During World War II, a group of Japanese soldiers stationed on Lagos Island in South Pacific were unintentionally saved by Godzillasaurus, which attacked and killed a group of American soldiers who had landed on the island in February 1944 as part of the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign.

Gilbert already had available the libretto he had written for Rosa, and Carte suggested that Sullivan write the score.

Before The Sorcerer, Gilbert had constructed his plays around the established stars of whatever theatre he happened to be writing for, as had been the case with Thespis and Trial by Jury.

Building on the team he had assembled for The Sorcerer, Gilbert no longer hired stars ; he created them.

Gilbert had created several " fairy comedies " at the Haymarket Theatre in the early 1870s.

In 1882, Gilbert had a telephone installed in his home and at the prompt desk at the Savoy Theatre so that he could monitor performances and rehearsals from his home study.

Gilbert had referred to the new technology in Pinafore in 1878, only two years after the device was invented and before London even had telephone service.

Although it was the operas with Gilbert that had earned him the broadest fame, the honour was conferred for his services to serious music.

But paradoxically, in February 1883, just after Iolanthe opened, Sullivan had signed a five-year agreement with Gilbert and Carte requiring him to produce a new comic opera on six months ' notice.

Gilbert had written a blank verse farce based on the same material in 1870, called The Princess, and he reused a good deal of the dialogue from his earlier play in the libretto of Princess Ida.

Lillian Russell had been engaged to create the title role, but Gilbert did not believe that she was dedicated enough, and when she missed a rehearsal, she was dismissed.

Sullivan had been satisfied with the libretto, but two months after Ida opened, Sullivan told Carte that " it is impossible for me to do another piece of the character of those already written by Gilbert and myself.

" G. K. Chesterton compared it to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels: " Gilbert pursued and persecuted the evils of modern England till they had literally not a leg to stand on, exactly as Swift did ...

In one tour match, Gilbert had bloodied Jardine and left a bruise the size of a saucer.

Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, had its first public performance in London.

Even more sign of Edward's distrust occurred when on 10 October 1305, Edward revoked his gift of Gilbert de Umfraville's lands to Bruce that he had made only six months before.

Gilbert consented and offered to write the book ; but Sondheim declined, having already had collaborator John Weidman in mind.

They included Robert's uncle, Robert the archbishop of Rouen, who had originally opposed the duke, Osbern, a nephew of Gunnor the wife of Duke Richard I, and Count Gilbert of Brionne, a grandson of Richard I.

At first, Alan of Brittany had custody of the duke, but when Alan died in either late 1039 or October 1040, Gilbert of Brionne took charge of William.

In 2006, he had a prominent role in the remake of The Pink Panther and its sequel, playing Gilbert Ponton, the partner of Inspector Clouseau opposite Steve Martin, and also portrayed Captain Bezu Fache in the Ron Howard film The Da Vinci Code.

Victorian era dramatist W. S. Gilbert remarked, " Deer-stalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns ".

His good friend Gilbert R. Cook was Deputy Commander, whom Patton later had to relieve due to illness, a decision which " shook him to the core.

A similar device is used in the plot of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance: As a child, Frederic was apprenticed to a band of pirates until his 21st birthday.

Gilbert initially proposed a story for a new opera about a magic lozenge that would change the characters, which Sullivan found artificial and lacking in " human interest and probability ", as well as being too similar to their earlier opera, The Sorcerer.

Pinafores extraordinary popularity in Britain, America and elsewhere was followed by the similar success of a series of Gilbert and Sullivan works, including The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado.

Fate of Atlantis is based on the SCUMM story system by Ron Gilbert, Aric Wilmunder, Brad P. Taylor, and Vince Lee, thus employing similar gameplay to other point-and-click adventures developed by LucasArts in the 1980s and 1990s.

It has a similar monumental impressiveness to Gilbert Scott's other local buildings, Battersea Power Station and the Tate Modern, although its simplicity is partly the result of repeated budget cuts during its construction: much more detail, including carved Gothic stonework surrounding the windows, was originally planned.

" Gilbert ( p. 217 ) points out that Machiavelli's friend the historian and diplomat Francesco Guicciardini expressed similar ideas about fortune.

The staircases of the interior façade are decorated with cartouches similar to those found in First Quad, and likewise bear the arms of important figures in the College's history ; ( 13 ) Sir Walter Raleigh who was an undergraduate from 1572 to 1574, ( 14 ) John Keble who was a Fellow between 1811 and 1835 ), ( archway ) Edward Hawkins who was Provost from 1828 until 1882 and ( 15 ) Gilbert White who was an undergraduate from 1739 until 1743 and a Fellow from 1744 until 1793.

1883 poster similar to the one Gilbert said gave him the inspiration for the opera

Gilbert thought that Sullivan's first setting ( in 6 / 8 time ) was too similar to many of the other tenor ballads in the Savoy Operas, and he urged the composer to rewrite it.

Likewise, when Theobald consecrated Gilbert as Bishop of St Asaph in 1142, a similar profession of obedience was made.

The philosophy of Bernard Stiegler draws upon and modifies the work of Gilbert Simondon on individuation, as well as similar ideas in Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.

K3, introduced in 1929, again by Gilbert Scott was similar to K2 but was constructed from concrete and intended for nationwide use.

" Martin Gilbert has expressed a similar view: " At bottom, the old appeasement was a mood of hope, Victorian in its optimism, Burkean in its belief that societies evolved from bad to good and that progress could only be for the better.

For the 1954 revival, the Act II line " And the niggers they'll be bleaching by and by ," was changed to " And they'll practice what they're preaching by and by ," to accommodate the sensibilities of modern audiences, following similar changes in other Gilbert and Sullivan works.

From 1922, A. C. Gilbert made chemistry sets in various sizes as well as similar sets for the budding scientist, adding investigations into radioactivity in the 1950s with a kit featuring a Geiger counter.

Gilbert and Chassé ( 1990 ) subsequently published a statistical attack similar to differential cryptanalysis which requires 10000 pairs of chosen plaintexts.

" in a parody of a similar scene in the 1967 film The Graduate ; Gilbert appreciated the reference, so Elaine was adopted as the governor's name.

A similar theme pervades another early Gilbert novel, The Weaver's Family ( 1860 ).

Gilbert co-founded an inmate peer education program on HIV and AIDS in the Auburn Correctional Facility in 1987, and a similar, more successful project in Great Meadows Prison in Comstock following his transfer there.

Martin Gilbert in his Jewish History Atlas published in 1976 states " Over 100, 000 Jews were killed ; many more were tortured or ill-treated, others fled ..." Many other sources of the time give similar figures.

Nearly attached to the north-northeastern rim of Gilbert are the craters Weierstrass ( Gilbert N ) and Van Vleck ( Gilbert M ), two somewhat similar formations.

This technique is also used by many similar guitarists of the genre including Steve Vai, Paul Gilbert, Head and Munky of Korn and John Petrucci of Dream Theater.