Early Gold is a compilation album of Simple Minds early material, released in 2003. It contains songs from years 1979-1982. The tracks were selected by...
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Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from Latin aurum) and atomic number 79. In its pure form, it is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense,...
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The extensive use of gold during early Philippine history is well-documented, both in the archeological record and in the various written accounts from...
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The California gold rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma...
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The gold dinar (Arabic: ﺩﻳﻨﺎﺭ ذهب) is an Islamic medieval gold coin first issued in AH 77 (696–697 CE) by Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. The weight of...
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Simple Minds discography (redirect from The Early Years 1977–1978)
February 1982. Retrieved 27 July 2022 – via Library and Archives Canada. New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84): "RPM 100 Albums". RPM. Vol. 37, no. 16. 4 December 1982...
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United States Bullion Depository (category Gold in the United States)
consisting of 337 cars. The building and early operation of the depository occurred at the same time total gold reserves in the United States experienced...
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Placer mining (redirect from Placer gold)
(placer, sandbank), from earlier placel, apparently from obsolete Portuguese placel (placer, sandbank). Placers supplied most of the gold for a large part of...
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least four gold medals at the Olympic Games or at least three gold medals in individual events. This is a partial list of multiple Olympic gold medalists...
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Golden Fleece (redirect from Fleece of Gold)
mining of gold or on washing tables at deep gold mines. Judging by the very early gold objects from a range of cultures, washing for gold is a very old...
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A gold standard is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is based on a fixed quantity of gold. The gold standard was the basis...
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Earlygold (redirect from Early gold mango)
The 'Earlygold' mango (or, 'Early Gold') is an early-season mango cultivar that originated in Pine Island, Florida. The original tree was grown on the...
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following the Georgia Gold Belt. By the early 1840s, gold became difficult to find. Many Georgia miners moved west when gold was found in the Sierra...
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production during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1970, South Africa produced 995 tonnes or 32 million ounces of gold, two-thirds of the world's production...
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Of all the precious metals, gold is the most popular as an investment. Investors generally buy gold as a way of diversifying risk, especially through...
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Marian Gold (born Hartwig Schierbaum; 26 May 1954) is a German singer-songwriter who gained fame as the lead singer of the German synth-pop recording act...
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The early modern period is a historical period that is part of or (depending on the historian) immediately preceded the modern period, with divisions...
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theme park openings, and in the early 21st century became an international destination for film production. The Gold Coast has a diverse economy with...
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Sonicflood (redirect from The Early Years (Sonicflood album))
album) 2001 – Resonate 2003 – Cry Holy 2004 – Gold (best-of compilation) 2005 – This Generation 2006 – The Early Years (compilation) 2006 – Glimpse: Live Recordings...
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A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form...
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made in early 1859 in the mountains farther west, the miners abandoned the placers around Denver. Although the economic portions of the gold placers around...
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22 parts out of 24 (91.667% gold). Crown gold is appreciably less prone to wear than the softer 23 kt gold of earlier gold sovereigns — an important point...
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A gold reserve is the gold held by a national central bank, intended mainly as a guarantee to redeem promises to pay depositors, note holders (e.g. paper...
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that glitters is not gold" is an aphorism stating that not everything that looks precious or true turns out to be so. While early expressions of the idea...
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unchanged for thousands of years. Gold-leaf forging is a traditional handicraft in Nanjing (China), produced as early as the Three Kingdoms (220–280 AD)...
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Gold panning, or simply panning, is a form of placer mining and traditional mining that extracts gold from a placer deposit using a pan. The process is...
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Coins of British India (section Gold coinage)
wear and weight loss, irrespective of the actual condition of the coin. Early gold coinage with Queen Victoria's crowned bust consisted of one mohur coins...
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bimetallic monetary system, c. 550 BC. The Persian daric was also an early gold coin which, along with a similar silver coin, the siglos, (from Ancient...
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Villiers, and released in 1967 under the name Villiers and Gold. By the early 1970s, Gold was working full-time as a musician, songwriter and record producer...
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The first recorded use of old gold as a color name in English was in the early 19th century (exact year uncertain). Old gold is used as a political color...
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