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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. Cultural influence of Gulliver's Travels - Wikipedia

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    Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon (1965) - Japanese anime; Los Viajes de Gulliver (1983): A Spanish animated adaptation depicting Gulliver's adventures in Brobdingnag. [23] [24] Gulliver's Travel is a 2005 Indian English-language 3D-animated film directed by Anita Udeep and produced by the Pentamedia Graphics animation studio. [25]

  5. List of giants in mythology and folklore - Wikipedia

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    Brobdingnag, fictional land of giants from Jonathan Swift's, Gulliver's Travels; Ent; Gargantua and Pantagruel. Hurtaly, fictional giant from François Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel; The Selfish Giant, a short story by Oscar Wilde; Nix Nought Nothing; Veli Jože; Young Ronald

  6. List of fictional Asian countries - Wikipedia

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    The nation is stated to consist of "China and the countries south to it, the Japanese islands, and a large but fluctuating portion of Manchuria, Mongolia and Tibet." Empire of Fuso: Country based on the Empire of Japan in Strike Witches. Glubbdubdrib: An island of sorcerers and necromancers located near Japan in Gulliver's Travels.

  7. Brobdingnagian - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 31 October 2005, at 08:02 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

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

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    Gulliver's Travels is a 1939 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Max Fleischer and directed by Dave Fleischer for Fleischer Studios. [3] Released to cinemas in the United States on December 22, 1939, [4] by Paramount Pictures, the story is a very loose adaptation of Jonathan Swift's 1726 novel of the same name, specifically only the first part of four, which tells the story of ...

  9. Glossary of owarai terms - Wikipedia

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    From the verb bokeru 惚ける or 呆ける, which carries the meaning of "senility" or "air headed-ness," and is reflected in a performer's tendency for misinterpretation and forgetfulness. The boke is the "simple-minded" member of an owarai kombi ( "tsukkomi and boke" , or vice versa ) that receives most of the verbal and physical abuse from ...