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TRIOS PERFORMANCE PART I : PERFORMANCE
MGA5 contestant #5042 Sohn Youngjae MASTER KEY Performing Blooming Day - EXO-CBX { 00:02-00:50 & 01:07-03:17 } Partner: Yoo Taeyang { @rktaeyang } & Kim Hyojin { @hyojinrk } Outfit: White shirt & Jeans
“ Strength does not come from winning ; your struggles develop your strength ”
Another week had come to pass, and with it he still managed to survive in this hell hole of stress, watching every word you said and the competitive aura that resided amongst people. From duos to trios there were now even more people to keep track of and coorperate with and while that in and of itself was no big problem for Eric it also meant having to pay attention to even more needs. It was in this that he came across the biggest struggle in the means of his assigned partners. Eric was a dancer by heart. Granted, a girl group cover artist, but he had expanded his repertoire for the sake of the competition. Yes, he could sing -- he could even rap by now if he really wanted to but that was not where his true strength lay.
Some time back he had stated that he just wanted to make it further this year than he had last year, but now that that was true, now that he had gone from being in the midst of one hundred talented individuals to only the last thirty remaining ones, there was no doubt about it. He wanted to see how far he could go from here on out. And darned be if he didn’t want to end up getting signed from this thing. Dowoon had jumped ahead of him already, and Eric couldn’t let that be as it was. There was no time for dillydally -- young he may be, but he was a boy of great plans and a future he was desperately intending to pursue.
Naturally this all meant that by now he only wanted to show the best of his capabilities. Being paired with Yugyeom last week had been a blessing in that sense, for he got to show something that best enhanced his skill level. When Taeyang had introduced himself as a dance teacher, Eric had been thrilled to say the least: someone who was good enough to teach others had to be an amazing partner for this kind of thing, and he was already plotting out their stage of grandeur when Hyojin had pointed out a very trying obstacle: the fact that he wasn’t a very good dancer.
At once Eric could feel his plans crashing to the ground, and while he assured the guy that it was okay, that they were going to figure it out somehow, he still couldn’t help but feel uncertain. Even worse did it get when they started looking at song choices -- “you think you’d be able to do something like this?” ; “if we make the choreo easier, maybe this one?” -- and Hyojin’s very expression had been enough to tell that he didn’t believe in himself as much as the rest of them tried to in this particular matter. Big trouble had come about.
By no means was the song they eventually had decided upon an easy one, and Eric had a feeling they all knew that much, but he left training Hyojin to Taeyang: that was, after all, his job wasn’t it? He himself was just some random teenager who had only just started high school, he knew nothing about teaching and helping others like that. He had tried to, once, when Taeyang had gone for a break leaving only him and Hyojin and Eric had very confidently stated that “you go into the chorus with a bang! and then, like, swoosh, and and you get the feeling of pow!” to which it seemed like his sudden student didn’t understand a word of.
More than once, Eric had found himself staring longingly at the other group where Yugyeom was practicing in and sighed to himself. “Man I wish we could have got one more dancer...” Not necessarily the same person he had worked with before, but just someone, someone who knew the steps more easily, someone who could perform a more fluid dance performance. Instead he was left feeling bad for putting someone in a zone where they didn’t feel comfortable, but at the same time Eric had to consider the fact that he couldn’t disregard himself for someone else, not if he wanted to make it further. Which was why he was slightly upset with the fact that they had to change the choreography, but instead of being vocal about it, he simply mulled over that on his own.
Come the day of the filming, Eric was nervous to say the least -- a strange feeling he didn’t often feel, and one that he didn’t enjoy very much. It was simple enough to do something on his own, but putting his fate in the hands of other people was so much different. Eric was a person who could do anything he wanted as long as he himself believed he could: that was how the world worked to the teenage boy. So the fact that something could so easily influence the outcome of this performance was kind of terrifying and overwhelming.
