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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 ...
El Dorado is a 1966 American Western film directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Robert Mitchum.Written by Leigh Brackett and loosely based on the novel The Stars in Their Courses by Harry Brown, the film is about a gunfighter who comes to the aid of an old friend who is a drunken sheriff struggling to defend a rancher and his family against another rancher trying to ...
In 2000 "Eldorado" was adapted as song by the Darkwave band Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows on the album Songs from the inverted Womb and again in 2013 on the album Poetica (All Beauty Sleeps). [citation needed] In 1903, the American writer Ridgely Torrence published his drama El Dorado: A Tragedy, with lines from Poe's poem as an ...
Eldorado (subtitled A Symphony by the Electric Light Orchestra) is the fourth studio album by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). It was released in the United States in September 1974 by United Artists Records and in the United Kingdom in October 1974 by Warner Bros. Records .
Joaquin Murrieta Carrillo (sometimes misspelled Murieta or Murietta) (c. 1829 – July 25, 1853), also called the Robin Hood of the West or the Robin Hood of El Dorado, was a Mexican figure of disputed historicity. The novel The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit (1854) by John Rollin Ridge is ostensibly ...
The True Story Behind Apple Cider Vinegar. Olivia B. Waxman. February 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM.
The creators behind the film also have a personal connection to the story: co-writers, Jack Thorne and his wife Rachel Mason, welcomed their son Elliott via IVF, while director Ben Taylor also has ...
The video game Europa Universalis IV has the El Dorado expansion which gives colonizing nations the ability to hunt for the Seven Cities of Gold in the New World. 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 ...