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  "id": 2401694,
  "title": "When a Carpenter in California Found a Nugget of Gold, It Started a Rush Toward the Nothing Less Than the Modern World",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/when-a-carpenter-in-california-found-a-nugget-of-gold-it-started-a",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-21T11:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Smithsonian",
    "slug": "smithsonian",
    "url": "https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-carpenter-california-found-nugget-gold-started-rush-toward-nothing-less-modern-world-180989283/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "A new book by historian Nathaniel Philbrick makes the case that the James Marshall’s 1848 discovery set in motion events from the Civil War to the rise of Silicon Valley",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}