He had not yet undertaken the great exploit of his later years, the rediscovery of the ancient Inca highway, the route of Pizarro in Peru, but he had climbed to the original El Dorado, the Andean lake of Guatemala, and he had scaled the southern Sierra Nevada with its Tibetan-like people and looked into the emerald mines of Muzo.

Andy invented a job to keep him busy, sending him ahead to El Dorado to supervise last minute arrangements.

El Dorado was surrounded by a mob.

Bonner explained that, with the nightclub's cooperation, the police had occupied El Dorado like a battlefield.

In 1986, U. S. President Ronald Reagan ( who survived an assassination attempt himself ) ordered the Operation El Dorado Canyon air raid on Libya in which one of the primary targets was the home residence of Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi.

Avianca Boeing 767-200ER parked at the El Dorado Terminal

Bogotá's El Dorado International Airport handles 350 million metric tons of cargo and 8 million passengers a year, making it the largest airport in Latin America in terms of cargo and the third largest in passenger numbers.

This old Muisca tradition became the origin of the El Dorado legend.

* Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ( 2008 ) introduces thirteen " extra dimensional beings " with crystal skeletons, who founded a city that became the basis of the El Dorado myth.

In 1967 Hawks made El Dorado, starring Wayne, Robert Mitchum and James Caan.

* 1536 – Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali.

* 1853 – Joaquin Murrieta, the famous Californio bandit known as " Robin Hood of El Dorado ", is killed.

Adams was the first composer to have earned the latter award three times, having previously won the award for El Dorado ( 1998 ) and Nixon in China ( 1989 ).

* ( 1991 ) El Dorado

* Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Composition for El Dorado ( 1998 )

On 14 April 1986, the United States carried out Operation El Dorado Canyon against Gaddafi and members of his regime.

Some cities which are considered lost are ( or may be ) places of legend such as the Arthurian Camelot, Russian Kitezh, Lyonesse, Ys, the Seven Cities of Gold, Shambhala, El Dorado, and Atlantis.

In the animated television series The Mysterious Cities of Gold, which chronicles the adventures of a Spanish boy and his companions traveling throughout South America in 1532 to seek the lost city of El Dorado, a woman called " Marinche " becomes a dangerous adversary.

Although he had found no El Dorado to equal those of Hernán Cortés in Mexico and Francisco Pizarro in Peru, he was loved by his people, who lamented his passing.

In 1530 Antonio Sedeño was granted a contract to settle Trinidad and Tobago, with an eye toward discovering El Dorado and controlling the trade in slaves.

The Loss of El Dorado, Andre Deutsch, London.

Sedalia, Missouri, all the way south to El Dorado Springs, Missouri, is blanketed with ground burst nuclear weapons.

* April 15 – Operation El Dorado Canyon: At least 15 people die after United States planes bomb targets in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and the Benghazi region

** Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer of the New World, is released from prison in the Tower of London in order to conduct a second, ill-fated expedition in search of El Dorado in South America.

Category: History of El Dorado County, California

This command included the Battle of El Alamein, a turning point in the Western Desert Campaign.

He had stabilised the Allied position at the First Battle of El Alamein, but after a visit in August 1942, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, replaced him as C-in-C with Alexander and William Gott as commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert.

About half of El Niño events persist sufficiently into the spring months for the Western Hemisphere Warm Pool ( WHWP ) to become unusually large in summer.

Western beaches, such as those around El Cotillo, can experience strong surf.

Nevertheless, drought conditions do occur periodically throughout FSM, especially when the El Niño condition moves into the Western Pacific, when groundwater supplies can dwindle to emergency proportions.

The First Battle of El Alamein ( 1 – 27 July 1942 ) was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought between Axis forces ( Germany and Italy ) of the Panzer Army Africa ( Panzerarmee Afrika ) commanded by Field Marshal ( Generalfeldmarschall ) Erwin Rommel, and Allied ( specifically, British Imperial ) forces ( Britain, British India, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand ) of the British Eighth Army commanded by General Claude Auchinleck.

El Rey Inn | El Rey Court boasted American Automobile Association | AAA, Duncan Hines and Best Western | The Best Western Motels approval.

On the military front, on 26 December 1925 Italian troops finally overran El Buur, and the forces of Omar Samatar were compelled to retreat to Western Somaliland.

Thus, the Fifth Division was at Al-Ubayyid in Kurdufan ( Central Command ), the Second Division was at Khashm El Girba ( Eastern Command ), the Sixth Division was assigned to Al-Fashir in Darfur ( Western Command ), the First Division was at Juba ( Southern Command ), and the Seventh Division was at As Shajarah just south of Khartoum ( Khartoum Command ).

In 1958, the Moroccan King Mohammed V in an address at El Ghizlan called for a renewal of the " everlasting allegiance " that some Saharan tribes had pledged to Moulay Hassan I and promised that Morocco would mobilise itself to see the Western Sahara brought under Moroccan rule.

Bou Craa phosphate mine 100 kilometers ( about 60 miles ) from the coastal city of El Aaiún, Western Sahara.

Thus a better understanding of the possible links between El Niño, Western Pacific Warm Pool, Indonesian Throughflow, wind pattern off western Australia, and ice volume expansion and contraction can be obtained by studying the behaviour of the LC during Quaternary at close stratigraphic intervals.

: Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum refers to a makeshift 1960s and 1970s genre called the acid Western, associated with Dennis Hopper, Jim McBride, and Rudy Wurlitzer, as well as films like Monte Hellman's The Shooting, Alejandro Jodorowsky's bizarre experimental film El Topo ( The Mole ), and Robert Downey Sr .' s Greaser's Palace.

The 1970 film El Topo is an allegorical cult Western and underground film about the eponymous character, a violent black-clad gunfighter, and his quest for enlightenment.

It has contributed to United Nations peacekeeping operations worldwide, with Argentine soldiers / engineers and police / Gendarmerie serving in El Salvador – Honduras – Nicaragua ( where Navy patrol boats painted white were deployed ), Guatemala, Ecuador – Peru, Western Sahara, Angola, Kuwait, Cyprus, Croatia, Kosovo, Bosnia and East Timor.

Later moving to El Paso in 1996, he briefly played with the Country / Western group Bill & Kev & War Party.

Cuba has normal diplomatic and economic relations with every country in the Western hemisphere except El Salvador and the United States.

** El Camino del Mar westward into Lincoln Park, arriving at the Lincoln Highway Western Terminus Plaza and Fountain in front of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor.

All of Texas lies within the Southern Region, except for El Paso, Hudspeth and Parmer Counties, which are part of Western Region.

When Forrest was established the Toledo Peoria and Western Railroad had already been in operation for almost ten years and therefore, the origin of the town is unlike Fairbury, Chatsworth, Chenoa, Gridley and El Paso, all of which were founded when the railroad was first built.