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...Teouma site may help provide are just as precious. The tussle over the origins of the Lapita and Polynesian people has boiled for more than a century, from the 1885 publication of New Zealand scholar Edward Tregear's widely debated theory that Maori were of Aryan descent, to Thor Heyerdahl's attempt, in his epic 1947 raft trip from Peru to Polynesia, to prove that South America was the Polynesians' homeland...
...revival of Nordic traditions may be a reaction to the cultural impact of globalization. Two years ago, some descendants of the Vikings took another major step into to the past when the pagan Asa religion was granted official recognition, granting tax benefits to those organizing the worship of Odin, Thor and other Norse gods. "It's all the same movement," says Senior Researcher Else Marie Kofod of the Danish Folklore Archives. "In these years, many old traditions are revived because there is a need for it. We live in a complex and material world where people have to create their...
...development of the U.S. Air Force's intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which could deliver a nuclear bomb from thousands of miles away; in Washington. Schriever, who also helped develop the Air Force's space program, streamlined its high-tech weaponry operations and oversaw the development of the Atlas, Titan, Thor and Minuteman missiles at the height of the cold war in the 1950s and '60s, when building the ICBM was the military's highest priority...
...life. You should change your immigration rules so as to deny permanent residence to all professionals coming from Third World countries that need their services. Those who come to the U.S. to receive special training should be obliged to return to their own countries once that training is completed. Thor W.R. Hansen Oslo...
Even a tough guy like "Thor," an ex-Army Ranger from Dallas, is haunted by his experience. He suffered two broken shoulders, a torn rotator cuff and loss of vision in one eye while getting shot at, bombed and almost stabbed by an Iraqi who tried to drag him out of his cab. "I beat the guy to death with a hammer," he says, asking to remain anonymous. "Sometimes they threw themselves in front of the truck. I can't count how many people I've run over--20, 30 maybe. It got so bad the truck would bounce...