Word: golds
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Finally, the Ireland of today is not the stereotypical Ireland of perfectly thatched homes, leprechauns, fairies and gold at the end of the rainbow. Nor is it the dank, gloomy and oppressive place that some writers portray. Rather, this "Celtic Tiger" is rearing its head and roaring at long last with an economic growth. It is a nation that takes ancient forms and smartly and beautifully updates them to light the end of the 20th century. It is a nation that, in the North, is finally nearing a peaceful resolution to hundreds of years of conflict with the descendants...
...Museveni's generosity hasn't stopped him from exporting more Congolese gold last year than any other nation in the region--trade he swears was legitimate. Congo's civil war has destroyed what was once a promising personal alliance between Kabila and Museveni, men who seemed to embody a new kind of progressive African leadership. "Museveni is a nigger like Mobutu," Kabila says of his onetime ally. "He's an exploiter." Says Museveni: "Kabila was always weak, but I didn't know he would also be so treacherous...
...Bookstore, offers an alternative theory. Clemens used to order his whiskey two shots at a time in Virginia City, telling the bartender to put it on his tab: "Mark me for twain [two]." Twain wrote for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise in the early 1860s, chronicling the town's gold- and silver-fueled rise. His recollections of that time also appear in his autobiographical Roughing It. The population has dwindled from 28,000 to 800, but the town remains lively. Families can stay at one of several 19th century hotels and tour the museums commemorating Twain and the strike...
Little may remain of the gold that drew thousands of dreamers and schemers to the American Wild West, but there's a mother lode of adventure to be mined out there. Many of the old towns are alive and well, still surrounded by soaring forests and roaring rivers--and mapped for all posterity by the likes of John Muir, Mark Twain and other great 19th century writers...
Muir was a serious student of natural science, but his contemporary Mark Twain was a class comedian whose best subject was human nature. Twain tried his luck at mining in the little gold town of Angels Camp, a 2 1/2-hour drive east of Martinez; a replica of his one-room shack sits on top of Jackass Hill. His comical tale of a compulsive bettor, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, made Twain a household name and inspired an annual Jumping Frog Jubilee, held the third weekend in May in Angels Camp. Current world record...