There was nothing else to do now but hope. Hope that Taeyang had managed to work well enough with Hyojin; hope that their choreography wasn’t too simple; hope that they made no obvious mistakes while on stage. For the first time Eric felt as though he couldn’t focus on his peers at all, his entire train of thought being on the performance, and he was wearing a complex expression on his face until it finally became their turn after what felt like an eternity. Suddenly the rush of adrenaline hit him and Eric had to tell himself to remember the smile -- the perfect smile that showed nothing of the emotions that lay beneath. He wasn’t very good at lying, but instead of focusing too much about it, he tried to pay attention to the fact that he would go on stage again soon, that he would do something he absolutely enjoyed soon, and that made it much easier to feel genuine happiness.
As he stood there side by side with his seniors in life, Eric joined in on their shared introduction, sappy and corny as ever, but he found amusement in those kinds of things. “Unlocking your hearts, we are the Master Key!” If there was one thing he was good at it was thinking up bad catchphrases for these groups it seemed, but that was half the fun. And to make it even better, they continued with a move that had been popular some years back. “We’ll store all the national viewers in our hearts!” He was going to play the fact that he was the youngest remaining participant as far as he could and score those cheap cute points. Honestly he didn’t find the whole thing the slightest bit embarrassing, and that was possibly one of his strengths: performing cutesy acts without the slightest bit of hesitation.
With Hyojin and Taeyang taking their spots on the chairs they had brought along to the middle of the stage, Eric took his position to the side, ready to slide in once his lines came up. Taeyang had done his best in rearranging the choreography and simplifying it while still keeping its original intention somewhat intact and catering to the individual person’s skill. In a sense Eric thought the guy was absolutely amazing. For a long while he didn’t have to sit down, and he much appreciated that: although the intention was noble, cutting off the majority of the legwork by including chairs was harsh on the boy who just wanted to show his very best. Instead he danced as hard as he possibly could on the parts that didn’t include a chair.
The chorus was kind of corny, and as Eric sang to the audience “can I be your boyfriend can I?” he thought it kind of amusing. The way he saw it they all represented a different boyfriend image. Eric was the innocent, youthful puppy love kind of boyfriend. Hyojin was a more mature person but gave off a sweet vibe to him while Taeyang somehow seemed like a wild and sexy type of guy. It felt weird to admit it, but that was definitely how he saw his partners. He thought the song fit them well despite the fact that he himself had never been someone’s boyfriend, but he couldn’t say that he wasn’t starting to feel curious about that whole love scenario.
As the song came to a close, Eric felt a bit more relieved than he had done before the performance started. With Hyojin being the better vocalist of them all he had been in charge of line distribution and figuring out whose voice colour best fit in which part, and although he was kind of sad about their third member because he didn’t get to dance properly, Eric also had to admit that there was no way he could have done stuff like that on his own. He just sang because he liked singing over rapping: he didn’t actually know much of the technical stuff behind it. Running back to his seat with bubbly steps Eric only realised too late that his ‘seat’ was still on the stage, and with a loud “whoops!” he quickly ran back to get it before sitting down again and waiting for the show to be over.
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xrrtammara07-blog · 5 years
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Why Is Modern Pop Music So Horrible
Outdated, European scientists have decided that todayвЂs younger whippersnapper music is simply too darn loud and samey. Immediacy may additionally be the rationale behind Explorer personalities getting highest scores for magicaudiotools.com the TV (2%) and the smartphone (47%) as most popular gadgets, each of which are tailor-made for snap decisions. An Explorer might need little persistence for the lengths some music lovers go to as a way to curate a private library - researching, collecting, and categorizing all sounding like time higher spent listening - but an Explorer is likely to be completely glad with the serendipity of the sounds summoned forth by the flick of a distant or the tap of an app. Sweden has infiltrated global pop for many years. ABBA dominated the seventies; Robyn and the Cardigans tore a strip off the nineties; Tove Lo and Zara Larsson carry the country on charts today. Countless North American hits, too, are written by Swedes you've never heard of. The root causes of the disproportionate dominance of this nation of 10 million, however, are much less evident. One clue can be present in a single, vastly influential studio that began ushering in a new college of songwriting within the Nineties, sending teen-pop artists including the Backstreet Boys, NSYNC and Britney Spears flocking to Stockholm. Further clues may be present in Swedish tradition itself, and the deep appreciation of music that's instilled in Swedes from an early age. "They're gods of pop music," says Carly Rae Jepsen, who frequently travels to Swedish studios, most lately for her forthcoming record. Just like the sixties, the 1990's was a decade of extremes with below-produced, anti-institution grunge bands and gangster rappers having fun with simply as a lot success as the overly produced and studio manufactured pop groups. The decade was dominated by powerful singers with Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, and Whitney Houston topping the charts. Many artists' private problems including drug abuse and rap feuds overshadowed a lot of the talent during the decade as well, with the dying of many widespread musicians resulting from drug overdose and the murders of rappers like Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur.
