Stephen Cotton is the general secretary of the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) – a global union federation of 677 trade unions representing...
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Cotton (from Arabic al-qutn) is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus...
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William Pikes (redirect from Stephen Cotton (martyr))
life. The second group, of six, consisted of Robert Mills, Stephen Cotton, Robert Dynes, Stephen Wight (or Wreight), John Slade and William Pikes (or Pikas/Peckes)...
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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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Fearne Wood (née Cotton; born 3 September 1981) is an English broadcaster and author. She began her career in the late 1990s as a children’s television...
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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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Johanna; Menssink, Jana M.; Wang, Teresa; Bergmeir, Christoph; Wood, Stephen; Cotton, Sue M. (2023-09-01). "An overview of clustering methods with guidelines...
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Lichfield, England Michael Servetus (1511–1553), Geneva, Switzerland Stephen Cotton († 1558), Brentford, England Nicolas Antoine (1602–1632), Geneva, Switzerland...
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1968: Charles Blyth 1977: Harold Lewis 1993: David Cockcroft 2014: Stephen Cotton 1893: Tom Mann 1901: Tom Chambers 1904: Ben Tillett 1904: Hermann Jochade...
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The history of cotton can be traced from its domestication, through the important role it played in the history of India, the British Empire, and the United...
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The Cotton Club is a 1984 American musical crime drama film co-written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and based on James Haskins' 1977 book of the...
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an incomplete list of some of the manuscripts from the Cotton library that today form the Cotton collection of the British Library. Some manuscripts were...
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The Cotton or Cottonian library is a collection of manuscripts that came into the hands of the antiquarian and bibliophile Sir Robert Bruce Cotton MP (1571–1631)...
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Antony Cotton MBE (born Antony Dunn; 5 August 1975) is an English actor and comedian, known for portraying the role of Sean Tully in Coronation Street...
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Gossypium hirsutum (redirect from Long-staple cotton)
known as upland cotton or Mexican cotton, is the most widely planted species of cotton in the world. Globally, about 90% of all cotton production is of...
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"King Cotton" is a slogan that summarized the strategy used before the American Civil War (of 1861–1865) by secessionists in the southern states (the future...
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com. Retrieved 17 May 2013. Foxe's Book of Martyrs: 275. William Pygot, Stephen Knight, and John Laurence. Exclassics.com. Retrieved 17 May 2013. Foxe's...
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Stephen Miller (born August 23, 1985) is an American political advisor who served as a senior advisor for policy and White House director of speechwriting...
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exports more cotton than any other country, though it ranks third in total production, behind China and India. Almost all of the cotton fiber growth and...
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Stephen Daniel Mulhern (born 4 April 1977) is an English television presenter, magician and comedian. He began his career at CITV presenting the children’s...
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became the wealthiest cotton planter and the second-largest slave owner in the United States with over 2,200 slaves. He owned 15 cotton and sugar plantations...
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Lillethun. Fashion history: A global view (Bloomsbury, 2018). Yafa, Stephen. Cotton: The biography of a revolutionary fiber (Penguin, 2006). excerpt Sylvester...
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Cotton Mather FRS (/ˈmæðər/; February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728) was a Puritan clergyman and author in colonial New England, who wrote extensively on...
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The Lancashire Cotton Famine, also known as the Cotton Famine or the Cotton Panic (1861–1865), was a depression in the textile industry of North West England...
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Cotton Plant is a city in southern Woodruff County, Arkansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 529. In 1820, when...
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Stephen (and by extension 'reward, honor, renown, fame', often given as a title rather than as a name; c. AD 5 – c. 34) is traditionally venerated as...
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Bombax ceiba (redirect from Red silk-cotton)
as cotton tree. More specifically, it is sometimes known as Malabar silk-cotton tree; red silk-cotton; red cotton tree; or ambiguously as silk-cotton or...
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A cotton mill is a building that houses spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from cotton, an important product during the...
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Frederick Cotton CBE (23 April 1928 – 11 August 2008) was a British television producer and executive, and the son of dance band leader Billy Cotton. The television...
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membership required.) Arbuthnot, Alexander John (1887). "Cotton, George Edward Lynch" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 12...
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