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February 2, 2020 - What happened on that day?

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222623) • United States 2 Feb 20

Groundhog Day - The groundhog predicted an early spring! Yay! Super Bowl Sunday Palindrome Day - 02/02/2020 - The date reads the same forward and backward. It's the first palindrome day in over 900 years. Hedgehog Day 1653 -...

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Playing At Being Robinson Crusoe For A Day.....

Sue21 @lovinangelsinstead21 (36847) • Pamplona, Spain 8 Jun 19

Who would not have like to have "played" at being Robinson Crusoe for day? Taking up your bucket and spade Into the sea waters to wade Being all on your own On your own with wide stretches of sand to contemplate Okay its all in...

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Today I Tied with Robinson Crusoe

Gus Kilthau @Ceerios (4698) • Goodfellow, Texas 9 Jun 16

Robinson Crusoe... Remember him? He's the guy who got himself shipwrecked and stuck on a barren island. Nobody there but him - except, by and by, he found out he was not alone. He followed some footprints in the sand. Then...

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "Say 'Hello' for Me" by Frank W. Coggins

Siduri @msiduri (5687) • United States 11 May 16

Professor Pettibone has been marooned on Mars for 20 years. His shipmates have perished. For twenty years, he gets up every morning, dresses in what remains of his spacesuit recites a little ditty to the sun he learned in...

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Are you crazy about reading?

dannie0821 @dannie0821 (42) • China 13 Aug 08

I believe everyone will be keen on certain things.For me I like reading very much and as a learner of English,I like reading English novels so much that I nearly got crazy about it. I just think the English language is very...

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It's time to play...That old "desert island" game!

Maggiepie @Maggiepie (7816) • United States 9 Jun 08

Goes like this: You're shipwrecked on a desert island (some versions have it "walled up in a cave"), from which you're probably NEVER going to leave. Name the five books YOU most want to have for the rest of your life! I...

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Did you ever read Robinson Crusoe?

its-logos-plus-logic @flowerchilde (12529) • United States 20 May 08

It was the first book I ever remember reading, and I really think it had a huge influence on me. Many people would think if things collapsed (in the world) they couldn't go on.. but I never forgot Robinson Crusoe on his island by...

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What do you think of the computer reading your mind?

its-logos-plus-logic @flowerchilde (12529) • United States 16 Apr 08

I'm talking about ads, of course.. ever since I bought a "Robinson Crusoe" book, more Robinson Crusoe books keep coming up on the ads.. plus other interests and things I discuss (and not only here at Mylot, it seems to me). - I...

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What are your favourite quotations?

TheDevil @TheDevil (840) • India 5 Apr 08

Don't you sumtimes feel stuck to a problem or a no-win situation and you find yourself very depressed and unable to do anything ? It even gets worse when you find nobody to talk to. Well,I had gone thru this a lot.One of the...

You can't name your child "Friday"

shakeroo @shakeroo (3986) • Malaysia 26 Dec 07

Do you know that in Italy you can't name your child "Friday"? "Italian judges forbade a couple from naming their son Friday, saying it would bring the child shame and ridicule to be named after the character in Robinson...

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Friday: A good name for a boy?

Just an Ordinary Owl? @owlwings (43897) • Cambridge, England 18 Dec 07

This story came from Yahoo News. I do tend to agree that people ought sometimes to think before naming a child with an unusual (or even, perhaps, offensive) name but, in this case, I see nothing wrong. It seems that there wasn't...

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When did you begin to read English fictions?

taskata10 @taskata10 (627) • China 1 Nov 07

Hi!All I have been enjoying English since I was a junior high school student. When I was in Grade Eight, my father encouraged me to learn English fictions such as Robinson Crusoe, The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Oliver Twist and so...

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Here is a photo of my favorite beach!Do you have your favorite beach?

aaidjs @aaidjs (1149) • Croatia (Hrvatska) 21 Oct 07

During the summertime my family like to spend few days on the small island with very nice beaches!!Island is small and without habitants!There are no electricity or water/you have to bring all/!I like that Robinson Crusoe...

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We are going to attempt to build a raft and need suggestions?

Woodpigeon @Woodpigeon (3710) • Ireland 23 Apr 07

Over the weekend my son wanted to build a boat that he could float in our neighbourhood stream. His dad got involved, out came the Skill Saw, electric drills, and many, many boxes of tools. It took the better part of Saturday...

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What money is for?

happybabe @happybabe (206) • China 9 Apr 07

Money is a blessing when it is used rightly.The same is ture of all other good things.They bless if used well;they curse when abused.Many people do not seem to know that money is for.They want it above all things.But want it to...

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Romanticism

suniyo @suniyo (29) • India 11 Feb 07

I am here with the first article in the series. Gothic and Romantic novels' time period collide with each other towards the end of the romanticism era. during this era novel writing in English flourished for the first time....

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A very funny line...must read it..

ArienKing @ArienKing (4647) • India 31 Jan 07

"The only person who has had his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe... "

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Your favorite story

midnightuser @midnightuser (252) • United States 24 Jan 07

What are you reading right now? Why are you reading it? What do you enjoy about it? I absolutely love to read and I am always looking for good ideas on what I can read next. Currently I am reading a collection of short stories...

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Have u ever found the movie adaptation of a novel better that the novel itself?

agnosticme @agnosticme (11) • India 12 Jan 07

many great novels have inspired their movie counterparts (sometimes more than one), like 'gone with the wind', 'dune', 'the bone collector', 'robinson crusoe', '2001 a space odyssey', 'the da vinci code', 'around the world in 80...

Alexander Selkirk

PaulMel @PaulMel (658) • Portugal 9 Jan 07

Alexander Selkirk, born Alexander Selcraig, (1676–13 December 1721) was a Scottish sailor who spent four years as a castaway on an uninhabited island; it is probable that his travails provided the inspiration for Defoe's Robinson...

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