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chrisblue77
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« on: June 08, 2011, 03:54:23 AM »

I was googling treasure maps and hit on El Dorado, hears what I found.
In 1595 explorer Sir Walter Raleigh failed to find the city of El Dorado, when he latter wrote about his advencher in South America he claimed to have come in close proximity of the Great Golden City Manoa, what the Spanish called El Dorado, and described a tribe of headless people.
He was latter beheaded for alleged involvement in the Main Plot, after his beheadment, his head, was embalmed and given to his wife. He also helped popularize tobacco, bastard. He also helped found the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island.
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« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2011, 09:22:03 AM »

You know that's funny. I too have failed to find the lost city if El Dorado. Wink

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« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2011, 11:45:16 AM »

What a coincidence!  I went looking for El Dorado years ago, but wound up in Glendorado, Minnesota, instead.  Damn my lousy spelling skills!
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« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2011, 01:54:06 PM »

Ho-HO, my good man! I have not even attempted to locate El Dorado, thus have I failed to find it much more than you have. Wink

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« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2011, 04:18:49 PM »

I went looking for El Dorado and never found the city but did find this instead...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Eldorado


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« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2011, 04:24:29 PM »

I actually found El Dorado, but left when I realized I couldn't get high-speed Internet.

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« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2011, 05:14:42 PM »

I was googling treasure maps and hit on El Dorado, hears what I found.
In 1595 explorer Sir Walter Raleigh failed to find the city of El Dorado, when he latter wrote about his advencher in South America he claimed to have come in close proximity of the Great Golden City Manoa, what the Spanish called El Dorado, and described a tribe of headless people.
He was latter beheaded for alleged involvement in the Main Plot, after his beheadment, his head, was embalmed and given to his wife. He also helped popularize tobacco, bastard. He also helped found the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island.

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« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2011, 04:26:16 PM »

This Manoa business is somewhere over by Guyana, heading east from the "old" El Dorado that panned out in Venezuela. The Orinocco tribes have fantastic crops, including blue tree tobacco. Also, if you chant El Dorado a long time, it starts to sound like People's Temple. You have to wonder why they imported the blue kool-aid and procured the blue cyanide from outside sources, if they had wonderfully poisonous blue tree tobacco near at hand. Tourists.
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