Franklin created the Poor Richard persona based in part on Jonathan Swift's pseudonymous character, " Isaac Bickerstaff.

Mason also served as Massachusetts Governor Jane Swift's chief secretary.

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

In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, the eponymic hero refers to his travels in Tartary on two occasions, and suggests that the then modern geographers of Europe were " in a great error, by supposing nothing but sea between Japan and California ; for it was ever my opinion, that there must be a balance of earth to counterpoise the great continent of Tartary ..."

Perhaps inspired by Johannes Kepler ( and quoting Kepler's third law ), Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels refers to two moons in Part 3, Chapter 3 ( the " Voyage to Laputa "), in which the astronomers of Laputa are described as having discovered two satellites of Mars orbiting at distances of 3 and 5 Martian diameters, and periods of 10 and 21. 5 hours, respectively.

Pope published two pamphlet accounts of the incident and informed the public ( a la Swift's Bickerstaff Papers ) that Curll was dead.

Perhaps inspired by Johannes Kepler ( and quoting Kepler's third law of planetary motion ), Jonathan Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ) refers to two moons in Part 3, Chapter 3 ( the " Voyage to Laputa "), in which Laputa's astronomers are described as having discovered two satellites of Mars orbiting at distances of 3 and 5 Martian diameters, and periods of 10 and 21. 5 hours, respectively.

Katy Perry's California Dreams Tour played at Koch Arena in 2011, and Taylor Swift's Fearless Tour came to Koch in 2009 -- the first of two concerts she performed on the Wichita State University campus.

In the wake of Swift's departure, The X-Ecutioners have been scarcely heard of ; however, the latest word is that the group has two new members, DJ Boogie Blind and DJ Precision.

Forward Fred Tilson attempted to improve Swift's spirits by telling him not to worry as he would " plonk two in next half ".

In the fifth edition of the book in 1710, Swift provided an apparatus to the work that incorporated Wotton's explanations and Swift's narrator's own notes as well.

Swift's polarizing satire provided a framework for other satirists in his circle of the Scriblerians.

Even Swift's satire of Wood's character is based on actual evidence and added very little to what Wood provided the public through his words and actions.

After Harding's death, George Faulkner became Swift's primary publisher in Ireland, and A Letter to the Lord Chancellor Middleton and An Humble Address were copied from manuscript copies provided by the author to Faulkner and then printed with the other letters.

This version of Gulliver is evidently at least a generation younger than Swift's Gulliver ; his dates have evidently been shifted forward in time to allow him to interact with other fictional characters of the later 18th century.

Arthur Mainwaring, an enemy already of Jonathan Swift's, aided Gildon again, and Steele introduced him to other periodical work.

According to 20th century Swift scholar Irvin Ehrenpreis, there is debate in the academic community over how much Swift may have wished his audience to identify him as the Drapier, especially since the Drapier constantly includes religious imagery that was common to Swift's sermons.

Swift's hands, which had a finger span of, were sufficiently large for him to easily pick up the ball with one hand, and gave rise to the nickname " Frying Pan Hands ".

Readers unacquainted with its reputation as a satirical work often do not immediately realize that Swift was not seriously proposing cannibalism and infanticide, nor would readers unfamiliar with the satires of Horace and Juvenal recognize that Swift's essay follows the rules and structure of Latin satires.

In his book A Modest Proposal ( 1984 ), evangelical author Frank Schaeffer emulated Swift's work in social conservative polemic against abortion and euthanasia in a future dystopia that advocated recycling of aborted embryos and fetuses, as well as some disabled infants with compound intellectual, physical and physiological difficulties.

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.

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 Gulliver's Travels is sometimes linked with utopian ( and dystopian ) literature, because it shares the general preoccupation with ideas of the good ( and bad ) society.

This causes the solar wind to light up with X-rays, and that's what Swift's XRT sees ", said Stefan Immler, of the Goddard Space Flight Center.

Laputa, as with some of Swift's other inventions, was the inspiration and basis for many later works.

* 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

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.

* Waterland ( 1992 ), directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal, is based on Graham Swift's book with the same title.

In the first months of his tenure of office he had to deal with the furious opposition to Wood's halfpence, and to counteract the effect of Swift's Drapier's Letters.

In fact, the townland known from ancient times as Nure was renamed Lileput or Lilliput shortly after the publication of Gulliver's Travels in honour of Swift's association with the area.

The publication of the work coincided with Swift's striking out on his own, having despaired of getting a good " living " from Temple or Temple's influence.

There is speculation about what caused the rift between Swift and his employer, but, as A. C. Elias persuasively argues, it seems that the final straw came with Swift's work on Temple's Letters.

The dramatic pretense of writing as a character is in keeping with Jonathan Swift's lifelong practice.

