Cotton farmers and their families are at particular risk from the overuse of agricultural chemicals, both from direct physical contact in the field and from the use of the branches of cotton plants at home for fuel.

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective capsule, around the seeds of cotton plants of the genus Gossypium.

Cotton plants as imagined and drawn by John Mandeville in the 14th century

The main plants and the food industry: Meat, flour and cereals ( pasta with a factory ), milk, sparkling wines, canned fruit, tobacco factories, confectionery, distillery plants, wine, brewery, yeast, tea-packing factory, light industry, textile and fur mills, factories, cotton spinning, knitting, carpets, footwear, apparel, printing and a Almaty Cotton combine.

Giant Amazon River Otters, Saki Monkeys, Chinese Alligators, Cotton Top Tamarins, Egyptian Fruit and Vampire Bats, an African Palm Civet Blue Duiker, Ocelot and a wide range of other animals, birds, reptiles and over 1, 000 species of exotic plants showcase the diversity of the rainforest environment.

Because of their shorter life cycle, Cotton Thistle plants can be effectively treated with herbicides.

Other plants which grow in the area are: Bog Cotton, Roseroot ( Rhodiola rosea ), Harebell ( Campanula rotundifolia ), Marsh St John's Wort, Wild Thyme ( Thymus serpyllum ), Wood sorrel and Heath Spotted Orchids.

It was described by Charles Cotton in The Compleat Gamester ( 1674 ) thus:

Cotton produced far higher fiber yields per unit of land than hemp, and was thus far more profitable, so it largely replaced hemp.

Edwin Holt established his Alamance Cotton Mill in 1837, thus beginning the Southern textile industry.

Moritz doesn't even have a nose guard or hip pads but he's one of the most valuable members of the Longhorn team that will be heavily favored Saturday over Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl.

The historian Michael Lapidge suggests that the Laudes Regiae, which are included in Cotton Vitellius E xii, might have been composed by Ealdred, or a member of his household.

Cotton Mather's relationship with his well-known father, Increase Mather, is thought by some to have been a strained and difficult one.

An opinion on the matter was sought from the most esteemed ministers of the area and Cotton Mather took credit for their response when anonymously celebrating himself years later: " drawn up at their desire, by Cotton Mather the younger, as I have been informed.

Poole's views have found followers and the revision of Cotton Mather continues, while Calef's book is arguably less well-known.

Some historians who have examined the life of Cotton Mather after Chadwick Hansen ’ s book also seem to yearn for a positive view of Cotton Mather.

Cotton fabrics discovered in a cave near Tehuacán, Mexico have been dated to around 5800 BC, although it is difficult to know for certain due to fiber decay.

Cotton can also be cultivated to have colors other than the yellowish off-white typical of modern commercial cotton fibers.

Later ( October 16, 1930 ), Hampton was recording with Louis Armstrong & His Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra, and the studio they were working in happened to have a Deagan model 145 vibraharp.

Richard North says that the description of a raven flying over the Egyptian army ( glossed as wonn wælceaseg ) may have been directly influenced by the Old Norse concept of Valhalla, the usage of wælcyrge in De laudibus virginitatis may represent a loan or loan-translation of Old Norse valkyrja, but the Cotton Cleopatra A. iii and the Corpus Glossary instances " appear to show an Anglo-Saxon conception of wælcyrge that was independent of contemporary Scandinavian influence ".

The Gospels may have been taken from Durham Cathedral during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, ordered by Henry VIII, and were acquired in the early 17th century by Sir Robert Cotton from Thomas Walker, Clerk of the Parliaments.

Some African-Americans have last names such as Cotton, reflecting when they were made to pick cotton as slaves.

Not knowing they were both essentially unemployed, although still contracted to Paradine, Cotton signed the duo up for their own show together, and a series each on their own ; he later joked he " must have offered them too much money.

Historic communities in Freestone County have included Baty, Beene, Blunt, Bonner, Bowling, Brewster, Butler, Cobb, Cotton Gin, Driver, Flowerdale, Freestone, Goetz, Harp, Israel, Ivory, Keechil, Lakeport, Lanely, Long Bottom, Luna, Mills, Milton, Morehead, Mount Zion, Pinoak, Pyburn, Shanks, St. Elmo, Starling, Steward's Mill, Stonewall, Troy, Turlington, Valota, Wakefield, West Point, Winkler, Yedell, Yerby, and Young.

He may have used the Cotton manuscript.

* The chronicler known as Florence of Worcester incorporated parts of Asser's Life into his chronicle, in the early 12th century ; again, he may have also used the Cotton manuscript.

Aside from the fact that Leofric would have known little about Asser and so would have been unlikely to construct a plausible forgery, there is strong evidence dating the Cotton manuscript to about 1000.

Cotton and potatoes have a special historical significance for the town of Shafter as leading industries in different periods of the town's development.

However, the Far Cotton and St. James areas of the town occupy the flood plain and have borne the brunt of severe flooding over the years, culminating in the 1998 Easter floods.

Cotton claimed to have fought on Munich on April 30, 1945, and probably longer, but later realized he didn't.

Cotton was also revealed to have slept with many women before and after that, meaning he likely has several other illegitimate brothers and sisters of Hank, although none of these other relatives have been confirmed throughout the series.

As leader of one of Boston's primary churches, Cotton Mather held an enormous amount of influence during Stoddard's lifetime.

Cotton suffers from high water retention and significant weight, but its low cost makes it an attractive option for uses like stationary camping where these drawbacks are of little consequence.

In December 2003, the musical play " A Southern Christmas Carol " by award-winning playwright Rob Lauer, made its world premiere at Colquitt's Cotton Hall Theatre.

With its tiny population of about 7 million, Australia ranked sixth in the world for scheduled air mileage, had 16 airlines, was growing at twice the world average, and had produced a number of prominent aviation pioneers, including Lawrence Hargrave, Harry Hawker, Lawrence Wackett, the Reverend John Flynn, Sidney Cotton, Keith Virtue and Charles Kingsford Smith.

Cotton is an essential crop with irrigation, but faces declining prices at times on the world market.

And half a world away, Cotton Mather and Blackbeard the pirate assemble a party of colonial luminaries to cross the Atlantic and discover what has befallen the Old World.

The cotton industry in Lancashire was served by the Manchester Royal Exchange which traded in spun yarn and finished goods throughout the world including Africa and the Liverpool Cotton Exchange which traded the imported raw cotton.

In September 2007 at the Lowry in Salford he starred in the world premier of King Cotton.

Over the next hundred years, Hohenberg Brothers Cotton Company and Ralli Brothers and Coney, grew to become two of the largest and most successful in the United States and the world.

The Cotton District is a community located in Starkville, Mississippi and was the first new urbanism development in the world.

The other very early illustrated biblical manuscripts that have survived are similar densely illustrated texts of specific books from the Old Testament, mostly the Book of Genesis ( Vienna Genesis, Cotton Genesis ), which, with some specific details of the illustrations, leads scholars to postulate an earlier tradition of Jewish luxury manuscripts, perhaps in scroll format, in the Hellenized Jewish world.

Cotton Incorporated's world headquarters are located in Cary, North Carolina and offices are located in New York, Mexico City, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Osaka.

Cotton prices kept going up as the South remained the main supplier in the world.

* Scherer, James a. b. Cotton as a world power: a study in the economic interpretation of history ( 1916 ) online edition