
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Wamsutta Mills (redirect from Wamasutta Cotton Mill)
to cotton textile manufacturing overtaking whaling as the town's principal industry by the 1870s. Wamsutta Mills became well known for producing fine quality...
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was a fine cotton variety cloth produced in India. The Ain-i-Akbari mentions the Mahmudi among cotton cloths. It was a superior quality cloth finer than...
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from mercerized cotton for crafting decorative crochet items such as doilies or filet crochet. Crochet thread produces fabric of fine gauge that may be...
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Dhaka ko Topi literately means a "headgear made of Dhaka cloth", a fine cotton cloth once exclusively imported from Dhaka, the present-day capital of...
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priceless clothes such as Pashmina shawls, silks, woolen clothes, and even fine cotton. Kashmiris are considered the best rafoogars, who have imparted their...
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Thomas Bryant Cotton (born May 13, 1977) is an American politician, attorney, and former Army officer serving as the junior United States senator from...
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000 people across eight brands: Cotton On, Cotton On Kids, Cotton On Body, Factorie, Typo, Rubi, Supré, Ceres and Cotton On Foundation. The design team...
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centuries, the region around Dhaka has been the center of production for fine cotton textiles. Muslin was abundantly produced in the region. The weavers of...
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mail fraud, animal cruelty and the murder of at least one human being. Fine Cotton/Bold Personality ring-in – a 1984 betting scam in which the conspirators...
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involves the use of white thread on white muslin (tanzeb), fine cotton (mulmul), or voile, fine almost sheer fabrics which showcases shadow work embroidery...
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Queensland races. Read was one of the first bookmakers to sniff out the Fine Cotton substitution scam. At the height of his success in 1982, Read bought...
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Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates (/ˈbɜːrkʃər/) was an American textile company, founded in 1889 as Berkshire Cotton Manufacturing Company in Adams,...
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