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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. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants

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    Le Voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les Géants, released in the United States as Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants and in the United Kingdom as Gulliver's Travels—In the land of the Lilliputians and the Giants, [1] is a 1902 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès, based on Jonathan Swift's 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels.

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

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    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. The townspeople find Gulliver's boat and his things, when Gulliver receives angry voicemails from Darcy, who has to take his place and travel to Bermuda. The next day, the Blefuscian ...

  7. List of films featuring miniature people - Wikipedia

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    Film Year(s) Description The 3 Worlds of Gulliver: 1960: The US fantasy film is an adaptation of the 18th-century novel Gulliver's Travels, and features a voyage during which Dr. Gulliver is perceived as a giant by the small Lilliputian people, and is later perceived as small by the giant Brobdingnagian people.

  8. Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels) - Wikipedia

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    The American frontiersman Daniel Boone, who often used terms from Gulliver's Travels, claimed that he killed a hairy giant that he called a Yahoo. [4]The fictitious country of Yahoo was the setting for Bertolt Brecht's 1936 play Round Heads and Pointed Heads.

  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.