William Shakespeare was born in April of 1564 to John and Mary Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon. John Shakespeare was listed as a baliff in 1568, and this position would have carried some advantages for the Shakespeare family (Wells, 2001).n Shakespeareâs region, and during the years of his childhood, a child would have been expected to attend a âpetty school.â These schools were run âsometimes by women as well as men, often untrained, though sometimes by university graduates down on their luckâ (Wells, 2001).
Answers.comÂ® is making the world better one answer at a time. Discovered Cotton Cotton is estimated to be about 7,000 years old, so no one knows who discovered cotton originally. It was grown, spun, and used in Pakistan and cotton clothing was worn in Egypt in 3,000 BC. The first discovery in the New World was made in 1492 when Christopher Columbus found it growing in the Bahamas.
In 1793, Eli Whitney invented a simple machine that influenced the history of the United States. He invented a cotton gin that was popular in the South.The South became the cotton producing part of the country because Whitneys cotton gin was able to successfully pull out the seeds from the cotton bolls. Eli Whitney was born in Westboro, Massachusetts on December 8, 1765 and died on January 8, 1825.he cotton gin was a very simple invention. First, the cotton bolls were put into the top of the machine. Next, you turn the handle, which turns the cotton through the wire teeth that combs out the seeds. Then the cotton is pulled out of the wire teeth and out of the cotton gin. Farmers were able to plant more cotton.