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Thor Heyerdahl
Thor Heyerdahl KStJ was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in biology with specialization in zoology, botany and geography.
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Born 6 October 1914 · Died 18 April 2002 · Q133622
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2024· 2 entries
Fox News: On this day in history, August 7, 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki raft make it to Polynesia
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His urn was moved to a new grave in the graveyard of Larvik Church, the same church he was baptized in
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2023· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: Kon-Tiki man : an illustrated biography of Thor Heyerdahl / Thor Heyerdahl with Christopher Ralling
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2012· 1 entry
Also called Kon-Tiki, and was nominated for both the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 70th Golden Globe Awards
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2002· 2 entries
NPR: Thor Heyerdahl
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Died 2002-04-18.
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2000· 1 entry
“but of the realities of geography and history. Azerbaijanis should be proud of their ancient culture. It is just as rich and ancient as that of China and Mesopotamia.”
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1999· 2 entries
Awarded Peer Gynt Literary Award (1999).
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Lectured at the Academy of Sciences about the history of ancient Nordic Kings
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1997· 1 entry
Won Medal of St. Hallvard (1997).
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1996· 1 entry
Providing evidence for the dating of the pyramids
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded Empowering award (1994).
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1991· 2 entries
Heyerdahl married Jacqueline Beer (born 1932) as his third wife
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Studied the Pyramids of Güímar on Tenerife and declared that they were not random stone heaps but pyramids
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav (1987).
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded Fridtjof Nansen Award for outstanding research, historical-philosophical class (1985).
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1977· 1 entry
Tigris, which was intended to demonstrate that trade and migration could have linked Mesopotamia with the Indus Valley civilization in what is now Pakistan and western India
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1971· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Officer of the Order of Wissam El Alaoui (1971).
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1969· 1 entry
And 1970, Heyerdahl built two boats from papyrus and attempted to cross the Atlantic Ocean from Morocco in Africa
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1965· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1965).
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1964· 1 entry
Won Patron’s Medal (1964).
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1962· 1 entry
Won Vega Medal (1962).
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1950· 1 entry
Won Mungo Park Medal (1950).
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1949· 1 entry
Heyerdahl married Yvonne Dedekam-Simonsen (1924–2006)
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1947· 2 entries
Heyerdahl and five fellow adventurers sailed from Peru to the Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia in a raft that they had constructed from balsa wood and other native materials, christened the Kon-Tiki
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In which he drifted 8,000 km (5,000 mi) across the Pacific Ocean in a primitive hand-built raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands
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1937· 1 entry
In the valley of Omo‘a, and decided to cross over the island's mountainous interior to settle in one of the small, nearly abandoned, valleys on the eastern side of the island
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1936· 2 entries
Heyerdahl married Liv Coucheron-Torp (1916–1969), whom he had met at the University of Oslo, and who had studied economics there
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On the day after his marriage to Liv Coucheron Torp, the young couple set out for the South Pacific Island of Fatu Hiva
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1933· 1 entry
Studied at University of Oslo (1933).
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1914· 1 entry
Born 1914-10-06.
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