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Adventurers

Emil Bessels

Arctic Explorer

Emil Bessels was a German/American Artic Explorer who's most famous trip to the Artic ended up with him being charged with murder

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Morris "Two-Gun" Cohen

Adventurer

Morris "Two-Gun" Cohen began life as a London pickpocket and went on to become a general in the Chinese army of Sun Yat-Sen.

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Harlan Ellison

Writer

Prolific writer and troublemaker, Harlan Ellison, has lived a life of great adventure and controversy.

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Doron Erel

Mountain Climber

Doron Erel was the first Israeli to summit both Mount McKinley and Mount Everest.

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Gaspar da Gama

Explorer/Interpreter

Admiral, navigator and interpreter who travelled the world during the Age of Exploration. First European to step foot in Brazil.

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Moses Henriques

Pirate

Moses Cohen Henriques was one of a handful of Jewish pirates who pulled off major heists, and he even established his own pirate island.

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Edward Israel

Scientist/Arctic Explorer

Edward Israel was a crew member on the ill-fated Lady Franklin Bay Expedition to the Arctic Circle from which only a few of the men survived.

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Nathaniel Isaacs

Explorer

Nathaniel Isaacs was an explorer and soldier in Africa's Zulu region who became intimately acquainted with Shaka the Zulu Chief.

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Sinan

Pirate

Feared Jewish pirate and second in command to the infamous Barbarossa.

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Luis de Torres

Explorer/Interpreter

Luis de Torres was a crew member on Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage to the New World and was also the first Jew to step foot in the Americas.

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