Pinafore relied on stock character types, many of which were familiar from European opera ( and some of which grew out of Gilbert's earlier association with the German Reeds ): the heroic protagonist ( tenor ) and his love-interest ( soprano ); the older woman with a secret or a sharp tongue ( contralto ); the baffled lyric baritone — the girl's father ; and a classic villain ( bass-baritone ).

Gilbert's doctoral studies were performed at the University of Cambridge, where he earned his Ph. D in mathematics under the mentorship Nobel laureate Abdus Salam in 1957.

Gilbert's achievements were recognized in his lifetime ; he served as president of the American Institute of Architects in 1908-09.

Gilbert's calculations showed that the volume of the crater and the debris on the rim were roughly equivalent, so that the mass of the hypothetical impactor was missing, nor were there any magnetic anomalies.

Many of Gilbert's original gameplay ideas were abandoned during the production process, although he stated that " most of that stuff was left out for a reason ".

There was one other cut made after Gilbert's death: Separate lyrics for Elsie and Point, not found elsewhere, were cut during the " All frenzied, frenzied with despair they rave " section of the Act I finale.

Other plays they premiered or produced there were W. S. Gilbert's Allow Me To Explain ( 1867 ) and his romantic comedy tribute to Robertson, Sweethearts ( 1874 ), as well as Tame Cats ( 1868 ), Lytton's Money ( 1872 ), The School for Scandal ( 1874 ), Boucicault's London Assurance ( 1877 ), and Diplomacy ( 1878 ), an adaptation of Sardou's Dora by Clement Scott and B. C. Stephenson.

Gilbert's ashes were interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

During the three weeks of this campaign, all enemies were treated without quarter and put to the sword-including women and children-which explains, perhaps, the swiftness with which so many castles had been abandoned before Gilbert's aggression.

Gilbert's crews were made up of misfits, criminals and pirates, but in spite of the many problems caused by their lawlessness, the fleet did manage to reach Newfoundland.

They were heavily influenced by Judas Priest and Gilbert's playing was reminiscent of Yngwie Malmsteen, displaying fast-driven solos with extreme-level technique.

The company's chief marketing officer stated that " Gilbert's recent comments about the crisis in Japan were lacking in humor and certainly do not represent the thoughts and feelings of anyone at Aflac.

The two toy magnates were just finishing shooting on Gilbert's game reserve in New Haven when Gilbert casually mentioned he was thinking about manufacturing toy trains.

Pope Alexander III ruled in Gilbert's favour, but the living conditions of the lay brothers were improved thereafter.

The founders were Gilbert's elder brother Neville Talbot, then a senior army chaplain, and Reverend Philip Thomas Byard ( Tubby ) Clayton.

They were part of Eddie Gilbert's Hotstuff International group, before disbanding in 1986 when Hellwig left the UWF.

Gilbert and his brother were present with Prince Henry when King William II was shot dead by an arrow fired by Walter Tyrell, Gilbert's steward.

Gilbert's calculations showed that the volume of the crater and the debris on the rim were roughly equal.

Gilbert's wide-ranging scientific ideas were so profound that the Geological Society of America published GSA Special Paper 183 on his research ( Yochelson, E. L., editor, 1980, The Scientific Ideas of G. K. Gilbert, fourteen separate biographical chapters, 148 pages ).

Among Gilbert's best-known, and most popular, works were his Innominato tales of the supernatural, published in various magazines, including Argosy, and finally collected in The Wizard of the Mountain ( 1867 ).

Labouchère's claims to being impartial were ridiculed by his critics, including W. S. Gilbert ( who had been an object of Labouchère's theatrical criticism ) in Gilbert's comic opera His Excellency ( see illustration at right ).

The characters were revived in W. S. Gilbert's satire, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and as the alienated heroes of Tom Stoppard's absurdist play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

Gilbert's plans for the new university were ambitious:

On arriving at the port of St. John's, Gilbert found himself temporarily blockaded by the fishing fleet under the organization of the port admiral ( an Englishman ) on account of piracy committed against a Portuguese vessel in 1582 by one of Gilbert's commanders.

His adaptation of a French operetta by Émile Jonas called The Two Harlequins opened the new Gaiety Theatre, London in 1868, together with his distant cousin, W. S. Gilbert's, Robert the Devil and another piece.

Unlike the later Gilbert and Sullivan works, it was hastily prepared, and its nature was more risqué, like Gilbert's earlier burlesques, with a broader style of comedy that allowed for improvisation by the actors.

As a physical basis, Kepler drew by analogy on William Gilbert's theory of the magnetic soul of the Earth from De Magnete ( 1600 ) and on his own work on optics.

Gilbert's membership was suggested by Gretton.

Other references to Le Pétomane include Mel Brooks's 1974 film Blazing Saddles, Kevin Gilbert's The Shaming of the True, the 1984 college romp film Up the Creek, directed by Robert Butler, in which the four protagonists represent Lepetomane University in an inter-collegiate river raft race, Kinky Friedman's 1999 novel Spanking Watson, and John Hodgman's book The Areas of My Expertise.

Heilbrun says " Gilbert's pioneering buildings injected vitality into skyscraper design, and his ' Gothic skyscraper ,' epitomized by the Woolworth Building, profoundly influenced architects during the first decades of the twentieth century.

At the age of nine, Gilbert's family moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he was raised by his mother after his father died.

Gilbert's two buildings for the University of Texas campus in Austin, Sutton Hall ( 1918 ) and Battle Hall ( 1911 ), are widely recognized by architectural historians as among the finest works of architecture in the state.

This property, first recorded by Thales of Miletus, suggested the word " electricity " ( from William Gilbert's initial coinage, " electra "), from the Greek word for amber, ēlektron.

He produced, among other works, Gilbert's final opera, with music by German, Fallen Fairies in 1909 – 10, which ran for only 51 performances.

In 1766, Gilbert's plan was authorised by an Act of Parliament.

William Gilbert's explanation was that the Earth itself was a giant magnet, and he demonstrated this by creating a scale model of the magnetic Earth, a " terrella ", a sphere formed out of a lodestone.

The English word electricity was first used in 1646 by Sir Thomas Browne, derived from Gilbert's 1600 New Latin electricus, meaning " like amber ".

A joint commitment in Gilbert's sense is not a matter of a set of personal commitments independently created by each of the participants, as when each makes a personal decision to do something.

Columbia Pictures gave him a chance for a comeback ; The Captain Hates the Sea ( 1934 ) featured a capable performance by Gilbert as a frustrated playwright, but offscreen the ensemble cast of heavy drinkers did nothing for Gilbert's discipline, and the film turned out to be his last.

Gilbert's contentions won support and money was raised, chiefly by the London merchant Michael Lok, for an expedition.

The formality of his annexation of Newfoundland eventually achieved reality in 1610 ; but perhaps of more significance was the reissue to Raleigh in 1584 of Gilbert's patent, on the back of which he undertook the Roanoke expeditions, the first sustained attempt by the English crown to establish colonies in North America.

The Sorcerer opened on 17 November 1877 at the Opera Comique, preceded by Dora's Dream, a curtain-raiser composed by Sullivan's assistant Alfred Cellier, with words by Arthur Cecil, a friend of both Gilbert's and Sullivan's.