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Encyclopedia > Gabriel Read

Gabriel Read was an Australian gold prospector who, after working on the goldfields of California and Victoria, Australia travelled to New Zealand. On May 20, 1861, he discovered gold close to the banks of the Tuapeka River in Otago, at Gabriel's Gully, which is named after him. This discovery led to the Central Otago goldrush.


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Africans in America/Part 3/Gabriel's Conspiracy (1618 words)
Gabriel was born in 1776, on Thomas Prosser's tobacco plantation in Henrico County, Virginia.
Gabriel was unusually intelligent, and unusually large; by the age of 20 he was six feet, two or three inches tall, and was enormously strong from his years of smithing.
Gabriel experienced several strong influences: the rhetoric of the American Revolution; the uprising in Saint Domingue, the radical words of white artisans who championed the working class; the success exhibited by free fls; his own hatred of the merchants who routinely cheated the slaves they hired; his desire to be free and to prosper.
Comedy Central: Comedians: Gabriel Iglesias (369 words)
Gabriel Iglesias was born in San Diego July 15th 1976.
By the age of eight, Gabriel and his mother were on their own and making a fresh start in the city of Long Beach.
Gabriel's style of comedy is a mixture of story telling with characters and sound effects that bring his issues to life.
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