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  • War, the Boer Wars, the Yukon Gold Rush, settlement of Australia's Outback, the U.S. Indian wars, and settlement of America's western ...
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  • titled Timeless Topix, where he would rush back and forth from dropping ... awarded Schulz the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian ...
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  • immigration caused by the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, particularly from the ... The Cariboo Gold Rush of 1861 brought 25,000 men, mainly from California ...
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  • Contemporary chart, and was certified as a gold single. Coincidentally, "Garden ... * "Fools Rush In" / “Down Home” (Decca 31533) ...
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  • California is rich in natural resources. The California Gold Rush ... immigrants during the great California Gold Rush. On September 9, 1850, ...
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  • people hoping to cash in on the Klondike Gold Rush in 1897. ... and exhibition which eventually adopted a gold rush theme. In early 2006, it ...
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  • An influx of new settlers caused by a gold rush led the government to call a second council in 1863. Government commissioners asked the Nez Perce ...
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  • . This was followed by the classic The Gold Rush (1925), and The Circus (1928). ... *74. The Gold Rush (Jun 26) 1928 *75. The Circus (Jan 6) ...
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  • #039;s announcement triggered the Black Hills Gold Rush and gave rise to the lawless town of Deadwood, South Dakota. In 1875, Custer swore by White ...
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  • Dolls, (1950, 1,200 performances); and the Gold Rush was the setting for Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's Paint Your Wagon (1951). The relatively ...
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  • opera, Aleko (for which he was awarded a gold medal in composition), his ... Rachmaninoff. Helfgott, played by Geoffrey Rush, enters a piano competition ...
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  • partners left and participated in the Klondike Gold Rush. Among the camp fire mates at Dawson City during the fall of 1897 was Jack London who rented ...
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  • Fuego the village of Porvenir emerged during a gold rush in the late 1800s. Until the Panama Canal was finished in 1914, the Strait of Magellan ...
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  • Natural resources include: bauxite, coal, iron ore, copper, tin, gold ... A gold rush began in the early 1850s, and the Eureka Stockade rebellion ...
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  • by Niwot in Boulder Valley during the Colorado Gold Rush. Throughout Boulder County, many places are attributed to him or his band of Araphos. The town ...
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  • the inland region. The discovery of gold along Trinity Creek in 1850 ... The miners logged redwoods for building; and, when this minor gold ...
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  • climb the Chilkoot Trail during the Klondike Gold Rush.]] Skagway, Alaska, owe their existence to a gold rush in Canada. No history of ...
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  • it yielded about $400 million in silver and gold, equivalent to approximately ... Since the California Gold Rush of the 1850s brought thousands of Chinese ...
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  • * The Klondike gold rush, which made Seattle a major transportation center. ... was the direct result of the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896, which ended the ...
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  • Black Hills are rich in minerals such as gold, silver, copper, and lead ... Dakotas overwhelmed the Lakota. The 1870s gold rush in the Black Hills brought ...
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  • The California Gold Rush brought the first Euro-American settlements into the area in the early 1850s, including at Yreka, California and Upper ...
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  • in January 1848, launching the California Gold Rush. ==War in Northeastern Mexico== The defeats at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma caused political ...
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  • is an iron ore and AuTe2 gave its name to the gold rush town of Telluride, Colorado in the United States. ==Group 17 (Halogens)== ...
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  • was "camosack," meaning "rush of water") and known ... With the discovery of gold on the British Columbia mainland in 1858 ...
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  • It would prove to be the anthem of the California Gold Rush in 1848 and 1849. In 1849, he published Foster's Ethiopian Melodies, which included the ...
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  • their territory on their way to the Californian Gold Rush. Many of these horses were stolen, and the Comanches earned a reputation as formidable horse ...
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  • Several of Lightfoot's albums achieved gold and multi-platinum ... url=https://www.nicholasjennings.com/before-the-gold-rush|title=Before ...
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  • | occupation = Gambler Lawman Saloon Keeper Gold/Copper Miner ... In the fall of 1897, Earp and Josie chased another gold rush to Alaska ...
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  • The California gold rush brought the first settlers into the state. Pioneers used Lassen Peak as a landmark on their trek to the fertile Sacramento ...
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  • their fortunes as mercantile magnates for the Gold Rush. For a long period, Tacoma was noted for its large smelters where gold ...
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  • miners were drawn away to the California Gold Rush. This period of mining before and during the early years of statehood led to the state's ...
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  • By 1860, even though the California Gold Rush populated the flanks of the Sierra Nevada, most of the Sierra remained unexplored. Therefore, the ...
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  • as a mining town during the Pikes Peak Gold Rush in what was then the western ... in the area. In the early days of the city, gold and silver booms and busts ...
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  • army posts. During the 1875–1878 gold rush, thousands of miners went ... their value, and the area was opened to the gold miners. ...
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  • and hides … and then followed a wild rush of hunters … eager to destroy ... In 1875, the last serious Sioux war erupted, when the Dakota gold ...
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  • in Nagano, Japan. The United States won gold, Canada won silver and Finland ... in 1920). Canada won six of the first seven gold medals. The United States ...
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  • in the region, thus inaugurating the California Gold Rush. Sherman earned a promotion to captain for his "meritorious service," but his lack ...
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  • and the onset of the California Gold Rush the following year, the U.S. Army began studying the suitability of Alcatraz Island for the positioning ...
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  • or so before the outbreak of war, was 1.7 tons of gold. ... Among Wittgenstein's students at Cambridge were Rush Rhees, G ...
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  • were needed for the dangerous tasks of gold mining and railway construction ... with early stories of the California Gold Rush, Chinese gold-seekers began ...
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  • and then to 400 in 1848. The California Gold Rush spurred a sharp increase ... them. Reed fared well in the California Gold Rush and became prosperous. ...
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  • the sea and his ship in San Francisco Bay for the gold rush of 1849 at Sutter's Mill northwest of San Francisco on the Russian River. ...
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  • for material provisions: Weapons, armor, gold, silver, and supplies. ... Beowulf's men draw their swords and rush to his help, but Grendel is ...
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  • territory. In 1898, after the Klondike Gold Rush in the Northwest Territories ... in many other natural resources such as gold, nickel, aluminum, and lead; ...
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  • has a history that includes the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush of 1858-1860 and its famous Cariboo Road, as well as the older Hudson's Bay Company ...
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  • Asahel took in the Yukon of the Gold Rush. Curtis took credit for the images, claiming that Asahel was acting as an employee of his studio. The ...
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  • The end of the Mexican-American War and the California Gold Rush of 1848 drew a wave of settlers. San Diego was designated the seat of the newly ...
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  • (Benjamin Franklin, James Wilson, Benjamin Rush, George Clymer, Robert Morris ... regularly winning Pacemaker and CSPA Gold Circle awards. The Pennsylvania ...
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  • The whole body is now known as yarsagumba (gold rush) and is very valuable in medicine as a vitalizing agent. ====Predation==== :Predation is ...
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  • was able to greatly increase the supply of gold and silver from America, which ... did not see any warfare, allowing it to rush ahead into its “Dutch Golden ...
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