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| Papyrus boat crossed the Atlantic--54 days, 4,000 miles. |
On this day in 1970, Thor Heyerdahl set off from Morocco in the Ra II, his boat made of papyrus, in a second attempt, this one successful, to prove that an ancient Egyptian vessel similarly constructed could have crossed the Atlantic by navigating the Canary Current. The Norwegian ethnologist was convinced that there was more ancient cross-pollination between the continents than official history acknowledged, and in the case of the Ra expeditions, it was the reverence for pyramids shared by Egyptian and South American cultures that piqued his interest. He staffed his Ra crew with diverse group of hands, of varying ethnicities, religions and nationalities, not as an experiment but as a statement.
This morning brings news that Angela Merkel is reaching out to the Greeks with a promise of stimulus in an attempt to keep the euro from capsizing.
http://tinyurl.com/76xgv4m If Heyerdahl and crew could make it 57 days and 4,000 miles in a paper boat, maybe the Euro can cross this rough patch. We'll see, preferably not from under water.
On this day in 1970, Thor Heyerdahl set off from Morocco in the Ra II, his boat made of papyrus, in a second attempt, this one successful, to prove that an ancient Egyptian vessel similarly constructed could have crossed the Atlantic by navigating the Canary Current. The Norwegian ethnologist was convinced that there was more ancient cross-pollination between the continents than official history acknowledged, and in the case of the Ra expeditions, it was the reverence for pyramids shared by Egyptian and South American cultures that piqued his interest. He staffed his Ra crew with diverse group of hands, of varying ethnicities, religions and nationalities, not as an experiment but as a statement.
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