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El Dorado (sometimes spelled Eldorado) is a mythical city of gold (sometimes called the "Lost City of Gold") which was thought to be located somewhere in the Americas, more specifically South America. The hopes of finding this city was one thing that fueled the Conquest of the Americas by the Conquistadors.---- El Dorado is also the name of several places in The Americas named after the mythical El Dorado: Argentina Eldorado, Misiones (Misiones Province) Eldorado Department ... Including:

• El Dorado - Literature and art

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The Jesuits were founded just before the Counter-Reformation, a movement whose purpose was to reform the Roman Catholic Church from within and to counter the Protestant Reformers, whose teachings were spreading throughout Catholic Europe. As part of their service to the Roman Church, the Jesuits encouraged people to continue their obedience both to scripture and also Roman Catholic doctrine. Ignatius himself used hyperbole when he wrote the following sentence: "I will believe that the white that I see is black i ...

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• San Pedro - Places

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Early missions in Japan resulted in the government granting the Jesuits the feudal fiefdom of Nagasaki in 1580. This was removed in 1587, however, due to fears over their growing influence. Francis Xavier arrived in Goa, in Western India in 1541 to consider evangelical service in the Indies. He passed away after a decade of evangelism in Southern India. Under Portuguese royal patronage, the order thrived in Goa and until 1759 successfully expanded its activities to education and healthcare. On 17 December 1760, Marquis of Pombal, Secretary of Stat ...

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The Jesuits today represent the largest religious order in the Catholic Church, with over 20,000 members serving in 112 nations on six continents. The current Superior General of the Jesuits is Peter Hans Kolvenbach. The Society is characterized by its ministries in the fields of missionary work, human rights, social justice and, most notably, higher education. It operates colleges and universities in various countries around the world and is particularly active in the Philippines and India. In the United States alone, it maintains over 50 c ...

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On August 15, 1534, Ignatius (born Iñigo López de Loyola) and six other students (Francis Xavier, a fellow Basque, Alfonso Salmeron, James Lainez, and Nicholas Bobadilla, Spaniards, Peter Faber from France and Simon Rodrigues, a Portuguese) met in Montmartre outside Paris, probably near the modern Chapel of St Denys, Rue Antoinette, and binding themselves by a vow of poverty and chastity, founded the Society of Jesus – to "enter upon hospital and missionary work in Jerusalem, or to go witho ...

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Since the late 1990s, with the arrival of the Internet, the main criticism against Rawat, his students, and affiliated groups The Prem Rawat Foundation and Elan Vital, has been orchestrated by a group of vocal ex-students with an active Internet presence. They call themselves "Ex-Premies," based on the practice, largely discontinued in the West but still used by Rawat, of Rawat's students calling themselves "premies." Some of these critics claim to have been former senior staff within the organizations and have rejected Rawat and his ...

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Geography of Argentina - Claims. Land claims Falkland Islands South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Argentine Antarctica Maritime claims Contiguous zone: 24 nautical miles (44 km) Continental shelf: 200 nautical miles (370 km) or to the edge of the continental margin Exclusive economic zone: 200 nautical miles (370 km) Territorial sea: 12 nautical miles (29 km) ...

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Total land boundaries: 9,665 km With border countries: Bolivia 832 km Brazil 1,224 km Chile 5,150 km Paraguay 1,880 km Uruguay 579 km Coastline: 4,989 km ...

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