A year after an incident in which Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance speech, Taylor Swift performed her song " Innocent ", while West performed " Runaway " with Pusha T giving a stellar performance on the MPC2000.

On 1 July of the same year, he was involved in another duel, with Theophilus Swift, Esq., in consequence of a pamphlet criticising Lennox's character published under Swift's name.

Irish fiction can be said to begin with the publication in 1726 of Jonathan Swift's masterpiece Gulliver's Travels.

As a set piece or topos of 18th century satire, the " Battle of the Books " was a standard, short-hand for both the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns and the era of Swift's battle with William Wotton.

In 1726 the name Vanessa appeared in print for the first time in Cadenus and Vanessa, an autobiographical poem about Swift's relationship with Vanhomrigh.

To some degree, Pope was adapting Jonathan Swift's habit, in A Tale of a Tub, of pretending that metaphors were literal truths, and he was inventing a mythos to go with the everyday.

It was broken up after 17 years by Swift's relationship with another woman, Esther Johnson, whom he called “ Stella ,” in 1723.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

After an interim holding period, during which Chris Bolt, Swift's chief economic adviser and effective deputy, filled the regulator's position, in July 1999 a new rail regulator began a five-year term, and a new, much tougher regulatory era began.

While the planet's local humans are just as degenerate and subservient as Swift's yahoos, which they strongly resemble, Max and his fellow Earth humans are brave and resourceful, at their best in fighting the centaurs.

Tom Swift's fictional inventions have directly inspired several actual inventions, among them Lee Felsenstein's " Tom Swift Terminal ", which " drove the creation of an early personal computer known as the Sol ", and the taser.

One of his first publications was entitled Gerania ; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies ( 1675 ), a whimsical sketch to which Swift's Voyage to Lilliput possibly owes something.

** Dean Swift's Literary Correspondence ( pirate publication by Edmund Curll, for which he was sued by Pope )

( This contradicts Swift's account, in which the Emperor is only 28 years old and has reigned about seven years when Gulliver arrives in 1699.

This part of the book is a pun on " tub ," which Alexander Pope says was a common term for a Dissenter's pulpit, and a reference to Swift's own position as a clergyman.

It was in this edition that the Notes and the " Apology for the & c ." ("& c ." was Swift's shorthand for Tale of a Tub: Nutt was supposed to expand the abbreviation out to the book's title but did not do so ; the mistake was left ) were added, which many contemporary readers and authors found a heating up of an already savage satire.

The novel has also directly influenced a number of other critically acclaimed books, including British author Graham Swift's 1996 Booker Prize-winning novel Last Orders and Suzan-Lori Parks's Getting Mother's Body: A Novel, which is a reimagining of Faulkner's novel from an African American point of view.

Given the context in which it is used, as well as the evidence of Swift's writing, the possibility that " bloody " is also a minced oath ( or more precisely, a slang usage of an otherwise legitimate word masquerading as a minced oath ) cannot be lightly dismissed.

In Swift's satire, he skillfully manages to avoid saying which way victory fell.

This occurrence is documented in Jonathan Swift's 1710 poem ' Description of a City Shower ', in which he describes " Drowned puppies, stinking sprats, all drenched in mud ,/ Dead cats and turnip-tops come tumbling down the flood.

Edmund Curll, in an attempt to antagonize and siphon off money from Swift, published it in 1710 from a manuscript stolen from Swift ( which forced Swift to publish a corrected and authorized version that he also had to write from memory ), but the satire's origins lie in Swift's time at Moor Park, Surrey, when he acted as Secretary to William Temple.

The long wall between the fort and the Snake Hill, which was not attacked, was defended by Brigadier General Peter B. Porter with detachments of the 1st and 4th U. S. Rifle Regiments, the 5th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Swift's Regiment of Detached New York Militia and five guns.

On account of what was regarded as his powerful defence of morality and religion, Hawkesworth was rewarded by the archbishop of Canterbury with the degree of LL. D, In 1754-1755 he published an edition ( 12 vols ) of Swift's works, with a life prefixed which Johnson praised in his Lives of the Poets.

It appears, for example, in Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, in which Swift repeatedly uses " breeder " to refer to human breeding:

The concept of a war based on toast is similar to the war between Lilliput and Blefuscu in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, which was nominally based on the correct end to crack an egg once soft boiled.

But primarily, " Hwin " is a contraction of " Hwinhynym ", which, spelled " Houyhnhnm " is the name of the race of noble horses from Johnathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

The claims of treason levelled against the Drapier were of " treason to the English Parliament ", which only caused more resentment among the Irish people, who sided with Swift's constitutional argument that the Irish people owed their allegiance only to the king.