Other productions within Europe waited until the end of the Second World War, some notable ones being in January 1963 in London at Sadler's Wells Opera conducted by Colin Davis and in Berlin in September 1977 by the Komische Oper.

Statue of a The War of the Worlds Tripod ( The War of the Worlds ) | tripod, erected as a tribute to H. G. Wells in the centre of the town of Woking, England

In 1933 Wells predicted in The Shape of Things to Come that the world war he feared would begin January 1940, a prediction which ultimately came true just four months early, when the Second World War broke out in September 1939.

Near the end of the Second World War, Allied forces discovered that the SS had compiled lists of people slated for immediate arrest during the invasion of Britain in the abandoned Operation Sea Lion, and Wells was included in the alphabetical list on the same page of " The Black Book " as Rebecca West.

Little Wars is recognised today as the first recreational wargame and Wells is regarded by gamers and hobbyists as " the Father of Miniature War Gaming ".

Wells had given some moderate, unenthusiastic support for Territorialism before the First World War, but later became a bitter opponent of the Zionist movement in general.

On 28 October 1940 Wells was interviewed by Orson Welles, who two years previously had performed an infamous radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds, on KTSA radio in San Antonio, Texas.

In his preface to the 1941 edition of The War in the Air, Wells had stated that his epitaph should be: " I told you so.

* " H. G. Wells warned us how it would feel to fight a War of the Worlds ", by Niall Ferguson, in The Telegraph, 24 Jun 2005.

* The War of the Worlds ( 1898 ) by H. G. Wells.

Scarlet Traces is intended as a sequel to H. G. Wells ' The War of the Worlds and centres on a counter-invasion of Mars, beginning about 1908 and continuing over the next three decades.

Wells ' The War of the Worlds describes an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians using tripod fighting machines equipped with advanced weaponry.

The War of the Worlds is an 1898 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells.

* H. G. Wells ' War of the Worlds ( 2005 film ), a film by David Michael Latt

* H. G. Wells ' The War of the Worlds ( comics ), a 2006 graphic novel adaptation by Ian Edginton and D ' Israeli

* H. G. Wells published The Time Machine ( 1895 ), The Island of Doctor Moreau ( 1896 ), and The War of the Worlds ( 1898 ).

H. G. Wells created modern science fiction with his book The War of the Worlds.

For example, in 1933 H. G. Wells postulated in The Shape of Things to Come a Second World War in which Nazi Germany and Poland are evenly matched militarily, fighting an indecisive war over ten years ; and Poul Anderson's early 1950s Psychotechnic League depicted a world undergoing a devastating nuclear war in 1958, yet by the early 21st century managing not only to rebuild the ruins on Earth but also engage in extensive space colonization of the Moon and several planets.

* The War of the Worlds ( 1898 ) by H. G. Wells.

The Niagara Falls area features as the base camp for a German aerial invasion of the United States in the H. G. Wells novel The War in the Air.

Wells ' War of the Worlds, devised and produced by former David Essex producer Jeff Wayne.

Perhaps America's most famous radio drama broadcast is Orson Welles's The War of the Worlds, a 1938 version of the H. G. Wells novel, which convinced large numbers of listeners that an actual invasion from Mars was taking place.

Wells became a trading centre and involved in cloth making before its involvement in both the English Civil War and the Monmouth Rebellion during the 17th century.

Wells ' 1898 novel The War of the Worlds depicts an invasion of Earth by inhabitants of the planet Mars.

Wyndham frequently acknowledged the influence of H. G. Wells ' The War of the Worlds on The Day of the Triffids.

He appears in the first episode of the 2001 miniseries The Infinite Worlds of H. G. Wells, rejecting a story from Wells for being too long and too preposterous.

Nishikado drew inspiration for the aliens from H. G. Wells ' The War of the Worlds — he had watched the 1953 film adaptation as a child — and created initial bitmap images after the octopus-like aliens.

Wells ' novel The War of the Worlds exploits invasion panics that were common when science fiction was first emerging as a genre.

Wells published The War of the Worlds, depicting the invasion of Victorian England by Martians equipped with advanced weaponry.

Wells had already proposed another outcome for the alien invasion story in The War of the Worlds.

The classic treatment was The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, which was made into movies in 1953 and 2005, as well as numerous radio adaptations and a TV series.

Wells has been used as the setting for several films including: The Canterbury Tales ( 1973 ), A Fistful of Fingers ( 1994 ), The Gathering ( 2002 ), The Libertine ( 2005 ), The Golden Age ( 2007 ), and Hot Fuzz ( 2007 ) The cathedral interior stood in for Southwark Cathedral during filming for the Doctor Who episode The Lazarus Experiment.

* Sir Chris Clarke – county councillor for Wells from 1985 to 2005.

Vilsack speaks at the dedication ceremony of the Iowa Events Center's Wells Fargo Arena ( Des Moines ) | Wells Fargo Arena, July 12, 2005.

" After the 2005 season, Wells requested a trade back to the West Coast, but he eventually withdrew that request and resigned himself to one last year pitching for the Red Sox.

Wells on Lynching ," The Journal of Speculative Philosophy v. 19 # 2 ( 2005 ), pp. 167 – 174 online at Project Muse

In September 2005 vocalist Wells was diagnosed with breast cancer.

H. G. Wells novels The Invisible Man, Things to Come and The Island of Doctor Moreau were all adapted into films during his lifetime while The War of the Worlds was updated in 1953 and again in 2005, adapted to film at least four times altogether.

R. Joseph Hoffmann considers that there are " reasons for scholars to hold " the view that Jesus never existed, but considers Doherty " A ' disciple ' of Wells " who " has rehashed many of the former ’ s views in The Jesus Puzzle ( Age of Reason Publications, 2005 ) which is qualitatively and academically far inferior to anything so far written on the subject ".

However, in 2005, Perle publicly acknowledged he had been served a ' Wells notice ', a formal warning that the S. E. C.

In the second, Wells ruled from the bench in accepting IBM's motion to limit SCO's claims to those supported by evidence submitted by December 22, 2005 and not rejected by the court.

In 2005, he starred in H. G. Wells ' War of the Worlds, one of three 2005 adaptations of the novel The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.

* A Brief history of Wells and Toilets, 2005 book ( link to pdf-file )

A theatrical ballet adaptation by the British choreographer Matthew Bourne premiered at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London in November 2005.

There are five major scholarly editions of the Complete Works of Shakespeare: The Riverside Shakespeare ( G. Blakemore Evans, 1974 ; 2nd edn., 1996 ), The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works ( Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor, John Jowett and William Montgomery, 1986 ; 2nd edn., 2005 ), The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition ( Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Cohen, Jean E. Howard and Katharine Eisaman Haus, 1997 ; 2nd edn., 2008 ), The Arden Shakespeare: Complete Works ( Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson and David Scott Kastan, 1998 ; 2nd edn.

In 2005, the Wells Fargo Arena opened in Des Moines, directly across from what the locals call " Vets ", as part of the newly expanded Iowa Events Center.

The Member of Parliament for Tunbridge Wells is the Conservative Greg Clark, who was elected in 2005 with a majority of 9, 988 and held the seat in 2010 with a majority of 15, 576.

Although a serious knee-injury hampered Safin's progression and rankings within the ATP ( he missed the 2005 US Open, 2005 Tennis Masters Cup and 2006 Australian Open ), Safin made appearances at the 2006 ATP Masters tournaments at Indian Wells, Miami, Monte Carlo, Rome and Hamburg.