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Lilliput (play)
Lilliput may refer to: Geography * Lilliput (townland), a townland in County Westmeath, Ireland * Lilliput, Dorset, a district in the town of Poole in Dorset, United Kingdom * Lilliput Glacier, the smallest named glacier in the Sierra Nevada of California * Lilliput Mountain, a mountain on the British Columbia-Alberta border in the Canadian Rockies * Lilliput Nunataks, three nunataks on the eastern side of Graham Land, Antarctica * Lilliput, Victoria, a parish in the County of Bogong, Victoria, Australia Art, entertainment, and media * Lilliput and Blefuscu, two island nations in Jonathan Swift's novel ''Gulliver's Travels'' (1726, amended 1735) Publications * ''Lilliput'' (magazine), a British art and literature magazine * ''Lilliput'' (play), 1756 play by David Garrick Brands and enterprises * Lilliput Lane, British company miniature models of English cottages and scenes * Lilliput Kidswear, Indian clothing company Other uses * Lilliput (actor), actor and writer in I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilliput (townland)
Lilliput (or Nure) is a townland in County Westmeath, Ireland. It is located five miles (8 kilometres) south of Mullingar and lies at the southern end of Lough Ennell. Lilliput covers an area of 244 acres and was recorded with a population of 22. Lilliput is one of 11 townlands in the civil parish of Dysart, in the Barony of Moycashel. It lies in the electoral division of Middleton of the Longford-Westmeath constituency (formerly of the Westmeath constituency. Lilliput is associated with Jonathan Swift, writer of Gulliver's Travels. Local tradition states that Swift was in a boat on the lake, and when he looked back to shore he noticed how small the people looked at that distance. This was the inspiration for the diminutive Lilliputians, who feature in his most famous book ''Gulliver's Travels''. Lilliput at the time was called "Nure": however after the publication of ''Gulliver's Travels'' locals began to refer to the lakeshore as "Lilliput". The name stuck and the ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 moved to Langholm in 2009. It has produced models ranging from The Tower of London and Tower Bridge Tower Bridge is a Listed building#Grade I, Grade I listed combined Bascule bridge, bascule and Suspended-deck suspension bridge, suspension bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones (architect), Horace Jones and e ... to small fisherman's bothies as seen in the adjacent image. The models sell in over 50 countries around the world. In 2016, Enesco announced they were closing their production factory in Langholm, and also announced that Lilliput Lane would cease to be manufactured. In January 2017, David Tate died after a nine-year battle with cancer. References External linksLilliput Lane: A little on the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean. Its typical habitat is shallow sandy areas. Its yellowish-brown colouration enables it to blend into its surroundings making it well-camouflaged when stationary. In the Caribbean it has been found that when it moves around, it does so in such a way as to closely resemble the swimming behaviour of the plate fish (''Bothus lunatus''), a bottom-dwelling flounder which inhabits the same waters. Description ''Macrotritopus defilippi'' is a small octopus with relatively long arms and a mantle length of up to . As is the case in most octopuses, the skin is variable in colour. It is usually either plain or speckled and closely matches the colour of its surroundings, the sandy plains on which it lives. Where th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanzania (genus)
''Tanzania'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by A. Ö. Koçak & M. Kemal in 2008. They are very small spiders, with body lengths ranging from . Both sexes look alike, but the females are sometimes darker. It is related to the ''Euophrys'' and '' Talavera''. Three new species discovered in Tanzania by Wesolowska and Russell-Smith in 2000, and given the genus name "Lilliput" (''L. mkomazienis'', ''L. minutus'' and ''L. pusillus'') are now included in the genus Tanzania. Species As of October 2022, it contains seven species, six of which are found in Africa and one in India: *'' Tanzania meridionalis'' Haddad & Wesolowska, 2011 – South Africa *'' Tanzania minutus'' (Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000) – Tanzania, South Africa *'' Tanzania mkomaziensis'' (Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000) (type) – Nigeria, Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Africa *'' Tanzania parvulus'' Wesolowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014 – South Africa *'' Tanzania pusillus'' (Wesolowska ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulliver's Travels
''Gulliver's Travels'', or ''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 clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. Swift claimed that he wrote ''Gulliver's Travels'' "to vex the world rather than divert it". The book was an immediate success. The English dramatist John Gay remarked: "It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery." In 2015, Robert McCrum released his selection list of 100 best novels of all time in which ''Gulliver's Travels'' is listed in third place as "a satirical masterpiece". Plot Part I: A Voyage to Lilliput The travel begins with a short preamble in which Lemuel Gulliver gives a brief outline of his life and history before his voyages. ;4 May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Lilliput
Operation Lilliput (World War II) was the name given to 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 between 18 December 1942 and June 1943 in order "to cover reinforcement, supply, and development of the Buna-Gona area upon its anticipated capture" by the Australian 7th Division and the United States Army's 32d Division. Within six months, the convoys, escorted by Royal Australian Navy corvettes and largely composed of Dutch KPM merchant ships, had delivered 60,000 tons of supplies and 3,802 troops from Milne Bay to Oro Bay. Corvettes provided the majority of the escort force. Losses during Imperial Japanese air attacks amounted to two merchant ships, and , sunk and two badly damaged while several of the corvettes also sustained damage and casualties. Oro Bay The western terminus of the convo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilliput Effect
