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Look up: Kon-Tiki

  1. Kon Tiki
    Kon Tiki: see Heyerdahl, Thor.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0

  2. Kon-Tiki
    Legendary creator god of Peru and sun king who ruled the country later occupied by the Incas and was supposed to have migrated out into the Pacific. The name was used by explorer Thor Heyerdahl in...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  3. Kon-Tiki
    `Kon-Tiki` was the raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands. It was named after the Inca sun god, Viracocha, for whom `Kon-Tiki` was said to be an old name. `Kon-Tiki` is also the name of the popular book that Heyerdahl wrote about his adventures. Heyerdahl believed that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Colum...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki

  4. Kon-Tiki
    (from the article `Heyerdahl, Thor`) ...three and a half months later demonstrated the possibility that the Polynesians may have originated in South America. The story of the voyage was ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/k/46

  5. Kon-Tiki
    raft in which the Norwegian scientist Thor Heyerdahl and five companions sailed in 1947 from the western coast of South America to the islands east ... [2 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/k/46

  6. Kontiki
    `Kontiki` was a digital media distribution technology company, founded in 2000 and acquired by VeriSign in March 2006. Kontiki's peer-to-peer software, the Kontiki Delivery Manager provides the basis of many of the UK's video on demand services, including Sky Anytime and the BBC iPlayer. Kontiki works using peer to peer technology. Rather than the user downloading the television program from a central server the users download from each other. ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontiki


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23 November 2009

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At sixteen minutes past five on 23rd November 1963, a British television institution was born. Doctor Who would go on to become the longest-running science-fiction programme in the world, eventually spawning twenty six seasons of adventures from 1963 to 1989. In total, eight actors have played the part of Gallifrey's most famous Time Lord. From the very first - William Hartnell in 1963 - to the very last - Paul McGann, in the 1996 TV Movie - the Doctor has wandered through time and space in his trusty time machine, an old type-40 TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space). Although appearing to be nothing more than a battered blue police box, it is in fact vastly bigger on the inside than on the outside, and always departs with its familiar wheezing, groaning sound. read more

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