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. The fiber is almost pure cellulose. The botanical purpose of cotton fiber is to aid in seed dispersal.
The plant is a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, Africa, and India. The greatest diversity of wild cotton species is found in Mexico, followed by Australia and Africa. Cotton was independently domesticated in the Old and New Worlds. The English name derives from the Arabic (al) qutn قُطْن, which began to be used circa 1400 AD.
The fiber is most often spun into yarn or thread and used to make a soft, breathable textile. The use of cotton for fabric is known to date to prehistoric times; fragments of cotton fabric dated from 5000 BC have been excavated in Mexico and Pakistan. Although cultivated since antiquity, it was the invention of the cotton gin that so lowered the cost of production that led to its widespread use, and it is the most widely used natural fiber cloth in clothing today.
Tom Cotton (born May 13, 1977) is from the city of Dardanelle, Arkansas. He spent five years serving in the U.S. Army as an infantry officer in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Cotton is the Republican (GOP) nominee running for the United States Congress in Arkansas's 4th congressional district for the 2012 election cycle.
Cotton grew up outside Dardanelle, Arkansas, on his family's cattle farm. After graduating from Dardanelle High School, he went on to attend Harvard College, where he was as a columnist for the Harvard Crimson, played on the junior-varsity basketball team, and was a member of the Harvard Republican Club. He earned a law degree from Harvard Law School.
After completing law school, he served as a federal judicial clerk at the United States Court of Appeal for Judge Jerry Edwin Smith. Moving on to private practice, his work focused on labor, employment, and constitutional law cases at all levels of state and federal court.
In 2004, Cotton enlisted in the U.S. Army as a infantryman. After completing his initial training at Fort Benning, he was deployed in 2006 to Baghdad as a leader of a 41-man air-assault infantry platoon with the 101st Airborne Division. In Iraq, Cotton led daily combat patrols in Al Dora, Abu Dashir, and the surrounding rural sectors outside Baghdad.
Joseph Cotton aka Jah Walton (born Silbert Walton, 1957, St. Ann, Jamaica) is a reggae deejay active since the mid-1970s.
After spending a year working in the Jamaican police force, Walton turned to recording, initially working with Joe Gibbs in 1976, under the name Jah Walton. He then moved to Harry Mudie, recording popular tracks such as "Stay a Yard and Praise God", "Touch Her Where She Want It Most" (the title track from his debut album), and "Married To A Bank Cashier". In the mid-1980s he began recording under the name Joseph Cotton, immediately having success in the United Kingdom with "No Touch The Style", leading to a television appearance on Channel 4's Club Mix programme in 1987. Several more reggae chart hits followed in the form of "Things Running Slow", "Pat Ha Fe Cook", "Tutoring", "Judge Cotton", and "What Is This". Walton continued to perform and record into the 1990s and 2000s.
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Undercover is about a former criminal investigator named Roy Velasco (Derek Ramsay). He is known for bringing the nation's high profile law offenders, including smuggling lord Don Faustino a.k.a. Amang (played by Phillip Salavador). Being a highly decorated police officer, Roy lives a perfect life with his well-off family and loving fiancée Julia (played by Arci Muñoz). Things took a turn for the worse when he was kidnapped on his wedding day and was held captive on a cell specially designed for him. After six years of physical and psychological torture, Roy is released without knowing the identity of his captors. He returns home only to find out that Julia is already married to his adaptive brother Alex (played by Wendell Ramos). Forced to move on, Roy becomes motivated by his determination to find the person responsible for all his suffering. With the help of his fellow investigator Cotton (played by Gerard Acao), IT expert Claire (played by Jasmine Curtis-Smith) and con-artist Jimboy (played by Joross Gamboa), Roy sets up a team of undercover vigilantes to know the identity of his captors while putting his enemies of the law behind bars. How will Roy figure out who is the mastermind behind his six years of captivity? Will Roy be able to get justice? What will Julia do when she learns that Roy is still alive? Will they choose to let go of their love story or will they have a forbidden romance?
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A mockumentary about 3 brothers who are drawn together because one has a compulsive involvement in a series of spiritual cults. The older 2 have just extracted their younger sibling from the latest ('The Rose') and are attempting to 'de-program' him, only to be deprogrammed themselves.
Romance Has A Renaissance.
Rank: Prepare to be lanced, a lot.
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In Miami, four small time thieves leaded by Ski decide to rob a bank in the small town of Maysville. The lord Hustle demands a 10% commission and sends his experienced bodyguard Ackson to help the gang in their plan. He goes to the target bank to check the security system, but Ski decides to anticipate the plan for that afternoon. They succeed in the heist, but Deputy Kate activates the alarm and one of the criminals shoots Deputy Duff. When the bank is under siege of the police force, they are attacked by weird creatures. The former government agent Hunter comes to the bank and tells that the vampire zombies had been contaminated by an experimental virus developed by the government through the subjects that have escaped from the laboratory, attacking people in the New Moon to feed themselves. The group joins force to survive to the massive attack of the creatures.
Keywords: assisted-suicide, bag-of-money, bank, bitten-in-the-neck, bitten-on-the-arm, blood-on-shirt, blood-spatter, chase, corpse, covered-in-blood
The perfect heist...the wrong night.
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Stymie and his friends plot to play hooky from school in order to go fishing, unaware that their teacher, Miss Kornman, is closing the school for the day in order to take the kids to the amusement park. Mickey, the truant officer, gets wind of the hooky plans and, just for fun, chases the would-be hooky players all around the park.
Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, children, our-gang
Telephone operator: [referring to overheard radio broadcast] Boy, is he beatin' her up!
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Filled with stories of Aladdin's magic lamp, the gang starts rubbing every lamp in sight in hopes of finding the one with the magic. A series of coincidences leads the gang to think they've found the magic lamp, and a helpful vaudeville magician augments the illusion. After Spanky decides to wish that Stymie's little brother Cotton was a monkey, an escaped chimpanzee shows up and frightens Cotton away. The gang believes the wish has come true and mayhem ensues as they try to keep the police from shooting the runaway simian.
Keywords: children, magician, our-gang, racial-stereotype, two-reeler
Spanky: [rubbing a lamp] I wish Cotton was a monkey, I wish Cotton was a monkey.::Spanky: [to Cotton] Hey Cotton, I wish you were a monkey.::Cotton: Okay.::Stymie: Hey, be careful what your wishin' for, that lamp might work.::Spanky: All he needs is a tail.
[first lines]::Spanky: I don't like mush.::John: You'll eat that mush and like it!::Spanky: I'll hate it, but I don't like it.
Come, Hear the Creepiest of All Mystery Pictures
It will thrill you! Grip you! Set you into tremors of awe. HEAR this creepy tale of mystery - the baffling story of a detective's great triumph. With voices and shadows that will rack your nerves and make you like it. Come, hear them talk in this Vitaphone production of the play that has gripped London for over 3 years.
A TALKING PICTURE! (original print ad - all caps)
----NOTE----To thoroughly enjoy this great mystery drama, HEAR it from the beginning.
The funniest, creepiest crook film ever--that's "THE TERROR"