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Crusoe and family
Crusoe was the first family of microprocessors from Transmeta, named after the literary character Robinson Crusoe.
The Crusoe is a family of x86-compatible microprocessors developed by Transmeta.
Although movie and TV adaptations typically name the family " Robinson ", it is not a Swiss name ; the " Robinson " of the title refers to Robinson Crusoe.
Fleeing back to Mary, Crusoe subsequently ends up leaving for a year so that Mary can attempt to smooth over relations with Patrick's family.
In the film Crusoe flees by sea to escape being hunted down by the family of the friend he killed.

Crusoe and name
The story was perhaps influenced by the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on the Pacific island called " Más a Tierra " ( in 1966 its name was changed to Robinson Crusoe Island ), Chile.
It was intended to be the last part of his stories, according to the original title-page of its first edition but a third part, Serious Reflections During the Life & Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, With His Vision of the Angelic World, was added later ; it is a mostly forgotten series of moral essays with Crusoe's name attached to give interest.
In 1981 Czechoslovakian director and animator Stanislav Látal made a version of the story under the name Dobrodružství Robinsona Crusoe, námořníka z Yorku ( The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a sailor from York ) combining traditional and stop-motion animation.
The show, with a name alluding to Robinson Crusoe, was a major hit in Sweden.
The name alludes to both Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson, two stories featuring people marooned by shipwrecks.
Robinsonade is a literary genre that takes its name from the 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
Friday subsequently learns that " Master " is not Crusoe's real name, but an indicator of enslavement and once again leaves Crusoe, who subsequently attempts to build a canoe to get to New Britain by himself.

Crusoe and from
* " Diaries of swashbuckling hero who rescued Robinson Crusoe unearthed ", from Telegraph. co. uk, 5 January 2009.
The extent and particulars of Defoe's writing in the period from the Tory fall in 1714 to the publication of Robinson Crusoe in 1719 is widely contested.
On Robinson Crusoe, grasslands predominate from 0 to 100 meters ; introduced shrubs from 100 to 300 meters ; tall forests from 300 to 500 meters ; montane forests from 500 to 700 meters, with dense tree cover of Cuminia fernandezia, Fagara, and Rhaphithamnus venustus ; tree fern forests from 700 to 750 meters, and brushwood forests above 750 meters.
Introduced fauna by humans include rats and goats, which castaway Alexander Selkirk survived on during his four year stay from 1705 to 1709 ; his travails provided the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.
* February 2 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
Years later, Crusoe joins an expedition to bring slaves from Africa but he is shipwrecked in a storm about forty miles out to sea on an island ( which he calls the Island of Despair ) near the mouth of the Orinoco river on September 30, 1659.
Plaque in Queen's Gardens, Hullthe former Queen's Dock from which Crusoe sailed – showing him on his island
However, Robinson Crusoe is far from a copy of Woodes Rogers ' account: Selkirk was marooned at his own request, while Crusoe was shipwrecked ; the islands are different ; Selkirk lived alone for the whole time, while Crusoe found companions ; while Selkirk stayed on his island for four years, not twenty-eight.
Crusoe standing over Man Friday | Friday after he frees him from the cannibals.
Crusoe represents the ' enlightened ' European whilst Friday is the ' savage ' who can only be redeemed from his barbarous way of life through assimilation into Crusoe's culture.
" Crusoe " may have been taken from Timothy Cruso, a classmate of Defoe's who had written guide books, including God the Guide of Youth ( 1695 ), before dying at an early age – just eight years before Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe.
The classical treatment of the Crusoe economy has been discussed and criticised from a variety of perspectives.
Crusoe frequently observes that the money he salvaged from the ship is worthless on the island, especially when compared to his tools.
The Crusoe model has also been assessed from the perspectives of feminism.
Robinson Crusoe usually referred to his servant as " my man Friday ", from which the term " Man Friday " ( or " Girl Friday ") originated.
The book's epigraph is a quote from Robinson Crusoe, and like Crusoe, Adam Pollo suffers long periods of loneliness.

Crusoe and German
* A German Robinson Crusoe ( 1940 )

Crusoe and ")
* December 13 – Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor ( original " Robinson Crusoe ") ( b. 1676 )
* Robinson Crusoe, told in words of one syllable, by Lucy Aikin ( aka " Mary Godolphin ") ( 1723 – 1764 ).
Minor modifications of the body are routine, such as the addition of gills for underwater breathing (" Goodbye, Robinson Crusoe ") or decorative alterations, such as growing fur on various parts of the body.

Crusoe and sets
* Two sets for Robinson Crusoe, one for the New Magazine and one for Stockdale's edition

Crusoe and Hull
On the north side of the Gardens a plaque commemorates Robinson Crusoe, the famous fictional character who sailed from Hull in 1651 on the voyage that ended with him castaway on a desert island for over 28 years.

Crusoe and on
Selkirk's story aroused great interest at home, and Daniel Defoe's fictional character Robinson Crusoe was almost certainly based in part on him.
Selkirk, el verdadero Robinson Crusoe, a stop motion film by Tournier Animation based on Alexander Selkirk's life was premiered simultaneously in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay on 2 February 2012.
Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe ( 1719 ) tells of a man's shipwreck on a deserted island and his subsequent adventures.
* 1709 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
* Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe was supposedly the autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spent 28 years on a remote island.
The Juan Fernández Islands ( Spanish: Archipiélago Juan Fernández ) are a sparsely inhabited island group reliant on tourism and fishing in the South Pacific Ocean, situated about off the coast of Chile, and is composed of three main volcanic islands ; Robinson Crusoe Island, Alejandro Selkirk Island and Santa Clara Island, the first two being formerly called Más Adentro and Más Afuera respectively.
The population is 633 ( all on Robinson Crusoe ); of those 598 reside in the capital, San Juan Bautista, on Cumberland Bay on the north coast of the island ( 2002 census ).
Higher elevations are generally cooler, with occasional frosts on Robinson Crusoe.
Three endemic species dominate the tall and lower montane forests of the archipelago, Drimys confertifolia on both main islands, Myrceugenia fernandeziana on Robinson Crusoe, and M. schulzei on Alexander Selkirk.
Endemic tree fern species of southern hemisphere genus Dicksonia ( D. berteriana on Robinson Crusoe and D. externa on Alexander Selkirk ) and the endemic genus Thyrsopteris ( T. elegans ) are the predominant species in the tree-fern forests.
Inspired the 1964 movie Robinson Crusoe on Mars.
* Robinson Crusoe on Mars ( 1964 ) – A pastiche of the classic Daniel Defoe novel.
" However, In proposing the thought experiment involving the fictional character, Robinson Crusoe, a captain shipwrecked on a desolate island with no other inhabitant, Wittgenstein shows that language is not in all cases a social phenomenon ( although, they are for most case ); instead the criterion for a language is grounded in a set of interrelated normative activities: teaching, explanations, techniques and criteria of correctness.
Although commonly referred to as simply Robinson Crusoe, the book ’ s complete, original title as it appears on the title page of the first edition is The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque ; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself.

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