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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 2300874" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p>Aug. 7, 1945</p><p> On this day in 1947, <em>Kon-Tiki</em>, a balsa wood raft captained by Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, completes a 4,300-mile, 101-day journey from Peru to Raroia in the Tuamotu Archipelago, near Tahiti.Heyerdahl wanted to prove his theory that prehistoric South Americans could have colonized the Polynesian islands by drifting on ocean currents.</p><p><a href="https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrTHR3R3qZXxh4A0edXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTByNWU4cGh1BGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--?p=Kon+Tiki&fr=ymyy-t-999&th=113&tw=159&imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F2%2F27%2FExpedition_Kon-Tiki_1947._Across_the_Pacific._%288765728430%29.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AExpedition_Kon-Tiki_1947._Across_the_Pacific._%288765728430%29.jpg&size=5611KB&name=Description+Expedition+Kon-Tiki+1947.+Across+the+Pacific.+%288765728430+...&oid=0ad31d1d0fc64cff9800000000c64270&h=1460&w=2048&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.Mc95c2f070645ed31116d126e5b3646bao0%26pid%3D15.1%26rs%3D1%26c%3D1%26qlt%3D95%26w%3D159%26h%3D113%23inline&tt=Description+Expedition+Kon-Tiki+1947.+Across+the+Pacific.+%288765728430+...&sigr=135rup8d7&sigit=13gg1pbfr&sigi=13a1914tc&sign=129q6t6ul&sigt=129q6t6ul" target="_blank"><img src="https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=OIP.Mc95c2f070645ed31116d126e5b3646bao0&pid=15.1&rs=1&c=1&qlt=95&w=159&h=113" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 2300874, member: 1246"] Aug. 7, 1945 On this day in 1947, [I]Kon-Tiki[/I], a balsa wood raft captained by Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, completes a 4,300-mile, 101-day journey from Peru to Raroia in the Tuamotu Archipelago, near Tahiti.Heyerdahl wanted to prove his theory that prehistoric South Americans could have colonized the Polynesian islands by drifting on ocean currents. [URL='https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrTHR3R3qZXxh4A0edXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTByNWU4cGh1BGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--?p=Kon+Tiki&fr=ymyy-t-999&th=113&tw=159&imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F2%2F27%2FExpedition_Kon-Tiki_1947._Across_the_Pacific._%288765728430%29.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AExpedition_Kon-Tiki_1947._Across_the_Pacific._%288765728430%29.jpg&size=5611KB&name=Description+Expedition+Kon-Tiki+1947.+Across+the+Pacific.+%288765728430+...&oid=0ad31d1d0fc64cff9800000000c64270&h=1460&w=2048&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.Mc95c2f070645ed31116d126e5b3646bao0%26pid%3D15.1%26rs%3D1%26c%3D1%26qlt%3D95%26w%3D159%26h%3D113%23inline&tt=Description+Expedition+Kon-Tiki+1947.+Across+the+Pacific.+%288765728430+...&sigr=135rup8d7&sigit=13gg1pbfr&sigi=13a1914tc&sign=129q6t6ul&sigt=129q6t6ul'][IMG]https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=OIP.Mc95c2f070645ed31116d126e5b3646bao0&pid=15.1&rs=1&c=1&qlt=95&w=159&h=113[/IMG][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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