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The Swiss Family Robinson

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The Swiss Family Robinson (German: Der Schweizerische Robinson) is a novel by Johann David Wyss, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family shipwrecked in the East Indies en route to Port Jackson, Australia. [1]

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Acceptance

Acceptance in human psychology is a person's assent to the reality of a situation, recognizing a process or condition (often a negative or uncomfortable situation) without attempting to change it or protest it.

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Adventure fiction

Adventure fiction is fiction that usually presents danger, or gives the reader a sense of excitement.

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Ammunition

Ammunition (informally ammo) is the material fired, scattered, dropped or detonated from any weapon.

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Animal husbandry

Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, eggs, or other products.

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Apple II

The Apple II (stylized as Apple.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Beverly Hills Family Robinson

Beverly Hills Family Robinson is a 1997 American Walt Disney television film based on the novel Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss.

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Carpentry

Carpentry is a skilled trade in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc.

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Castaway

A castaway is a person who is cast adrift or ashore.

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Charlotte Turner Smith

Charlotte Turner Smith (4 May 1749 – 28 October 1806) was an English Romantic poet and novelist.

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Chicken

The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a type of domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the red junglefowl.

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Chris Wiggins

Chris Wiggins (January 13, 1931 – February 19, 2017) was an English-born Canadian actor.

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Commodore 64

The Commodore 64, also known as the C64 or the CBM 64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas, January 7–10, 1982).

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Cooperation

Cooperation (sometimes written as co-operation) is the process of groups of organisms working or acting together for common, mutual, or some underlying benefit, as opposed to working in competition for selfish benefit.

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Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe (13 September 1660 - 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy.

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David Carradine

David Carradine (born John Arthur Carradine; December 8, 1936 – June 3, 2009) was an American actor and martial artist.

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Desert island

A deserted island or uninhabited island is an island that is not permanently populated by humans.

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Dog

The domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris when considered a subspecies of the gray wolf or Canis familiaris when considered a distinct species) is a member of the genus Canis (canines), which forms part of the wolf-like canids, and is the most widely abundant terrestrial carnivore.

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Domestic duck

Domestic ducks are ducks that are raised for meat, eggs and down.

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Domestic goose

Domestic geese (Anser anser domesticus or Anser cygnoides domesticus) are domesticated grey geese (either greylag geese or swan geese) that are kept by humans as poultry for their meat, eggs, and down feathers since ancient times.

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Domestic pigeon

The domestic pigeon (Columba livia domestica) is a pigeon subspecies that was derived from the rock dove (also called the rock pigeon).

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East Indies

The East Indies or the Indies are the lands of South and Southeast Asia.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Firearm

A firearm is a portable gun (a barreled ranged weapon) that inflicts damage on targets by launching one or more projectiles driven by rapidly expanding high-pressure gas produced by exothermic combustion (deflagration) of propellant within an ammunition cartridge.

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Frugality

Frugality is the quality of being frugal, sparing, thrifty, prudent or economical in the consumption of consumable resources such as food, time or money, and avoiding waste, lavishness or extravagance.

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Future

The future is what will happen in the time after the present.

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German language

German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.

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God

In monotheistic thought, God is conceived of as the Supreme Being and the principal object of faith.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print and by its codename Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Great Britain

Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.

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Hammock

A hammock (from Spanish hamaca, borrowed from Taino and Arawak hamaka) is a sling made of fabric, rope, or netting, suspended between two or more points, used for swinging, sleeping, or resting.

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Hardcover

A hardcover or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as case-bound) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of Binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather).

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Heidi

Heidi is a work of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as Heidi: her years of wandering and learning (Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre) and Heidi: How she used what she learned (Heidi kann brauchen, was sie gelernt hat).

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Household silver

Household silver or silverware (the silver, the plate, or silver service) includes tableware, cutlery, and other household items made of sterling silver, Britannia silver, or Sheffield plate silver.

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Human

Humans (taxonomically Homo sapiens) are the only extant members of the subtribe Hominina.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.

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Isabelle de Montolieu

Isabelle de Montolieu (1751–1832) was a Swiss novelist and translator.

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Jackal

Jackals are medium-sized omnivorous mammals of the genus Canis, which also includes wolves, coyotes and the domestic dog.

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James Keach

James Keach (born December 7, 1947) is an American actor, producer, and director.

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Jane Seymour (actress)

Jane Seymour, OBE (born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg; 15 February 1951), is an English actress who in February 2005, became a naturalized citizen of the United States.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer and composer.

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Johann David Wyss

Johann David Wyss (May 28, 1743 in Bern – January 11, 1818 in Bern) was a Swiss author, best remembered for his book The Swiss Family Robinson (Der schweizerische Robinson) (1812).

