Today the news is full of reports about things like “bomb cyclones” and “atmospheric rivers,” but as terrifying as these meteorological mouthfuls are, they hardly represent the terror of the 1362 Grote Mandrenke, literally, “the Great Drowning of men."
The history of cotton clothing has followed an interesting path, including a period of a few decades in the United States when cotton represented ingenuity, resilience, and patriotism itself.