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    Major Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton, FZS, FRGS, FRAI, JP (20 September 1866 – 26 June 1940) was an English explorer and hunter. He is most noted for...
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  • of the Powell-Cotton family, including films by Percy Powell-Cotton and Diana and Antoinette Powell-Cotton. N. Nigeria, Major P.H.G Powell-Cotton, (1924–1925)...
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    The Powell-Cotton Museum is situated in Quex Park, Birchington, Kent and houses the diverse personal collections of hunter and explorer Percy Powell-Cotton...
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  • in 1913. They were two of the four children of Percy Powell-Cotton and his wife Hannah Powell-Cotton, along with Mary (1910–1998) and Christopher (1918–2006)...
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    Percy Powell-Cotton on his travels in Africa, and also houses artefacts unearthed in and around Birchington by his daughter, Antoinette Powell-Cotton...
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  • and 70 elephants. Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Karl Larsen and Major Percy Powell-Cotton all used W.J. Jeffery & Co .600 Nitro Express rifles extensively...
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  • "maj powell"  or "major powell" on Wikipedia. Percy Powell-Cotton (1866–1980), British Army major and explorer Sergeant-Major Powell, a participant in the...
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    Reid got many British celebrities including Arthur Henry Neumann, Percy Powell-Cotton, Harald George Carlos Swayne and Arthur Jephson to write a counter-letter...
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  • archives, and the Powell-Cotton Museum own copies contemporaneous with the originals. Between 1887 and 1939 Major Percy H G Powell-Cotton undertook a total...
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    1928 Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 Percy Powell-Cotton - UK Crafts in the Cameroons, 1931 Gorilla Drive, Cameroons, 1931...
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  • with a pair of them and nothing else-unless it was a third!" Major Percy Powell-Cotton wrote the "Jeffery .400 ejector express rifle I first carried in...
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    and Massawa.[citation needed] In March 1900 an expedition led by Percy Powell-Cotton visited Debre Markos and noted that ‘‘the town looked more like a...
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    the taxidermy he did for Percy Powell-Cotton for the famous Powell-Cotton Museum. Rowland Ward wanted to mount Powell-Cotton's elephant, which had the...
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    round, and it was also chambered in some single-shot pistols. Major Percy Powell-Cotton carried a W.J. Jeffery & Co rook rifle chambered in .255 Jeffery...
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    In 1896, Major Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton, F.Z.S., F.R.G.S., a Major in the Northumberland Fusiliers, founded the Powell-Cotton Museum at Quex...
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    20th century, when several skins were shipped to England by Major Percy Powell-Cotton during his travels in Abyssinia. The Ethiopian wolf was recognised...
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  • contributions of Major Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton. The natural history specimens and cultural objects collected by Major Powell-Cotton (1866–1940) on his...
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    chrysanthemums". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2024-06-22. Folwell, Percy S. (1907). The Book of Chrysanthemum. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head...
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  • Ethiopia The road was built on the estate of the Powell-Cotton family, one of whom, Major Percy Powell-Cotton, was given permission by Emperor Menelik to hunt...
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    Feed sack dress (category Cotton)
    end of the decade Bemis Brothers in Tennessee, Fulton Bag & Cotton Mills in Georgia, and Percy Kent of Buffalo, New York, were producing decorative sacks...
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  • Ward, H. Snowden (ed.). My Experiences as an Executioner. London, UK: Percy Lund & Co. pp. 74–76. Retrieved 24 November 2019. "Freed killer murders...
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    excellent quality cotton: sea island cotton (Gossypium barbadense) and upland green seeded cotton Gossypium hirsutum. Sea island cotton grew in tropical...
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  • Weekly published in 1963, she claimed it was the theatrical impresario Percy Hutchinson who told her if she visited London he would give her work; her...
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    Express boxlock double rifles made by Joseph Lang. Major Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton (1866–1940) was an English naturalist, explorer, hunter collector...
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  • crime film directed by Anthony Mann and starring Dick Powell, Paula Raymond and Adolphe Menjou. Powell stars as a police sergeant who tries to stop the assassination...
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    Clare (Percy Talbott), Alison Eaton (Hannah Ferguson), Timothy Langan (Joe Sutter), Kelly White (Shelby), Emma Etherington (Effy), Vanessa Powell (Caleb)...
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    Supreme Court, which led to landmark decisions on the conduct of trials. In Powell v. Alabama (1932), the US Supreme Court ordered new trials. The case was...
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    Farrar, girl Robert Poole (Powell), boy, on the Starr Robert Poole (Powell), Sr., father, on the Starr John Poole (Powell), brother of Robert the elder...
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    Shahmukhi:کھیس, Gurmukhi:ਖੇਸ੍) (Punjabi pronunciation: [kʰeːsː]) is a thick cotton blanket cloth in the Indian subcontinent; it is a damask cloth used for...
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  • the film, they reconceived and expanded the role. Glen Powell auditioned for the role of Percy, which eventually went to Paul Dano. Favreau himself is...
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