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	Swift - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The swifts are birds superficially similar to swallows but are actually not closely related to those passerine species at all; swifts are in the separate order Apodiformes, which they formerly shared with the hummingbirds.
		The resemblances between the swifts and swallows are due to convergent evolution reflecting similar life styles based on catching insects in flight.
		Swifts are the most aerial of birds and some, like the Common Swift, even sleep and mate on the wing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swift (361 words)

	Jonathan Swift - Encyclopedia Dramatica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jonathan Swift, son to an English mother, was born a pampered, rich and beautiful aristocrat.
		After attending college, Swift went to England to become a politician but was soon labeled a pedophile after he was caught sleeping with an 8 year old girl named Stella.
		Swift, like the drugged lardass he was, voraciously ate them all and immediately died.
	www.encyclopediadramatica.com /index.php/Jonathan_Swift (244 words)

	Swift (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Swift was the grandson of a Royalist vicar of Yorkshire, whose three sons sought their fortune in Ireland after the Restoration settlement.
		Swift was back in Ireland again; he was 27 years old and he had had to appeal to Temple for a testimonial, since so much time had elapsed since he took his degree.
		Swift's poetry, in addition to his account of his friendship with Esther Vanhomrigh, consisted of annual pieces to the other Esther (Stella) on her birthday; they are charming verses of considerable grace.
	www.hertford.ox.ac.uk /alumni/swift.htm (2284 words)

	Jonathan Swift Encyclopedia Article @ NaturalResearch.org (Natural Research) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, although he is also well known for his poetry and essays.
		Swift was offered and accepted the post of secretary and chaplain to the Earl of Berkeley, one of the Lords Justices, but when he reached Ireland he found that the secretaryship had been given to another.
		Swift continued to produce pamphlets that reflected a growing misanthropy, epitomized by A Modest Proposal (1729), in which he "suggested" the Irish unburden themselves of their numerous children — and break the cycle of poverty in the process — by selling them to the rich as food.
	www.naturalresearch.org /encyclopedia/Jonathan_Swift (1637 words)

	Jonathan Swift - Free Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Swift was taken or "stolen" to England by his nurse, and at the age of four he was sent back to Ireland.
		From 1695 to 1696 Swift was the vicar of Kilroot, Laracor from 1700, and prebendary of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin (1701).
		Swift had predicted his mental decay when he was about fifty and had remarked to the poet Edward Young when they were gazing at the withered crown of a tree: "I shall be like that tree; I shall die from the top." He did die in Dublin on October 19, 1745.
	swift.thefreelibrary.com (1135 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Jonathan Swift (1667) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Swift uses this scientific material -- extrapolated of course to ludicrous extremes -- and draws on the then prevalent attitude that mathematical and theoretical learning was useless, to weave his underlying message that the virtuosi of his day had lost sight of the world at large.
		Swift's idea for using 600 hogs simultaneously furrowing and manuring a field was drawn from a 1702 paper on the Culturing of Tobacco in Zeylon where Buffaloes were used in a similar fashion.
		Swift's visit to Glubbdubdrib - the island of sorcerers and magicians - - where he is able to call back the dead - is a transparent copy of the ancient satirist Lucian where similar encounters with the dead were described.
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=173 (9247 words)

	Swift, Jonathan. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Disappointed of church preferment in England, Swift returned to Ireland, where he was ordained an Anglican priest and in 1695 was given the small prebend of Kilroot.
		Swift became a national hero of the Irish with his Drapier Letters (1724) and his bitterly ironical pamphlet A Modest Proposal (1729), which propounds that the children of the poor be sold as food for the tables of the rich.
		In his last years Swift was paralyzed and afflicted with a brain disorder, and by 1742 he was declared unsound of mind.
	www.bartleby.com /65/sw/Swift-Jo.html (570 words)

	Jonathan Swift - Biography and Works
		Swift was born in Dublin on November 30,1667.
		In 1695 Swift was ordained in the Church of Ireland (Anglican), Dublin.
		Swift died on October 19, 1745 and was buried in St Patrick's cathedral.
	www.online-literature.com /swift (414 words)

	Common Swift, Apus apus
		A spectacular form of aerial display is when individual swifts fly up to the nest entrance holes of other swifts and brush or bang against them — apparently with their wings — before continuing their flight.
		The swift's stay here is short, extending from early May to early August — the period coinciding with high insect populations and long hours of daylight.
		Swifts recovered outside the breeding range and off migration routes are probably non breeders undertaking weather movements involving thousands of birds.
	www.birdsofbritain.co.uk /bird-guide/swift.htm (888 words)

