James William Johnson believes that Swift saw major similarities between the two situations.

Swift, who was observing the eclipse from a location near Denver, Colorado, saw what he took to be an intra-mercurial planet about 3 degrees southwest of the Sun.

1993 saw Montoya switch to the Swift GTI Championship, a series he dominated by winning seven of eight races and earning eight poles.

It's said that it was when Swift looked across the expanse of Lough Ennell one day and saw the tiny human figures on the opposite shore of the lake that he conceived the idea of the Lilliputians featured in Gulliver's Travels.

Many black workers saw their employers, whether it was Henry Ford in Detroit or Swift Packing in Chicago, as more sympathetic to them than either their white co-workers or the labor movement.

Wall won the Saskatchewan Party nomination for Swift Current in the 1999 election and won handily, defeating NDP incumbent John Wall ( no relation ) by 24 points as part of a wave of rural victories that saw the NDP cut down to a minority government.

Many political observers saw this as reflecting the " true reason behind the Swift Boat campaign.

The entire discussion in England was over by 1696, but it was revisited by Jonathan Swift, who saw in the opposing camps of Ancients and Moderns a shorthand of two general ways of looking at the world.

His tenure as Recorder of Dublin saw a major conflict between the aldermen of Dublin and the Privy Council ; Forster was entirely on the side of the aldermen and for this was violently attacked by Jonathan Swift and other critics.

William Wood was granted letters patent to mint the coin, and Swift saw the licensing of the patent as corrupt.

These issues were the many issues that Swift cared about and saw as threatening Ireland before Wood's halfpence controversy.

Swift ’ s use of gripping details of poverty and his narrator ’ s cool approach towards them create " two opposing points of view " that " alienate the reader, perhaps unconsciously, from a narrator who can view with ' melancholy ' detachment a subject that Swift has directed us, rhetorically, to see in a much less detached way.

Swift Vets and POWs for Truth, formerly known as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ( SBVT ), was a political group ( 527 group ) of United States Swift boat veterans and former prisoners of war of the Vietnam War, formed during the 2004 presidential election campaign for the purpose of opposing John Kerry's candidacy for the presidency.

After she won the Miss East Texas Pageant she found out she was expected to go on to Miss Texas to be held August 16th at Austin Stadium with an audience consisting of soldiers from one of the largest Army camps in Texas, Camp Swift.

Interestingly, Swift, a renowned satirist, sides with the Ancients while the goddess of satire sides with the Moderns

Although Swift was a Whig for much of this period, he was allied most nearly with the Ancients camp ( which is to say Establishment, Church of England, aristocracy, traditional education ), and he was politically active in the service of the Church.

There are two things here about Surviving in the Wilderness, and a book called ' Tom Swift and His Speedy Canoe ' ; ;

The Reader in A Modest Proposal " focuses on two aspects of A Modest Proposal: the voice of Swift and the voice of the Proposer.

Although previous big-name pitchers, including Bill Swift, Bret Saberhagen, and Darryl Kile, had struggled in Colorado, following the 2000 season O ' Dowd made two very splashy signings in the free-agent market, signing Denny Neagle to a five-year contract worth $ 51 million, followed five days later by signing Mike Hampton to an eight-year, $ 121 million contract.

Johnson defined it with two poems, one by Jonathan Swift, the other by Sir John Suckling.

Then, during the total solar eclipse of 29 July 1878, two experienced astronomers, Professor James Craig Watson, the director of the Ann Arbor Observatory in Michigan, and Lewis Swift, an amateur from Rochester, New York, both claimed to have seen a Vulcan-type planet close to the Sun.

Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera ( 1912 ) features a portable movie camera, not invented until 1923, and Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive ( 1922 ) was published two years before the Central Railroad of New Jersey placed the first diesel electric locomotive into service.

Simon and Schuster produced two other Tom Swift series: one, published from 1991 to 1993, and the Tom Swift, Young Inventor series, begun in 2006.

The third Tom Swift series differs from the first two in that the setting is primarily outer space, although Swift Enterprises ( now located in New Mexico ) is occasionally mentioned.

Shortly thereafter, the two biggest cattle slaughtering firms at the time, Armour and Swift, both established operations in the new stockyards.

Broadcast in two series, it starred David Swift as Prince Ludovico, the ambitious and henpecked ruler of Monte Guano ( the smallest and most inconsequential city-state in Renaissance Italy ), Siân Phillips as his wife Princess Plethora, Graham Crowden as Francesco ( Ludovico's perpetually drunken secretary ), Saskia Wickham as Countess Rosalie ( Ludovico's mistress Plethora's full knowledge and approval ), and as Ludovico's perpetually squabbling sons: Nick Romero as the overly religious Salvatore ( whose ambition is to become Pope some day ), Paul Bigley as Allesandro ( an eternally hopeful would-be artist and inventor ) and Christopher Kellen as Guido ( a fierce follower of Martin Luther ).

His mixture of science and romance in the last two works furnished a model for many subsequent writers, among them Jonathan Swift, Edgar Allan Poe and probably Voltaire.

After finally deciding on " Arabicus Pulp ", a fixed line-up was then established: Cocker, Dalton and two friends of theirs, David Lockwood and Mark Swift.

Most are Swift Enterprises employees, such as Harlan Ames, Phil Radnor, Hank Sterling, Arvid Hanson, Slim Davis, George Dilling, Art Wiltessa, and Miss Trent — the two Toms ' office secretary and the lone female among recurring Swift Enterprises characters.

Carl and his two sons would move to Phoenix, Arizona in 1966, and found Common Market, the company would become Swift Transportation in 1969.

In September 1713, Swift came to London, and made a final vain attempt to reconcile his two friends.

It took over 87 years to complete the waterway with two " temporary " marine railways installed at Big Chute and Swift Rapids.

The novel represents the coming together of the two competing aesthetics of eighteenth-century literature: the mock-heroic and neoclassical ( and, by extension, aristocratic ) approach of Augustans such as Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift ; and the popular, domestic prose fiction of novelists such as Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson.

Lilliput and Blefuscu are two fictional island nations that appear in the first part of the 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.

* Innis P. Swift, United States Army general

In general, whether a 20th-century reader would view the book as consisting of dozens of impersonations or a single one, Swift writes the Tale through the pose of a Modern or New Man.

* Innis P. Swift ( 1882 – 1953 ) American World War II general

Graham James left his position as coach and general manager of the Swift Current Broncos to found the Hitmen in 1994.

The federal court upheld the agreement, citing Swift, and arguing that under general federal common law, the agreement was valid.

The name comes from the Tom Swift series of books ( 1910 – present ), similar in many ways to the better-known Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series, and, like them, produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate.

Tom is also at times unsure of himself, looking to his elders for help ; as Von der Osten puts it, " the early Tom Swift is more dependent on his father and other adults at first and is much more hesitant in his actions.

A small group sailed up the Appomattox River looking for clear land, and finally settled in an area where Swift Creek runs into the Appomattox River, which they named Conjurer's Neck.

Swift and smart, like its North American cousin Troodon, Saurornithoides probably scoured the Gobi Desert, looking for small mammals or reptiles to eat.