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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Tarzan and the City of Gold is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the sixteenth in his series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. The novel was originally serialized in the magazine Argosy from March through April 1932.
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
City of Gold, a collection of Old Testament stories retold for children by Peter Dickinson; City of Gold, a spy thriller by Len Deighton; City of Gold: A biography of Bombay by Gillian Tindall; The City of Gold and Lead, a novel in the Tripods series by John Christopher
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.