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The Golden Boy (official name: Eternal Youth and the Spirit of Enterprise) [1] [2] is a northward-facing statue perched on the dome of the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Arguably the province's best-known symbol, [ 3 ] the statue was modeled after the Roman god Mercury (Greek: Hermes ) and is meant to represent the ...
El Dorado (Spanish: [el doˈɾaðo], English: / ˌ ɛ l d ə ˈ r ɑː d oʊ /) is a mythical city of gold supposedly located somewhere in South America. The king of this city was said to be so rich that he would cover himself from head to foot in gold dust – either daily or on certain ceremonial occasions – before diving into a sacred lake ...
As the City of Gold crumbles, Gomez and Gaspard are killed trying to hoard gold. Elsewhere, the priest finds the reactor and inserts the jar. In a flash of energy the machine stops, but the priest's fate is uncertain. In the end, the City of Gold is destroyed, but the children still have the Golden Condor.
In the turn-based strategy game Sid Meier's Colonization (1994), scouting lost city ruins (tiles in the map) may result in finding one or more of the Seven Cities of Cibola, granting the player a treasure with a huge amount of gold. The Western genre game Gun centers on a land baron's search for Quivira in the 1880s.
A replica of Keck's 1921 statue in Charlottesville, Virginia. Confederate Soldier: Parkersburg, City Park Leon Hermant, sculptor bronze, granite base July 21, 1908 "CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA IN MEMORY OF OUR CONFEDERATE DEAD, ERECTED BY PARKERSBURG CHAPTER UNITED DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDERACY, 1908" Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson
Cuthbert: Randolph County Confederate Monument, city park (1910). [60] Dalton: Two memorials to CSA Gen. Joseph E. Johnston: Johnson statue (1912) in downtown Dalton. The UDC commissioned Belle Kinney to sculpt the bronze statue, in which Johnston is posed with "an expression of deep thought, with his sword resting at his feet". Kinney ...
Boulton, Watt and Murdoch is a gilded bronze statue depicting Matthew Boulton, James Watt, and William Murdoch by William Bloye, assisted by Raymond Forbes Kings. It stands on a plinth of Portland stone in Centenary Square, Birmingham and marks the contribution these individuals made to the development of the steam engine and hence the start of ...
Kraka – Chief of the city of the High Peak. Kiyun – An Inca prisoner in Pizarro's Fort. Luca and Shicomi – Two children of the High Peak who befriend Esteban, Zia and Tao. Myuca – An old story teller who knows many Inca legends. Pasha – Once a High Priest of the Cities of Gold, Pasha is imprisoned in his own temple by Pizarro.