The Lilliput effect is a decrease in body size in animal species which have survived a major extinction. There are several hypotheses as to why these patterns appear in the fossil record, some of which are: the survival of small taxa, dwarfing of larger lineages, and the evolutionary miniaturization from larger ancestral stocks. The term was coined in 1993 by Adam Urbanek in his paper concerning the extinction of graptoloids and is derived from the island of Lilliput and Blefuscu, Lilliput inhabited by a miniature race of people in ''Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver’s Travels''. This size decrease may just be a temporary phenomenon restricted to the survival period of the extinction event. In 2019 Atkinson et al. coined the term the Brobdingnag effect to describe a related phenomenon operating in the opposite direction, whereby new species evolving after the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event, Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction originated at small body sizes before undergoing a size in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilliput (actor)
Lilliput is an Indian actor and writer for the TV series ''Vikram Vetaal'' and Bollywood films. His real name is M. M. Faruqui. He adopted the screen name taking a cue from Lilliput and Blefuscu, two island nations in Jonathan Swift's novel ''Gulliver's Travels'' where Gulliver lands onto an island inhabited by little people. Career He is best known for writing Doordarshan's popular science fiction series ''Indradhanush'' and acted in films such as ''Bunty Aur Babli'' (2005), '' Saagar'' (1985), and popular 90s sitcoms like ''Dekh Bhai Dekh'' , ''Natkhat'' and ''Mr. Funtoosh'', and for starring in '' Woh'' (1998) as Woh. He plays Dadda Tyagi in Famous web series Mirzapur Season 2. He made his Tamil film Tamil cinema, also known as Kollywood is a part of Indian Cinema; primarily engaged in production of motion pictures in the Tamil language. Based out of the Kodambakkam neighbourhood in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, it is popularly called ''Kollywo ... debut in Vijay starrer ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Lilliput Kidswear in May 2010. Two weeks after the IPO of Lilliput, a whistle blower called to inform investment firms that the revenue figures in Lilliput were inflated. Bain Capital Partners sued the audit firm Ernst & Young Global Limited, after the invested in Lilliput kidswear on the advice of the auditing firm. Bain Capital claimed to have incurred a loss of $60 million over the investment. Bain Capital left the company in 2013 according to the CEO of Lilliput Kidswear. Controversy over fraud In 2013, Lilliput Kidswear bought clothing worth $5,000,000 (40 Crores BDT) from 22 Bangladeshi garment suppliers. After receiving no payment, Central bank of Bangladesh via Bangladesh government approached the Indian government The Governme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Garrick
David Garrick (19 February 1717 – 20 January 1779) was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of European theatrical practice throughout the 18th century, and was a pupil and friend of Samuel Johnson. He appeared in a number of amateur theatricals, and with his appearance in the title role of Shakespeare's '' Richard III'', audiences and managers began to take notice. Impressed by his portrayals of Richard III and a number of other roles, Charles Fleetwood engaged Garrick for a season at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in the West End. He remained with the Drury Lane company for the next five years and purchased a share of the theatre with James Lacy. This purchase inaugurated 29 years of Garrick's management of the Drury Lane, during which time it rose to prominence as one of the leading theatres in Europe. At his death, three years after his retirement from Drury Lane and the stage, he was given a lavish public funeral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilliput, Dorset
Lilliput is a district of Poole, Dorset. It borders on Sandbanks, Canford Cliffs, Lower Parkstone, and Whitecliff and has a shoreline within Poole Harbour with views of Brownsea Island and the Purbeck Hills. Brownsea Island stands opposite Lilliput's harbour foreshore and is famous as the birthplace of Baden Powell's Scouting, International Scouting Movement. Lilliput itself was host to a number of early scouting camps. During the Second World War at one stage it provided Britain's only civilian air route: Poole Harbour was temporary home to the Imperial Airways/BOAC flying boat fleet, which had its passenger HQ at Salterns Marina.Well known residents have included modernist writer Mary Butts, a very young John le Carré, John le Carre and disc-jockey Tony Blackburn. Impresario Fred Karno who popularised the custard-pie-in-the-face comedy routine spent his last years in the village as a part-owner of an off-licence, bought with financial help from Charlie Chaplin, and died here in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilliput (play)
Lilliput may refer to: Geography * Lilliput (townland), a townland in County Westmeath, Ireland * Lilliput, Dorset, a district in the town of Poole in Dorset, United Kingdom * Lilliput Glacier, the smallest named glacier in the Sierra Nevada of California * Lilliput Mountain, a mountain on the British Columbia-Alberta border in the Canadian Rockies * Lilliput Nunataks, three nunataks on the eastern side of Graham Land, Antarctica * Lilliput, Victoria, a parish in the County of Bogong, Victoria, Australia Art, entertainment, and media * Lilliput and Blefuscu, two island nations in Jonathan Swift's novel ''Gulliver's Travels'' (1726, amended 1735) Publications * ''Lilliput'' (magazine), a British art and literature magazine * ''Lilliput'' (play), 1756 play by David Garrick Brands and enterprises * Lilliput Lane, British company miniature models of English cottages and scenes * Lilliput Kidswear, Indian clothing company Other uses * Lilliput (actor), actor and writer in I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