Within the vital hive mind of the previous, the album is the novel of music, the one severe method to assess price. One hugely progressive function of the NME ballot, and its 1985 successor , was to permit greatest hits albums, on the grounds that some acts had strings of great singles but no nice albums (though why they thought Aretha Franklin was one such, I have no idea). However usually, 60s artists who made albums of three astounding hits and 11 pieces of filler have been marginalised, in addition to the whole 40 years of dance music since disco, the place the primacy of the single track for the dancefloor is paramount.Frankly I do not care if the music is pop or rock. Just the tune and the lyrics needs to be my taste and wise. I stick with 4 rock bands :Disturbed, Evanescence, Breaking Benjamin and Within Temptation, cause I simply feel calm or nice or excited by their music. I am only talking concerning the songs, not the concert events because I reside in India and I've never been to any live shows. One of many primary reasons I do not like pop music a lot is as a result of they're at all times so cliched. It is both love songs or partying or medicine or sex. I'm simply feeling so damned tired of modern pop music. I'm additionally afraid that rock is creating those form of attitudes and that's why I keep on with only 4 bands. Should you guys might counsel a brand new tune for me, post your comment on cretoxyrhinamantelli@gmail. com.Record labels and nation radio embraced bro-country as a result of it attracted a large (largely young male) viewers that hadn't listened to nation music earlier than. They suppose they're expanding the number of country music consumers. The problem is they could drive away quite a lot of feminine artists and listeners within the process and end up making much less money in the long run if they do not put out music ladies want to hear and buy. It is sensible to cater to everybody, one thing nation largely stopped doing with the rise of bro-country and something rock isn't doing either.Its ever-mutating type turned itself into swing music, soul and funky jazz. Jazz's knock-on effect was further seen in rock and roll's development in the United States within the 1950s. Artists from Elvis Presley to Chuck Berry created their rock and roll utilizing the musical influences of boogie-woogie and blues, along with jazz. Rock's popularity rapidly spread around the world, with teams such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones typically crediting early 20th century American music comparable to blues for his or her inspiration.The bottom-up technique begins from the decided amount of music genres and locations them in a two-dimensional house. Their coordinates are based on the genre-defining characteristics and thus similar genres are positioned shut to each other. As soon as once more, parametrically based programming to create this chart is nigh inconceivable as the characteristics (parameters) are too broad, not fully measurable, and even variable in significance (weight). The benefit from this technique is that tremendous-genres will eventually emerge as amorphous zones, overlapping and connecting different tremendous-genres at varied points. This is a extra real looking visualization of the musical genre network, though nonetheless restricted by two-dimensional constraints.What makes a band go from simply being horrible to epically incomes "Worst Band of All Time" status? For some, there's an authentic inkling of a very good sound in there that simply will get weighed down by poor selections, excessive drug use and unhealthy production. For others, it's a complete lack of songwriting capability that renders the band - as a whole - incapable of producing high quality music. Some bands just don't have any enterprise being together within the first place, so incapable are they of enjoying in sync and producing nice music. And then some bands might have limited expertise but waste it by producing songs and albums which might be overblown, slickly commercial and hollow.Rules. Classical music (used in the sense that most individuals use the term 'classical') was all about rules for a really long time. In reality, there have been sure techniques authorised by the church. We remember and nonetheless listen to the masters of their respective durations as a result of they both played by the principles very properly, or they broke a few of them in an effective approach. Over the course of classical music history, each single rule has been broken, to the point where now in classical music, you possibly can simply have folks stare at blank sheet music for four minutes and 33 seconds. Which brings us to the genres you've talked about.
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climaxstriker · 6 years
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Another batshit crazy idea
My best guess, they are all located at the void, specifically, where the Barrier Prophecy, Kyu Jugo (Nickname for barrier prophecy until we find out it’s real name, Pretty much Japanese for 9-15. September 15th.) put them. 
