No Horny Helmets

Viking helmets had no horns. I promise I’ve heard that somewhere before but I refused to believe it. Arrrgghh! The agony. Killing all the romantic pictures of glorious horn-helmeted warriors that I had in my mind.
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Thor and Kon Tiki’s 101 Days

The original Kon Tiki expedition raft

George Bernard Shaw once said “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. All progress, therefore, depends upon the unreasonable man.”

One such unreasonable man was Thor Heyerdahl. He was a Norwegian explorer and writer who in 1947, along with a team of five colleagues, embarked upon an expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian Islands in a balsa wood raft. (more…)

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ReFRAMing my Mental Pictures

When you grow up on an educational diet of British text books, you may be excused for believing that there are no other heroes in history except for those that sailed from English ports.

A visit to the Fram museum will reshape your thoughts about polar explorations and get you wondering what else you don’t know about the contributions of other nations to the amazing history of humanity.
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