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  2. 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.

  3. A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation

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    A Complete Collection of genteel and ingenious Conversation, according to the most polite mode and method now used at Court, and in the best Companies of England, commonly known as A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, or more simply as Polite Conversation, is a book by Jonathan Swift offering an ironic and satirical commentary on the perceived banality of conversation ...

  4. List of free PC games - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of PC games that have been deemed monetarily free by their creator or copyright holder. This includes free-to-play games, even if they include monetized micro transactions. List

  5. History of Yahoo - Wikipedia

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    When Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web was renamed to Yahoo! in 1994, Yang and Filo said that "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" was a suitable backronym for this name, but they insisted they had selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."

  6. Quote of the Moment: The problem with free games - AOL

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    Because the games are fundamentally free, all the game's features must do two things. One, attract as many people as possible. Quote of the Moment: The problem with free games

  7. 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.

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  9. That time an unknown, teenage Swift performed at Yahoo ... - AOL

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    'Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour': Inside the magic and chaos of the film's L.A. premiere. 6 memorable moments from Taylor Swift's record-breaking Eras Tour. Taylor Swift's 'Eras Tour' arrives in ...