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unusual facts about Houldsworth Mill, Reddish


William Houldsworth

Houldsworth bought farmland by the Stockport Branch Canal in Reddish in the 1860s and built Reddish Mill, then the largest cotton-spinning mill in the world (started 1863, completed 1865).


Allocota viridipennis

Allocota viridipennis is a species of either brownish-green or reddish-blue coloured ground beetle in the Lebiinae subfamily that can be found in such Indonesian islands as Borneo, Java and Sumatra.

Argus monitor

There are at least two Australian subspecies: the one in Western Australia is Varanus panoptes rubidus (rubidus referring to its reddish coloration), while the subspecies from Arnhem Land, the Kimberley and Cape York Peninsula is Varanus panoptes panoptes.

Banksia rufa

As the name Banksia ferruginea had already been published in reference to the plant now known as Pimelea ferruginea, Mast and Thiele had to choose a new specific epithet; their choice, "rufa", is from the Latin rufus ("reddish"), in references to the red-brown colour of new growth and the involucral bracts.

Bordered Pug

The larva is reddish brown with black markings and usually feeds on the foliage of mugwort, although it has also been recorded feeding on Angelica, bilberry, tansy and yarrow.

Boskydell, Illinois

Boskydell sandstone was valued for its warm, reddish-brown color, and was used in the construction of several prominent buildings in Illinois, including: the foundation of the Southern Illinois University in nearby Carbondale; a Methodist church in Murphysboro; the First Presbyterian Church in Carbondale; and the former First Baptist Church of Carbondale.

Boysenberry

In the late 1920s, George M. Darrow of the USDA began tracking down reports of a large, reddish-purple berry that had been grown on Boysen's Northern California farm.

Carline Skipper

The dark brown upper forewings are marked with relatively small white markings but can usually be separated from the Olive Skipper (Pyrgus serratulae) by a c-shaped white mark close to the costa and the reddish-brown, not olive green, colour of the under hindwings, with a large square pale spot close to the margin.

Carlos Martínez de Irujo, 1st Marquis of Casa Irujo

"He was an obstinate, impetuous and rather vain little person with reddish hair; enormously wealthy, endlessly touchy, extremely intelligent and vastly attractive … he liked America, he understood it and enjoyed it; he was tremendously popular at Philadelphia, and at Washington when he condescended to appear there; he was on intimate terms at the President's House.

Cephonodes tamsi

It is very similar to Cephonodes trochilus, but distinguishable by the reddish rather than brownish upperside of the abdomen and the white centres to the abdominal segments below.

Cephonodes trochilus

It is very similar to Cephonodes tamsi, but distinguishable by the brownish rather than reddish upperside of the abdomen.

Cordylanthus orcuttianus

This annual herb grows to a maximum of half a meter in height and is green to reddish-green in color and coated in stiff hairs.

Dahira klaudiae

It is very similar to Dahira yunnanfuana but distinguishable by the reddish-brown rather than greyish-brown ground colour of the hindwing upperside.

David Reddish

In November 2013, producer James Cawley announced that Reddish had written a script for the Star Trek: Phase II web series entitled "Ashes & Tears."

Epidote

Piemontite occurs as small, reddish-black, monoclinic crystals in the manganese mines at San Marcel, near Ivrea in Piedmont, and in crystalline schists at several places in Japan.

Eucalyptus cinerea

Eucalyptus cinerea, commonly known as the Argyle apple or silver dollar tree, is a small to medium sized tree with rough bark, persistent on the trunk and larger branches, thick, fibrous, longitudinally furrowed, reddish-brown to grey-brown.

Joaquín Sorolla

Here, he presents his friend Simarro as a man of science who transmits his wisdom investigating and, in addition, it is the triumph of naturalism, as it recreates the indoor environment of the laboratory, catching the luminous atmosphere produced by the artificial reddish-yellow light of a gas burner that contrasts with the weak mauvish afternoon light that shines through the window.

