Hernando de Soto
President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy Hernando de Soto testifies on 'The Call for Economic Liberty in the Arab World' on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, May 21, 2013.
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Let's Institute A Market-Based System For Ambitious Immigrants Yearning For Freedom
a devotion for the free enterprise system. Almost everyone in the free-market conservative side applauded the work of Hernando de Soto of the Instituto Libertad y Democracia in Peru. De Soto popularized the use of the term “informal” or “extra-legal” to describe 9:16 AM from Forbes Read more »
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This Day in History
1471, King Henry VI of England died in the Tower of London at age 49. In 1542, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto died while searching for gold along the Mississippi River. In 1892, the opera “Pagliacci,” by Ruggero Leoncavallo, premiered in Milan, Italy. In from San Mateo Daily Journal Read more »
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Gerald Ensley: Two historic sites step into spotlight
value back to the community. The de Soto site, on East Lafayette Street near Myers Park, is where Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto spent the winter of 1539-1540. Because his expedition included Catholic priests, who presumably would have held a Mass on Christmas, from Tallahassee.com Read more »
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Op-Ed Contributor: Ponce de León, Exposed
nothing and achieved nothing. Ponce was only the first dreamer to have Florida swallow up his ambitions. Arriving in 1539, Hernando de Soto wandered fruitlessly across the future southeast before dying mad and broke, having squandered his fortune in gold looted from The New York Times Read more »
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Ala. man builds model ships for Fla. celebration
de Leon was wounded and later died in Havana. But, the explorer's discovery led the way for other Spanish explorers - Hernando de Soto, Tristán de Luna y Arellano and Pánfilo de Narváez. And the ships that brought them all across an ocean - and Columbus before from Miami Herald Read more »
