1524) probable Hans Staden, German adventurer (b.

These include the adventurer Lemminkäinen and the great wise man Väinämöinen.

Conan The Adventurer was a television series loosely based on Conan.

The origin of the final part of the name was named after an adventurer.

Student and adventurer In 1880 Nansen passed his university entrance examination, the examen artium .

During the struggle, she meets Vaan, a young adventurer who dreams of commanding an airship.

The trip was filmed by the adventurer himself and made into a documentary titled The Cruellest Journey .

Lawrence Joseph Larry Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is an American programmer, internet entrepreneur, adventurer, businessman and philanthropist.

In 1856 1857 the region successfully established a military coalition to repel an invasion by U.S. adventurer William Walker.

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova ( 2 April 1725 4 June 1798) was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice.

Cast Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones An archaeologist adventurer who is asked by a desperate Indian village to retrieve a mysterious stone.

Thor Heyerdahl ( October 6, 1914 April 18, 2002) was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in zoology, botany, and geography.

More recently, Norwegian adventurer Helge Hjelland made another journey through the entire length of the Niger River starting in Guinea Bissau in 2005.

Adventurer and poet Luís de Camões (c. 1524 1580) wrote the epic poem Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads), with Virgil's Aeneid as his main influence.

Admired in his own time and for centuries after, Edward was denounced as an irresponsible adventurer by later Whig historians such as William Stubbs.

In 1995, all of the comics and The Adventurer strips published to that date were released in a compilation, Sam Max Surfin' the Highway .

The expedition was under the overall command of captain Gonçalo Coelho and carried the Italian adventurer Amerigo Vespucci aboard, who wrote an account of it.

Similarly, a Hittite king wrote the so called Tawagalawa Letter to the Great King of Ahhiyawa, concerning the depredations of the Luwiyan adventurer Piyama Radu.

Beryl Markham (26 October 1902 3 August 1986) was a British born Kenyan aviator (one of the first bush pilots), adventurer, racehorse trainer and author.

Spielberg and Lucas disagreed on the character although Lucas saw him as a Bondian playboy, Spielberg and Kasdan felt the character's academic and adventurer elements made him complex enough.

While in the lobby of the House of Commons, on his way to a parliamentary inquiry, Spencer Perceval was shot and killed by a Liverpool merchant adventurer, John Bellingham.

A conspiracy was organized, some months before it was executed, by Counts Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen, Nikita Petrovich Panin, and the half Spanish, half Neapolitan adventurer Admiral Ribas.

An adaptation of the popular Tomb Raider videogames, the film required her to learn an English accent and undergo extensive martial arts training to play the archaeologist adventurer Lara Croft.

An adventurer at heart, he hates to hear impossible and relentlessly ventures forth but he is a worrywart at heart and likes to gather as much information as humanly possible beforehand.

Despite the prestige of the new masters, the country was still unruly, with continuous rioting and fighting between the townsfolk and wandering Arabs and Turks, the latter being subjects of the Armenian adventurer Karakush.

Evan Michael Tanner Besides Scudder and Rhodenbarr, Block has written eight novels about Evan Tanner, an adventurer and accidental revolutionary who, as a result of an injury sustained in the Korean War, cannot sleep.

Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin () ( in the village of Narovchat in the Penza Oblast 25 August 1938 in Leningrad) was a Russian writer, pilot, explorer and adventurer who is perhaps best known for his story The Duel (1905).

For the former professional American football coach see LeRoy Andrews Roy Chapman Andrews (January 26, 1884 March 11, 1960) was an American explorer, adventurer and naturalist who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History.

Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 March 19, 1950) was an American writer best known for his creations of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres.

Tradition says that before journeying to Portugal, John had anticipated future events and had said to his son Pedro, Brazil will soon be separated from Portugal if so, put the crown on your head before some adventurer grabs it.

Driving a seemingly indestructible black and white 1960 DeSoto Adventurer, the pair travel to many contemporary and historical locations to fight crime, including the Moon, Ancient Egypt, the White House and the Philippines, as well as several fictitious locations.

In 1610, Rodrigo de Vivero, several Spanish sailors, the Franciscan father and 22 Japanese representatives led by the trader Tanaka Shōsuke sailed to Mexico aboard the San Buena Ventura , a ship built by the English adventurer William Adams for the Shogun.

For the dawn of a new decade, adventurer Bertrand Piccard offers us a challenge Find motivation in what seems impossible. He shares his own plans to do what many say can't be done to fly around the world, day and night, in a solar powered aircraft.

Having just written the Rights of Woman , Wollstonecraft was determined to put her ideas to the test, and in the stimulating intellectual atmosphere of the French revolution she attempted her most experimental romantic attachment yet she met and fell passionately in love with Gilbert Imlay, an American adventurer.

You see, there was a time when you weren't afraid of failure, when you were a great artist or a great dancer and you could sing, you were good at math, you could build things, you were an astronaut, an adventurer, Jacques Cousteau, you could jump higher, run faster, kick harder than anyone.

Among his written works there are Siete años enterrado vivo en una de las mazmorras de Gomezuela Horripilante relato de un resucitado (1932) and Mis prisiones, mis destierros y mi vida (1929) which talk about his many adventures while living his life as an adventurer, activist and vagabond, as well as his thought and the many times he was imprisoned in different countries.