June 2011 lunar eclipse

According to PAGASA, the presence of pollutants over the metropolis which penetrates the reddish appearance of the Moon during the greatest stages of the eclipse and sunlight attracts into the atmosphere in the form of red light in contrast to July 1953 and July 2000 lunar eclipses with the same coloration.

La Croix-Rousse

The quarter is called La Croix-Rousse (The russet cross) because of the cross the Christians put there in the 16th century: made in stone from Couzon-au-Mont-d'Or, it was reddish-brown.

Liriope muscari

Scale insects have been reported to cause unsightly reddish spots on leaves during late summer.

Macroglossum assimilis

It is similar to Macroglossum belis, but the abdomen upperside has dark lateral patches that are less black and the underside of the abdomen and wings are less reddish.

Macroglossum tangalleum

The forewing upperside is very similar to Macroglossum napolovi in the uniform reddish-brown ground colour against which the pattern of transverse bands and lines is barely discernible.

Milas carpet

The yellow is obtained from leaves of peach and apricot trees, the distinctive reddish brown (which is also frequently encountered in artefacts dating from the Carians, the inhabitants of the same region in antiquity) from Erica vulgaris, the brown from walnut leaves, the very dark, brownish yellow from acorns, the green from mint, and the wool is blackened by leaving it in the ground for a week.

Nan, Thailand

Also on display on the 2nd floor is a rare black (in fact reddish-brown) elephant tusk said to have been offered to a Nan king over 300 years ago by the Khün lord of Chiang Tung (Kengtung).

NS Class 1500

E27002, which then performed a test run between Sheffield and Reddish.

O.C. Fisher Reservoir

Due to the 2011 drought affecting Texas, the water had taken on a reddish hue, caused by bacteria of the Chromatiaceae, which were thriving in the oxygen-deprived water.

Oligoclase

Another variety more frequently used as a gemstone is the aventurine-feldspar or sun-stone found as reddish cleavage masses in gneiss at Tvedestrand in southern Norway; this presents a brilliant red to golden metallic glitter, due to the presence of numerous small scales of hematite oriented within the feldspar structure.

Parhelic circle

While parhelic circles are generally white in colour because they are produced by reflection, they can however show a bluish or greenish tone near the 120° parhelia and be reddish or deep violet along the fringes.

Pennard Castle

The castle is believed to have been built as a ringwork castle with wooden palisades but subsequently rebuilt in locally quarried limestone and reddish sandstone during the late 13th or early 14th century probably by de Braoses who held the castle for part of the 13th century.

Prunus sibirica

The tree's bark is dark gray, while the bark of the branches is reddish to dark brown, sparsely hairy at first, but soon glabrous.

Samoa 'ava ceremony

The tanoa is usually made from the wood of the ifilele tree (Intsia bijuga), a hard grained timber of a reddish brown colour.

Spialia orbifer

This has sometimes been treated as a subspecies of Spialia sertorius but can be distinguished by the olive green (rather than reddish-brown) underside of the hindwing.

Spialia sertorius

This is a variable species but can usually be distinguished from similar species such as Spialia orbifer by the dark reddish-brown colour of the underside of the hindwing.

Staffordshire Potteries

However, the boom came after the discovery in 1720 by potter John Astbury of Shelton, that by adding heated and ground flint powder to the local reddish clay could create a more palatable white or cream ware.

Synemon jcaria

The Reddish-orange Sun-moth (Synemon jcaria) is a moth in the Castniidae family.

Tache noir de la sclerotique

Tache noir de la sclerotique (French for Black spot of the sclera) is one of the ocular signs of death in which a reddish brown discoloration is transversely arranged across the sclera.

Telopea oreades

-- cites previous four sentences--> Young plants have a much more erect habit than other members of the genus Telopea and their stems have a distinct reddish tinge.

True Lover's Knot

The larva is reddish-brown with pale lines and feeds on heather and related genera (e.g. Erica).

Zhangye

Located in the Nantaizi village of Nijiaying town, in Linzhe county of Zhangye, Gansu province is the China Danxia, a series of mountains laced with layers of reddish sandstone.


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