Juan Ponce de Leon

THE STORYIWAS TOLD,the story all Florida schoolchildren were once told, was that Juan Ponce de Leon came to Florida to find the Fountain of Youth.

Dream State Diane Roberts 2008

Juan Ponce de Leon traveled to the new world in search of the fountain of youth - today, the NY Times Science Section reveals the secret to extended life: caloric restriction.

Eating Less: The Elixir of Life Will Price 2006

Juan Ponce de Leon traveled to the new world in search of the fountain of youth - today, the NY Times Science Section reveals the secret to extended life: caloric restriction.

Archive 2006-10-01 Will Price 2006

From that date, until after the colonization of New Providence by the British, there is no record of a Spanish visit to the Bahamas, with the exception of the extraordinary cruise of Juan Ponce de Leon, the conqueror of Porto Rico, who passed months searching the islands for Bimini, which was reported to contain the miraculous "Fountain of Youth."

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

Juan Ponce de Leon, an intrepid aristocrat who was destined to discover

Christopher Columbus Mildred Stapley Byne

We saw friends -- Juan Ponce de Leon and others -- but they were helpless.

1492, 1922

Antilles from Santa Cruz to Dominica, thus rendering the jurisdiction of the bishop coextensive with the civil and military sway of the first governor and colonizer, Juan Ponce de Leon.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

In the spring of 1513 Juan Ponce de Leon, a brave soldier who had been with Columbus in his second voyage, and had now got permission to lead an expedition in search of the fabled

The Old Dominion 1908

Pedro Margarite, a well-born Aragonese, who was destined afterwards to cause much trouble; there was Juan Ponce de Leon, the discoverer of

Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Complete Filson Young 1907

Pedro Margarite, a well-born Aragonese, who was destined afterwards to cause much trouble; there was Juan Ponce de Leon, the discoverer of

Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 4 Filson Young 1907