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3 unusual facts about Cotton-Eyed Joe


Alabama Crimson Tide baseball

A tradition at Sewell-Thomas Stadium is to play the Rednex song "Cotton-Eyed Joe" during the sixth inning.

Loggers Leap

The ride is themed around logging in the Canadian countryside and, as with others in the Canada Creek area, had a soundtrack of country and western music including 5,6,7,8 by Steps, Cotton-Eyed Joe by Rednex and 9 to 5 by Dolly Parton which plays outside the ride, in the outside queueing area and in the ride station itself.

Western promenade dance

Specific dances are often associated with a specific song or songs, for example "San Antonio Stroll", "Orange Blossom Special" and "Cotton-Eyed Joe".


Agnes Stevenson

She took 3rd at Meran 1924 (unofficial European women’s championship, Helene Cotton and Edith Holloway won).

Aligider

Aligider is located ten kilometers to the west of Teseney and was home to the Barattolo cotton plantation where Hedareb tribes and 1500 ex-fighters and their families farm cotton, sesame and sorghum.

Baron Dunleath

The Mulholland family were involved in the cotton and linen industry in Ulster in the north of Ireland.

Battledress

A new tropical uniform in Jungle Green (JG) was quickly developed – a JG Aertex battledress blouse, a JG Aertex bush jacket (as an alternative to the blouse) and battledress trousers in JG cotton drill.

Black-headed Bunting

In Bulgaria, the collapse of the drying cotton thistle (Onopordum acanthium) stems on which the birds build their nests has caused high mortality; this is thought to be an example of an ecological trap.

Bocholt Disaster

The Bocholt Disaster refers to the collapse of Spinnerei Beckmann cotton mill, in Bocholt, Germany, shortly before its completion in 1895.

Chané people

They developed an agrarian culture, built densely populated villages, cultivated corn, peanuts, cotton and squash, and are famous for their ceramics and graphics which have been found mainly in the pampas surrounding the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, El Fuerte in Samaipata, and in Portachuelo, Valle Abajo, Okinawa, Cotoca, El Pari, Mataral and Warnes.

Chuck Curtis

In the 1957 Cotton Bowl, Curtis threw two touchdown passes and ran for another TD to lead the Horned Frogs to a 28-27 win over Syracuse and standout running back Jim Brown.

Cotontchad

The Société cotonnière du Tchad, also called Cotontchad, is a parastatal Chadian company operating in a monopoly regime that buys and exports all the cotton produced in Chad, a product which represents 40% of the country's exportations and in the past years has been even more dominant.

Cotton production in Chad

Therefore, customs duties on cotton exports from Chad, then a part of French Equatorial Africa, were paid to the governor general at Brazzaville (in contemporary Congo), as were duties on exports from other colonies under regional administration.

Cotton Tufts

Cotton Tufts (born in Medford, Massachusetts, 30 May 1734; died in Weymouth, Massachusetts, 8 December 1815) was a Massachusetts physician.

CSS Cotton Plant

In May 1865, Cotton Plant was surrendered to Union officials near Halifax, North Carolina by parties claiming that she had been appropriated by Confederate authorities.

Cumberland Island National Seashore

Exhibits focus on the island's natural and cultural history, including the Timucua Indians, cotton plantations that were established by American Revolutionary hero General Nathaniel Greene and cotton-gin inventor Eli Whitney, the history of the ruined mansion Dungeness and the Plum Orchard estate, and area activities during the War of 1812.

Dobarsko

Many of the locals were merchants who bought cotton from Northern Greece and sold it in Central Europe and grazed large herds of cattle in the mountains and the plains around Drama and Serres.

Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington

She was the daughter of Col. Robert Ashton of Croughton, Cheshire (himself a second cousin of the 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde) descended from wealthy cotton manufacturers, and his wife (Lucy) Cecilia Dunn-Gardner (later Countess of Scarbrough), and stepdaughter of the 10th Earl of Scarbrough.

Edmund Lamb

Lamb and his wife Mabel née Winkworth (1862–1941), daughter of a Manchester cotton mill owner, had one child, Winifred Lamb (1894–1963).

Far Cotton

Far Cotton is due south of the town centre, beyond Cotton End - hence the 'Far' - and just south of the River Nene.

Gossypium tomentosum

Genetic studies indicate that Hawaiian cotton is related to American species of Gossypium, with its closest relative Gossypium hirsutum.

Henry F. Lippitt

He served on the Governor's staff with the rank of colonel in 1888-1889 and was president of the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association (now the National Textile Association) in the latter year.

Jack Cotton

Jack Cotton was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, then at Cheltenham College.

James S. Johnston

Johnston was born in Church Hill, Mississippi in 1843, the son of a local attorney and cotton planter.

John Edmund Sharrock Moore

Born in Higher Booths, Swinshaw, Rossendale, Lancashire, John was the son of Henry Moore, Cotton Manufacturer and Mary Elizabeth Moore (née Margerison).

