17:1217:12, 21 April 2016diffhist+42
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Caesar Cardini
added original name, see e.g. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=21732&PIpi=103189 -- DOT. -- [w.]
13:2513:25, 21 May 2014diffhist−87
Torstein Raaby
rm. "Order of St. Olav". According Kansellisjef, DET KONGELIGE HOFF, Oslo, dated May 16, 2014, he was NOT awarded with thisone,
12:0412:04, 15 April 2014diffhist+3
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Gan
→Maldives: IATA:GAN on same island should not be totally separated from the island, imo. there are just 3 islands called "Gan".
11:5611:56, 15 April 2014diffhist+483
Maldives
→Buddhist period: more precise on Bell's visits. "Being shipwrecked" is a long-term misinterpretation of a few lines of his account, given in the introduction of ONE of his books, postum, 1940 ;))) -- See REFs.
07:5107:51, 15 April 2014diffhist+1,476
Fua Mulaku Havitta
+ Bell's photograph, +more precise on Heyerdahl. He did not come three times to Maldives as adventurer but to guide archeological excavations, contributing substantially to Males National Museum.
22:3622:36, 2 March 2014diffhist+379
Cyril Desbruslais
http://dnctimes.blogspot.co.at/2012/07/jubilarian-cyril-desbruslais-sj-speaks.html -- same birth date&place given in his recent book 'Daddy Darling'.