In the 2010 film The Sorcerer's Apprentice, modern day New Yorker David Stutler, played by Jay Baruchel, discovers he is the last descendant of Merlin and is trained as a sorcerer by Balthazar Blake, portrayed by Nicolas Cage, a former student of the great wizard, so that he may ultimately do battle with Merlin's old nemesis Morganna, played by Alice Krige.

* 1940 – Merlin Olsen, American football player and actor ( d. 2010 )

* Merlin Olsen ( 1940 – 2010 ), American football player

His poem sequence " Lark and Merlin ", published in Poetry in 2010, won the Bess Hokin Prize in 2011.

The 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review states that the Royal Navy will operate two types of helicopter in the future-the AW101 Merlin and the AW159 Lynx Wildcat.

The first production Merlin Vacuum engine underwent a full duration orbital insertion firing ( 329 seconds ) of the integrated Falcon 9 second stage on January 2, 2010.

An interesting unplanned test of a modified Merlin Vacuum engine was made in December 2010.

On January 15, 2010, the world's second largest theme park and attraction operator Merlin Entertainments bought Cypress Gardens with intent to use the site for the fifth Legoland.

The Financial Times has reported that Merlin Entertainments owned by Blackstone Group will file an IPO in the 2nd quarter of 2010.

Puzzlewood was used as a filming location for two episodes of BBC TV show Merlin, " The Labyrinth of Gedref " and " The Nightmare Begins ", and also the 2010 Doctor Who episode " Flesh and Stone ".

Merlin Jay Olsen ( September 15, 1940 – March 11, 2010 ) was an American football player in the National Football League, NFL commentator, and actor.

* AM, a complexity class related to Arthur – Merlin protocol

* Image labelling ( based on the Arthur – Merlin protocol ):

The first of these, Merlin ( 1898 – 1902 ) was thought to have been lost, but has recently been reconstructed and performed ;.

This period also includes his operatic works – Merlin, Henry Clifford, and Pepita Jiménez.

This series of texts was quickly followed by the Post-Vulgate Cycle ( c. 1230 – 40 ), of which the Suite du Merlin is a part, which greatly reduced the importance of Lancelot's affair with Guinevere but continued to sideline Arthur, now in order to focus more on the Grail quest.

“ Merlin Goes to the Movies: The Changing Role of Merlin in Cinema Arthuriana .” Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies 29. 3 – 4 ( 1999 ): 54 – 65.

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** Supermarine Spitfire ( early Merlin powered variants ) – Merlin engine variants

** Supermarine Spitfire ( late Merlin powered variants ) – two-stage Merlin engine variants

* Supermarine Type 324 – design project for a twin Merlin engined, tricycle undercarriage fighter based on Spitfire wing and fuselage.

* 1962 – Dino Merlin, Bosnian singer-songwriter and producer

* March 14 – Merlin Santana, American actor ( d. 2002 )

* November 9 – Merlin Santana, American actor ( b. 1976 )

* The Fraudsters – How Con Artists Steal Your Money ( ISBN 978-1-903582-82-4 ) by Eamon Dillon, published September 2008 by Merlin Publishing

* Camelot ( 2011 ) – Merlin

* Merlin Olsen – former defensive tackle for the Los Angeles Rams, member of both the college football and pro football Halls of Fame, and actor and TV personality

Merlin Santana ( March 14, 1976 – November 9, 2002 ) was an American television and film actor.

One approach, by László Babai, who published " Trading group theory for randomness ", defined the Arthur – Merlin ( AM ) class hierarchy.

In Arthur – Merlin protocols, Babai defined a similar class AM which allowed f ( n ) rounds, but he put one extra condition on the machine: the verifier must show the prover all the random bits it uses in its computation.

Merlin plays a modern-day villain in Roger Zelazny's short story " The Last Defender of Camelot " ( 1979 ), which won the 1980 Balrog Award for short fiction and was adapted into an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone in 1986.

In the 1967 episode Merlin, the Magician from the TV show The Time Tunnel, Merlin is portrayed by Christopher Cary.

The Doctor Who episode Battlefield suggests that Arthurian legend in our world is influenced by actual events in a parallel world, and that the Doctor is himself Merlin.

Ashley Cowie, Scottish author, historian, and archaeologist, and his team search the U. K. for treasures said to have been hidden away by Merlin in the 5th episode of season 1's " Legend Quest ".

The P51 Mustang was the subject of a 30 minute episode entitled " The Cadillac of the Skies " in reference to its exceptional performance and how it started off as a British purchase as a low level attack fighter into the powerful long range bomber escort that it would eventually become in the Air War in Europe through a combination of being fitted with the Rolls Royce Merlin and the fitting drop tanks that allowed to escort the bombers of the United States 8th Air Force all the way into occupied Europe and back.

* In the fourth season episode " Lancelot du Lac " of the BBC series Merlin, Morgana uses necromancy to bring the knight Lancelot back from the dead in order to interfere with the pending marriage of King Arthur and Guinevere, thereby preventing Guinevere from becoming queen.

* The " Valiant ", the second episode in the first series of the BBC's Merlin, features a Knight Valiant who dishonourably uses an enchanted shield and dies in a duel with Arthur during the tournament finale.

The closest there was to a main villain was Mogdred ( portrayed by John Woodnutt ), but his main duty was, according to Merlin ( a wizard, and Mogdred's ' alter ego ' in the first series ) in the penultimate episode of Series 2, to " scare you into making a mistake ", though he did kill two dungeoneers, one in Series 2 and another early in Series 4.

In the 2008 episode " The Beginning Of The End " of the BBC television series Merlin, a prequel to and re-imagining of the Arthur legends, Mordred appears as a young Druid boy whom Merlin protects despite being warned that he would one day kill Arthur.

In series 2, episode 9 of the BBC drama series Merlin, the episode is named The Lady Of The Lake.

However, the only link to the legend is the fact that at the end of the episode where Freya is dead, Merlin sends her adrift in a lake, making her the Lady of the Lake.

* " Sweet Dreams " ( Merlin ), an episode

One notable example occurs in the fifth episode of season three, in which the hero Merlin has a vision that Morgana is going to kill King Uther Pendragon.

* Most of the discussion in episode 21 of the comedy podcast " Roderick On The Line " centers around hosts Merlin Mann and John Roderick ( musician ) discussing the variety and options available for purchasing a RealDoll.

* Lancelot ( Merlin ), an episode of the 2008 BBC TV series

* In the UK TV series Merlin episode " Changeling ", Arthur almost marries a princess who turns out to be a changeling, however, in this case, the changeling is the actual princess who has been possessed at birth by a fairy, not replaced by one.

* Merlin in the episode " The Changeling ".

" Lamia " is the title of a 2011 episode of the BBC TV series Merlin.

The Fisher King also appears in a series 3 episode of the BBC's Merlin.

In an early episode based clearly on the story of Arfderydd, Peredur ( Peredurus ) is joined by his allies Merlin, king of the South Welsh, and Rhydderch, king of the Cumbrians, when he engages Gwenddolau ( Guennolus ), king of Scotland, in a battle at an unnamed site.