Word: mikkelsen
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Died. Ejnar Mikkelsen, 90, Danish explorer and author; in Copenhagen. Mikkelsen first indulged his zeal for polar exploration at the age of 16 by walking 320 miles from Stockholm to Göteborg in an unsuccessful attempt to join an Arctic balloon flight. Later he captured world attention by leading the 1906 Anglo-American polar expedition, a two-year journey that established the fact that there is no land directly north of Alaska. Between 1909 and 1912, Mikkelsen led a mission in search of the diaries of another brave Dane, Mylius-Erichsen, who had died while exploring the northeast corner...
...occupants were unhurt; they remained inside. In Sylmar, near the quake's epicenter in the San Gabriel Mountains, Linda Daniheux, 25, remained in bed -and died when the ceiling of her room collapsed. En route to install new equipment at a microwave relay station in the mountains, Arthur Mikkelsen, 46, and Milton Gonne, 45, were crushed when a concrete overpass of the Golden State Freeway dropped squarely on the roof of their pickup truck...