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9 unusual facts about El Dorado


Apuí

The city was nicknamed Eldorado do Juma after the mythical El Dorado.

Charles Coil

Coil was the regular pulpit minister for churches of Christ in Knobel, Arkansas; La Porte, Indiana; Florence, Alabama; El Dorado, Arkansas; and West Memphis, Arkansas.

El Dorado: A Kansas Recessional

Colonel Josiah Bywaters is the sole remaining inhabitant of El Dorado, a Kansas town by the Solomon River.

Golden Cadillac

This cocktail originated in Poor Red's Bar-B-Q in the town of El Dorado, California.

Helldorado

Helldorado, a nickname for Tombstone, Arizona (and variation of El Dorado) created in the 1880s by a disgruntled miner who wrote a letter to the Tombstone Nugget newspaper complaining about trying to find his fortune and ending up washing dishes

Mangrove oyster

Raleigh's widely-read account of the expedition, which had intended to find El Dorado, the mythical city of gold, included many exaggerated claims about the region.

No Te Pido Flores

The first music video was shot in the Guatavita lagoon (to 16 km from Bogotá) this lagoon was the same that gave rise to the famous leyendo El Dorado.

Roy Schalk

Unfortunately, Schalk hardly found gold in El Dorado: the club finished deep in last place at 38-101.

Union Mine High School

Union Mine High School is a public high school located in El Dorado, California, United States, and is a member of the El Dorado Union High School District.


Diane Nukuri

However, Nukuri-Johnson spoke very little English, so she attended Butler County Community College in El Dorado, Kansas.

Eldorado, Texas

The movie El Dorado, starring John Wayne and Robert Mitchum, takes place in this city during the late 1800s.

Gemsweeper

When working in a museum putting together the pieces of a broken Olmec statue, the statue becomes alive and asks the player and old professor McGuffog to rebuild the mystical city of El Dorado.

Gus Franklin Mutscher

Mutscher married a former Miss America, Donna Axum of El Dorado, Arkansas; the marriage ended in divorce; she remarried and resides with her third husband in Fort Worth.

Michael G. Fitzgerald

Michael G. Fitzgerald (December 19, 1950 – February 14, 2006) a native of El Dorado, Arkansas, was a film historian and author.

New Found World

It covers the Aztec, the Mayan and the Inca civilizations, the Conquistadors, the search for El Dorado, the coming of Christianity, and the struggle for independence of the colonial powers.

Pedro de Ursúa

A fictional version of Ursúa and Aguirre's story is depicted in the Werner Herzog film, Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes and in the Carlos Saura film El Dorado.

The House of Arden

The final episode, in which the children rescue their father from a lost civilization in South America, is reminiscent of the legends of El Dorado and other Cities of Gold.


see also

Buffalo Hill

Buffalo Hill, California, an unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California

Butler College

: For the Durham University college, see Josephine Butler College; for the private liberal arts school in Indianapolis, see Butler University; For the El Dorado, Kansas college, see Butler Community College.

Butler County Community College

Butler Community College, formerly known as Butler County Community College, is based in El Dorado, Kansas.

El Dorado Apartments

Buildings at 1200-1206 Washington Street, Hoboken, New Jersey, known as the El Dorado Apartments

Guyanese literature

The first book written on Guyana, by Sir Walter Raleigh, was The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empyre of Guiana (With a Relation of the Great and Golden Citie of Manoa (Which the Spanyards call El Dorado) and of the Provinces of Emeria, Aromaia, Amapaia, and Other Countries, with Their Riulers, Adjoyning (Robert Robinson: London, 1596).

Hustler Casino

It is owned by Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt through his El Dorado Enterprises holding company.

Jesse Fuller McDonald

Five years later, he formed a partnership with George M. Robinson, and became the owner of several lucrative mines, including the Harvard, Penrose and El Dorado.

John B. Leonard

Chili Bar Bridge, spanning South Fork of American River at State Highway 193, Placerville vicinity, El Dorado, California, 1922

Karina Fabian

Her first assignment was to Signals Intelligence Training in San Angelo, Texas, where she met her future husband, Robert Fabian, a first lieutenant at El Dorado Missile Warning station.

Klein-Venedig

Speyer persevered for a long time in his search for the El Dorado, until at last his progress was arrested by a mighty river, probably the Orinoco, or its confluent, the Apure, and early in 1539 he returned to Coro empty-handed with only 80 ragged and sickly men out of the host he had led forth more than four years before.

Marshall, California

:For the place formerly with this name in El Dorado County, see Lotus, California.

Tatsuhito Senga

When El Dorado closed in 2008, Oosugi and Senga became regular with Michinoku Pro Wrestling, where they wrestle as Yapper Men, a gimmick taken from the anime Yatterman.

Tim Kring

Richard Timothy "Tim" Kring (born July 9, 1957, in El Dorado County, California), is an American screenwriter and television producer, best known for his creation of the drama series Strange World, Crossing Jordan, Heroes, and Touch.