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(percent of trips)Winter20%Spring23%Summer33%Fall24%Source: Travel Industry Association of America; Travelscope®.World's Top Ten Tourism Earners, 2004Travel StatisticsTop States Visited by U.…Brewer's: Nardac
The highest title of honour in the realm of Lilliput. Gulliver received this distinction for carrying off the whole fleet of the Blefuscudians. (Swift: Gulliver's Travels; Voyage to…Brewer's: Lilliput
The country of pigmies called “Lilliputians,” to whom Gulliver was a giant. (Swift: Gulliver's Travels.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894LilyLilli-Burlero A…Artemidorus of Ephesus
(Encyclopedia) Artemidorus of EphesusArtemidorus of Ephesusärtĕmˌĭdôrˈəs, ĕfˈəsəs [key], fl. 103 b.c., Greek geographer quoted by Strabo. He wrote 11 books on his Mediterranean travels. Only…Dwight, Harrison Gray Otis
(Encyclopedia) Dwight, Harrison Gray Otis, 1803–62, American Congregational missionary to the Armenians, b. Conway, Mass. He served the Armenian population of Constantinople for 30 years. His travels…Brewer's: Reldresal
Principal secretary for private affairs in the court of Lilliput, and great friend of Gulliver. When it was proposed to put the Man-Mountain to death for high treason, Reldresal moved as…Brewer's: Glumdalclitch
A girl, nine years old, and only forty feet high, who had charge of Gulliver in Brobdingnag. (Swift: Gulliver's Travels.) Soon as Glumdalclitch missed her pleasing care, She wept, she…Bartlett, William Henry
(Encyclopedia) Bartlett, William Henry, 1800–1854, English painter and illustrator. After four visits to the United States, Bartlett illustrated a book, American Scenery (1840), with panoramic vistas…Markham, Sir Clements Robert
(Encyclopedia) Markham, Sir Clements RobertMarkham, Sir Clements Robertmärˈkəm [key], 1830–1916, English geographer and writer. While in the navy he served on a British expedition (1850–51) to the…Carver, Jonathan
(Encyclopedia) Carver, Jonathan, 1710–80, American explorer, b. Weymouth, Mass. He served in the French and Indian War and in 1766 was hired by Robert Rogers to undertake a journey to some of the…Trending
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