The 1848 discovery of gold in California set off a frenzied Gold Rush to the state the next year as hopeful prospectors, called “forty-niners,” poured into the state. This massive migration to California transformed the state's landscape and population.
Scientists label Mount Vesuvius as the MOST dangerous volcano.
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Over 100,000 Allied bomber crewmen were killed over Europe. More US servicemen died in the Air Corps that the Marine Corps. In World War II, British soldiers got a ration of three sheets of toilet paper a day. Americans got 22. Only 20% of the males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 survived the war.
