Quote of the Day!

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Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity.

Thor Heyerdahl

August 7, 1947: Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl set sail on a primitive boat, the Kon-Tiki, to test his theory that the Polynesian islands were originally settled by South Americans. It crashed on a reef in the South Pacific 66 years ago today, but he survived and wrote a best seller about the experience, The Voyage of the Kon-Tiki.

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