heyerdahl in A Sentence
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The name Tiki stuck with Heyerdahl.
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Heyerdahl returned to Norway to global fanfare.
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Heyerdahl was thirty-two years old when the Kon-Tiki left port on April 28, 1947.
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Heyerdahl did not prove definitively that Kon-Tiki made the journey, but he certainly showed that he could have.
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Heyerdahl died in 2002, not living to see that he, in fact, had the last word… sort of.
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His father worked as a brewer while Heyerdahl's mother held a leadership position at a local museum.
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Rather than viewing Kon-Tiki as a god, Heyerdahl saw him as simply a man from a more advanced civilization.
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To get around these objections, Heyerdahl decided to put his life on the line to prove it could be done.
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Heyerdahl spent his childhood trekking through the forest at the edge of town and then climbing mountains with his pet husky.
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They sent regular radio reports back to the mainland on their progress and Heyerdahl filmed sections of their voyage on his camera.
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So, in the end, genetic evidence seems to suggest that Heyerdahl and the popular opinion were both right, and both wrong.
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The explorer Thor Heyerdahl refused to eat or take medication for the last month of his life, after he was diagnosed with cancer.
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The North Yemen government refused to let the ship pass, and Heyerdahl burnt the ship in the port of Djibouti in early April 1978.
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Of course, proving that something could be done and proving that it was done are two different things and Heyerdahl's theory was still not well accepted.
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Heyerdahl believed that Kon-Tiki did not voluntarily leave Tiahuanaco, but rather escaped and traveled across the Pacific Ocean to Polynesia after losing a war with indigenous Andeans.
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According to Heyerdahl, it is because these sites were closer to the places the advanced men had landed their ships-“where the current comes in from the Atlantic.”.
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Nevertheless, one hundred and one days after setting out from Peru, Heyerdahl proved that the nautical technology available to pre-Columbian Peruvians could have successfully brought them to Polynesia.
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The elder told Heyerdahl legends about his ancestors, claiming they came from a land far to the east of the island and their leader was a man named Tiki.
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The trip served the dual purpose of giving Heyerdahl the opportunity to study the local flora and fauna while also serving as a honeymoon with his new wife, Liv Coucheron Torp Heyerdahl.
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Thor Heyerdahl also hypothesized that Egyptians may have traveled to the Americas, based upon the building of pyramids in both areas, and had a traditional boat that would have been available to the Egyptians built.
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Thor Heyerdahl quoted documents that mention the Viceroy of Peru, knowing that British pirates ate the goats that they themselves had released in the islands, ordered dogs to be freed there to eliminate the goats.
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Thor Heyerdahl built on the Andean myth of Kon-Tiki Viracocha when he developed his theory that an advanced race of globetrotting men was the true founder of the great Central and South American civilizations, as well as those found throughout Polynesia.
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This and other such tenuous evidence led Heyerdahl to hypothesize that Con-Tiki might very well be who the elder referred to as Tiki and that the rafts and this legendary people of Peru could possibly have survived the trip across the Pacific Ocean.
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