Crossword clues for el dorado
The Collaborative International Dictionary
El Dorado \El` Do*ra"do\, pl. El Doradoes. [Sp., lit., the gilt (sc. land); el the + dorado gilt, p. p. of dorare to gild. Cf. Dorado.]
A name given by the Spaniards in the 16th century to an imaginary country in the interior of South America, reputed to abound in gold and precious stones.
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Any region of fabulous wealth; exceeding richness.
The whole comedy is a sort of El Dorado of wit.
--T. Moore.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 9891
Land area (2000): 16.269927 sq. miles (42.138915 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.052032 sq. miles (0.134761 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 16.321959 sq. miles (42.273676 sq. km)
FIPS code: 21070
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 33.213521 N, 92.662553 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 71730
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
El Dorado
Housing Units (2000): 5460
Land area (2000): 6.365517 sq. miles (16.486613 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.057597 sq. miles (0.149176 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.423114 sq. miles (16.635789 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20075
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 37.821117 N, 96.858281 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 67042
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Headwords:
El Dorado
Housing Units (2000): 71278
Land area (2000): 1710.847027 sq. miles (4431.073269 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 77.249587 sq. miles (200.075503 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1788.096614 sq. miles (4631.148772 sq. km)
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 38.768651 N, 120.571902 W
Headwords:
El Dorado, CA
El Dorado County
El Dorado County, CA
Wikipedia
El Dorado (, ; Spanish for "the golden one"), originally El Hombre Dorado (the golden man), El Indio Dorado (the golden Indian), or El Rey Dorado (the golden king), is the term used by Europeans to describe a mythical tribal chief (zipa) of the Muisca native people of Colombia, who, as an initiation rite, covered himself with gold dust and submerged in Lake Guatavita. The legends surrounding El Dorado changed over time, as it went from being a man, to a city, to a kingdom, and then finally an empire.
A second location for El Dorado was inferred from rumors, which inspired several unsuccessful expeditions in the late 1500s in search of a city called Manõa on the shores of Lake Parime. The most famous of these expeditions were led by Sir Walter Raleigh. In pursuit of the legend, Spanish conquistadors and numerous others searched Colombia, Venezuela, and parts of Guyana and northern Brazil for the city and its fabulous king. In the course of these explorations, much of northern South America, including the Amazon River, was mapped. By the beginning of the 19th century most people dismissed the existence of the city as a myth.
El Dorado is a 1966 American Western film produced and directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Robert Mitchum. Written by Leigh Brackett and loosely based on the novel The Stars in Their Courses by Harry Brown, the film is about a gunfighter who comes to the aid of an old friend—a drunken sheriff struggling to defend a rancher and his family against another rancher trying to steal their water. The gunfighter and drunken sheriff are helped by an aging Indian fighter and a young gambler. The supporting cast features James Caan as the young gambler, Charlene Holt, Ed Asner, Paul Fix, Arthur Hunnicutt, Michele Carey, and Christopher George.
El Dorado was filmed on location in Tucson, Arizona and Kanab, Utah, and was shot in Technicolor. The paintings in the credits are by Olaf Wieghorst, who plays Swede Larsen in the film. The musical score was composed by Nelson Riddle. Paramount Pictures delayed the release of the film in the United States to avoid competing against another Paramount film, Nevada Smith with Steve McQueen. The film was first released in Japan on December 17, 1966, and was finally released in the United States on June 7, 1967. The film received critical praise and was successful at the box office, generating North American rentals of $5,950,000 on box-office receipts of $12 million.
El Dorado is the second of three films directed by Hawks about a sheriff defending his office against belligerent outlaw elements in the town, after Rio Bravo (1959) and before Rio Lobo (1970), both also starring Wayne. The plotlines of all three films are almost similar enough to qualify El Dorado and Rio Lobo as remakes.
Members of the Western Writers of America chose the film's theme as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
El Dorado is a Hispanic superhero featured in various incarnations of the Super Friends animated television series. He was voiced by Mexican actor Fernando Escandon.
El Dorado is the term used to refer to the era in the Colombia football league from 1949 to 1954, when the league broke away from FIFA.
The DIMAYOR, the organizer of the league, broke away from FIFA after a dispute with Adefútbol, the existing amateur football authority in Colombia. Therefore, all Colombian teams were suspended from playing international football. The Colombian national team was also under sanction. However, FIFA sanction did not hurt the league; instead, the Colombian league reached its golden era during the period.
El Dorado is a 1988 Spanish film written and directed by Carlos Saura. It was entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.
El Dorado was a Japanese visual kei rock band formed in January 1999 with members Kaede, Shunsuke, Shoki, Yuu and Ruli.
El Dorado is a French silent film directed in 1921 by Marcel L'Herbier. The film was notable for integrating a number of technical innovations into its narrative of a "cinematic melodrama". It achieved considerable success on its release, as a ground-breaking film that was distinctively French at a time when the cinema was felt to be dominated by American productions.
"El Dorado" is the second track from English heavy metal band Iron Maiden's 2010 album The Final Frontier. The song is the band's forty-first single, and the only one from the album. It was made available as a free download on the band's official site at 00:01 on 8 June 2010 (UTC), one day before the album's supporting tour began. The cover art was created by Anthony Dry and is based on the covers of the EC Comics published by William Gaines that were popular in the 1950s. Regarding the early online release of the song, vocalist Bruce Dickinson explained, "El Dorado is a preview of the forthcoming studio album. As we will be including it in the set of our Final Frontier World Tour, we thought it would be great to thank all our fans and get them into The Final Frontier mood by giving them this song up front of the tour and album release."
Dickinson explained that the lyrics are a cynical critique of the financial crisis of 2007–08, comparing the bankers responsible with the people who sold the myth of El Dorado:
[El Dorado] has a cynical lyric about the economic crap that's been happening. It seemed a bit like a perfect storm; people were borrowing money like crazy. I thought, "This is really going to screw people up" and sure enough, we're all in deep doo-doo! And that's what El Dorado is about, it's about selling somebody the myth that "The streets are paved with gold" and them asking, "Where do I sign up?"
"El Dorado" won the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 2011. It is the band's first win following two previous nominations (" Fear of the Dark" in 1994 and " The Wicker Man" in 2001).
The song's guitar solo, which lasts from about 3:42 to 4:23, is a trade-off divided into three parts; the first is played by Adrian Smith (3:42-3:53), the second by Dave Murray (3:53-4:06), and the third, which segues into the verse riff again, by Janick Gers (4:06-4:23).
El Dorado is a 1963 film directed by Menahem Golan. The script was co-written by him, Leo Filler, and Amatsia Hiuni, based on the play by Yigal Mosenzon.
El Dorado is a mythical city of gold.
El Dorado or Eldorado may also refer to:
Usage examples of "el dorado".
That's why I have introduced a virus into the central computer of the El Dorado, which I've just triggered,".
From AP-5, it ran through four more nexi, the last of which was El Dorado with its broken string-light closed-warp connection to Home Hive One .
It doesn't risk lives sending ships into God knows what, and, more important, we may get a glimpse of another El Dorado without alerting the local Bugs.
And he said, 1 introduced a virus into the central computer of the El Dorado, which I've just triggered,' and he tapped his belt buckle, 'with this.
Mentioned by O'Meara as the true sex of the famous golden statue that is the most sought after piece of the El Dorado treasure.
It came from a book Perlmutter could recall reading on the Amazon River, published in 1939 by journalist/explorer Nicholas Bender, who followed the routes of the early explorers in search of El Dorado.
I believe he was just twenty-five when he wrote On the Trail of El Dorado.