Death of Thor Heyerdahl

[Azure]

The famed archaeologist, who was both revered and ridiculed (justly on both, perhaps) passed away yesterday:

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/0,1113,2-10_1170208,00.html

[Theres]

it was on this day in history that Heyerdahl and his crew set out from Morocco to cross the Atlantic in his papyrus boat 'Ra ll'.
they arrived in Barbados 57 days later, proving that it was not impossible for the ancient Egyptians to have done the same

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http://www.thehistorychannel.com/tdih/index.html