Would you sign on for three months in shark-infested waters on a tippy raft under a captain who can't swim? The shrewdest joke in the sure-fire Kon-Tiki — a film about Thor Heyerdahl's 4,000-mile ...

April 28 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1788, Maryland ratified the U.S. Constitution, becoming the seventh state of the Union. In 1789, the most famous of all naval mutinies took place aboard ...

Before there was digital simulation, there were real-life adventurers who wondered “what it?” Norwegian archaeologist Capt. Thor Heyerdahl was one of them, and when this Sept. 18, 1947 photo was taken ...