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Crusoe and standing
In February 1842 Villiers was called by Monckton Milne MP the " solitary Robinson Crusoe standing on the barren rock of Corn Law repeal ".

Crusoe and over
This journey, too, ends in disaster as the ship is taken over by Salé pirates ( the Salé Rovers ) and Crusoe is enslaved by a Moor.
*" Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe & the Robinsonades Digital Collection " with over 200 versions of Robinson Crusoe openly and freely online with full text and zoomable page images from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature
The Efficeon processor addressed many of Crusoe's shortcomings and showed roughly a 2x real-world improvement over Crusoe.
*[...] the rest of their company rescued them, and stood over them fighting till they were come to themselves, all but him whom they thought had been dead ; [...] ( Defoe, The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Chapter 6, Part 1.
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.
In 1837, however, just younger than 21 and having imbibed from Robinson Crusoe a taste for adventure, he went to America and wandered over a large part of the United States, supporting himself by whatever work came to hand.
* For historical examples, see " Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe & the Robinsonades Digital Collection " which has an overview of the genre along with over 200 versions of Robinson Crusoe and historical robinsonades openly and freely online with full text and zoomable page images from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature
He illustrated over 500 books ( including natural history subjects and numerous classic novels such as Robinson Crusoe, Tarzan, Plutonia ) and some 600 book covers, but it is within the fields of palaeontology and palaeoanthropology that Burian's influence has been most notable.
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.
As a writer, editor and translator Mansur has been variously involved in a number of publications over a 35 year period ranging from an English – Papiamentu dictionary to a History of Aruba to fascinating psychological historical romance and fiction to Aruban republications and Papiamento translations of classics of English and world literature such as Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe, Hans Chrisstian Andersen and Alexandre Dumas.

Crusoe and Man
Robinson Crusoe usually referred to his servant as " my man Friday ", from which the term " Man Friday " ( or " Girl Friday ") originated.
Peter O ' Toole and Richard Roundtree co-starred in a 1975 film Man Friday which satirically portrayed Crusoe as incapable of seeing his dark-skinned companion as anything but an inferior creature, while Friday is more enlightened and empathetic.
Robinson Crusoe and Man Friday by Carl Offterdinger
* The 1935 Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Man Friday features Mickey as Crusoe, with Friday and other islanders as humanized monkey characters.
It starred Richard Roundtree as Man Friday and Peter O ' Toole as Crusoe.
The vastness of interstellar space, and the constraints of relativistic physics, may keep them isolated for thousands of years from other human or non-human ( possibly robotic ) settlements scattered across the galaxy, hidden amongst hundreds of billions of other stars and planets ; and in their new life, they may meet aliens, just as Robinson Crusoe met Man Friday.
Similarly, the native people that Unca Eliza discovers easily accept Christianity unlike Man Friday in Michael Tournier's modern revision of the Robinson Crusoe narrative, Friday.

Crusoe and Friday
He dreams of obtaining one or two servants by freeing some prisoners ; when a prisoner escapes, Crusoe helps him, naming his new companion " Friday " after the day of the week he appeared.
After more natives arrive to partake in a cannibal feast, Crusoe and Friday kill most of the natives and save two prisoners.
The idealised master-servant relationship Defoe depicts between Crusoe and Friday can also be seen in terms of cultural imperialism.
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.
No longer a cultural supremacist, Crusoe remembers Friday, who has since died, with deep nostalgia and affection.
In this novel Crusoe is depicted as a much less motivated man and Friday as a mute.
The opera includes a duet by Robinson Crusoe and Friday.
Variations on the theme include the 1954 Miss Robin Crusoe, with a female castaway, played by Amanda Blake, and a female Friday, and the 1964 film Robinson Crusoe on Mars, starring Paul Mantee, with an alien Friday portrayed by Victor Lundin.
* Will ( Indian ) ( 17th century ), a Misquito castaway, possibly the model for Friday in Robinson Crusoe
Around the beginning of January 1694, Crusoe and Friday went on board this ship in the Downs on the 8th, then arrived at Crusoe's Island via Ireland.
* " Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday On Saturday Night?
*" Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday On Saturday Night?
* In Robinson Crusoe on Mars ( 1964 ) Kit Draper and Friday flee from the enemy aliens through the underground canals on their way to the polar ice cap.
Friday is one of the main characters of Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.

Crusoe and |
Image: Rob-cru. png | Map of Isla Más a Tierra / Crusoe.
Town of San Juan Bautista, Chile | San Juan Bautista on Cumberland Bay, Robinson Crusoe Island.

Crusoe and after
In October 1704, after the ships had parted ways because of a dispute between Stradling and Dampier, the Cinque Ports was brought by Stradling to an island that is today known as Robinson Crusoe Island in the uninhabited archipelago of Juan Fernández off the coast of Chile for a mid-expedition restocking of supplies and fresh water.
* 1709 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
Defoe's immediate inspiration for Crusoe is usually thought to be a Scottish sailor named Alexander Selkirk, who was rescued in 1709 by Woodes Rogers ' expedition after four years on the uninhabited island of Más a Tierra in the Juan Fernández Islands off the Chilean coast.
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, published seven years after Robinson Crusoe, may be read as a systematic rebuttal of Defoe's optimistic account of human capability.
Whilst anchored in Cumberland Bay, Robinson Crusoe Island, the Dresden was trapped and forced to scuttle after fighting a battle there with the British.
Crusoe was the first family of microprocessors from Transmeta, named after the literary character Robinson Crusoe.
Crusoe saw a painted clay model on May 18, 1953, which corresponded closely to the final car ; he gave the car the go-ahead in September after comparing it with current European trends.
Alexander Selkirk, the man whose adventures on the islands of Juan Fernandez inspired Daniel Defoe to write Robinson Crusoe, visited the Galapagos in 1708 after he was rescued from the island of Juan Fernández by the privateer Woodes Rogers.
Crusoe returns to England twenty-eight years after being shipwrecked on the island, and four years after rescuing Friday.
It was named Le grand Robinson after the tree house described in Swiss Family Robinson, a novel itself named after Robinson Crusoe.
The term is an eponym, named after famous inventor Thomas Edison, formed in the same way the term " Robinsonade " was formed from Robinson Crusoe.
Defoe had written political and religious polemics prior to Robinson Crusoe, and he worked as a journalist during and after its composition.
Once they arrive Crusoe lights a fuse leading to a load of gunpowder, but Skipper chases after the lit fuse and also dies in the explosion.
In the film, Crusoe is wounded by Friday's enemies and Friday takes him to his own island to be healed, but Friday's tribe has disowned him, and force Crusoe and Friday to fight to the death after saying they will allow the winner to go free.
Just as Friday is about to kill Crusoe ( after Crusoe tells Friday to take his life and be free ), a slaver ship arrives and kills Friday before enslaving his tribe and razing their village.
It is likely that Defoe took inspiration for Crusoe from a Scottish sailor named Alexander Selkirk, who was rescued in 1709 after four years on the otherwise uninhabited Juan Fernández Islands ; Defoe usually made use of current events for his plots.

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