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  2. 180 Degrees South: Conquerors of the Useless - Wikipedia

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    After finding footage of the 1968 expedition, Johnson decided to make climbing the Corcovado Volcano in Patagonia his own goal and, after speaking to Chouinard and Tompkins, planned his own journey. The subtitle of the film comes from Lionel Terray 's mountaineering autobiography, Les Conquérants de l'inutile or Conquistadors of the Useless ...

  3. The Teacher (1974 film) - Wikipedia

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    The plot of 'The Teacher' isn't worth outlining, yet it develops a relationship between a 28-year-old woman and an 18-year-old high school boy with sensitivity and credibility unusual for an exploitation film. [...] Avedis displays much concern for his people and allows Miss Tompkins and North plenty of room to give fresh, spontaneous ...

  4. The Beginning or the End - Wikipedia

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    H. T. Wensel from the National Bureau of Standards, Tompkins, and W. Bradford Shank from the Los Alamos National Laboratory acted as technical advisers. [4] Relations between MGM and the scientists soon soured, as the scientists began asking for more accuracy which required multiple script changes, and Tompkins eventually resigned.

  5. List of PDF software - Wikipedia

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    PDF Tools allows creation of PDFs from many types of source input (images, scans, etc.). The PDF-XChange print driver allows printing directly to a PDF. A "lite" version of the print driver is free for non-commercial (home and academic) use. PrimoPDF: Proprietary: Yes: Virtual printer, for Microsoft .NET Framework and uses Ghostscript and RedMon.

  6. The Ballad of Jed Clampett - Wikipedia

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    "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" is the theme song for the television series The Beverly Hillbillies and the later movie of that name, providing the introductory story for the series. The song was composed by Paul Henning , and recorded first by bluegrass musicians Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs , with Jerry Scoggins singing.

  7. April Fools' Day Request for Comments - Wikipedia

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    Almost every April Fools' Day (1 April) since 1989, the Internet RFC Editor has published one or more humorous Request for Comments (RFC) documents, following in the path blazed by the June 1973 RFC 527 called ARPAWOCKY, a parody of Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem "Jabberwocky". The following list also includes humorous RFCs published on other dates.

  8. Jed Bartlet - Wikipedia

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    Josiah Edward "Jed" Bartlet is a fictional character from the American television serial drama The West Wing created by Aaron Sorkin and portrayed by actor Martin Sheen. The role earned Sheen a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 2001, as well as two SAG Awards .

  9. Jane Tompkins - Wikipedia

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    Jane Tompkins (born 1940) is an American literary scholar who has worked on canon formation, feminist literary criticism, and reader response criticism. [1] She has also coined and developed the notion of cultural work in literary studies [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and contributed to the new historicist form of literary criticism that emerged in the 1980s.