Director and script writer Sam Raimi drew from a variety of sources, including literature with A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and films like The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts, and The Three Stooges.

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ) in part parodies Defoe's adventure novel.

In Jonathan Swift's poem: " The Progress of Beauty ", as goddess of the moon, Diana is used in comparison to the 17th / early 18th century everyday woman Swift satirically writes about.

* Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels was originally attributed to " Lemuel Gulliver ", a ship's surgeon, and purported to be a factual account of four of his sea voyages.

" G. K. Chesterton compared it to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels: " Gilbert pursued and persecuted the evils of modern England till they had literally not a leg to stand on, exactly as Swift did ...

* In book 4 of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, the name of the Houyhnhnms is an onomatopoeia for the whinny of a horse.

A product of the budding Age of Reason and the development of modern science itself, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels was one of the first true science fantasy works, together with Voltaire's Micromégas ( 1752 ) and Johannes Kepler's Somnium ( 1620 – 1630 ).

* Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal and The Predictions for the Ensuing Year ( written as Isaac Bickerstaff ).

The later part, taking place on the planet of the " centaurs "— intelligent, horselike carnivores who dominate all other fauna on the planet including deformed human-like creatures — is evidently intended as Heinlein's commentary on and antithesis to the fourth part of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

Houyhnhnms ( or ; Swift apparently intended all words of the Houyhnhnm language to echo the neighing of horses ) are a race of intelligent horses described in the last part of Jonathan Swift's satirical Gulliver's Travels.

* Lilliput and Blefuscu, two island nations in Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels

Geological features on Phobos are named after astronomers who studied Phobos and people and places from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, published seven years after Robinson Crusoe, may be read as a systematic rebuttal of Defoe's optimistic account of human capability.

* In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels ( Part III ), the base of the fictitious flying island of Laputa is made of Adamant.

* Armagh Public Library on Abbey Street in Armagh City, especially rich in 17th and 18th century English books, including Dean Jonathan Swift's own copy of the first edition of his Gulliver's Travels with his manuscript corrections

A reprise of the theme of immortality without eternal youth appear in Book 3 of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels where the struldbrugs are in Tithonus's predicament.

In one scene of Jonathan Swift's The Battle of the Books, Momus, while rushing to defend the Moderns, gets some aid from the goddess Criticism.

A small creek winding through Campton, Swift Creek, is named after Jonathan Swift of the legend of Swift's silver mine.

Campton was a camp town with a small creek, swift creek ( named after Jonathan Swift of the legend of Swift's silver mine ) running through the town.

Although meaningless in Japanese, the name " Laputa " comes from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

* References to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island were removed, as was the reference to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

Jonathan Swift's protagonist, Lemuel Gulliver, visited various strange places.

He is best remembered for his contributions to mathematics, his membership in the Scriblerus Club ( where he inspired both Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels book III and Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry, Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus, and possibly The Dunciad ), and for inventing the figure of John Bull.

The group's name is derived from the kingdom of coarse giants described in Jonathan Swift's satirical novel Gulliver's Travels.

As a satirical utopia, Erewhon has sometimes been compared to Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ), a classic novel by Jonathan Swift ; the image of Utopia in this latter case also bears strong parallels with the self-view of the British Empire at the time.

* Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ) by Jonathan Swift

Satirical novels with fantastic settings such as Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift may be considered speculative fiction.

* In Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift ( 1726 ), the country of Lilliput is described as being “ to the north-west of Van Dieman's Land ”.

A Yahoo is a legendary being in the novel Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ) by Jonathan Swift.

* 1726: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

* Jonathan Swift begins Gulliver's Travels.

Jonathan Swift is widely believed to be misanthropic ( see A Tale of a Tub and, most especially, Book IV of Gulliver's Travels ).

Laputa is a fictional place from the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.

* Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift at Project Gutenberg

* Tailors ' Rule of Thumb: This is the fictional rule described by Jonathan Swift in his satirical novel Gulliver's Travels:

The title is a reference to Gulliver's Travels, the famous novel by satirist Jonathan Swift about another journey of self-discovery.

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729.

A Modest Proposal is the name of The University of Texas at Dallas ' Alternative Student Newspaper, the monthly opinion paper of the University ; it was also the name of a regular column in SWIFT Magazine of Harvard University, a satire publication that also takes its name from Jonathan Swift.

Author Gilbert Chase writes that " Amazing Grace " is " without a doubt the most famous of all the folk hymns ," and Jonathan Aitken, a Newton biographer, estimates that it is performed about 10 million times annually.

Jonathan Tunick is the most prominent arranger, being one of only twelve people to have won Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, and Tony awards.

All this has been gorgeously orchestrated by Jonathan Tunick ; there is no rhythm section, only strings and woodwinds to carry the melodies and harmonies aloft.

The elegant, harmonically-advanced music in this musical pays indirect homage to the compositions of Maurice Ravel, especially his Valses nobles et sentimentales ( whose opening chord is " borrowed " for the opening chord of the song " Liaisons "); part of this effect stems from the style of orchestration that Jonathan Tunick used.

David is heartbroken on discovering the death of Jonathan, tearing his clothes apart.

The club is based at The Gabba and is captained by Jonathan Brown and coached by Michael Voss, a former captain of the club.

Adopted by Jonathan and Martha Kent from the Kansas town of Smallville, Clark ( and thus Superman ) was raised with the values of a typical rural American town, including attending the local Methodist Church ( though it is debated by comic fans if Superman is a Methodist ).

In the Elseworlds stories starting with Superman: Last Son of Earth, he is the son of Jonathan Kent, who saves his son from the destruction of the Earth.

* An accessible primer for the literary aspect of critical theory is Jonathan Culler's Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction ISBN 0-19-285383-X

The current Chief of Naval Operations is Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert.

Aleandro is depicted by Jonathan Firth in the 2003 film Luther as the main antagonist.

In 1997, Jonathan Kingdon suggested that the Nubian giraffe was the most threatened of all giraffes ;, it may number fewer than 250, although this estimate is uncertain.

* Jonathan Swift once lived across the road from the Glasnevin Model School, which is now the Glasnevin Educate Together School.

Jon ( Jonathan Q. Arbuckle ) is Garfield's owner, usually depicted as an awkward clumsy geek who has trouble finding a date.

In 1975 Jonathan Fox founded Playback Theatre, a form of improvised community theatre which is often not comedic and replays stories as shared by members of the audience.

Reynolds wrote to Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of St Asaph, a few weeks later: " Your Lordship congratulation on my succeeding Mr. Ramsay I take very kindly but it is a most miserable office, it is reduced from two hundred to thirty-eight pounds per annum, the Kings Rat catcher I believe is a better place, and I am to be paid only a fourth part of what I have from other people, so that the Portraits of their Majesties are not likely to be better done now, than they used to be, I should be ruined if I was to paint them myself ".

Robert Jonathan Demme ( born February 22, 1944 ) is an American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter.