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Interesting Facts about the author Jonathan Swift?
I was wondering if anyone knew of/could find some interesting or fun facts about the author Jonathan Swift?
If you answer, please give links. Thanks ^_^
Well apart from the usual Wiki stuff, this is pretty cool –
In Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.
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