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Johann Rudolf Wyss

Johann Rudolf Wyss (4 March 178221 March 1830) was a Swiss author, writer, and folklorist who wrote the words to the former Swiss national anthem Rufst Du, mein Vaterland in 1811, and also edited the novel The Swiss Family Robinson, written by his father Johann David Wyss, published in 1812.

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Johanna Spyri

Johanna Louise Spyri (née Heusser;; 12 June 1827 – 7 July 1901) was a Swiss-born author of novels, notably children's stories, and is best known for her book Heidi.

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Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

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List of domesticated animals

This page gives a list of domestic animals, also including a list of animals which are or may be currently undergoing the process of domestication and animals that have an extensive relationship with humans beyond simple predation.

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List of food preparation utensils

A kitchen utensil is a hand-held, typically small tool that is designed for food-related functions.

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Livestock

Livestock are domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce labor and commodities such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.

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Lost in Space

Lost in Space is an American science fiction television series created and produced by Irwin Allen.

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Mammal

Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.

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Martin Milner

Martin Sam Milner (December 28, 1931 – September 6, 2015) was an American film, stage, radio, and television actor.

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Mighty Mouse

Mighty Mouse is an American animated anthropomorphic, superhero mouse character created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox.

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Natural history

Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms including animals, fungi and plants in their environment; leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

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Novel

A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, which is typically published as a book.

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Outline of physical science

Physical science is a branch of natural science that studies non-living systems, in contrast to life science.

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Owen Wister

Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 – July 21, 1938) was an American writer and historian, considered the "father" of western fiction.

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Paperback

A paperback is a type of book characterized by a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples.

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Pinnace (ship's boat)

As a ship's boat, the pinnace is a light boat, propelled by oars or sails, carried aboard merchant and war vessels in the Age of Sail to serve as a tender.

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Plant

Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae.

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Port Jackson

Port Jackson, consisting of the waters of Sydney Harbour, Middle Harbour, North Harbour and the Lane Cove and Parramatta Rivers, is the ria or natural harbour of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Richard Thomas (actor)

Richard Earl Thomas (born June 13, 1951) is an American actor.

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Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719.

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Robinsonade

Robinsonade is a literary genre that takes its name from the 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Sleep

Sleep is a naturally recurring state of mind and body, characterized by altered consciousness, relatively inhibited sensory activity, inhibition of nearly all voluntary muscles, and reduced interactions with surroundings.

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Soup2Nuts

Soup2Nuts (also known as Soup2Nutz)(formerly Tom Snyder Productions) was an American animation studio founded by Tom Snyder.

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Space Family Robinson

Space Family Robinson was an original science-fiction comic book series published by Gold Key Comics.

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Stranded (2002 film)

Stranded is a 2002 television adventure drama film directed by Charles Beeson, based on Johann David Wyss's novel The Swiss Family Robinson.

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Swiss Family Robinson (1940 film)

Swiss Family Robinson is a 1940 American film released by RKO Radio Pictures and directed by Edward Ludwig.

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Swiss Family Robinson (1960 film)

Swiss Family Robinson is a 1960 American adventure film starring John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, Tommy Kirk and Kevin Corcoran in a tale of a shipwrecked family building an island home, loosely based on the 1812 novel Der Schweizerische Robinson (literally, The Swiss Robinson) by Johann David Wyss.

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Swiss Family Robinson (1974 TV series)

Swiss Family Robinson is a 1974–1975 Canadian television drama series, based on Johann David Wyss' novel The Swiss Family Robinson.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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T. J. Hoisington

TJ Hoisington is an American author, professional speaker, entrepreneur, business consultant and publisher.

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The Adventures of Swiss Family Robinson

The Adventures of Swiss Family Robinson is a 1998 family adventure series that originally aired on the PAX network (now Ion Television).

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The Castaways of the Flag

The Castaways of the Flag (Seconde patrie, lit. Second Fatherland, 1900) is an adventure novel written by Jules Verne.

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The Coral Island

The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean (1858) is a novel written by Scottish author.

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The New Swiss Family Robinson

The New Swiss Family Robinson is a 1998 American adventure film directed by Stewart Raffill.

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The Swiss Family Robinson (1975 TV series)

The Swiss Family Robinson is an American action and adventure series that was broadcast during the 1975–76 TV season.

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The Swiss Family Robinson: Flone of the Mysterious Island

is an anime series produced by Nippon Animation.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

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William Godwin

William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist.

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William Henry Giles Kingston

William Henry Giles Kingston (28 February 1814 – 5 August 1880), often credited as W. H. G. Kingston, was an English writer of boys' adventure novels.

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Windham Classics

Windham Classics Corporation was a subsidiary of Spinnaker Software.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swiss_Family_Robinson

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