Select one (space, the oceans, the human body, etc.) and build a persuasive argument as to why effort and monies should be allocated for its further exploration. After becoming familiar with the exploits and adventures of various explorers at sites like Explorers of the Millennium, the Discoverers Web, Explorers of the World, or The Age of Exploration, create your personal 'top ten' list of explorers
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San Juan, Puerto Rico
The building was the first of a series of military facilities constructed in the Bay of San Juan, but soon later proved inadequate to guard the entrance to the harbor, and became the official Governor's Residence. Cementerio de San Juan (San Juan Cemetery) is located between El Morro and the rocky cliffs above the Atlantic is considered one of the most picturesque of burial grounds anywhere
CORTE REAL, GASPARGaspar Corte Real (1450?-1501?) was a Portuguese explorer who sailed to Greenland in 1500, and perhaps also reached the coast of North America (Newfoundland). DE URDANETA, ANDRESAndres de Urdaneta (1508-1568) was a Spanish explorer who accompanied Garcia Jofre de Loaysa on the second sailing expedition around the world when he was 17 years old
Juan Ponce de Leon
http://jpdleon.blogspot.com/In order to prevent scurvy within the rest of the crew I started to distribute some of the very large, and very orange tangerines that I found in Florida. One of the young deckhands, who has never worked on a boat before learned he had seasickness and is now always throwing up, and now another man has fallen overboard
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He obtained some gold from the natives, and when he took this back to Cuba and told of the beauty of the country he had visited, many persons were eager to go there. He told wonderful stories of a province in the present limits of South Carolina where the royal family were made giants by a process only understood by certain skillful doctors and nurses
Life of Juan Ponce de Leon
He named it La Florida in recognition of the verdant landscape and because it was the Easter season, which the Spaniards called Pascua Florida (Festival of Flowers). (Niufiez de Guzman had become a confidant and aide of the King.) His conquest of Puerto Rico by Juan Ponce de Leon began in 1508 under a commission granted him on June 15 of that year by the Spanish governor of the West Indies
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The indigenous lifeways of the people before Ponce, as well as that intriguing period in history when New World cultures met old, will be interpreted in St
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Colonial America started right HERE, 55 years before the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, and 42 years before Jamestown! With a long, rich history spanning nearly 500 years, the Fountain of Youth Park will delight and amaze you. This tour highlights our new Spanish Watchtower, the Menendez 1565 Settlement Field, our 600 foot Founders Riverwalk, and the serene beauty of the Park
Later he was given good land and proved to be an able farmer and rancher.Ponce de Leon and Puerto Rico:Ponce de Leon was given permission to explore and settle the island of San Juan Bautista, today known as Puerto Rico. They also discovered the Gulf Stream.Ponce de Leon in Spain:After the first voyage, Ponce went to Spain to be sure this time that he and he alone had royal permission to explore and colonize Florida
He received an education in fighting skills, manners, and religion while serving a knight named Pedro Nunez de Guzman, and later helped in the ten-year conquest of the Muslim kingdom of Granada in southern Spain. He was named deputy governor of Hispaniola by Governor Nicolas de Ovando after helping put down an Indian uprising in the eastern province of the island in 1504
Legend holds that they made this discovery while searching for the Fountain of Youth, a magical water source supposedly capable of reversing the aging process and curing sickness. During the Middle Ages, some Europeans even believed in the mythical king Prester John, whose kingdom allegedly contained a fountain of youth and a river of gold
The stream passed through the Straits of Florida and shot up the southeastern coast of the United States until it meets a cold current by North Carolina. After asking King Ferdinand of Spain permission to conquer and settle the island of Bimini, Ponce de Leon set sail on a quest for a mythical fountain of youth
He became interested in sailing through his cousin, Christopher Columbus, and also was close friends with his neighbor, Vasco Da Gama, so it was no surprise that he became a world-famous explorer. The Voyages of Juan Ponce de Leon (Click to enlarge) On his next voyage, quite by accident, Ponce de Leon discovered the Gulf Stream, which flows out of the Gulf of Mexico
Part of his mission was to bring order to a badly deteriorating situation that had been developing on the islands under the deplorably incompetent management of Christopher Columbus. His expert handling of the situation on Hispaniola won him great favor from his superior, de Ovando, and high marks from high government officials back in Spain
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Ponce de Leon and the Fountain of Youth
On no occasion did Ponce de Leon personally set off through the swamps and forests of Florida deliberately seeking the Fountain of Youth.Still, the notion of a Spanish explorer and conquistador seeking a legendary fountain captured the public imagination, and Ponce de Leon will forever be tied to the Fountain of Youth and Florida. He was granted rights to settle the island and he did so, but later lost the island to Diego Columbus (son of Christopher) following a legal ruling in Spain
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