Gold Mountain
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"To conceive of a golden mountain, for instance ,we combine, it is said, the conception of gold, and the conception of a mountain; and the power by which we are enabled to do this, is called Imagination."--Elements of mental and moral science (1828) by George Payne "Every man that can form an image of gold, and an image of a mountain, can also, whenever he hears of a golden mountain, form the image of it in bis brain."--Faith No Fancy (1805) by Ralph Erskine |
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Gold Mountain and similar may refer to
- Gold Mountain (toponym), a calque nickname referring to a settlement with a surge of Chinese population caused by a gold rush
- Gold Mountain (Washington), a mountain in Kitsap County, Washington
- Gold Mountain, California, a community in California
- Gold Mountain Range, a mountain range in Nevada
- Gold Mountain Records, a record label
- New Gold Mountain, a calque nickname for Australia or Melbourne
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See also
- Kingsoft, a Chinese software company whose Chinese name means "Gold Mountain"
- 金山 (disambiguation), Chinese source for the calque
- Gold
- Mountain
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