John W. F. Bennett

During this time, he supervised the construction of the Ritz Hotel, the Waldorf Hotel, the Morning Post Building, three London Underground stations, the Liverpool Cotton Exchange and the Lancaster Town Hall.

Lands of Threepwood

Cotton cloth or linen was originally bleached by repeatedly steeping it in an alkaline solution or lye derived from ash tree or fern ashes, called 'bucking'.

Lenoir Cotton Mill

The Lenoir Cotton Mill site is located near the corner of Depot Street and South Hill Street, just off U.S. Route 11 in downtown Lenoir City.

Marot

Mostly people are farmers in the area and the major crops are wheat, cotton, mustard and sugar cane.

Muang Sing

The Tai Lue cotton weavers in villages such as Nong Boua and Xieng Yun make dyes consisting of a blend of leaves, flowers, insects and wood and weave traditional cotton textiles.

New York Cotton Exchange

Several were founded within a few years of the founding of New York Cotton Exchange: the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, the Mobile Cotton Exchange, the Memphis Cotton Exchange, and the Savannah Cotton Exchange.

Newmains

The Coltness Iron Works was established in 1837 by industrialist, Henry Houldsworth who, foreseeing the gradual demise of the once booming cotton industry, decided to diversify into minerals.

NYCO

:This article is about a rock group named NYCO, but NYCO is also the acronym of the New York City Opera as well as NYCO Synthetic Lubricants and is also a textile made up of a mix of nylon and cotton.

Ocoee High School

The Marching Band has performed in the Cotton Bowl Music Festival, the Florida Citrus Parade, the Ikea Thanksgiving Parade, multiple Under Armour Football All-American Games that were broadcast on Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN), multiple Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parades at Universal Studios Florida, and the New York City Veteran's Day Parade.

Pace Egg play

The line up in 2010 included Billy Painter (Who is also chief Editor of The Painter's Chronicle) as The Fool, Dario Coates as St George, Sam Harris as Bold Slasher, Jack Deighton as The Doctor, Rowan Carter as The black prince of Paradine, Jacob Jones as The king Of Egypt, Joe Cotton as Hector, Desmond as Toss Pott.

Philip Miller

They were first planted on Sea Island, off the coast of Georgia, and hence derived the name of the finest cotton, Sea Island Cotton.

Pierre Raymond

It also helped to form an organization of people involved in the cultivation of cotton plants and in textile production, now known as the « Corporación de Recuperación Comunera del Lienzo » (Corporation for the Revival of the Traditional Cotton Textiles).

Play On!

Meanwhile, several of the performers at the Cotton Club are rebelling against the overly serious and tyrannical club manager, Rev.

Postage stamps and postal history of the Confederate States

In response to the blockade various specially-built steamers were built and put to use by British investors who were heavily invested in the cotton and tobacco trade.

Restaurant Makeover

It is hosted by chefs Brad Long, Rene Chauvin, Lynn Crawford, Massimo Capra, Corbin Tomaszeski, David Adjey, and Susur Lee along with designers Robin De Groot, Meredith Heron, Cherie Nicole Stinson, Jessica Cotton, Glen Peloso, Brenda Bent, Cheryl Torrenueva, Lisa North, and Jonathan Furlong, who perform renovation makeovers on restaurants desiring transformation.

Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat

Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat is an American song of the Great Depression, which was published in 1930 by Bob Miller and Emma Dermer.

Shaw National Distribution Centre

They were both cotton mills until they were purchased in the 1950s by Cyril Lord.

Soil solarization

In 1977, American scientists from the University of California at Davis reported the control of Verticillium in a cotton field, based on studies started in 1976, thus denoting, for the first time, the possible wide applicability of this method.

Stanley, Hong Kong

The original Cantonese name of the village was believed to be based on a big tall cotton tree (Bombax malabaricum, Bombax ceiba 木棉樹) often covered with bright red blossoms at the time, hence red pillar (赤柱) in Hakka language.

Transport in Preston

The River Ribble runs through Preston from North Yorkshire and the estuary enters into the Irish Sea near Lytham, and used to transport ships from the cotton mills.

U.S. Army M-1943 Uniform

By 1941, soldiers wore a wool flannel shirt and wool serge trousers in winter and a cotton khaki shirt and trousers in summer, both with ankle length russet leather service shoes and OD canvas leggings, and often with the OD cotton M-1941 Field Jacket.

Uganda Protectorate

The income generated by cotton sales made the Buganda kingdom relatively prosperous, compared with the rest of colonial Uganda, although before World War I cotton was also being grown in the eastern regions of Busoga, Lango, and Teso.

Vadeli

It is surrounded by the fertile Charotar region which largely produces tobacco, rice, cotton, lady finger, Tomato, Potato and other agricultural crops.

Wealaka, Indian Territory

W. L. Gilcrease, father of oilman Thomas Gilcrease, co-owner of a store and a cotton gin, platted the town and chose the name Wealaka.

Zeyaur Khan

Entomology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India, Research on insect-plant interactions in cotton


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