Lilliput
Lilliput is an island nation in Jonathan Swift's novel ''Gulliver's Travels''.
Lilliput may also refer to:
Geography
* Lilliput (townland), a townland in County Westmeath, Ireland
* Lilliput, Dorset, a district in the town of Poole in Dorset, ...
is an island nation in Jonathan Swift's novel ''
Gulliver's Travels
''Gulliver's Travels'', originally titled ''Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships'', is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clerg ...
''.
Lilliput may also refer to:
Geography
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Lilliput (townland), a townland in County Westmeath, Ireland
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Lilliput, Dorset
Lilliput is an area of Poole in Dorset, England. It borders Sandbanks, Canford Cliffs, Lower Parkstone, and Whitecliff and has a shoreline within Poole Harbour with views of Brownsea Island and the Purbeck Hills.
Well known residents have incl ...
, a district in the town of Poole in Dorset, United Kingdom
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Lilliput Glacier, the smallest named glacier in the Sierra Nevada of California
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Lilliput Mountain, a mountain on the British Columbia-Alberta border in the Canadian Rockies
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Lilliput Nunataks, three nunataks on the eastern side of Graham Land, Antarctica
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Lilliput, Victoria, a parish in the
County of Bogong, Victoria, Australia
Art, entertainment, and media
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Lilliput and Blefuscu
Lilliput and Blefuscu are two fictional island nations that appear in the first part of the 1726 novel ''Gulliver's Travels'' by Jonathan Swift. The two islands are neighbours in the South Indian Ocean, separated by a channel wide. Both ar ...
, two island nations in Jonathan Swift's novel ''Gulliver's Travels'' (1726, amended 1735)
Publications
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''Lilliput'' (magazine), a British art and literature magazine
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''Lilliput'' (play), 1756 play by
David Garrick
David Garrick (19 February 1716 – 20 January 1779) was an English actor, playwright, Actor-manager, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of European theatrical practice throughout the 18th century, and was a pupil a ...
Brands and enterprises
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Lilliput Lane
Lilliput Lane, founded in 1982 by David Tate, was a company known for its extensive range of realistic miniature handmade models of real English and Welsh cottages and scenes. Formerly based in Workington, and Penrith, Cumbria, the company mo ...
, British company miniature models of English cottages and scenes
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Lilliput Kidswear
Lilliput Kidswear is an Indian clothing brand that makes clothes specifically for children and is headquartered in New Delhi, India.
History
Sanjeev Narula founded Lilliput Kidswear in 2003. Bain Capital Partners invested $60 million into Lillip ...
, Indian clothing company
Other uses
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Lilliput (actor)
M. M. Faruqui, known professionally as Lilliput, is an Indian actor and writer, known for the TV series ''Vikram Vetaal'' and Bollywood films. He adopted his screen name taking a cue from Lilliput and Blefuscu, two island nations in Jonathan Sw ...
, actor and writer in Indian TV and film
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Lilliput effect
The Lilliput effect is an observed decrease in animal body size in genera that have survived a major extinction. There are several hypotheses as to why these patterns appear in the fossil record, some of which are:
* simple preferential survival of ...
, an effect where taxa show a decrease in body size after an extinction event
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Operation Lilliput
Operation Lilliput was a convoy operation directed by G.H.Q. Operations Instructions Number 21 of 20 October 1942 for transportation of troops, weapons, and supplies in a regular transport service between Milne Bay and Oro Bay, New Guinea betwe ...
, part of the Allied offensive in Papua in World War II
* ''Lilliput'', a genus of jumping spiders that was renamed to ''
Tanzania
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It is bordered by Uganda to the northwest; Kenya to the northeast; the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to t ...
'' in 2008
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Lilliput longarm octopus
''Macrotritopus defilippi'', commonly known as the Lilliput longarm octopus or the Atlantic longarm octopus, is a small species of octopus, a marine cephalopod mollusc of the order Octopoda.
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean, the Medite ...
'' a small species of octopus, scientific name ''Macrotritopus Defilippi''
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Lilliput library, a form of public bookcase found in New Zealand
See also
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Gulliver's Travels
''Gulliver's Travels'', originally titled ''Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships'', is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clerg ...
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Liliput (disambiguation)
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