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

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

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.

First Israeli to summit both Mount McKinley and Mount Everest

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

One of a handful of Jewish pirates who pulled off major heists, and he even established his own pirate island

Crew member on the ill-fated Lady Franklin Bay Expedition to the Arctic Circle from which only a few of the men survived

Explorer and soldier in Africa's Zulu region who became intimately acquainted with Shaka, the Zulu Chief

Feared Jewish pirate and second in command to the infamous Barbarossa

Crew member on Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage to the New World and also the first Jew to step foot in the Americas

Solomon Nunes Carvalho bravely went on the last expedition of Col. John Fremont