Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels) Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels) Yahoos are legendary beings in the 1726 satirical novel "Gulliver's Travels" written by Jonathan Swift. Their behavior and character representation is meant to comment on the state of Europe from Swift's point of view. The word "yahoo" was coined by Jonathan Swift in the fourth section of "Gulliver's Travels" and has since entered the English language more broadly. Its most famous use is as the name of a pioneering search engine, Yahoo!. Swift describes Yahoos as filthy with unpleasant habits, "a brute in human form," resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel
The Creek of the Four Graves The Creek of the Four Graves "The Creek of the Four Graves" is a poem by Australian writer Charles Harpur that was first published in three parts in "The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature" on 9 August, 16 August and 23 August 1845. The author then published an erratum in the same paper on 30 August 1845 which corrects what appears to be a misprinting. It was later included in the author's poetry collection "The Bushrangers, a Play in Five Acts, and Other Poems" (1853), and was subsequently reprinted in various newspapers, magazines and poetry anthologies. Harpur