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Q: How many people found nuggets of gold during the California gold rush of 1848 and 1849?
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Date: 2008-08-09 12:13 pm (UTC)
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The word, from Australian English, didn't come into the language until the Australian gold rush of the early 1850s. It was in print by 1851. Via Answers.com Word o' the Day.
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