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unusual facts about Bartram's Travels


Bartram's Travels

In January 1776 Bartram returned to Georgia, shipped the last of his plant specimens to London from Savannah, and returned home to Philadelphia.


Bartram Trail

Bartram Trail High School at St. Johns, Florida (just south of Jacksonville) is named for the scenic highway and Bartram's exploration route around the Northern St. Johns County area.

Bartram's Garden

Franklinia alatamaha - John and William Bartram discovered a small grove of this tree in October 1765 by Georgia's Altamaha River.

Compton, Waverley

Compton has given its name to the local roads Compton Way and Old Compton Lane, and is notable as the home of Moor Park House, the former mansion of Sir William Temple, where Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels lived and worked.

Count Primo Magri

Together they operated a famous roadside stand in Middleborough, Massachusetts, and with their troupe composed of other dwarves as well as people of regular height travelled the world, performing plays such as The Rivals and Gulliver Among the Lilliputians before the public and royalty, including Queen Victoria.

Diamond Jim

Demarest would go on show up in nine other Sturges films: Easy Living (1937), The Great McGinty (1940), Christmas in July (1940), Sullivan's Travels (1941), The Lady Eve (1941), The Palm Beach Story (1942), The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944), Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) and The Great Moment (1944).

Franklinia

After several years of study, William Bartram assigned the “rare and elegant flowering shrub,” to a new genus Franklinia, named in honor of his father's great friend Benjamin Franklin.

Gulliver Mickey

Mickey is first seen reading Gulliver's Travels while the mice orphan children are pretending to be sailors.

I Wanted Wings

The same year, she was put into leading roles starting with her part in Sullivan's Travels.

James Bartram

Bartram was born in the village of Aylmerton (in the parish of Erpingham) in Norfolk, England.

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville

After the reinstitution of prior censorship of caricature in 1835, Grandville turned almost exclusively to book illustration, supplying illustrations for various standard works, such as the songs of Béranger, the fables of La Fontaine, Don Quixote, Gulliver's Travels, Robinson Crusoe.

Jess Lee Brooks

He is perhaps most famous for playing the African-American church preacher in the critically acclaimed motion picture, Sullivan's Travels, where he leads his congregation in singing Go Down Moses.

Jonny Coyne

His next big role was in a mini-series Gulliver's Travels starring Ted Danson.

Kenny Bartram

Kenny Bartram has signed on contract with KTM, which is the bike he has stuck to for a long time).

Laurie Bartram

After Friday the 13th, Bartram directed and choreographed local theater productions, made costumes for numerous productions and did voice work for local businesses including WSET in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Lewes Lewknor

Lewknor was one of Prince Henry's circle and contributed Old Wormy Age, a humorous panegyric verse, to the preface of Thomas Coryat's Coryat's Crudities: Hastily gobled up in Five Moneth’s Travels published in 1611.

Lino Landolfi

In 1969 he started a collaboration with the children magazine Il Giornalino, for which Landolfi, in addition to having made several comic adaptations from literary such as Gulliver's Travels and Father Brown, co-created with writer Claudio Nizzi the popular "Piccolo Dente", leading character of a long lasting eponym comic strip.

Lopburi

Due to a scribal error in Book III of Marco Polo’s travels treating of the route southward from Champa, where the name Java was substituted for Champa as the point of departure, Java Minor was located 1,300 miles to the south of Java Major, instead of from Champa, on or near an extension of the Terra Australis.

Mamuka Gorgodze

He is nicknamed "Gorgodzilla" by his Montpellier teammates, and "Gulliver" by Georgian fans.

Method Studios

Since its inception in 2012, Method Design has completed main titles and design for more than 20 feature films including Men in Black 3, The Avengers, Captain America, Gulliver's Travels and Wolfman.

Michael O'Hearn

He has appeared in the movies Barbarian, Keeper of Time, and had a minor supporting role in Death Becomes Her, as well as starred as Clark Kent/Superman in the popular Sandy Collora fan film World's Finest (opposite Clark Bartram as Batman).

Motte v Faulkner

On 14 August 1725, Swift wrote to Charles Ford that his work, Gulliver's Travels, was finished, however, he soon added a scene referring to the Drapier's Letters.

Neil Bartram

Bartram and Hill's musical Spin is part of the 2013 Signature Theatre season directed by Eric Schaeffer.

Norman T.A. Munder

He also printed the first book of Gulliver's Travels for the Limited Editions Club, and in 1925 he wrote and published Advertising of Truth.

Paris Holiday

Sturges did a walk-on in his 1940 film Christmas in July ("Man at shoeshine stand"), played the small part of a film director in his Sullivan's Travels (1941), and appeared as himself in Paramount's 1942 all-star extravaganza Star Spangled Rhythm.

Shirley Ann Russell

Russell's other credits include The Little Prince, Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Return of the Soldier, The Razor's Edge, Hope and Glory, The Bride, Yanks, Gulliver's Travels, I Dreamed of Africa, and Shackleton.

The Brazen Head

A number of famous patrons are known to have visited the establishment, including author James Joyce, who mentioned the pub in his novel Ulysses; Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels; Robert Emmet also lived there for some time; others include Brendan Behan, Wolfe Tone and Daniel O'Connell.

The Hour Before the Dawn

She was at her peak at the time of production, with films such as Sullivan's Travels, This Gun for Hire, The Glass Key, I Married a Witch and So Proudly We Hail! all having been big box office successes for her and Paramount.

Ventnor City, New Jersey

Mrs. S. Bartram Richards, the wife of the secretary-treasurer of the land company, suggested the name "Ventnor" for the area then being developed by the Camden and Atlantic Land Company south of Atlantic City, having recently visited the seashore resort on the Isle of Wight with the same name.

Zanthoxylum americanum

In 2012, a Pennsylvania distillery introduced a bitters called Bartram's Bitters that uses prickly ash bark as one of several botanical ingredients.


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