Isn’t it too much a coincidence that 6 of the fallen kids......6 of Kyu Jugo’s remaining chosen ones, are all located at the same dark place? Plus, our powers and experience are strangely prophecy-like if you think about it.
Take TQ’s explainations of how Prophecies influence people by whispering into their collective conscious. Aren’t we pretty much doing the same thing by having Oscar send our asks? Well, only by “whispering”, we’re more like “talking”
Hell, even Aidrian said she heard voices in her head. And that calming effect was how the prophecies manage to get those whispers accross without freaking out their chosen ones.
And it strangely feels like all of the roles set out for the fallen kids, are....made for them based on their personality and desires.
Hanah (Censor): Doesn’t like cursing. Period. So they became the censor. because us gosh diddly darn hooligans need to watch our gosh diddly darn language gosh darn it.
Erika(Camera Person): Is blind, I would assume they want to see. 
Danny (Item Sender): I assume since they’re kind, that they would be the giving sort. So, sending items through might be their jam yo.
Oscar (Ask Sender): Likes to speak their mind, I assume they didn’t get to speak their mind in life. judging from what they said about I’ve spent too much energy in life catering to the absurd opinions of others.
Paolo (Narrarator): I assume since they had the journal and TQ said they thought the monsters were interesting enough to take notes on, I figure they enjoyed observing and learning. Being a narrorator with Paolo’s wizardized observation powers would fulfill both purposes of sating Paolo’s curiosity and our curiosity.
Blake (Ask Filter): Oh come on, they’re justice for crying out loud. There’s only so much bullshit they can tolerate from an ask before vaporizing the shit out of it with lightning! 
I believe, Kyu Jugo was curious how other beings would handle being a prophecy.
All the powers of a prophecy with a little more, but with no special assignment. Just do whatever comes natural.
The idea came to me after I compared that hyper white chocolate plan, with Red Wedding’s first attempt to fulfill itself. 
We were both setting up an event to happen, we were wanting our chosen ones to do the thing we wanted them to do.
And like how Kyu Jugo felt satisfied after Frisk worked their “There’s a better way” magic. I felt satisfied and fairly surprised by Frisk also. I thought telling Chara about their EXP would trigger the transformation. But Frisk, this brilliant mother fucking boss of a kid, surprised the shit out of me by.....BEING FRISK! DA FUQ?
I can only IMAGINE how Kyu Jugo felt when Frisk fulfilled the prophecy by helping Asriel find himself again and break the barrier. I imagine it felt shocked as hell too. it’s thinking “Yeah, now you know how I feel”. 
For all those reasons, I feel like Kyu Jugo just wanted to understand beings in the physical plain, and have us understand prophecies better.
I mean, I know I’ve been curious about understanding the void creatures. Whose to say the void creatures aren’t curious about us?
Hence putting the fallen kids in this position, giving them roles to fulfill, and watching what we’d do with a prophecy’s power. Kyu Jugo trusts the fallen kids to do the right thing, Like Frisk would. 
Think this insane theory sounds legit?
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Hello! I'm not sure how much you know about the 1848-50 California gold rush, but as a native Californian, I've always been fascinated by the topic. My question is multifaceted. For one: how big would miners plots of land along the various rivers be, and would people actually live on the same plots that they mined for gold? Also, what would it be like for a young woman and/or young men and children in an area like this?
Hello there! Well, aren’t you in luck because we have the Archivist from @scriptlibrarian answering this one! The Archivist has also studied history and has got your back so just read on!
There is gold in them darn hills!
Quick history of the California Gold Rush.  In 1848, John Marshal found flecks of gold in the American River, just below the Sierra Nevadas, in Coloma California, while building a water powered sawmill for John Sutter.
Just days after he discovered the gold, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed, ending the Mexican-American War, giving California to the United States and essentially the gold.
The discovery of Gold shaped California into the state is today.  California saw the largest migration influx in the history of the United States.  In 1848 there was roughly 157,000 people in California (150,000 Natives, 6,500 Spanish/Mexican, 700 American/Non-Native).  Within 20 months the Non-Native Population soared to 100,000 and by the mid 1850’s was past 300,000.  This massive population influx put California on fast track to Statehood, and with the Compromise of 1850 California was allowed into the Union, just two years after the land was acquired, as a Free State - leading a imbalance in Free vs Slave States.  
