Meier admits to " borrowing " many of the technology tree ideas from a board game also called Civilization, published in the United Kingdom in 1980 by Hartland Trefoil ( later by Gibson Games ), and in the United States in 1981 by Avalon Hill.

La Jetée was the inspiration for Mamoru Oshii's 1987 debut live action feature The Red Spectacles ( and, later for, parts of Oshii's 2001 film Avalon as well ) and also inspired Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys ( 1995 ).

It was also from Avalon Hill that he ordered the first blank hexagon mapping sheets that were available, which he then employed to design his own games.

Merlin is also portrayed in the T. A. Barron series The Lost Years of Merlin and The Great Tree of Avalon.

* Squad Leader ( Avalon Hill, 1977 ) and Advanced Squad Leader ( 1985 ) have become the most prolific series of wargames, including 3 add-on modules for the former, and 12 for the latter, with additional Historical modules and Deluxe modules also having been released.

CM's genesis was also as a failed attempt by Avalon Hill to translate Squad Leader to the computer.

The concept of the Otherworld is also associated with the Isle of Apples, known as Avalon in the Arthurian mythos ( often equated with Ablach Emain ).

Beyond just the 3M games, Avalon Hill also purchased many games from smaller companies and republished them.

Avalon Hill was also an early publisher of computer games starting in 1980.

Hasbro has also released new titles under the Avalon Hill name, also adding the Avalon Hill name to older games such as Axis and Allies that were not originally made by Avalon Hill.

It also published games more frequently than staid Avalon Hill, which stayed with its two-a-year schedule of releases for a long time, even after SPI published games monthly in its house magazine Strategy & Tactics, as well as stand-alone games.

Avalon Hill also had its own house organ which promoted sale and play of its games, The General Magazine, which was published regularly between 1964 and 1998.

The Airplane also appeared at numerous Family Dog shows promoted by Chet Helms at the Avalon Ballroom.

2010 also saw the premieres of four original movies: Starstruck, Den Brother, Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam and Avalon High.

She also played Avalon Harmonia, a psychic on the Season 5 premiere of Bones.

Proto-Celtic * aballo-" apple "); from which, granted, the name of Avalon is also often thought to derive, so that the meaning of " Afallach " is associated but not necessarily directly.

He also appeared in the first part of " The Gathering ", where he was seen returning to Avalon ; this stated that he was one of Oberon's subjects.

Children may also study at the private Avalon Christian School, located on 346 Catalina Avenue.

Catalina Airport ( FAA Identifier: AVX ), also known as Airport-in-the-Sky, was built in 1946 and is located at ( NAD83 rounded from FAA-provided coordinates ):, northwest of Avalon.

Gumlog Creek also starts near the same junction in Avalon.

This is the second film which Elizabeth Perkins plays Elijah Wood's mother, the first being Avalon, directed by Barry Levinson.

The Avalon colonists inadvertently worsen their own predicament with their first attempts to rid the island of grendels, because they failed to fully understand the grendels ' role in the local ecosystem.

In recent years, Avalon has starred in stage productions of Grease in the role of Teen Angel and Tony n ' Tina's Wedding as a caricature of himself.

Though in later stories, she becomes an adversary of the Round Table when Guinevere discovers her adultery with one of her husband's knights, she eventually reconciles with her brother and even retains her original role, serving as one of the four enchantresses who carry him to Avalon after his final battle at Camlann.

This has led to Morgan's expanded role in feminist Arthurian literature such as Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon ( where she is called Morgaine ), which goes so far as to give her credit for the major events of the traditional story.

After her departure from ER in 2000, Margulies appeared in the 2001 miniseries The Mists of Avalon and voiced the role of Neera, in Disney's CGI film Dinosaur.

Further works include Body of Evidence, which was nominated for six Razzie Awards ; Tyson ; Rasputin, which won the Golden Globe for Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV ; The Little Vampire ; Purgatory, starring Sam Shepard and Eric Roberts ; the 2001 mini series The Mists of Avalon ; and the 2002 mini series Julius Caesar starring Jeremy Sisto, Christopher Walken and the late Richard Harris in his penultimate role.

In 2001, Allen starred in the mini-series The Mists of Avalon on TNT and earned an Emmy nomination for the role.

Mueller-Stahl's leading role in Avalon ( 1990 ) is also memorable.

Following Canone, he took on the role of Mordred in the American TV film The Mists of Avalon.

Immediately after Kirk's departure from Disney he kept busy appearing in several of the 1960s beach party films and teen movie films, notably in American International Pictures ' Pajama Party ( taking Frankie Avalon's usual lead role opposite Annette Funicello while Avalon only appears in cameo role ), The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini ( with Deborah Walley ), and later in the independent It's a Bikini World ( paired again with Walley ).

The scene of Accolon's battle with Arthur is included in Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon, though with the role of Nimue omitted.

Meanwhile, foppish British rocker and drag racer Peter Royce Bentley, better known as " The Potato Bug " ( played by Frankie Avalon in a dual role ), has taken up residence on Bikini Beach.

Generations of Eastern Shore movie-goers saw Clark Gable ’ s first screen kiss, Bette Davis ’ first psychotic role, and Roy Rogers ’ first gunfight at the Avalon.

It is also possible that the tradition of an " apple " island among the British was influenced by Irish legends concerning the otherworld island home of Manannán mac Lir and Lugh, Emain Ablach ( also the Old Irish poetic name for the Isle of Man ), where Ablach means " Having Apple Trees " – derived from Old Irish aball (" apple ")— and is similar to the Middle Welsh name Afallach, which was used to replace the name Avalon in medieval Welsh translations of French and Latin Arthurian tales ).

He then sailed east to Placentia, the French capital of Newfoundland, and began the Avalon Peninsula Campaign on 1 November.

* 1696-During King William's War French troops seized the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland and burned the city of St. John's.

In 1696, during King William's War, the French destroyed many English villages in the Avalon Peninsula Campaign.

Vance builds the history of his world using layers of facts, names and religions taken from various European cultures — Greeks, Romans, Celts, pre-Carolingian French and Spanish " kingdoms " etc., and adding in places and peoples imagined by those same cultures — Atlantis, Ys, Avalon, Formor and so on.

The Company's assets were acquired by the French publisher Titus Software -- its name was changed to Avalon Interactive on July 1, 2003.

Avalon Hill followed PanzerBlitz with two companion games ; one called Panzer Leader, which focused on the Western Front ( an extension kit featuring the tanks of the 1940 French campaign was also produced ), and a game called The Arab-Israeli Wars which covered the 1956, 1967 and 1973 wars in the Middle East.

The French colony at Placentia was a successful one, and launched from here the devastating raids on the English during the Avalon Peninsula Campaign ( 1696 ).

Unfortunately, this prosperity also made it a target for England's enemies, and when war broke out with France it came under the attack of the French captain Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville during the Avalon Peninsula Campaign.