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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Shuttle orbiter-naming competition
Message-ID: <1988Jul18.233936.20010@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Mon, 18 Jul 88 23:39:36 GMT

In article <19142@cornell.UUCP> dietz@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Paul F. Dietz) writes:
>I suggest you read "The Last Place on Earth", or see the recent
>PBS Masterpiece Theater miniseries of the same name...

By all means read the book (by Roland Huntford), although the PBS miniseries
is certainly worth seeing.  The time constraints of TV made it impossible to
do more than convey a general impression of what went on.  Reading the book
gives you a much more thorough idea of just what a hopping, drooling, utterly
bungled foulup the whole Scott expedition was.
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