I have always liked my name, even though I was always called 'Reese's Pieces' in elementary school-for about 2 days, I might add, until it got old. I was proud of my name's history, meaning, and connection to family, even at a young age.
Thor Heyerdahl (October 6, 1914 Larvik, Norway â April 18, 2002 Colla Micheri, Italy) was a Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer with a scientific background in zoology and geography.
Roald Amundsen, in full Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen, (born July 16, 1872, Borge, near Oslo, Norwayâdied June 18, 1928?, Arctic Ocean), Norwegian explorer who was the first to reach the South Pole, the first to make a ship voyage through the Northwest Passage, and one of the first to cross the Arctic by air.