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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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8 November 2009

This day in history:
Just before 11.00am on 8th November 1987 a Provisional IRA bomb exploded without warning as people gathered at the war memorial in Enniskillen for the annual Remembrance Day service. Eleven people were killed and 63 injured, nine of them seriously, when the three-story gable wall of St Michael's Reading Rooms crashed down burying people in several feet of rubble. The Provisional IRA admitted responsibility the following day. read more

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