So now that we got background history established let’s look at your questions.
How big would miner’s plots of land along the various rivers be…
I admit, I dug around for this information and beyond going into deep dark storage and digging out (pun intended) my books from school … the best answer I could find is - depends.
Yeah I hate that also.
A miner would first have to  Staking a Claim, which involves first the discovery of a valuable mineral in quantities that a “prudent man” would invest time and expenses to recover them. Then mark the claim boundaries, with wooden posts, capped steel posts, both of which must be four feet tall, or stone cairns, which must be three feet tall. Then filing a claim with the land management agency (USFS or BLM), and the local county registrar.   
There are four types of Land Claims, a miner could make:
Placer (minerals free of the local bedrock, and deposited in benches or streams) - This would be your typical visual of Gold Miners.  Bent over a stream with a pan, looking for flexs or small nuggets of gold. 
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Lode (minerals in place in the mother rock) - next stage up.  The Miner has a section off shoot of the river, and is breaking up the rocks looking for veins of gold.
Tunnel (a location for a proposed tunnel which claims all veins discovered during the driving of it) - This would be someone with enough capital to start mining operation looking for gold, and could hire workers.
Millsite (a maximum five acre site for processing ore) - This is a full on organization, that is mining not just gold, but other minerals as well.  Has a team of miners, and likely a full town surrounding it to supplement the miners.
So if your character would need to find the gold, stake out his claim, then register it.  Depending on how much gold found, expense to work the land, and fees for the register - would determine the size of his land claim.
Would your character live in the same spot as they mine?
Yes, they would have a camp with a tent and supplies near by, so they could work their claim dawn to dusk.  They did this for a variety of reasons:
Ease of access to the claim.  The last thing anyone wanted to do was hike in and out of the area, wasting precious time traveling when they could be mining.
Protecting their assets.  If they are away from their claim, someone could sneak in and mine the area, or re stake the claim stating it was abandoned.
Also, what would it be like for a young woman and/or young men and children in an area like this?
The Gold Rush was not really a place for children. It was a brutal work, and a very lonely existence.  Many men left their families behind in hopes of making it rich to bring back the gold to them.   
That doesn’t mean that there wasn’t women in the camps.  
At one point there was a call out to women to go to California, because there was a fear men would do ‘untold’ things without the calm and stable influence of a woman (not many headed the call).
There were wives that worked the claims with their husbands, and likely even a few who took over the claim after he died.  Though this was dangerous as she would be on her own, and had very little rights to the land.  
Most of the women seen in or around the camps were washers, cooks, those seeking out a living for their family.  These women came with their husbands, fathers, brothers and ended up making the money for the family to survive, while the men panned for gold.
By the 1850’s there were roughly 1000 women working in and around the mines, but they were still a small part of the population, and  by the 1860’s they were less than 19% of the population of California.
A good resource to look into the role women played in the Gold Rush would be They Saw the Elephant: Woman in the Gold Rush by JoAnn Levy.
Now as for young men, it would depend on what you mean by young men?  
There were many teenage boys out in the fields, either they came with their father or ran away from home. The Gold Rush was an opportunity to make it rich fast, and men from all walks of life, old and young found their way to California.
Children were less likely in the mines or panning for gold.  If the whole family was in the gold fields, the younger kids would be with mom, helping with cooking, washing, etc.  Older boys maybe 12ish would be with dad.  There are not many accounts, but it didn’t mean they weren’t there.  
William Tecumseh Sherman - the future Civil War General, worked in San Francisco during the Gold Rush as a banker, and had his two young sons with him during the time, while his wife and daughter stayed back East.  Now this was in the city and not the gold fields.  Women, kids and families were very common in San Francisco.
In contrast Ulysses S. Grant was in the Army at the time, stationed in the gold fields and had left his family behind.  This also led to him being discharged from the Army, because of his drinking problem, as he had never done well being away from his wife, Julia.
Irony both men would come together a decade later, a friendship that some say changed the world.  But that is another essay.
