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Jonathan Swift: Encyclopedia II - Jonathan Swift - Biography

Jonathan Swift was born at No. 7, Hoey's Court, Dublin, to an English mother, seven months after his father died. He was educated by his Uncle Godwin, and then sent to Swift's Heath, Kilkenny, from where, at the age of six years, he went to the Kilkenny Grammar School (also attended by the philosopher George Berkeley). In 1682 he attended Trinity College, Dublin, and he moved to live with his mother, Abigail Erick, at Leicester. Soon afterwards an opening to work for Sir William Temple presented itself. In 1689 Swift went to live at M ...

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Jonathan Swift: Encyclopedia - 1726

1726 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths 1726 - Events. George Friderich Handel becomes a British subject. Jonathan Swift publishes Gulliver's Travels. The city of Montevideo was esta ...

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Jonathan Swift: Encyclopedia - A Tale of a Tub

This article is about the satire by Jonathan Swift. For the 1633 play by Ben Jonson, see A Tale of a Tub (play). A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, having been composed between 1694 and 1697 and published in 1704. It is likely his most difficult satire, and possibly his most masterful. The Tale is a prose parody which is divided up into sections of "digression" and "tale." The "tale" presents a consistent satire of religious excess, while the digressions are a series of paro ...

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Jonathan Swift: Encyclopedia - A Modest Proposal

This article refers to a classic satirical pamphlet written by Jonathan Swift., entitled... "A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public" (1729). For a more general definition of the term "Modest Proposal", see Modern usage. A Modest Proposal - Theme. The author (who is not to be confused with Swift himself, but is me ...

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Jonathan Swift: Encyclopedia - Brobdingnagian Bards

The Brobdingnagian Bards are a Celtic music group from Austin, Texas. They derived their name from the kingdom of coarse giants described in Jonathan Swift's satirical novel Gulliver's Travels. The band has two members: Marc Gunn (autoharp), and Andrew McKee (recorder, mandolin). Gunn, formerly of Austin alt-rock bands Skander and Breastfed, released a solo album (Geography) featuring himself on autoharp and with McKee contributing on recorder in 1998. Inspired by the success of their collabo ...

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Jonathan Swift: Encyclopedia - Yowie cryptid

Yowie can refer to either of two mythical creatures of Australian folklore: The name has been applied to an Australian cryptid analogous to the American bigfoot. Yowie (or Yowie-Whowie) is also the name of a completely different mythological character in native Australian Aboriginal folklore. It is said to be a giant beast, resembling a cross between a lizard and an ant. It emerges from the ground at night to eat whatever it can find - even humans. This is sometimes considered to be the same legend as the bunyip. Jonathan Swift's yahoos is sometimes believed to be cognate with y ...

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Jonathan Swift: Encyclopedia - Clay S. Jenkinson

Clay S. Jenkinson (born 1955) is an American humanities scholar and author who first achieved fame for his portrayal (first-person historical interpretation) of Thomas Jefferson. As co-founder of the modern Chautauqua movement, Jenkinson has also portrayed Sir Francis Bacon, Jonathan Swift, J. Robert Oppenheimer, John Wesley Powell, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Theodore Roosevelt, and Meriwether Lewis [1]. Jenkinson's public portrayals take the form of lengthy monologues followed by Q & A sessions as the character (in costume) featured

Jonathan Swift: Encyclopedia - Utopian and dystopian fiction

Utopian fiction is the creation of an ideal world as the setting for a novel. Dystopian fiction is the opposite: creation of a nightmare world. Both are commonly found in science fiction novels and stories. The word utopia was first used in this context by Thomas More in his work Utopia, which literally means "nowhere". In this work, More sets out a vision of an ideal society. Other examples include Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, and B.F. Skinner's Walden Two. Gulliver's Travels m ...

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Jonathan Swift: Encyclopedia II - Phobos moon - Discovery

Phobos was discovered by American astronomer Asaph Hall on August 18, 1877 at the US Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C at about 09:14 GMT (contemporary sources, using the pre-1925 astronomical convention that began the day at noon, give the time of discovery as August 17 16:06 Washington mean time). [1]. Asaph Hall also discovered Deimos, Mars' other moon. The notebook of the discovery of Phobos by Asaph Hall is as follows: "I repeated the examination in the early part of the night of [August] 11th, and again found ...

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