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The Australian gold rushes saw many external influences adopted into the language.
The first of the Australian gold rushes, in the 1850s, began a large wave of immigration, with approximately two per cent of the population of the United Kingdom emigrating to the colonies of New South Wales and Victoria.
Among the changes starting in the 19th-century gold rushes was the introduction of words, spellings, terms and usages from North American English.
The city's population increased substantially as a result of the Western Australian gold rushes in the late 19th century, largely as a result of emigration from the eastern colonies of Australia.
The early arrivals to come to New Zealand from what was then British Ceylon were a few prospectors attracted to the gold rushes.
He set out following the gold and silver rushes in Colorado, but without success.
An estimated 100, 000 gold seekers took part in one of the greatest gold rushes in North American history.
Category: American gold rushes
In the early stages of European ( Pākehā ) settlement of the country, the South Island had the majority of the European population and wealth due to the 1860s gold rushes.
Chinese cuisine ranges from a long established Australian-Chinese style based on the cooking of the Chinese community established during the gold rushes of the late 19th century, to quite different cuisine more recently imported from different regions of China.
The gold rushes in both California and Australia increased the European money supply.
This triggered one of the largest gold rushes the world has ever seen.
* Australian gold rushes
Category: Australian gold rushes
* University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – Eric A. Hegg Photographs 736 photographs from 1897-1901 documenting the Klondike and Alaska gold rushes, including depictions of frontier life in Skagway and Nome, Alaska and Dawson, Yukon Territory.
* University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – Eric A. Hegg Photographs 736 photographs from 1897-1901 documenting the Klondike and Alaska gold rushes, including depictions of frontier life in Skagway and Nome, Alaska and Dawson, Yukon Territory.
The gold rushes in Nome and Fairbanks lured people away from Eagle.
The community around the post continued to grow through commerce with prospectors in the gold rushes of 1861, 1874 – 77, and 1897.
Starting from Fort Smith, Arkansas, this trail was carved by thousands of Cherokee miners in the 1850s and 1860s, who sought gold mining rushes in Colorado, Wyoming and California
Major gold rushes took place in the 19th century in Australia, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, and the United States, while smaller gold rushes took place elsewhere.

gold and late
As the early 20th century gold standard was undermined by inflation and the late 20th century fiat dollar hegemony evolved, and as banks proliferated and engaged in more complex transactions and were able to profit from dealings globally on a moment's notice, these practices became mandatory, if only to ensure that there was some limit on the ballooning of money supply.
Many catalytic processes, especially those used in organic synthesis, require so called " late transition metals ", which include palladium, platinum, gold, ruthenium, rhodium, and iridium.
Starting from the late Middle Ages, Florentine money — in the form of the gold florin — financed the development of industry all over Europe, from Britain to Bruges, to Lyon and Hungary.
Poseidonios described the Helvetians of the late 2nd century BC as " rich in gold but peaceful ," without giving clear indication to the location of their territory.
The book observed that Turner “ discovered his father had sheltered a substantial amount of taxable income over the years by personally lending it back to the company ” and “ discovered that the billboard business could be a gold mine, a tax-depreciable revenue stream that threw off enormous amounts of cash with almost no capital investment .” In the late 1960s, Turner used the profits to buy Southern radio stations.
She borrowed the money from a wealthy friend named Anthony Shimer, and arranged to receive the gold late one night.
However, as late as June, the gold forces, which still controlled the Democratic National Committee ( DNC ), continued to believe that the nominee could be pro-gold.
This theory draws its roots from two almost diametrically opposed ideas: the hard money policies that dominated monetary thinking in the late 19th century, and the monetary theories of John Maynard Keynes, who, working in the inter-war period during the failure of the restored gold standard, proposed a demand-driven model for money which was the foundation of macroeconomics.
His critics, notably Steve Forbes, attributed the rapid rise in commodity prices and gold to Greenspan's loose monetary policy, and by late 2004 the price of gold was higher than its 12 year moving average ; these same forces were also blamed for excessive asset inflation and the weakening of the dollar.
' and goes on to talk of a casket containing 16, 000 francs in gold and the diamonds of a late marchioness.
Several short-lived boom towns sprang up during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to mine gold and silver.
A considerable amount of gold and tin mining occurred in the late 19th and early 20th century, though, unlike Beechworth, little evidence for this remains.
A map from the late 1850s showing prominent routes to the gold regions.
Alchemy, which was at its high point in the late 16th century when Goldwasser appeared, held gold to have many desirable medical properties ; while modern medicine disputes this, native gold is known to be non-toxic to humans and to pass through the digestive tract unchanged, unlike most other heavy metals.
The discovery of gold in the contested area in the late 1850s reignited the dispute.
Most of the production occurred before 1868 and much of the placer is now under the streets and buildings of Helena ( but even as late as the 1970s, when repairs were being made to a bank, a vein of placer gold was found under the bank's foundation ).
* From late December 1863 to 1864 the Montana Vigilantes were formed by citizens of Bannack, Virginia City and nearby Nevada City to fight lawlessness in the gold mining region of Montana.
It sold over 400, 000 copies by late 1994 in the U. S. and another 50, 000 copies in Mexico, reaching gold status.
In the late 1950s, the Hawks struck gold, picking up three young prospects ( forwards Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita and defenseman Pierre Pilote ), as well as obtaining both star goaltender Glenn Hall and veteran forward Ted Lindsay ( who had just had a career season with 30 goals and 55 assists ) from Detroit.
Counties, such as Trinity and Sierra Counties also experienced a late gold rush around the same time.

