Leif the Lucky beat Columbus by around 500 years.
— have won this prestigious award. Carter has won it thrice, in the spoken word category, and Clinton has won it twice. First for best-spoken word album for children for , on which he collaborated with former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Sophia Loren.
Obama, too, has won it twice in the Best Spoken Word Album category, one for the reading of his first book, The American Civil War resulted in the transformation of Egypt into a cotton superpower.By mid-19th century, the US had a stranglehold on the global cotton supply. On the eve of the Civil War,"in the United States accounted for 77 percent of the 800 million pounds of cotton consumed in Britain.
When hostilities broke out between the North and the South, cotton prices shot up, and soon, the world was faced with a cotton famine. The governor of Egyptsaw an opportunity in this crisis. He aggressively expanded the infrastructure-like network of irrigation canals and encouraged rapid adoption of modern technology to enhance cotton production. Soon, Egyptian cotton filled the void created by the loss of Southern cotton.
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