49er or Forty-Niner most often refers to:
*A miner or other person that took part in the 1849
California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California fro ...
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San Francisco 49ers
The San Francisco 49ers (also written as the San Francisco Forty-Niners) are a professional American football team based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The 49ers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the league's National ...
, an American football team
49er or Forty-Niner may also refer to:
Sports
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Charlotte 49ers
The Charlotte 49ers are the college athletics in the United States, intercollegiate athletics teams that represent the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina. The 49ers compete at the National Collegiate Athletic A ...
, athletic teams of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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Long Beach State 49ers
Long Beach State athletics, or simply Beach athletics (previously known as the 49ers), are the athletic teams that represent California State University, Long Beach. Teams compete in 19 sports at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NC ...
, former official and oft-used informal nickname for the athletic teams of California State University, Long Beach
* Yuba 49ers, athletic teams of
Yuba College
Yuba College () is a public community college in Marysville, Yuba County, California. It is part of the Yuba Community College District.
The college district has an extension campus in Yuba City, California. Yuba College is one of two colleges ...
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49er (dinghy)
The 49er and 49er FX is a two-handed skiff-type high-performance sailing dinghy. The two crew work on different roles with the helm making many tactical decisions, as well as steering, and the crew doing most of the sail control. Both of the cr ...
, an Olympic class of racing dinghy
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Forty Niner (horse)
Forty Niner (11 May 1985 – 18 May 2020) was an American champion thoroughbred racehorse and influential stallion.
Background
Forty Niner was sired by Champion sire Mr. Prospector out of the mare File. He was bred and raced by Claiborne Farm.
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, American Thoroughbred racehorse
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TKS 49ers, German basketball team at the southwest border of Berlin
Music
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49ers (band)
49ers were an Italian house and Eurodance act, featuring producers and DJs Gianfranco Bortolotti, Luca Cittadini, Diego Leoni and Pieradis Rossini with vocalist Ann-Marie Smith. They were named after the San Francisco 49ers American football tea ...
, an Italian Italo house and Eurodance project
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''49ers'' (album)
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The 49ers
The 49ers is a hip-hop duo from Newark, Delaware and consists of members Jas Mace and Marchitect. They were also the focal members of another hip-hop group called The Outfit. The 49ers are known for their laid-back, jazzy, and soulful hip-hop ...
, an American hip-hop duo
Film
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''The Forty-Niners'' (1932 film), an American Western film directed by John P. McCarthy
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''The Forty-Niners'' (1954 film), an American Western film directed by Thomas Carr
Other
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49er Fire, a wildfire in September 1988 in the California's Nevada County and Yuba County
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49er flapjack, a sourdough crepe
* UP 49ers, an engineering association in the
University of the Philippines
The University of the Philippines (UP; fil, Pamantasan ng Pilipinas Unibersidad ng Pilipinas) is a state university system in the Philippines. It is the country's national university, as mandated by Republic Act No. 9500 (UP Charter of 200 ...
* ''
Top 10: The Forty-Niners'', a novel by Alan Moore and Gene Ha
* The Forty-Niners, a group of shōjo manga artists also known as the
Year 24 Group
The is a grouping of female manga artists who heavily influenced ''shōjo'' manga (Japanese girls' comics) beginning in the 1970s. While ''shōjo'' manga of the 1950s and 1960s largely consisted of simple stories marketed towards elementary s ...
* "The 49ers", a group of
Cathay Pacific Airways pilots fired on 9 July 2001
* 49er, the lowest initiated rank in a
Triad
* A real ale brewed by the
Ringwood Brewery
Ringwood Brewery is a small brewery on the edge of the New Forest in Hampshire, England, near the Dorset border. It produces mainly cask ales and some bottled beers.
The emblem for the brewery is a boar.
There are records from the early 19th ce ...
with a strength, appropriately, of 4.9%
* A member of the
49th Battalion, CEF
The 49th Battalion (Edmonton Regiment), CEF, was an infantry battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the Great War.
History
The 49th Battalion was authorized on 7 November 1914 and embarked for Great Britain on 3 June 1915. It dise ...
* The ''Forty Niner'' or ''49'er'', a streamliner passenger train between San Francisco and Chicago operated by the
Union Pacific Railroad
The Union Pacific Railroad , legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and often called simply Union Pacific, is a freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Paci ...
* Another name for Arsenal F.C.'s "
Invincibles" who went 49 league games unbeaten
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Miner 2049er
''Miner 2049er'' is a platform game created by Bill Hogue that was released in 1982 by Big Five Software. It was developed for the Atari 8-bit family and widely converted to other systems. The title "Miner 2049er" evokes a 21st-century take on th ...
'', a 1982 video game that reimagined the name
See also
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49 (number)
49 (forty-nine) is the natural number following 48 (number), 48 and preceding 50 (number), 50.
In mathematics
Forty-nine is the square of 7, seven.
It appears in the Padovan sequence, preceded by the terms 21, 28, 37 (it is the sum of the first ...
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Forty-Eighters
The Forty-Eighters were Europeans who participated in or supported the Revolutions of 1848 that swept Europe. In the German Confederation, the Forty-Eighters favoured unification of Germany, a more democratic government, and guarantees of human r ...
, Europeans involved in the revolutions of 1848
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Niner (disambiguation)
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29er (disambiguation) 29er may refer to:
*29er (bicycle), mountain bike built to use 700c or ISO 622 mm wheels
*29er (dinghy), high performance skiff
*"Twenty-niner", Dahlonega, Georgia gold rush goldseeker
See also
* 49er (disambiguation)
* Niner (disambiguation)
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