gold and 19th
Although central banks today are generally associated with fiat money, the 19th and early 20th centuries central banks in most of Europe and Japan developed under the international gold standard, elsewhere free banking or currency boards were more usual at this time.
A brooch and a set of earrings from the 19th century made from gold and natural pearls
During the California gold rush of 1848-1850s, San Francisco Bay instantly became one of the world's greatest seaports, dominating shipping and transportation in the American West until the last years of the 19th century.
During the 19th century, the bimetallism that prevailed in most countries was undermined by the discovery of large deposits of silver in the Americas ; fearing a sharp decrease in the value of silver and thus the currency, most states switched to a gold standard by 1900.
Initially discovered by Ferdinand Magellan's expedition in 1520, the islands were not settled by people of European descent until the second half of the 19th century at the height of the sheep farming and gold rush booms.
Towards the end of the 19th century, some of the remaining silver standard countries began to peg their silver coin units to the gold standards of the United Kingdom or the USA.
Governments faced with the need to fund high levels of expenditure, but with limited sources of tax revenue, suspended convertibility of currency into gold on a number of occasions in the 19th century.
In the early 19th century, the economic disruption caused by the Napoleonic Wars caused United States gold coins to be worth more as bullion than as money, and they vanished from circulation.
This was quite common in the 19th century, and in the 20th century until the permanent abandonment of the gold standard for the Bretton Woods System in 1948.
The pundit ( explorer ) cartographer Nain Singh Rawat ( 19th century ) received a Royal Geographical Society gold medal in 1876.
The discovery of gold in 1830 brought further development to Tomsk in the 19th century.
For example, the British Army generally adopted a white leather strap with a large acorn knot made out of gold wire for infantry officers at the end of the 19th century ; such acorn forms of tassels were said to be ' boxed ', which was the way of securing the fringe of the tassel along its bottom line such that the strands could not separate and become entangled or lost.
Since the 19th century, iron, copper, silver, and gold have brought prosperity.
During the Carolina Gold Rush period of the early 19th century, the south county area was known for its gold production.
From the late 19th century until near the end of the 20th century, the major industry was mining the region's deposits of copper, silver, and gold.
Art from Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia and Sri Lanka in gold, silver, bronze, stone, terracotta and ivory represents these rich and complex cultures, the displays span the 6th to 19th centuries.
File: Betel container. jpg | Betel container, 19th century, Filigree work in gold on a gold ground, outlined with bands of rubies and imitation emeralds, Mandalay, Burma
The denomination ( known as the Franc Germinal French franc # French Empire and Restoration ) continued in use through the 19th century and later French gold coins in the same denomination were generally referred to as " Napoleons ".

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