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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 ...
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A year earlier, after the discovery of gold in 1848, the California Herald included a headline calling California the "El Dorado of the United States of America". [4] Shortly before publishing the poem, in a letter to a friend named Frederick W. Thomas dated February 14, 1849, Poe compared his efforts to earn a living from writing with those ...
El Dorado from El Dorado, literally, "the golden one" El Niño from El Niño de la Navidad, literally, "the Christmas child" due to the warming of Pacific waters seemed to warm around Christmas embarcadero from embarcadero a boat dock, from barca "rowboat". embargo from Spanish embargar, to "seize" or "impound" < latin imbarricare. escabeche
El Dorado (Shakira album) (2017) Eldorado (1989), an EP by Neil Young and The Restless; Eldorado, a 2007 album by Stephan Eicher; Eldorado, a 2016 album by Ro James; El Dorado, a 2009 album by 17 Hippies; El Dorado, a 2008 album by James Wilsey; El Dorado, a 1997 soundtrack of Ace Combat 2; El Dorado, a 2020 album by Marcus King
Fair Play (formerly, Fairplay) is an unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California. [1] It is located 4.5 miles (7.2 km) northeast of Aukum, [2] at an elevation of 2329 feet (710 m). [1] Fair Play was a mining town in the 1850s, transitioning to a farming economy by the 1880s. The Fair Play Cemetery remains open and active today. [3]