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3 unusual facts about Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation


Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation

In the fourth volume of the Tales of the Shadowmen anthology, in the short story "Three Men, A Martian and A Baby", Gullivar Jones is briefly encountered by Doctor Omega.

The series moved to Marvel's black and white magazine, Monsters Unleashed #4 and #8 (1974), written by Tony Isabella with art by David Cockrum and George Pérez.

Gullivar Jones appears alongside a young Edgar Allan Poe in Jean-Marc Lofficier & Randy Lofficier's novel, Edgar Allan Poe on Mars: The Further adventures of Gullivar Jones (2007).


Battle of Eniwetok

The 1st Amphibious Brigade reinforced the defenders in January; its commander, Major General Yoshimi Nishida along with Tank Company/1st Amphibious Brigade led by First Lieut.

Charles Madge

He was the son of Lieut Col. C. A. Madge and Barbara, née Hylton Foster, and the brother of the sociologist John Madge who wrote The Origins of Scientific Sociology.

Grahams of Fintry

He was Lieut-Colonel off the Angus regiment and he married Anne daughter of Colonel George Hay grandfather of Andrew 11th Earl of Erroll and a noted Royalist.

History of Darjeeling

In 1835, a member of the Indian Medical Service, Dr. Arthur Campbell, was appointed as agent of the leased tract, and Lieut.

Master of Adventure: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs

While the response to both editions of the book has been generally favorable, it remains controversial among some Burroughs aficionados, particularly for Lupoff's argument that the Barsoom series was heavily influenced by Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation (1905) and The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician (1890) by Edwin L. Arnold.

Riverstone, New South Wales

In 1810 Lieut-Col Maurice Charles O'Connell was granted 2,500 acres (10 km²) of land in the district, which he named "Riverston Farm", after his birthplace in Ireland.

Salina Stockade

In June 1864, just after the completion of the stockade, the commander of Fort Riley sent twenty-five troops, commanded by Lieut.

St Mary de Lode Church

In March 1643 and also in 1646, during the English Civil War, the church was used as a prison to hold royalist soldiers captured by Sir William Waller and Lieut.

Thomas Claude Robson

The magnificent soaring windows set high up at the back of the nave, at the west end of the Cathedral, were erected to the memory of one of the parish’s sons, Lieut William Newby, R.A.F., killed in action in France in 1918, and buried at Rejet-de-Beaulieu.

Two Planets

Lasswitz's depiction is more reflective of the views of these astronomers than those of other science fiction stories of the era dealing with the planet, including H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, Edwin Lester Arnold's Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation and Edgar Rice Burroughs's tales of Barsoom, all of which were all written in the wake of Lasswitz's book.


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