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The richness of the Treasure Valley, high in the mountains of Stiria or Styria, southeastern Austria, is lost through the evil of its owners, the two elder "Black Brothers", Hans and Schwartz, who in their foolishness mistreat Southwest Wind, Esquire, who in turn floods their valley, washing away their assets, and turning their valley into a dead valley of red sand.
Black Gold (Nina Simone album), 1970; Black Gold (Kutt Calhoun album), 2013; Black Gold: The Best of Soul Asylum; Black Gold: Best of Editors "Black Gold" (song), a 1993 song by Soul Asylum from Grave Dancer's Union "Black Gold", a 1997 song by Millencolin from For Monkeys "Black Gold", a 2005 song by Running Wild from Rogues en Vogue
Black Gold is a 1947 American drama western film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Anthony Quinn, Katherine DeMille and Raymond Hatton. [1] It was the first Monogram Pictures film released under the Allied Artists banner and had the highest budget in Monogram's history at the time. [2] It was also the first leading role for Anthony Quinn. [3]
According to the History Channel, the name was first used to describe an 1869 financial crisis, in which corruption and stock fraud caused the U.S. gold market to collapse entirely.
By 1961, the day of chaos was called "Black Friday," though retailers and business owners fought to officially change it to "Big Friday." It wasn't until the mid-to-late '80s that the day became ...
Asterix and the Black Gold (French: L'Odyssée d'Astérix literally "Asterix's Odyssey") is the twenty-sixth volume of Asterix comic book series, originally published in 1981. It is the second book to be both written and drawn by Albert Uderzo. [1] [2] [3] The book describes Asterix's and Obelix's voyage to the Middle East.
The term Golden Age comes from Greek mythology, particularly the Works and Days of Hesiod, and is part of the description of temporal decline of the state of peoples through five Ages, Gold being the first and the one during which the Golden Race of humanity (Greek: χρύσεον γένος chrýseon génos) [1] lived.
Hepatizon (Greek etymology: ἧπαρ, English translation: "liver"), also known as black Corinthian bronze, was a highly valuable metal alloy in classical antiquity.It is thought to be an alloy of copper with the addition of a small proportion of gold and silver (perhaps as little as 8% of each), mixed and treated to produce a material with a dark purplish patina, similar to the colour of liver.