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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 Gold Dust Twins radio show of the decade of the 1920s was an innovative marketing tool for the Gold Dust product line. The program was sponsored by Lever Brothers and Gold Dust washing powder . The program featured comedians Harvey Hindemeyer (as "Goldie"), and Earle Tuckerman (as "Dusty"), who performed their comedic skits in blackface ...
In this ritual, the new chief , who was aboard a raft and covered with gold dust, tossed gold objects into the lake as offerings to the gods, before immersing himself into the lake. The figure was created between 1295 and 1410 AD by lost-wax casting in an alloy of gold with silver and copper .
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
Fairbank's Gold Dust washing products was a line of all-purpose cleaning agents researched and developed by the N. K. Fairbank Manufacturing Company. First introduced to the American consumer in 1889, Gold Dust Washing Powder became a success due in large part to its low selling price and bright, eye-catching packaging.
Gold Dust (elephant) (1873–1898), male Asian elephant that was kept in the National Zoo in the late 19th century Gold dust day gecko, a subspecies of geckos which lives in northern Madagascar and on the Comoros
Gold Dust is a twice-yearly literary arts magazine, founded by Omma Velada in 2004, [1] which publishes poetry, short fiction, artwork, short stories, poetry and play collections, organises literary competitions and runs live events consisting of poetry and prose readings, drama performances and live music.
"The gold-dust robbery of 1839, the first of its kind, was cleverly and carefully planned with the assistance of a dishonest employee. A young man named Caspar [Lewin Casper], clerk to a steam-ship company, learnt through the firm's correspondence that a quantity of gold-dust brought in a man-of-war from Brazil had been transhipped at Falmouth ...