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El Dorado is a 1966 American Western film directed and produced 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 who is a drunken sheriff struggling to defend a rancher and his family against another rancher trying to ...
Antonio de Berrío. Walter Raleigh. Raleigh's El Dorado expedition, also known as Raleigh's first voyage to Guiana, was an English military and exploratory expedition led by Sir Walter Raleigh that took place during the Anglo-Spanish War in 1595. [ 1] The expedition set out in February 1595 to explore the Orinoco River on the northeast tip of ...
3rd, 5th. Website. www.edcgov.us. El Dorado County ( / ˌɛl dəˈrɑːdoʊ / ⓘ; El Dorado, Spanish for "The Golden [one]"), officially the County of El Dorado, is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 191,185. [ 5] The county seat is Placerville. [ 6]
Originally, El Hombre Dorado ("The Golden Man") or El Rey Dorado ("The Golden King"), was the term used by the Spanish in the 16th century to describe a mythical tribal chief ( zipa) or king of the Muisca people, an indigenous people of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense of Colombia, who as an initiation rite, covered himself with gold dust and ...
El Dorado ( / ˌɛldəˈreɪdoʊ / [ 7] EL-də-RAY-doh) is a city in and the county seat of Butler County, Kansas, United States. [ 1] It is situated along the Walnut River in the central part of Butler County and located in south-central Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 12,870. [ 5][ 6] It is home to Butler ...
The Road to El Dorado. The Road to El Dorado is a 2000 animated musical adventure comedy film [ 2] directed by Eric "Bibo" Bergeron and Don Paul (in their feature directorial debuts ), from a screenplay by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, as well as additional sequences directed by Will Finn and David Silverman. Starring the voices of Kevin Kline ...
Raycom Media, Inc. was an American television broadcasting company based in Montgomery, Alabama. Raycom owned and/or provided services for 65 television stations and two radio stations across 44 markets in 20 states. Raycom, through its Community Newspaper Holdings subsidiary, also owned multiple newspapers in small and medium-sized markets ...
El Dorado is an American Viticultural Area (AVA) located in El Dorado County, California , east of the state’s capital, Sacramento and centered around the county seat of Placerville. It was established on November 14, 1983 by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Treasury after approving the submitted petition from ...