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El Dorado
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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1995
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© The Oxford Companion to American Literature 1995, originally published by Oxford University Press 1995. (Hide copyright information)
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El Dorado (Spanish, “The Gilded Man”), mythical land of great wealth sought by explorers including Pizarro, Raleigh, Cabeza de Vaca, and Coronado. The legend may derive from a custom of the Chibcha Indians of Colombia, who anointed their chief, rolled him in gold, and washed him in a lake into which they threw gold and jewels, but it was attributed to many tribes, including Zuñi. Bandelier's
The Gilded Man (1893) deals with the legend. The name was associated with the California gold rush, e.g. works as different as Bayard Taylor's
Eldorado, a travel account, and Poe's
Eldorado, a symbolic poem written in 1849 about a knight who learns that the true Eldorado is not of this earth but is a wealth beyond the mundane.
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El Dorado Hospital will close Aug. 18; Jan. reopening likely.
Newspaper article from: AZ Daily Star (Tucson, AZ); 8/5/2006; 700+ words
; ...Byline: Jane Erikson Aug. 5--El Dorado Hospital will close in two weeks...Center, said in May it would close El Dorado by the end of the year. But on Friday the parent organization said El Dorado will close Aug. 18, to make it...
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FERC ISSUES ORDER TO EL DORADO ENERGY AUTHORIZING DISPOSITION OF JURISDICTIONAL FACILITIES, ACQUISITION OF GENERATION FACILITY
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 2/7/2008; 700+ words
; ...Sempra Energy Power I Docket No. EC08-24-000 El Dorado Energy, LLC EC08-24-001 San Diego Gas &...2008, Sempra Energy Power I (Sempra Power), El Dorado Energy, LLC (El Dorado), and San Diego Gas & Electric Company...
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SENS. PRYOR, LINCOLN HONOR RECIPIENTS OF EL DORADO PROMISE PROGRAM
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 5/2/2008; 700+ words
; ...resolution honoring recipients of the El Dorado Promisescholarship passed the Senate...leaders with a quality education. The El Dorado Promise is a quality investment in...Whereas the 2000 Census determined that El Dorado, Arkansas, had a significantly...
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LSB Industries Inc. acquires all stock of El Dorado Chemical Co.
PR Newswire; 11/29/1984; 700+ words
; ...acquired 100 percent of the stock of El Dorado Chemical Co. under the terms of previously announced option agreements. El Dorado is a manufacturer of sulfuric acid...plant located in on 1,400 acres in El Dorado, Ark. El Dorado also has 24 sales...
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Sen. Pryor Introduces Resolution Concerning Recipients of El Dorado Promise Scholarship
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 5/5/2008; 616 words
; ...honoring the recipients of the El Dorado Promise scholarship." The resolution...545Honoring the recipients of the El Dorado Promise scholarship. Whereas the...United States Census determined that El Dorado, Arkansas, had a significantly...
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El Dorado downtown offers model.(flourishing )
Magazine article from: Arkansas Business; 2/21/2005; ; 700+ words
; IN THE 1960S, EL DORADO WAS no different than most towns in Arkansas...larger parking lots could be built. El Dorado could have become like so many other...remain mostly empty to this day. But El Dorado had an unlikely savior. As a result...
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HSU WILL MATCH EL DORADO PROMISE SCHOLARSHIPS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 2/5/2007; 700+ words
; ...congratulates Murphy Oil Corp. for its El Dorado Promise scholarship program. In...private money invested to give all El Dorado students the opportunity to pursue...living expenses. For example, if an El Dorado senior receives a full Promise Scholarship...
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El Dorado County, Calif., Water District Hopes Court Win Upheld.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 8/10/2003; 700+ words
; ...summer wildfire over the grasslands of El Dorado Hills. But this kind of fire doesn...could disappear in a few years if El Dorado County can't secure more water...population. As of December, the El Dorado Irrigation District had only enough...
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In El Dorado's wine country, they're blending a new tradition. (California)
Magazine article from: Sunset; 5/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...miners headed to the goldfields of El Dorado County to sluice the stream gravel...gold. Today's visitors seek out El Dorado in pursuit of another kind of gold...regions. A century and more ago, El Dorado County was one of California's...
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Streetscape strategy boosts youth at El Dorado: larger stores drive sales increases for Miami giant. (Up Close: Cover Story).
Magazine article from: Home Textiles Today; 4/7/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...this voyage, on board a boat called El Dorado (which translates in English to...just over $18,000; by 2002, El Dorado had seen sales of $126 million. Today, El Dorado remains very much a family business...
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El Dorado
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
El Dorado The legend of El Dorado was about a fabulously wealthy city of gold and the king who ruled...the lake as an offering to the gods. The Spanish called the king El Dorado—The Gilded One—because his body was gilded...
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CITGO Petroleum Corporation
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...quantities of oil in the town of El Dorado. Doherty was not slow to realize...Empire Gas & Fuel, to take over El Dorado operations. By 1917 Empire had over...The discovery and expansion of the El Dorado oil fields could not have come at...
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Hunt, Haroldson Lafayette, Jr. 1889-1974
Book article from: American Decades
...gambling parlor in the boomtown of El Dorado, about seventy miles west of Lake Village. El Dorado was an oil town, filled with wildcatters...also developed two families, one in El Dorado and one in Shreveport, Louisiana...
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Brackett, Leigh
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Douglas) 1962 Hatari! (Hawks) 1967 El Dorado (Hawks) 1970 Rio Lobo (Hawks...about Leigh Brackett's work on El Dorado in the book Hawks on Hawks, director...together (Rio Bravo, Hatari!, El Dorado, Rio Lobo ), John Wayne was that...
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Aterciopelados
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...With their second album, 1995’s El Dorado, Aterciopelados had their first notable success...Andrea Echeverri, 1990; released first album, El Corazon en La Mano, 1993; released El Dorado and the popular single “Bolero Falaz...
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