The production of cotton did not require large start-up funds, and with the cotton gin for seed removal, African slaves had more time for cultivation. These changes all added up to large profits for southern plantation owners. With the help of New England slave traders, the plantation owners...
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As a result of the attack on the morning of the 1st July, the Chorley Pals – Y Company, had 31 men killed and three died within a month of their wounds received on that day. 21 have no known graves and their names are transcribed on the Thiepval memorial to the Missing on the Som...
By contrast,American technology was strong and innovative.There was Robert Fulton with his steamboat,Eli Whitney and the cotton gin,Cyrus McCormick invented the mechanical reaper,and Cornelius Vanderbilt built a fortune with ferry boats and steamships.Frederick Howe planned and built cities,and Samuel...
Sharon, a well-dressed self-possessed woman in her 50s, walks into her favourite neighbourhood gastro-pub where she can sit down at the end of a work day and order a gin martini and a plate of pickled herring, sweet onions, or whatever Anthony Bourdain ate in Norway. Normally the bar ...
A new short spur line was constructed to connect the new station. The railway had originally run into Bury Bolton Street which was further away from the town centre, and was closed by British Rail on the same day that Bury Interchange opened. ...
This is an in-person discount offer, not for advanced online ticketing. The $5 off discount is only for adult general admission of the day and should not be combined with other discounts. Much gratitude to Oregon Chinese Coalition for their time, help, and support of this event! Special th...
Since the natural phenomena, such as sound, rainbows and colour remain a constant between the thirteenth century and the modern-day, we are able to use modern scientific understanding to tease out what Grosseteste in his own cultural context was attempting to describe. The treatise on sounds, ...
So work progresses on the coastal defences, the promenade is refashioned after a fashion in the fashion of the day. There is no longer a place for these unique exemplars of Municipal Modernism. Before the work began, the promenade was a tired, uninviting and underused public space. Poorly li...