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Heyerdahl

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Heyerdahl
Thor . 1914--2002, Norwegian anthropologist. In 1947 he demonstrated that the Polynesians could originally have been migrants from South America, by sailing from Peru to the Pacific Islands of Tuamotu in the Kon-Tiki, a raft made of balsa wood. DNA testing in the late 1990s indicated that such a migration did not actually take place


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A sampling of entries includes: Syd Barrett, Alistair Cooke, Lady Diana, Gerald Ford, Thor Heyerdahl, Norman Mailer, Rosa Parks, and Doctor Spock.
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1947: The Kon Tiki expedition set out with Thor Heyerdahl, aiming to prove that ancient cults could have sailed on a balsa wood raft from Peru to Polynesia.
ON THIS DAY IN .. by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
1947: The Kon Tiki expedition set out with Thor Heyerdahl, aiming to prove that ancient cults could have sailed on a balsa wood raft from Peru to Polynesia.
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