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Don’t call me Junior!

If there is one movie franchise that EVERYONE loves (in addition to Star Wars, of course) it’s Indiana JonesChances are good that – if you’re a certain age – you got your first glimpse of Morocco or Petra via those classics.

But, did you know that the films were influenced by a living human being – Charles LummisLummis was part Indiana Jones (a self-taught adventurer and collector of artifacts from Latin America and the Southwest as well as from Native Americans) and part Forrest Gump (in 1884, he walked 3,500 miles from Cincinnati to L.A. to take a job at the Los Angeles Times).

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Read more here courtesy of LATimes.com

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