Who knows who Joe Bell was? (Now a greneral Trivia thread)
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In 1718, at the ripe old age of sixty, Daniel Defoe began to write his first novel, The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, now known to most people as merely Robinson Crusoe. Defoe based his character on the adventures of Alexander Selkirk, whom at the age of thirty voluntarily stranded himself on a small island in the Pacific Ocean for four years.
In 1718, at the ripe old age of sixty, Daniel Defoe began to write his first novel, The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, now known to most people as merely Robinson Crusoe. Defoe based his character on the adventures of Alexander Selkirk, whom at the age of thirty voluntarily stranded himself on a small island in the Pacific Ocean for four years.
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In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex, thousands of miles from home in the South Pacific, was rammed by an angry sperm whale. The Essex sank, leaving twenty crew members floating in three small boats for ninety days. The incident was the Titanic story of its day, and provided the inspiration for Melville's Moby-Dick.
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