• A cotton picker is either a machine that harvests cotton, or a person who picks ripe cotton fibre from the plants. The machine is also referred to as...
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  • Cotton Pickers may refer to: The Cotton Pickers, an 1876 oil painting by Winslow Homer The Cotton-Pickers, a 1926 novel by B. Traven McKinney's Cotton...
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    The Cotton Pickers is an 1876 oil painting by Winslow Homer. It depicts two young African-American women in a cotton field. Stately, silent and with barely...
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  • The Cotton-Pickers is a 1926 novel by B. Traven. Gale is an itinerant who works jobs as a cotton picker, baker, cowboy, and oil rigger. He participates...
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    mechanically, either by a cotton picker, a machine that removes the cotton from the boll without damaging the cotton plant, or by a cotton stripper, which strips...
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  • preferred term for collectively referring to all non-white people. Cotton picker (US) Individuals of Black African descent. Coon (US and UK) originally...
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  • McKinney's Cotton Pickers were an American jazz band, founded in Detroit, Michigan, United States in 1926, and led by William McKinney, who expanded his...
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    Performance. Houston was born in Leland, Mississippi. Her mother was a cotton picker. She and her three sisters grew up primarily in Long Beach, California...
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    Organic cotton is generally defined as cotton that is grown organically in subtropical countries such as India, Turkey, China, and parts of the USA from...
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    silage making Grain cart (with built in grain auger) Conveyor belt Cotton picker Farm truck Grain dryer Harvestor / harvester built for harvesting specific...
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    mechanical cotton picker had become effective enough to be commercially viable, and it quickly gained appeal and affordability throughout the U.S. cotton growing...
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  • The Morrilton Cotton Pickers were a minor league baseball team based in Morrilton, Arkansas. In 1894, the Cotton Pickers played as members of the Class...
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    inventions in mechanized cotton production." Though many varieties of module builders and even combined module builder pickers exist, a typical module...
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    had been organizing in the cotton fields for some time, and by 1933 had come to provide leadership for the cotton pickers, most of whom were Mexican....
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  • Hear Ole Johnny Sing The Frozen Four Hundred Pound Fair To Middlin' Cotton Picker The Frozen Logger Fuego De'amor [Spanish version of Ring of Fire] Funny...
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    The history of cotton can be traced from its domestication, through the important role it played in the history of India, the British Empire, and the United...
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    cities. In the 1930s and 1940s, the introduction of the mechanical cotton picker and other forms of farm mechanization reduced the demand for field labor...
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  • The film chronicles the story of a young man who falls in love with a cotton picker who arrives in his village. Sufna has Jagjeet Sandhu, Jasmin Bajwa and...
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  • The creature gets its tail caught in the cotton picker as it closes in on Hall, so he turns on the cotton picker, tearing the creature apart. The final...
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    #17047), a narration by Buchanan. The 45-rpm single was backed with "Cotton Picker". Buchanan died from a stroke complicated by pneumonia in Palm Desert...
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    the picking process by the most recent generation of cotton pickers. Trailer cotton (i.e. cotton not compressed into modules) arriving at the gin is sucked...
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    module builder technology for cotton harvesting. The Case IH Module Express 625 is the first commercial cotton picker with the ability to build modules...
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    The cotton pickers' strike of 1891 was a labor action of African-American sharecroppers in Lee County, Arkansas in September, 1891. The strike led to open...
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    A fictional version of the club, called the Cotton Pickers Club, appears in the 1932 film Taxi! The Cotton Club is featured in the music video for the...
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  • series American Pickers. The series premiered on January 18, 2010, on History. As of March 27, 2024,[update] 388 episodes of American Pickers have aired....
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  • from the original on 6 December 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2023. "Cotton Picking, Cotton Picker". Word Origins. 19 March 2020. Archived from the original on...
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  • Bethel, the community’s church, so that he can preach freedom to the cotton pickers. Purlie shares his plan with his brother Gitlow and sister-in-law Missy...
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    mostly for growing cotton, in return for paying a share of the crop to the landowner. Modern machines such as the cotton picker have superseded manual...
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  • Russian: Мамлака́т Акбердыевна Наха́нгова; 1924 — 2003) was a Soviet cotton picker, member of the Stakhanovite movement, the youngest and first among the...
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    Nakhangova, a Tajik girl who had earned the Order of Lenin by working as a cotton picker. The images began to slowly disappear post-1953, with the rise of de-Stalinization...
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