When three Japanese fishermen, among them Otokichi, were shipwrecked on the Olympic Peninsula in 1834, McLoughlin, envisioning an opportunity to use them to open trade with Japan, sent the trio to London on the Eagle to try to convince the Crown of his plan.

When envisioning the college in the early 1960s, Elizabeth Blodgett Hall deliberately named it nothing more than " Simon's Rock.

When asked to direct the series, Shinichi Watanabe, though welcome to the opportunity, was cited as saying that he was unsure why he had been chosen, and that after watching previous Tenchi episodes, found the task of envisioning GXP to be " tough ".

When Cooper was envisioning his giant terror gorilla idea, he wanted to capture a real gorilla from the Congo and have it fight a real Komodo Dragon on Komodo Island.

When asked his opinion on the computer-generated snake used in this episode, writer David Fury says he was originally envisioning it as something " amorphous, bug-like, something non-human looking "; it was Marti Noxon who came up with the idea of using a reptile.

When words can be used in a more fresh and primitive way so that they strike with the force of sights and sounds, when tones of sound and colors of paint and the carven shape all strike the sensibilities with an undeniable force of data in and of themselves, compelling the observer into an attitude of attention, all this imitates the way experience itself in its deepest character strikes upon the door of consciousness and clamors for entrance.

When an object falls into a black hole, any information about the shape of the object or distribution of charge on it is evenly distributed along the horizon of the black hole, and is lost to outside observers.

When attempting to draw a complicated shape such as a human figure, it is helpful at first to represent the form with a set of primitive shapes.

When Greek orthography was codified by grammarians in the Hellenistic era, they used a diacritic symbol derived from this half-H shape to signal the presence of / h /, and added as its counterpart a reverse-shaped diacritic to denote absence of / h /.

When the string vibrates, the shape of the crystal is distorted, and the stresses associated with this change produce tiny voltages across the crystal that can be amplified and manipulated.

When mapped, one of the contorted districts in the Boston area was said to resemble the shape of a salamander.

When perched with the wings folded, ivory-bills of both sexes present a large patch of white on the lower back, roughly triangular in shape.

When the first postage stamps premiered in the 1840s, they followed an almost identical standard in their shape, size and general subject matter.

When, for example, an explosion blows a hole in a rock wall, the GeoMod technology creates an " empty space " object which is the approximate size and shape of the explosion.

When the field is removed, the quartz will generate an electric field as it returns to its previous shape, and this can generate a voltage.

When threatened, Sipunculids can retract their body into a shape resembling a peanut kernel-a practice that has given rise to the name " peanut worm ".

When basalt erupts underwater or flows into the sea, contact with the water quenches the surface and the lava forms a distinctive pillow shape, through which the hot lava breaks to form another pillow.

When the coffin was last inspected on 17 May 1827, a Saxon square cross of gold, embellished with garnets, in the characteristic splayed shape, used later as the heraldic emblem of St Cuthbert in the arms of Durham and Newcastle universities, was found.

When a voltage is applied, the piezoelectric material changes shape, which generates a pressure pulse in the fluid forcing a droplet of ink from the nozzle.

When the intruder returns again the next night, the C57-Ds crew discovers it is invisible, its shape outlined only by the energy beams of the force field fence and the energy weapons directed at it, all of which have no effect.

When viewed from the air, the building is in the shape of a bass clef.

When applied to a tangent vector X to the surface, the shape operator is the tangential component of the rate of change of the normal vector when moved along a curve on the surface tangent to X.

When the pH drops, luciferase changes its shape, allowing luciferin, more specifically tetrapyrrole, to bind.

When inflated, the wing's cross-section has the typical teardrop aerofoil shape.

When the edge of the sun's image touches the part of the shape for the current month, this indicates that it is 12: 00 noon.

The following evening Profumo's brother-in-law, Lord Balfour of Inchrye, remarked on live television that " When a man has by self-indulgence acquired the shape of Lord Hailsham, sexual continence requires no more than a sense of the ridiculous ".

When the simulator is in operation, an accurate shape for the flexible sheet is maintained by its attachment to a shaped former by suction pressure produced by a small vacuum pump.

When the duplication of a given rectangle preserves its shape, the ratio of the large dimension to the small dimension is a constant number in all the copies, and in the original rectangle.

When liquid is added to the cereal, the sugar inside the marshmallow dissolves and the shape of a skeleton key " appears " as if " by magic ".

When Enki distributed the destinies, he made Ishkur inspector of the cosmos.

When combined, these keys would channel the power of the cosmos into their hands.

When the church was founded by Saint Mark during the reign of the Roman emperor Nero, a great multitude of native Egyptians ( as opposed to Greeks or Jews ) embraced the Christian faith.

When searching for or mourning Osiris, the two goddesses are often likened to falcons or kites, possibly because kites travel far in search of carrion, because the Egyptians associated their plaintive calls with mourning, or because of the goddesses ' connection with Horus, who is often represented as a falcon.

When the Israelites see the Egyptian army they are afraid, but the pillar of fire and the cloud separates the Israelites and the Egyptians.

When the Egyptians conquered Sinai, he was also thought to guard the turquoise mines, which predominantly lay within Sinai.

When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ' this is his wife.

When Khedive Tawfiq issued a new law preventing peasants from becoming officers, Orabi led the group protesting the preference shown to aristocratic officers ( again, largely Egyptians of foreign descent ).

When the lighter ancient Egyptians were in power, they called the darker group " the evil race of Ish ".

When the darker ancient Egyptians were in power, they called the lighter group " the pale, degraded race of Arvad ".

When Kayin sinned, Hashem ascended higher still, and so on due to the sins of the generation of Enosh, the generation of the flood, the generation of the Tower of Bavel, the S ' domites, and the Egyptians.

When the First Saudi State was destroyed by the Egyptians in 1818, the ' Asiris continued to fight the Egyptian forces in their region tenaciously.

When Pharaoh enslaved the Children of Israel, the Egyptians appointed conscription officers over the Israelites to crush their spirits with hard labor.

When paired with another deity, she became the wife of Apep, the devouring serpent god much feared by the Egyptians.

When the Egyptians attacked Kadesh, Suppililiuma besieged and retook the town.

When Egyptian novelist and Nobel Prize laureate Naguib Mahfouz died in 2006, many Egyptians felt that perhaps the last of the Greats of Egypt's golden age had died.

When Ibrahim Pasha invaded the Peloponnese in 1825 ( with an army consisted mostly by Egyptians ), Papaflessas was still Minister of Internal Affairs.

When the Egyptians evacuated Harar, ' Abd Allah became the logical choice to rule Harar, and was given " a few hundred soldiers trained by one of the British officers, 300 to 400 rifles, some cannon, and munitions, a force hardly sufficient to garrison Harar and Jaldessa, let alone police the traderoutes and ensure the security of the state.

When they reach the sea, Lisa has an idea to get across: They simultaneously flush all the Egyptians ' toilets to drain the sea.

When the Egyptians at Vergas heard that Theodoros Kolokotronis was advancing on their rear they retreated.

When the refugees charged out of the city gates they were fired upon by Turks and Egyptians from defensive positions.