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...writes Roberts, as many as 10 million slaves were transported to the New World, perhaps 5 million of them in the 18th century alone. Nearly two million more died aboard the crowded prison ships that carried slaves to work the sugar fields of the Caribbean or the cotton plantations of the American South...
...Revolution: during the 16th century, one Jack of Newbury employed more than 500 men, women and children at a plant in Berkshire, England. But the true father of the modern factory, most historians agree, was Richard Arkwright, who in the late 1760s or early 1770s installed several water-powered cotton-spinning machines at a workshop in Cromford. Thousands more installations were to follow...
Besides being charged that they are just plain stupid, though, studies of popular culture have to deal with another often-leveled criticism--that students of the discipline don't learn anything they wouldn't in everyday life. It's a debate that's as old as Harvard itself. Cotton Mather accused the College of pandering to common interests when it delved even slightly into secular matters...
...past month have wrought one of the worst natural disasters there in 45 years. More than 2,000 people have drowned, and innumerable farm animals have been left floating in the polluted waters of a vast brown inland sea that has covered thousands of villages, the nation's ! major cotton and food crops, and a collapsed infrastructure of roads, power lines and bridges...
...inventor who has patented a safer, blunt-end type of ear-cleaning cotton swab says he got the idea from Hammer's flattop. Next: a feather duster that looks like Don King...