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Obituary Thor Heyerdahl
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Thor Heyerdahl, explorer and author
Born: 6 October, 1914, in Larvik, Norway Died: 18 April, 2002, in
Italy, aged 87
A POPULAR hero despite sneers from scholars, Thor Heyerdahl risked
his life sailing the Pacific and Atlantic oceans on flimsy craft to
show that prehistoric peoples could have done so too.
A modern-day Viking, Heyerdahl won worldwide acclaim with an epic
101-day voyage in 1947 from South America to Polynesia on the Kon-
Tiki balsa raft, defying experts' p...
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; Thor Heyerdahl, the Kon-Tiki man, died on April ... first publishers that were offered Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki thought there would be ... that. Everyone except, it seemed, Thor Heyerdahl. He saw cultural and genetic links ...
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Thor Heyerdahl has died.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
Nordic Business Report
; NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-19 April 2002-Thor Heyerdahl has died (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS ... Norwegian archeologist, explorer and author Thor Heyerdahl died yesterday (18 April) at his home ... following a battle with brain cancer. Heyerdahl, who was 87, is best known for his ...
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Headliners.(Beyonce Knowles, explorer Thor Heyerdahl)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
U.S. News & World Report
; ... still be sexy, clarified singer Beyonce Knowles last week. That doesn't mean you're nasty, because you dress sexy. Mighty Thor Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl gained fame in 1947, when he sailed 4,300 miles from Peru to Polynesia on the log raft Kon-Tiki, aiming to prove that ...
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Obituary: Thor Heyerdahl dies
Belfast Telegraph
; THOR Heyerdahl, the Norwegian adventurer who crossed the Pacific on a balsa log raft and detailed his harrowing ... terminal brain tumour. He died yesterday evening at his home in the village of Colla Michari, his son Thor Heyerdahl Jr said.
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Thor Heyerdahl dies.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
Geographical
; Explorer and anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl (b.1914) has died. The Norwegian became famous for the 1947 Kon-Ti ... achievements in 1964, awarding him its Patron's Medal. Next month Heyerdahl will be featured on our Late, Great Geographer page
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