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.

This, no doubt, is part of what Gilbert Seldes implies when he says of the arts, `` They give form and meaning to life which might otherwise seem shapeless and without sense ''.

Dr. Cardew, who, in a later letter to Davies Gilbert, said dryly: “ I could not discern the faculties by which he was afterwards so much distinguished .” Davy said himself: “ I consider it fortunate I was left much to myself as a child, and put upon no particular plan of study ... What I am I made myself .”

According to Gilbert Burnet, however, Mary convinced her husband that she did not care for political power, and told him " she would be no more but his wife, and that she would do all that lay in her power to make him King for life ".

Although the historian Gilbert Burnet claimed that Henry called her a Flanders Mare, there is no evidence that he said this ; in truth, court ambassadors negotiating the marriage praised her beauty.

no: Walter Gilbert

Over 150 unauthorised productions sprang up in America alone, but because American law then offered no copyright protection to foreigners, Carte, Gilbert and Sullivan were not able to demand royalties from, or to control the artistic content of, these productions.

Some scholars ( e. g. Tillett and Spencer, 2000 ) have offered evidence that Gilbert and Sullivan had planned all along to re-use " Climbing over rocky mountain ," and perhaps other parts of Thespis, noting that the presence of the unpublished Thespis score in New York, when there were no plans to revive it, might not have been accidental.

" However, by 8 May 1884, Gilbert was ready to back down, writing, "... am I to understand that if I construct another plot in which no supernatural element occurs, you will undertake to set it?

no: Cass Gilbert

Gilbert Vernam tried to repair the broken cipher ( creating the Vernam-Vigenère cipher in 1918 ), but, no matter what he did, the cipher was still vulnerable to cryptanalysis.

( In comic books, Goofy was regularly featured as having a nephew, Gilbert, but that character has only existed in comics, with no cartoon appearances.

Martin Gilbert writes that no event in the history of German Jews between 1933 and 1945 was so widely reported as it was happening, and the accounts from the foreign journalists working in Germany sent shock waves around the world.

During the years when the Gilbert and Sullivan (“ G & S ”) operas were being written, Richard D ' Oyly Carte produced operas by other composer – librettist teams, either as curtain raisers to the G & S pieces, or to fill the theatre when no G & S piece was available.

In late July 1937, Putnam chartered two small boats and while he remained in the United States, directed a search of the Phoenix Islands, Christmas ( Kiritimati ) Island, Fanning ( Tabuaeran ) Island, the Gilbert Islands and the Marshall Islands, but no trace of the Electra or its occupants was found.

Editor Henry Gilbert titled his section " Waluigi: The worst character ever ", suggesting that the creation process involved the developers of Mario Tennis having no one to fill the final character slot, and conceiving him as an " evil Luigi ".

The film is unusual in that it has no opening credits and the end credits feature photos of the principal actors, as well as of the main technical crew, including director Lewis Gilbert and cameraman Otto Heller.

The hall is the oldest surviving college building, but apart from the door with its magnificent medieval ironwork almost no trace of the ancient structure has survived the successive reconstruction efforts, first by James Wyatt in the 1790s and then again by Gilbert Scott in 1874.

When the previous Gilbert and Sullivan opera, Ruddigore, finished its run at the Savoy Theatre, no new Gilbert and Sullivan opera was ready, and for nearly a year the stage was devoted to revivals of such old successes as H. M. S.

no: William Gilbert

When Elizabeth's only brother Gilbert, 7th Earl of Hertford was killed at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 aged only 23 and leaving no surviving issue, his property was equally divided between his three full sisters, Elizabeth, Eleanor and Margaret.

Gilbert Wakefield had published a Tragoediarum delectus ; and, conceiving himself to be slighted, as there was no mention of his work in the new Hecuba, he wrote a diatribe extemporalis against it.

Gilbert claimed that any north-east passage was far too dangerous: " the air is so darkened with continual mists and fogs so near the pole that no man can well see either to guide his ship or direct his course.

" According to Bishop Gilbert Burnet, who praises his character and administration, Fell was " a little too much heated in the matter of our disputes with the dissenters ... He had much zeal for reforming abuses, and managed it perhaps with too much heat and in too peremptory a way ... But we have so little of that among us that no wonder if such men are censured by those who love not such patterns nor such severe task-masters.