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In Jack Whyte's Camulod Chronicles, Ambrosius Aurelianus is the half-brother of Caius Merlyn Britannicus ( Merlin ) and helps him lead the people of Camulod ( Camelot ).
To this day, Camelot is invoked to describe the idealism, romance, and tragedy of the Kennedy years.
Robert L. Forward's Camelot 30K describes an ecosystem on the surface of Kuiper belt objects that is based on a fluorocarbon chemistry with OF < sub > 2 </ sub > as the principal solvent instead of H < sub > 2 </ sub > O.
Camelot is a castle and court associated with the legendary King Arthur.
It is not until the 13th-century French prose romances, including the Lancelot-Grail and the Post-Vulgate Cycle, that Camelot began to supersede Caerleon, and even then, many descriptive details applied to Camelot derive from Geoffrey's earlier grand depiction of the Welsh town.
One exception is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, which locates Arthur's court at " Camelot "; however, in Britain, Arthur's court was generally located at Caerleon, or at Carlisle, which is usually identified with the " Carduel " of the French romances.
Malory's editor Caxton rejects the association, saying Camelot was in Wales and that its ruins could still be seen ; this is a likely reference to the Roman ruins at Caerwent.
However, the Essex Camulodunum was located well within territory usually thought to have been conquered early in the 5th century by Saxons, so it is unlikely to have been the location of any " true " Camelot.
In American contexts, the word " Camelot " is sometimes used to refer admiringly to the presidency of John F. Kennedy, as his term was said to have potential and promise for the future, and many were inspired by Kennedy's speeches, vision, and policies.
It lends its name to the 1960 musical Camelot by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, which is based on T. H. White's literary version of the legend, The Once and Future King.
Camelot Theme Park is a resort and theme park located in the English county of Lancashire, UK.
* In Alfred, Lord Tennyson's famous poem " The Lady of Shalott " ( 1833, revised in 1842 ), the titular character possesses a mirror that enables her to look out on the people of Camelot, as she is under a curse that prevents her from seeing Camelot directly.
Gawain, for example, has an adventure in the 1973 version which is not a part of the poem between the time he leaves Camelot and the time he arrives at Bertilak's castle.
This cameo is included in the Broadway musical Camelot, and in the later film, where his name is given as " Sir Tom of Warwick ", thus supporting the claim of Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel.
* In the film First Knight, Lyonnesse is the home of Guinevere, a small land situated between Camelot and Malagant's territory.
* In the PC game Dark Age of Camelot, Lyonesse is a partially inundated zone at one end of the land of Albion, filled with ruins and dangerous monsters, many of them undead.
The most notable of the hotels is the King Arthur's Castle Hotel ( Castle Hotel ) ( more recently the Camelot Castle Hotel ) which was an enterprise of Sir Robert Harvey and opened in 1899: the architect was Silvanus Trevail.
As of 2012, he is the last horse to accomplish the feat of sweeping the English Triple Crown: since 1970 only Reference Point ( 1987 ), Nashwan ( 1989 ), Sea The Stars ( 2009 ) and Camelot ( 2012 ) have won two of the three races, but Oh So Sharp won the filly's version of the Triple Crown in 1985.
Dream of Eagles is a set of novels about the rise of Camelot after the Roman departure from Britain in the late 4th / early 5th century.
The town Camulodunum ( now Colchester ) in Essex may have been named after him, and is the possible basis for the legendary city Camelot.
In the Dark Age Of Camelot universe, the firbolg ( or Fir ' bolg ) is a playable race of the hibernian realm, a half man, half giant, known for its strength and size.

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It also made Mordred the result of an incestuous relationship between Arthur and his sister and established the role of Camelot, first mentioned in passing in Chrétien's Lancelot, as Arthur's primary court.
The Kennedys, newly in the White House, also enjoyed the play and invited Burton for a visit, establishing the link of the idealistic young Kennedy administration with Camelot.
She also played the role of Guinevere in the film Camelot with Richard Harris and Franco Nero, and briefly as Sylvia Pankhurst in Oh!
A Game Boy Color version also developed by Camelot and Nintendo was published under the same title in Western regions and as Mario Tennis GB in Japan.
Castro Valley also holds a private elementary school and preschool called Camelot Elementary.
" Camelot " first appears in Chrétien de Troyes ' Lancelot, though Chretien also mentions Caerleon.
* Manuals containing information and hints vital to the completion of the game, like answers to riddles ( Conquests of Camelot, King's Quest 6 ), recipes of spells ( King's Quest 3 ), keys to deciphering non-Latin writing systems ( Ultima series, see also Ultima writing systems ), maze guides ( Manhunter ), dialogue spoken by other characters in the game ( Wasteland, Dragon Wars ), excerpts of the storyline ( most Advanced Dungeons and Dragons games and Wing Commander I ), or a radio frequency to use to communicate with a character to further a game ( Metal Gear Solid ).
He also worked without fee for Martyn and Kay Tott, who tried to get £ 3m from Camelot on the winning lottery ticket they bought and mislaid.
Colchester has also been suggested as one of the potential sites of Camelot, on account of having been the capital of Roman Britain and its ancient name of Camulodunum.
He also toured in several musicals, including Camelot as Sir Lancelot, Man of La Mancha, Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, where he portrayed Billy Bigelow, a role he also played in 1967 in a made-for-television adaptation of the musical.
Darkness Rising was also the first paid expansion to Dark Age of Camelot able to be downloaded.
In the Starz 2011 Camelot series, she is also the daughter of Uther Pendragon and a darker character who dabbles in witchcraft and sees herself as the rightful heir to the English throne.
It was also publicized, just after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy ( a classmate of Lerner at Harvard ), that the show's original cast recording had been favorite bedtime listening in the White House, and that Kennedy's favorite lines were in the final number ( in which Arthur knights a young boy and tells him to pass on the story of Camelot to future generations ):
King Pellinore, an elderly man who was a childhood friend of Arthur's, also comes to Camelot to witness Arthur's greatness for himself, and it is implied that he has become part of the family.
Psychohistory also has echoes of modernization theory and of work in the social sciences that by the 1960s would lead to attempts at large-scale social prediction and control such as Project Camelot.
Named the Mesquite Championship Rodeo prior to its purchase by Camelot Sports and Entertainment in 2009, it is also addressed as simply the Mesquite Rodeo.
Hewett also directed several stage productions including The Marriage-Go-Round and Beyond the Fringe and Camelot.
Camelot 3000 also became notorious for the lengthy delays between its final issues.
He also appeared in road company stage productions outside New York City, including Camelot, Good News and Damn Yankees.
Also a professional singer and actor, Rea toured in a production of Camelot and was also the principal baritone at the Ohio Light Opera Company.
He has also produced live concert events, most recently My Fair Lady in 2007, and Camelot in 2008, with the New York Philharmonic, broadcast on PBS as part of the Live from Lincoln Center series.
In 1966, Presnell played the role of Sir Lancelot in Camelot in the Regional Equity production at The Houston Music Theatre, owned by Art Linkletter and Nick Mayo ( the partnership also owned the Valley Music Theatre in California ).
The Wicked Witch of the West also had plans to invade Wonderland, Neverland, Camelot, and Narnia.

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