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2. Gulliver's Travels - Wikipedia

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   Gulliver's Travels, originally Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire [1] [2] by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre.

3. Lilliput and Blefuscu - Wikipedia

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   Lilliput and Blefuscu are two fictional island nations that appear in the first part of the 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. The two islands are neighbours in the South Indian Ocean, separated by a channel 800 yards (730 m) wide. Both are inhabited by tiny people who are about one-twelfth the height of ordinary human beings ...

4. Houyhnhnm - Wikipedia

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   Houyhnhnms are a fictional race of intelligent horses described in the last part of Jonathan Swift's satirical 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels. The name is pronounced either / ˈ h uː ɪ n əm / or / ˈ hw ɪ n əm /. [1] Swift apparently intended all words of the Houyhnhnm language to echo the neighing of horses.

5. Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels) - Wikipedia

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   The word "yahoo" was coined by Jonathan Swift in the fourth section of Gulliver's Travels [2] and has since entered the English language more broadly. Swift describes Yahoos as filthy with unpleasant habits, "a brute in human form," [ 2 ] resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel Gulliver .

6. Gulliver's Travels (1939 film) - Wikipedia

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   Gulliver's Travels is a 1939 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. [3] Loosely based on the first part of Jonathan Swift's 1726 novel, it was the first of two feature-length animated films by Fleischer Studios and the second animated film produced by an American studio, commissioned by Paramount after the success of Walt Disney ...

7. ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ Getting Contemporary TV Remake From ...

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   Jonathan Swift’s classic satirical adventure ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ is getting a contemporary reimagining for the small screen. Emmy and BAFTA-winning writer Tom Bidwell (“Watership Down ...

8. Struldbrugg - Wikipedia

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   Swift's work depicts the evil of physical immortality without eternal youth. A struldbrugg is easily recognized by a red dot above his left eyebrow, at birth, which changes to black in old age; a struldbrugg is a normal human being until he reaches the age of eighty, when he becomes legally dead.

9. Brobdingnag - Wikipedia

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   Brobdingnag is a fictional land that is occupied by giants, in Jonathan Swift's 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels. The story's main character, Lemuel Gulliver, visits the land after the ship on which he is travelling is blown off course. As a result, he becomes separated from a party exploring the unknown land.