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.
The modern mechanical cotton gin was invented in the United States of America in 1793 by Eli Whitney (1765â1825). Whitney applied for a patent on October 28, 1793; the patent was granted on March 14, 1794, but was not validated until 1807.Whitney's patent was assigned patent number 72X.lthough simple handheld roller gins have been used in India and other countries since at least 500 AD, the first modern mechanical cotton gin was created by U.S.American inventor Eli Whitney in 1793 and patented in 1794.