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Brewer's: Luggnagg
An island mentioned in Gulliver's Travels, where people live for ever. Swift shows the evil of such a destiny, unless accompanied with eternal youth. (See Struldbrugs.) Source:…Brewer's: Lagado
Capital of Balnibarbi, celebrated for its grand academy of projectors, where the scholars spend their time in such useful projects as making pincushions from softened rocks, extracting…Brewer's: High Heels
and Low Heels. The High and Low Church party. The names of two factions in Swift's tale of Lilliput. (Gulliver's Travels.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Mildendo
The metropolis of Lilliput, the wall of which was two feet and a half in height, and at least eleven inches thick. The city was an exact square, and two main streets divided it into four…Brewer's: Yahoo
A savage; a very ill-mannered person. In Gulliver's Travels the Yahoos are described as brutes with human forms and vicious propensities. They are subject to the Houyhnhnms, or horses with…Brewer's: Glubdubdrib
The land of sorcerers and magicians visited by Gulliver in hisTravels. (Swift.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Gluckist and PiccinistsGloves A B C D E…Brewer's: Small-endians
The Big-endians of Lilliput made it a point of orthodoxy to crack their eggs at the big end; but were considered heretics for so doing by the Small-endians, who insisted that eggs ought to…light-year
(Encyclopedia) light-year, in astronomy, unit of length equal to the distance light travels in one sidereal year. It is 9.461 × 1012 km (about 6 million million mi). Alpha Centauri and Proxima…Rømer, Olaus
(Encyclopedia) Rømer, Olaus or OleRømer, Olaus or Oleōläˈ&oobreve;s, ōˈlə römˈər [key], 1644–1710, Danish astronomer. He is noted for his discovery that light travels at a definite speed and does…Posidonius
(Encyclopedia) PosidoniusPosidoniuspōsēdōˈnēəs [key], c.135–c.51 b.c., Greek Stoic philosopher, b. Apamea, Syria. He settled in Rhodes after extensive travels. Noted for his learning, Posidonius gave…Trending
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