The San Francisco 49ers National Football League team, and the similarly named athletic teams of California State University, Long Beach, are named for the prospectors of the California Gold Rush.
"This lines their pockets but hurts science," Thomas Carr, the senior scientific adviser at the Dinosaur Discovery Museum and director of the Carthage Institute of Paleontology in Wisconsin, said of the sellers, who include the husband-and-wife owners of the ranch and the prospectors, one of whom calls himself the Dino Cowboy.
From the starving prospectors of "The Gold Rush" to the job-challenged populace of "Modern Times," social awareness became part of his arsenal, while the central relationships in "The Circus" and "City Lights" underline Chaplin's growing skills in characterization.
He also meets the struggling prospectors of the gold-sluicing season; the elderly, dashing king of illegal gold prospecting whose father couldn't take camp life and hammered a nail into his own head – and survived; and Volodya the bulldozer-operator who found mass graves of prisoners.
Thus begins and ends what is arguably Robert Service's most famous poem, The Cremation of Sam McGee, in which the Bard of the Yukon sings of a gold rush prospector of the late 1890s who freezes to death on the lake's shore and of his buddy's endeavor to honour his wish to cremate him.
"Gold fever is a real thing, you know," said Gary Hawley of the Gold Prospectors of the Rockies, a 140-member club in Denver.
He has the religious zeal of a missionary going into foreign territory to "make things better" and the corporate lust of the prospector set on plundering foreign oil reserves.
"There is always a corner of optimism in Johannesburg, the promise of vitality, the prospector's dream".
Critics have noted that the two Moroccan shareholders in the oil project, Moulay Abdellah Aloui, and Mohammed Bensuleiman, are both cousins of the king and under the terms of the contract, the prospectors get 75%% of the profits, Morocco just 25%.The jibe is harsh.
Allen Walker Read, a playful prospector of the American tongue who hunted down the source of words like Dixie and Podunk, phrases like the almighty dollar and, most famous of all, those ubiquitous initials, O.K., died on Wednesday at his home in Manhattan.
