Hastening to the attic, the temperature of which was easily hotter than the Gold Coast, you proceeded to mask the windows with a fancy wool coverlet, some khaki pants, and the like, and to ransack the innumerable boxes and barrels stored there.

She knew that I lived at a good address on the Gold Coast, that I had once been a medical student and was thinking of returning to the university to finish my medical studies.

* 1848 – California Gold Rush: the New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California ( although the rush started in January ).

An AFL Premiership season match at Carrara Stadium on the Gold Coast, Queensland | Gold Coast between Adelaide Crows | Adelaide and Melbourne Football Club | Melbourne.

From 2011 to 2012 two new teams were added to the competition — the Gold Coast Suns in 2011 and the Greater Western Sydney Giants in 2012.

Although Tasmanian AFL Bid has been ongoing, the AFL's focus has become gaining marketshare in lucrative and broadcasting rights in two populous Australian states, introducing clubs on the Gold Coast, Queensland ( Gold Coast Football Club ) and in Greater Western Sydney ( Greater Western Sydney Football Club ).

* The Sea World amusement park on the Gold Coast ( Australia ) operated a ride called Bermuda Triangle.

Canal Estates ( commonly known as bayous ) are a form of subdivision popular in cities like Miami, Florida, Texas City, Texas and the Gold Coast, Queensland ; the Gold Coast has over 700 km of residential canals.

* Gold Coast

Lord Hall in the Gold Coast Cluster

In 2011, the Gold Coast and Hamburg Historic District was named as a 2011 America's Great Place by the American Planning Association.

In 1612, a Dutch fortress was built in Mouree, along the Dutch Gold Coast.

In Africa, posts were established on the Gold Coast ( now Ghana ), the Slave Coast ( now Benin ), and briefly in Angola.

After the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, it became apparent that the Dutch West India Company was no longer capable of defending its own colonies, as Sint Eustatius, Berbice, Essequibo, Demerara, and some forts on the Dutch Gold Coast were rapidly taken by them.

* 1781 – Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opened his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa ( present-day Ghana ).

In January 2010, Prince wrote a new song, " Purple and Gold ", inspired by his visit to a Minnesota Vikings football game against the Dallas Cowboys.

LaMonte High School is the home of the Vikings and the school colors are Black and Gold.

Wausa ’ s mascot is the Vikings and Lady Vikings and their colors are Purple and Gold.

In 2007 the tournament reverted to a 6 team Home & Away Round Robin Tournament with the exclusion of Perth Gold & ACT & Southern NSW Vikings.

* Gold Coast Rugby League The Vikings

The Gold Coast Vikings were a rugby league team that competed in the Queensland State League ( from 1982 ) and the Queensland Cup ( 1998 ) competitions.

Although originally a representative team, the Vikings became a feeder club for the Gold Coast Chargers National Rugby League team, and were withdrawn from the Queensland Cup when the Chargers were withdrawn from the NRL.

The Gold Coast is now represented in the Queensland Cup by the Burleigh Bears and the Vikings are once still the Gold Coast representative rugby league team.

* Gold Coast Titans, Australian rugby league team

* Robert " Dink " Tempelton, Olympic Gold Medalist in rugby

* Gold Coast Breakers, Australian rugby union club

* Gold Coast Chargers, rugby league team which played in the NSWRL, the ARL, and the NRL

* Gold Coast Seagulls, an Australian rugby league team

* Gold Coast-Tweed Giants, Australian rugby league team

* Brett Delaney, rugby league player for the Gold Coast Titans was born and raised here.

Rare vintage footage of the 1924 Gold Medal match was included in the rugby documentary, A Giant Awakens: the Rise of American Rugby.

Gavin Whittaker is a former Australian professional rugby league player for the Bulldogs, Gold Coast and the Western Suburbs Magpies.

This match was such a resounding success, reflecting the passion North Queenslanders had for rugby league, that journalist Doug Kingston was inspired to write a newspaper column suggesting the time was ripe for a North Queensland side to bid for inclusion in the major Rugby League competition, the NSWRL, just like Brisbane and the Gold Coast had done the year before.

Notable alumni of Truro School include Jaws actor Robert Shaw, Queen drummer Roger Taylor, the actor John Rhys-Davies ; automobile designer Geoffrey Healey ; international opera singers Benjamin Luxon and Alan Opie ; several Members of Parliament ( including current MPs George Eustice and Mark Prisk ); Olympic Gold medallist Ben Ainslie ; and England international rugby union captain John Kendall-Carpenter.

His son Sam Batty played halfback for the Gold Coast Breakers, However is now playing for Port Douglas, in the Cairns and district rugby union competition.

Gold Coast Titans are an Australian professional rugby league football club, based in the Gold Coast, Queensland.

The Titans are the second top-level rugby league club to have been based on the Gold Coast, the first being the ill-fated Gold Coast Chargers ( also known as the Giants and the Seagulls ), which existed from 1988 to 1998.

They were successful in organising pre-season NRL trial matches to be hosted on the Gold Coast and with average attendances of over 16, 000, and peak attendances topping 20, 000, the popularity of rugby league on the Coast was clear.

In the time since the Gold Coast was admitted, the Titans completed a vigorous recruitment drive, they announced the signing of Sydney Roosters assistant coach John Cartwright as the Titans first head-coach and successfully signed contracts with established players such as Dally M Medal winner Preston Campbell, Queensland & Australian representative Scott Prince, New South Wales & Australian representative Luke Bailey and enticing former league player Mat Rogers back from rugby union.

The USA Men's National Team, nicknamed the Eagles, won the Gold Medal in Olympic rugby in 1920 and 1924.

Western Force Gold is a team launched by RugbyWA for post-season Super 14 rugby.

The South East Queensland Division is also responsible for administering the game of rugby league across the Gold Coast and Ipswich.