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El Dorado
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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El Dorado the name of a fictitious country or city abounding in gold, formerly believed to exist somewhere in the region of the Orinoco and Amazon Rivers; the name is first recorded in English in the title of Raleigh's
Discoverie of Guiana, with a relation of the Great and Golden City of Manoa (which the Spanish call El Dorado) (1596).
The belief, which led Spanish conquistadors to converge on the area in search of treasure and Sir Walter Raleigh to lead his second expedition up the Orinoco, appears to have originated in rumours of an Indian ruler who ritually coated his body with gold dust and then plunged into a sacred lake while his subjects threw in gold and jewels. The name comes from Spanish, and means literally ‘the gilded one’.
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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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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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El Dorado Molds eyeing additional equipment.(Special Report)
Magazine article from: Plastics News; 6/6/2005; ; 700+ words
; Byline: Roger Renstrom El Dorado Molds Inc. is exploring more equipment...Bob Brewer, owner and president of El Dorado and sister company Northern California...Cordova, Calif. In early 2004, El Dorado Molds began operating the VCP 1000...
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El Dorado promise.(Editorial)
Magazine article from: Arkansas Business; 1/29/2007; 700+ words
; ...NEWS IS good news? The news out of El Dorado last week was beyond simply good...college enrollment for every product of El Dorado High School for the next 20 years...children fortunate enough to live in El Dorado is obvious and may even be calculable...
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Reviving the boom: El Dorado's revitalized downtown has 96 percent occupancy rate. (commercial buildings) (Across Arkansas)
Magazine article from: Arkansas Business; 3/29/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...Elizabeth and Mike Eggleston of El Dorado made a major move. The two business...Baths, from a proven location to El Dorado's downtown square. Why was the...many downtowns across the state. El Dorado was no exception. The oil town had...
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El Dorado Ventures Names Larry Abramson ''Entrepreneur of the Year''; Former CEO of Appshop Honored for Leading Company to Profitability.
Business Wire; 2/14/2005; 700+ words
; MENLO PARK, Calif. -- El Dorado Ventures, an entrepreneur-focused...named Larry Abramson the winner of El Dorado Ventures' 2004 Entrepreneur of the Year Award. El Dorado Ventures (EDV) proudly partners...
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El Dorado County, Calif., Wineries Seek Recognition, Sales.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 10/3/2001; 700+ words
; ...Tribune Business News Oct. 3--El Dorado County is not Napa Valley when it...earliest vineyards were planted in El Dorado County during the Gold Rush, and...wine a year to more than a million. El Dorado County, however, wouldn't mind...
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Pacific Rim Mining Clarifies Recent News on Santa Rita and El Dorado Drill Programs
Newspaper article from: CCNMatthews Newswire; 12/14/2006; 700+ words
; ...and has no impact on its flagship El Dorado gold project where the Company...three new gold discoveries on the El Dorado project (see news releases #06...conduct a drill program on its south El Dorado project claims, and will utilize...
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Pacific Rim Mining Corp.: Balsamo Discovery Continues to Yield Bonanza Gold Grades; Drill Permit Granted for South El Dorado Claim
Newspaper article from: CCNMatthews Newswire; 12/13/2006; 700+ words
; ...TSX:PMU)(AMEX:PMU) El Dorado gold project in El Salvador has yielded...discoveries the Company has made on the El Dorado gold project over the past 3 months...sedar.com for details of the El Dorado resource and reserve calculations...
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El Dorado
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
El Dorado [Span.,=the gilded man], legendary...cent. a series of adventurers searched for El Dorado and its fabulous variants—Omagua...Cinnamon, or the golden land of Manoa. El Dorado passed into European literature and found...
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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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Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...story concerns the search of Spanish conquistadors for El Dorado in the jungles of South America. The journey is made...narration which intermittently comments on events. But El Dorado—the goal of the journey, purpose of the expedition...
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Powell, John
Book article from: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
...Horror Films, best music, 2001, both for The Road to El Dorado; Film and Television Music Award (with Gregson–...DreamWorks SKG, 2000. (With Zimmer) The Road to El Dorado (animated), DreamWorks SKG, 2000. Evolution, DreamWorks...
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