Sparrow-size Virginia Gibson, with sparkling blue eyes and a cheerful smile, made a suitably perky Amy, while Melisande Congdon, as the real aunt, was positively monumental in the very best Gibson Girl manner.

* A " Jumbo " body style is bigger again than a Grand Auditorium but similarly proportioned, and is generally designed to provide a deeper tone, similar to a dreadnought ( the body style was designed by Gibson to compete with the dreadnought ) but with maximum resonant space for greater volume and sustain.

Warner Bros. was willing to fund the project on the condition that Gibson sign for another Lethal Weapon sequel, which he refused.

According to Gibson, he was inspired by the big screen epics he had loved as a child, such as Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus and William Wyler's The Big Country.

Of Japan's influence on the genre, William Gibson said, " Modern Japan simply was cyberpunk.

" Cyberpunk is often set in urbanized, artificial landscapes, and " city lights, receding " was used by Gibson as one of the genre's first metaphor s for cyberspace.

The term was quickly appropriated as a label to be applied to the works of William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan and others.

William Gibson would later reveal that upon first viewing the film, he was surprised at how the look of this film matched his vision when he was working on Neuromancer.

The term " cyberspace " was first used by the cyberpunk science fiction author William Gibson, though the concept was described somewhat earlier, for example in the Vernor Vinge short story " True Names ," and even earlier in John M. Ford's novel, Web of Angels.

The word " cyberspace " ( from cybernetics and space ) was coined by science fiction novelist and seminal cyberpunk author William Gibson in his 1982 story " Burning Chrome " and popularized by his 1984 novel Neuromancer.

At the same time he grew dissatisfied with the direction Gretsch ( no longer family-owned ) was going and withdrew his authorization for them to use his name and began designing guitars with Gibson.

Before that, the much smaller original island was the site of Fort Gibson and later a naval magazine.

At the end of the War of 1812, Fort Gibson was built and the island remained a military post for nearly 80 years before it was selected to be a federal immigration station.

Alvino Rey was an artist who took this instrument to a wide audience in a large orchestral setting and later developed the pedal steel guitar for Gibson.

During the recording of the third album, Gibson was let go after a dispute over money and Walker left since touring was keeping him away from his family too much.

The first successful magnetic pickup for a guitar was invented by George Beauchamp, and incorporated into the 1931 Ro-Pat-In ( later Rickenbacker ) " Frying Pan " lap steel ; other manufacturers, notably Gibson, soon began to install pickups in archtop models.

After World War II the completely solid-body electric was popularized by Gibson in collaboration with Les Paul, and independently by Leo Fender of Fender Music.

The Gibson Robot Guitar, released in 2007, is often mistaken as the first of this kind, but was preceded by the Transperformance system by at least 20 years.

John Norville Gibson Finley served as Director of the new branch, which was known as University College.

" Its first realization was the 1957 Playhouse 90 teleplay of that title by William Gibson.

In late August 1989, while working as an engineer on the jack-up barge GSF Galveston Key in the North Sea, Chris Gibson and another witness saw an unfamiliar isosceles triangle-shaped delta aircraft, apparently refueling from a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker and accompanied by a pair of F-111 fighter-bombers.

* Matt Gibson – assistant engineer

Edward George Gibson, Ph. D., ( born November 8, 1936 ) is a former astronaut for NASA, an pilot, am engineer, and a physicist.

* Sir John Watson Gibson ( 1885 – 1947 ), British civil engineer

Lover worked for Gibson from 1952 to 1967 as a design engineer.

Steve M. Gibson ( born March 26, 1955, Dayton, Ohio ) is a computer enthusiast, software engineer and security researcher who studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

* Sir John Watson Gibson, civil engineer, lived in Stanwell Lodge and then Stanwell Place between the 1920's and his death in 1947

* Steve Gibson ( computer programmer ) ( born 1955 ), American computer engineer and journalist

Lloyd Allayre Loar ( January 9, 1886 – September 14, 1943 ) was a Gibson sound engineer and master luthier in the early part of the 20th century.

Although none of Loar's original electric instruments appear to have been preserved, Walter A Fuller, who joined Gibson in 1933 and later became Gibson's chief electronic engineer, found some of Loar's original devices when he first set up his R & D lab in the mid-1930s.

* Sir John Watson Gibson CBE, civil engineer, worked with Pauling & Co. to build the Jebel Aulia Dam, and in the war designed the breakwaters for the Mulberry harbours

The New York Times columnist Paul Krugman agreed with this assessment, writing: " The Gibson character was presented as a man who refused to get involved until his own family was hurt — then, he went to war for personal revenge .... As Lind said, the truth is that that's more or less the opposite of patriotism, which is about making sacrifices for the national good, not serving your personal motives or interests.

His crime story Tequila Sunrise ( 1988 ) co-starred Mel Gibson as a reformed cocaine dealer and Kurt Russell as a detective, with Michelle Pfeiffer as a woman who becomes romantically involved with both.

The original screenplay by Brian Helgeland centers on an eccentric taxi driver ( Mel Gibson ) who believes many world events are triggered by government conspiracies, and the U. S. Justice Department attorney ( Julia Roberts ) who becomes involved in his life.

People involved in the arts and born in the town include the actress Kathleen Harrison in 1892 ; Alfred Wainwright, author of the Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, in 1907 ; broadcaster Russell Harty in 1934 ; the internationally renowned Contemporary artist Ross Eccles in 1937, many of his paintings feature Blackburn and Lancashire scenes and landmarks ; the writer Josephine Cox in 1941 who set many of her novels in Lancashire ; the actor Anthony Valentine in 1939 ; the actor Michael Billington, star of UFO in 1941 ; actor Ian McShane in 1942 ; rock musician Tony Ashton in 1946 ; actor Jon Walmsley in 1956 ; film maker Michael Winterbottom in 1961 ; actor Steve Pemberton in 1967 ; actress Wendi Peters in 1968 ; actor / comedian Lee Mack in 1968 ; television host Debbie Travis ; author Tony O ' Neill in 1978 ; television presenter and documentary director Michael Gibson in 1980 ; and singer and actress Diana Vickers in 1991.

The area is known as Jamieson's Special Survey in cadastral surveys. The survey extended east as far as Bulldog Creek Rd. Henry Dunn had leased the Survey from 1846 until 1851 and was succeeded by tenants such as the Griffith, Eaton, Peatey, McLear, Clydesdale, Wilson, Cottier and Gibson families, which were involved with the History of Dromana, and in the case of William Cottier, the establishment of the first of three Rye Hotels, in Dromana.

While working under Ted McCarty at Gibson, Lover was also involved in guitar design.

According to the LA Times, Gibson has refused to reprise his role as Martin Riggs for the fifth time, which Donner thinks is out of personal loyalty because Donner is not involved.

Nigel was involved in financing movies such as Green Card, Fearless, Hamlet ( Mel Gibson version ), Crocodile Dundee, Braveheart, and several others.

" Among delegates from the eight churches then involved were Methodist theologian Albert Outler, Episcopal bishop Robert Gibson of Virginia, and United Church of Christ minister David Colwell.

Steve Gibson was involved with a notable controversy over the Microsoft WMF vulnerability, an issue raised in 2006 where a Windows Metafile image could trigger execution of arbitrary code.

Two of these -- Gibson Greetings and Procter & Gamble ( P & G ) -- successfully sued BT, asserting that they had not been informed of, or ( in the latter case ), had been unable to understand the risks involved.

The marketing policy adopted by management involved allowing its distributors to arrange short term loans of Gibson instruments on a trial basis.