	Swift Transportation: Trucking Jobs - Truck driving jobs with America's Super Carrier.
		Swift Transportation is now the nations largest publicly-held truckload carrier, operating over 38 terminals in 27 states and generating annual revenues over $2.5 Billion.
		Swift was founded in 1965, and has grown at an average rate of 23% per year since 1985.
		Swift's success has come through the integrity and dedication of the professional drivers and Owner Operators that deliver at an astonishing 98.9% on-time rate.
	www.swifttruckingjobs.com (247 words)

	Eberly College of Science \| Scientists Measure How Deep "Deep Impact" Was, With X-rays
		Swift is providing the only simultaneous multi-wavelength observation of this rare event, with a suite of instruments capable of detecting visible light, ultraviolet light, X-rays, and gamma rays.
		Swift is a nearly ideal observatory for making these comet studies, as it combines both a rapidly responsive scheduling system with both X-ray and optical/UV instruments in the same satellite.
		Swift is a medium-class NASA explorer mission in partnership with the Italian Space Agency and the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council in the United Kingdom, and is managed by NASA Goddard.
	www.science.psu.edu /alert/Swift-Deep-Impact.htm (2155 words)

	Swift
		Jonathan Swift was one of the world's greatest satirists with works in both verse and prose.
		The object of most of Swift's satire was political, usually in the form of an institution or a system, but sometimes in the form of an individual who typifies some corrupt institution or political interest.
		Swift's Satire of Dissent in A Tale of the Tub
	www.swiftsociety.com /swift/swift_biog.html (479 words)

	SSC: About Swift
		Swift is a first-of-its-kind multi-wavelength observatory dedicated to the study of gamma-ray burst (GRB) science.
		Swift measurements are of great interest to the astronomical community and all data products are available to the public via the internet as soon as they are processed.
		The Swift telescope payload is comprised of three instruments which work in tandem to provide rapid identification and multiwavelength follow-up of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and their afterglows.
	heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov /docs/swift/about_swift (651 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Jonathan Swift
		Before Swift was a year old, he was taken to England by his nurse, and remained apart from his mother for three years.
		Swift's first significant publication was “An Ode to the Athenian Society” in 1692, the year in which he took an M.A. from Hart Hall, Oxford, in the hope of advancing his career.
		The story is repeatedly interrupted by its putative hack author, a type of what Swift considered to be the overweening modern literary producer, devoted to his own interest at the expense of any principle, and to the proliferation of text at the expense of content.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4891 (688 words)

	Swift, Jonathan on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Swift's 'A Tale of a Tub.'.(satire by Jonathan Swift)
		Archive Photos 01-01-1995 Jonathan SwiftAnglo-Irish satirist Jonathan Swift is illustrated as a nobleman in robes and a wig.
		SALT LAKE CITY - MARCH 18: Austin Swift #2 of the Montana Grizzlies jumps for a rebound against Craig Smith #1 of the Boston College Eagles during the Second Round of the 2006 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament March 18, 2006 at the Jon M. Huntsman Center in Salt Lake CIty, Utah.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Swift-J1o.asp (1003 words)

	UK Swift Science Data Centre
		Swift was launched at 17.16 GMT on 20th November 2004.
		Swift will be the first satellite to observe GRBs during the crucial first few hours.
		During the first year of the mission, Swift has triggered on 93 bursts with the BAT, representing the most comprehensive study so far of GRBs and their afterglows.
	www.swift.ac.uk (222 words)

	Swift: - The Swift Instruments
		Swift's three instruments work together to glean as much information about each burst as possible.
		Swift's multiwavelength observations of GRBs and afterglow are completely simultaneous.
		In addition, the BAT's position is fed to the Swift spacecraft so a slew can be performed, bringing the GRB into the XRT and UVOT's fields-of-view.
	swift.sonoma.edu /about_swift/instruments (392 words)

	Swift - Gamma Ray Space Observatory
		The Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer is a three-telescope space observatory for studying the position, brightness, and physical properties of gamma ray bursts.
		Although gamma ray bursts are the largest known explosions in the Universe, outshining the rest of the Universe when they explode unpredictably in distant galaxies, their underlying nature and the cause of the explosion are true mysteries of astrophysics.
		Swift would use its gamma ray telescope, X-ray telescope, and ultraviolet/optical telescope to determine the nature of gamma ray bursts by probing distant regions of the Universe.
	www.src.le.ac.uk /projects/swift (220 words)

