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  2. 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.

  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. Lilliput and Blefuscu - Wikipedia

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    Herman Moll: A map of the world shewing the course of Mr Dampiers voyage round it from 1679 to 1691, London 1697.Cropped region near the fictional island Lilliput. Swift was known to be on friendly terms with the cartographer Herman Moll [citation needed] and even mentions him explicitly in Gulliver's Travels (1726), chapter four, part eleven.

  5. Lemuel Gulliver - Wikipedia

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    Lemuel Gulliver meets the King of Brobdingnag (1803), Metropolitan Museum of Art. Lemuel Gulliver (/ ˈ ɡ ʌ l ɪ v ər /) is the fictional protagonist and narrator of Gulliver's Travels, a novel written by Jonathan Swift, first published in 1726.

  6. List of words derived from toponyms - Wikipedia

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    Brobdingnagian, meaning very large in size — Brobdingnag, fictional land in the book Gulliver's Travels; Cloud cuckoo land, an unrealistically idealistic state where everything is perfect, from The Birds by Aristophanes; Eden, any paradisaical area, named after the religious Garden of Eden

  7. Cultural influence of Gulliver's Travels - Wikipedia

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    In the Oxford English Dictionary it is considered a definition for "a rude, noisy, or violent person" and its origins attributed to Swift's Gulliver's Travels. [4] In the discipline of computer architecture, the terms big-endian and little-endian are used to describe two possible ways of laying out bytes in memory. The terms derive from one of ...

  8. Gulliver's Travels (miniseries) - Wikipedia

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    His Lilliputian raft crashes in Brobdingnag, a land populated by Giants. He is found by Farmer Grultrud, who exhibits him as a crop guardian. Gulliver is later sold to a lady of the royal court, along with the farmer's daughter Glumdalclitch as his caretaker, and presented to the Queen of Brobdingnag. For being the smallest creature, Gulliver ...

  9. Lilliput effect - Wikipedia

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    Atkinson et al. (2019) coined the term Brobdingnag effect [4] to describe a related phenomenon, operating in the opposite direction, whereby new species evolving after the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction that began the period with small body sizes underwent substantial size increases. [4]