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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 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The Thor Heyerdahl museum displays the raft and tule boat on which Heyerdahl made his famous oceanic voyages. 3], the 75th percentile of indoor air perc levels detected in homes and offices sampled throughout the United States (Shah and Heyerdahl 1988). Some of the more well-known signers were Leonard Bernstein, Pablo Casals, Judy Collins, Buckminster Fuller, Thor Heyerdahl, Edmund Hillary, Coretta Scott King, Marcel Marceau, Marshal McLuhan, Yehudi Menuhn, Arthur Miller, Linus Pauling, Jean Piaget, Pete Seeger, Leopold Stokowski, Arnold Toynbee, John Updike, Peter Ustinov, and Kurt Vonnegut. |
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