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  2. Lilliput and Blefuscu - Wikipedia

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    Lilliput is said to extend 5,000 blustrugs, or 12 miles in circumference. [8] Blefuscu is located northeast of Lilliput, across an 800-yard (730 m) channel. [9] The only cities mentioned by Swift are Mildendo, [10] the capital of Lilliput, and Blefuscu, capital of Blefuscu. [11]

  3. 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.

  4. Cultural influence of Gulliver's Travels - Wikipedia

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    Many sequels followed the initial publishing of the Travels.The earliest of these was the anonymously authored Memoirs of the Court of Lilliput, [6] published 1727, which expands the account of Gulliver's stays in Lilliput and Blefuscu by adding several gossipy anecdotes about scandalous episodes at the Lilliputian court.

  5. Brobdingnag - Wikipedia

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    In at least two cases, he states explicitly that a Brobdingnagian's eyes are "above sixty feet" from the ground, giving a ratio of at least eleven to one. He also states that he would "appear as inconsiderable to this nation as a Lilliputian would be among us", indicating the same twelve to one ratio given for Lilliput was intended. This is ...

  6. Gulliver's Travels (miniseries) - Wikipedia

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    Gulliver's son enters the court room showing the small Lilliputian sheep Gulliver took care of. With this proof of his story, Gulliver is released. Bates goes abroad soon after and is not heard from again. Gulliver struggles against re-becoming like a Yahoo, and shares what he is now as a person.

  7. The Adventures of Gulliver - Wikipedia

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    The capitol of Lilliput comes under attack by a band of Lilliputian-sized Vikings. When the Lilliputians bungle their defensive response, Gary intervenes and drives the invaders away. The Vikings are then met by Leech, who proposes an alliance: If they can get him the map, he will get rid of Gary for them.

  8. Gulliver's Travels (2010 film) - Wikipedia

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    Gulliver is declared a hero by Lilliput's citizens and lies that he is the President of Manhattan, says Yoda is his vice-president and a living legend in his homeland. Edward becomes enraged by the luxurious accommodations that have been built for Gulliver, and for being presented as an honorary general of the Lilliputian Army.

  9. Gulliver's Travels (1977 film) - Wikipedia

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    The remainder of the film has Harris on Lilliput and Blefuscu, with the tiny inhabitants created by animation. The film ends with a cliffhanger: Having escaped by boat from Lilliput, Gulliver encounters one of the giant inhabitants of Brobdingnag, but there is nothing more about his adventures there or in the other lands mentioned in the novel.