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    Brobdingnag is a fictional land, which is occupied by giants, in Jonathan Swift's 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels. The story's main character...
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    peninsula on the western coast of the North American continent. The grass of Brobdingnag is as tall as a tree. He is then found by a farmer who is about 72 ft...
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    1685–1688) and later to the East Indies and West Indies (c. 1690–1696). In Brobdingnag, he compares a loud sound to the Niagara Falls, so presumably, he visited...
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  • include Lilliputians and Brobdingnagians, from the islands of Lilliput and Brobdingnag in the satire Gulliver's Travels. In a few cases, where a linguistic...
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  • Gulliver continues to spin his tale. His Lilliputian raft crashes in Brobdingnag, a land populated by Giants. He is found by Farmer Grultrud, who exhibits...
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    but this is not proven." The Strait of Anián can be seen in the map of Brobdingnag featured in Jonathan Swift's classic novel Gulliver's Travels. The Strait...
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    recalls most forcibly the good Dean Swift's traveler in the land of Brobdingnag. I had determined to become a farmer, so I stocked my farm with the best...
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  • Patterson as Reldresal, Jo Morrow as Gwendolyn, Mary Ellis as the Queen of Brobdingnag, Marian Spencer as the Empress of Lilliput, Peter Bull as Lord Bermogg...
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  • Patagon Mapinguari Cherufe - Mapuche religion Yeti A Book of Giants Brobdingnag, fictional land of giants from Jonathan Swift's, Gulliver's Travels Ent...
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  • period of the extinction event. Atkinson et al. (2019) coined the term Brobdingnag effect to describe a related phenomenon, operating in the opposite direction...
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