49er
49er or Forty-Niner is a nickname for a miner or other person that took part in the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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49er or Forty-Niner may also refer to:
Sports
- San Francisco 49ers, American football team, named for the California Gold Rush prospectors and based in Santa Clara, CA.
- Charlotte 49ers, athletic teams of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Long Beach State 49ers, former official and oft-used informal nickname for the athletic teams of California State University, Long Beach
- Yuba 49ers, athletic teams of Yuba College
- 49er (dinghy), an Olympic class of racing dinghy
- Forty Niner (horse), American Thoroughbred racehorse
- TKS 49ers, German basketball team at the southwest border of Berlin
Music
- 49ers (band), an Italian Italo house and Eurodance project
- 49ers (album)
- The 49ers, an American hip-hop duo
Other
- 49er flapjack, a sourdough crepe
- UP 49ers, an engineering association in the University of the Philippines
- 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 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 with a strength, appropriately, of 4.9%
- A member of the 49th Battalion, CEF
- The Forty Niner or 49'er, a streamliner passenger train between San Francisco and Chicago operated by the Union Pacific Railroad
- Another name for Arsenal F.C.'s "Invincibles" who went 49 league games unbeaten
- Miner 2049er, a 1982 video game that reimagined the name
See also
- 49 (number)
- Forty-Eighters, Europeans involved in the revolutions of 1848
- Niner (disambiguation)
- 29er (disambiguation)
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