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“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”

✒️ English novelist (Robinson Crusoe), was 13 September 1660.

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2022-09-13

“It is never too late to be wise.”

📖🌴#OTD in the of 25 April 1719, ROBINSON CRUSOE, one of the first English novels, was published by William Taylor. The first edition was mistaken as a travelogue, as it was attributed to the protagonist.

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2022-04-25

📖 in the of 25 April 1719, published ROBINSON CRUSOE, the first English novel. Authorship was originally credited to the protagonist, leading early readers to believe it was an historical travelogue of true events.

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2021-04-25

Died 24Apr1731 was an English trader, writer, journalist, and spy most famous for his novel "#RobinsonCrusoe." He was also often in debtors' prison and the cause of his death was labelled lethargy but he probably had a stroke.

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2021-04-24

"L'infezione non si diffondeva tanto per via dei malati quanto per via dei sani, o meglio delle persone apparentemente sane. I malati erano riconosciuti per tali, stavano nei loro letti e ognuno aveva modo di guardarsi da loro".







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2021-04-03

"The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear." English novelist author of Robinson Crusoe, was born 1660.

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2020-09-13

Recomendación de cuentos para leer a la luz de la vela 🖤💀🕯
La aparición de Mrs. Veal de Daniel Defoe (1706)

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2019-10-10

"Aprendí a considerar más el aspecto brillante de mi situación que lo que me faltaba, y este recurso, a veces, me proporcionó tan inefable consuelo, que apenas puedo expresarlo”

Hace 288 años moría su autor

Ed. Media Vaca
Ilustraciones:

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2019-04-25

Making Weather: Communication Networks and the Great Storm of 1703
by Sean Silver, ECF 30.4, Summer 2018
https://t.co/aLZiNxkzjG

See the article abstract in the first picture here.

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2018-07-17