	Jonathan Swift
		In the aftermath of the 1689 Jacobite rebellion in Ireland, Swift found shelter in England, under the auspices of Sir William Temple, a prominent diplomat and statesman.
		Swift took over The Examiner, a Tory rag, and, with a couple of 1711 pamphlets, helped turn to the tide of English public opinion against the "Whig" War of Spanish Succession.
		Having served his role as an Irish patriot and Tory critic of Whig policies, Swift is duly celebrated in William Butler Yeats's poem "The Seven Sages" and in "Swift's Epitaph".
	cepa.newschool.edu /het/profiles/swift.htm (977 words)

	Official NASA Swift Homepage
		With Swift, a NASA mission with international participation, scientists will now have a tool dedicated to answering these questions and solving the gamma-ray burst mystery.
		Within seconds of detecting a burst, Swift will relay a burst's location to ground stations, allowing both ground-based and space-based telescopes around the world the opportunity to observe the burst's afterglow.
		Swift is part of NASA's medium explorer (MIDEX) program and was launched into a low-Earth orbit on a Delta 7320 rocket on November 20, 2004.
	heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov /docs/swift/swiftsc.html (273 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Delta Launch Report \| Spacecraft launched to observe cataclysmic blasts
		The launch of Swift and its initial activities after reaching orbit are detailed in the traditional pre-launch news conference held the day prior to liftoff.
		But the appropriately named Swift is up to the challenge, equipped with six oversized, spinning reaction wheels that can be spun up or down on computer command to quickly reorient the spacecraft in time to observe the afterglow of a burst.
		Swift's launch originally was scheduled for October, but the flight was delayed in the wake of three hurricanes that blew through Florida and by a longer-than-expected campaign to launch a Delta navigation satellite from an adjacent pad.
	www.spaceflightnow.com /delta/d309 (2002 words)

	Swift Italia Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Swift is a NASA medium explorer (MIDEX) satellite developed by an international partecipation and dedicated to the study of gamma-ray bursts (GRB) science.
		On board, Swift has three instruments (BAT, UVOT, XRT) working at different wavelenghts (gamma-ray, X-ray and optical) to observe, for the first time, bursts from the very beginning to the end.
		Swift is built to be agile, to swiftly turn and point its instruments at the burst and relay burst location within second:
	www.merate.mi.astro.it /docM/OAB/Research/SWIFT (151 words)

	Development of the SWIFT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The SWIFT is a high performance foot-launched sailplane, designed to combine some of the convenience of hang gliders with the soaring performance of sailplanes.
		The structure of the SWIFT is designed to meet the demanding requirements of very low drag (fully cantilevered, accurate airfoil definition for laminar flow) and light weight.
		The SWIFT promises to usher in a new generation of foot-launched sailplanes that will provide a continuum of soaring machines: from paragliders and flex-wing hang gliders to high performance rigid wings and conventional sailplanes.
	aero.stanford.edu /Reports/SWIFTArticle1991.html (2797 words)

	www.myspace.com/swiftband
		Swift hail from the "Camel City" (Winston-Salem, NC) and formed in 1998, they quickly established themselves in the southeastern heavy music scene.
		Both Swift and Tribunal Records realized that ther goals of achieving success on their own terms were identical, so a partnership was born.
		With this new blood pulsing through it’s veins SWIFT decided to “go for broke” and write an album of material that knew no bondaries and pulled from their wide array of influences.
	www.myspace.com /swiftband (1332 words)

	UTEL: Jonathan Swift Page
		"Swift was ordained in Ireland in 1695 and was given a prebend at St Patrick's, Dublin, where he was later made dean.
		He was also very close to Esther Vanhomrigh, whom he met in 1708, and his final rupture with her in about 1723 may have hastened her death.
		As a result of his increasing dementia, he was declared 'of unsound mind' in 1742 and guardians were appointed to manage his affairs.
	www.library.utoronto.ca /utel/authors/swiftj.html (327 words)

	Welcome to Swift First Aid
		Established in 1948, Swift First Aid continues to be one of the foremost resources for quality first aid products.
		With more than 3,000 products for you to choose from, Swift is dedicated to being your single source for top-quality first aid products to keep employees safe and productive on the job.
		Swift understands the need for businesses to keep the rising costs of business down.
	www.swiftfirstaid.com (180 words)

	Swift - An Equation Editor in Java (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Swift is a graphical equation editor in Java.
		All you have to do is use the Swift Equation Editor and compose your equation and then an applet will draw it on your web page for you.
		If you use the Swift Equation Editor, please e-mail us at kandr@giasmd01.vsnl.net.in, so that we can send you updates as and when they are made.
	www.geocities.com /SiliconValley/Heights/5445/swift.html (288 words)

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