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Eldorado (/ ˌ ɛ l d ə ˈ r ɑː d oʊ / EL-də-RAH-doh, /-ˈ r eɪ d oʊ /-RAY-doh) is the only city in and the county seat of Schleicher County, Texas, United States. [4] The population was 1,574 at the 2020 census. [5] Eldorado is located on U.S. Highway 277, some 21 miles (34 km) north of Sonora and 43 miles (69 km) south of San Angelo ...
Bonham is a city and is the county seat of Fannin County, Texas, United States. [5] The population was 10,408 at the 2020 census. [ 6 ] James Bonham (the city's namesake) sought the aid of James Fannin (the county's namesake) at the Battle of the Alamo .
El Dorado (Spanish: [el doˈɾaðo], English: / ˌ ɛ l d ə ˈ r ɑː d oʊ /) is a mythical city of gold supposedly located somewhere in South America. The king of this city was said to be so rich that he would cover himself from head to foot in gold dust – either daily or on certain ceremonial occasions – before diving into a sacred lake ...
The El Dorado tale derives from the investiture ceremony of the Muisca rulers. The new chief was coated in gold dust and taken on a raft to the center of the sacred Lake Guatavita. At sunrise, when the light struck his golden body, the chief would dive into the lake, thus washing the gold off, and would emerge as a human ruler born from the ...
DGSE was one of the earliest coin and bullion dealers to begin doing business on the internet; they set up a website to auction jewelry from their stores in 1995, and later launched two further websites for auctioning watches and to allow jewelry manufactures and vendors to sell to each other and directly to the public.
As a marketing strategy, the Zale brothers instituted a credit plan whereby customers could pay "a penny down and a dollar a week", making jewelry and other merchandise affordable for the average working American. The success of this credit policy led to the company expanding to a total of 12 stores in Oklahoma and Texas by 1941.
A group of about 20 suspects ransacked a Sunnyvale jewelry store Wednesday afternoon, ... The robbery happened at about 1:27 p.m. at PNG Jewelers, located at 791 East El Camino Real, DPS said.
In the early 1990s, Emprise expanded into Lawrence and added branch locations in the Wichita area. Emprise Bank then acquired Wichita Federal Savings & Loan in the mid-1990s, which increased the bank's market share and doubled its asset size. In 2002, Emprise opened a location in El Dorado, and in 2003 locations were acquired in Humboldt and ...