Some interesting facts about the Gold Rush that could be helpful.
The Gold Rush attracted immigrants from around the world, by 1850 more than 25 percent of California’s population had been born outside the United States. As the amount of available gold began to dwindle, miners increasingly fought one another for profits and anti-immigrant tensions soared. In 1850 California’s legislature passed a Foreign Miner’s tax, which levied a monthly fee of $20 on non-citizens, the equivalent of more than $500 in today’s money. That bill was eventually repealed, but was replaced with another in 1852 that expressly singled out Chinese miners, charging them $2 ($80 today) a month. Violence against foreign miners increased as well, and beatings, rapes and even murders became commonplace. However no ethnic group suffered more than California’s Native Americans. Before the Gold Rush, its native population numbered roughly 300,000. Within 20 years, more than 100,000 would be dead. Most died from disease or mining-related accidents, but more than 4,000 were murdered by enraged miners.
Early sections of San Francisco were built out of ships abandoned by prospectors. The Gold Rush conjures up images of thousands of “’49ers” heading west in wagons to strike it rich in California, but many of the first prospectors actually arrived by ship. Within months, San Francisco’s port was teeming with boats that had been abandoned after their passengers, and crew headed inland to hunt for gold. As the formerly tiny town began to boom, demand for lumber increased dramatically, and the ships were dismantled and sold as construction material. Hundreds of houses, banks, saloons, hotels, jails and other structures were built out of the abandoned ships, while others were used as landfill. Today, more than 150 years after the Gold Rush began, archeologists and preservations continue to find relics, sometimes even entire ships, beneath the streets of the City by the Bay.  Map of where ships can be found in San Francisco
Mining wasn’t cheap! Most of the men who flocked to northern California arrived with little more than the clothes on their backs. Once there, they needed to buy food and supplies, which San Francisco’s merchants were all too willing to provide for a cost. Stuck in a remote region, far from home, many prospectors coughed up most of their hard-earned money for the most basic supplies. At the height of the boom in 1849, prospectors could expect prices sure to cause sticker shock: A single egg could cost the equivalent of $25 in today’s money, coffee went for more than $100 per pound and replacing a pair of worn out boots could set you back more than $2,500.
The merchant’s made the money not the miners.  As the boom continued, more and more men got out of the gold-hunting business and began to open businesses catering to newly arrived prospectors. In fact, some of America’s greatest industrialists got their start in the Gold Rush. Philip Armour, who would later found a meatpacking empire in Chicago, made a fortune operating the sluices that controlled the flow of water into the rivers being mined. Before John Studebaker built one of America’s great automobile fortunes, he manufactured wheelbarrows for Gold Rush miners. And two entrepreneurial bankers named Henry Wells and William Fargo moved west to open an office in San Francisco, an enterprise that soon grew to become one of America’s premier banking institutions. One of the biggest mercantile success stories was that of Levi Strauss. A German-born tailor, Strauss arrived in San Francisco in 1850 with plans to open a store selling canvas tarps and wagon coverings to the miners. After hearing that sturdy work pants, ones that could withstand the punishing 16-hour days regularly put in by miners, were more in demand, he shifted gears, opening a store in downtown San Francisco that would eventually become a manufacturing empire, producing Levi’s denim jeans.
And to prove how fate is fickle - the man who’s name will always be associated with the California Gold Rush - John Sutter - died in poverty.  As news had spread about the discovery of gold on his property, within months, most of his workers had abandoned him to search for gold themselves, while thousands of other prospectors overran and destroyed much of his land and equipment. Faced with mounting debts, Sutter was forced to deed his land to one of his sons, who used it to create a new settlement called Sacramento. Sutter Sr. was furious—he had hoped the town would be named after him—but he had more pressing concerns. Nearly bankrupt, he began a decades-long campaign to have the U.S. government reimburse him for his financial losses, to no avail. While thousands became rich off his former land, a bitter Sutter retired to Pennsylvania and died.
I hope this information is helpful, and will give you some insight of the world during the California Gold Rush.
Some great sources to check out:
Women in the Gold Rush
Summary of Gold Mining Techniques
Articles on the Gold Rush
History Channel’s Gold Rush
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