The Catalina Casino, a famous landmark overlooking Avalon Harbor on Santa Catalina Island, California, has never been used for traditional games of chance, which were already outlawed in California by the time it was built.

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 ).

However it was only in 1927 that the shakta theory of seven main chakras, that has become most popular in the West, was introduced, largely through the translation of two Indian texts: the Sat-Cakra-Nirupana, and the Padaka-Pancaka, by Sir John Woodroffe, alias Arthur Avalon, in a book titled The Serpent Power.

Roger Sherman Loomis believed it was derived from Cavalon, a place name that he suggested was a corruption of Avalon ( under the influence of the Breton place name Cavallon ).

Years after his death, he would be honored with a statue in front of the Avalon Theater on Main Street, where he was depicted writing a screenplay in a bathtub.

Geoffrey says the sword was forged in Avalon and Latinises the name " Caledfwlch " as Caliburnus.

In an attempt to leverage the power of a much bigger gaming company, RuneQuest III was published with Avalon Hill in 1984.

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.

Although the " Arthur of romance " was sometimes central to these new Arthurian works ( as he was in Burne-Jones's The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon, 1881 – 1898 ), on other occasions he reverted back to his medieval status and is either marginalised or even missing entirely, with Wagner's Arthurian operas providing a notable instance of the latter.

In 1963, a folk musicologist, Tom Hoskins, supervised by Richard Spottswood, was able to locate Hurt near Avalon, Mississippi using the lyrics of " Avalon Blues ":

While in Avalon, Hoskins convinced an apprehensive Hurt to perform several songs for him, to ensure that he was genuine.

The state is underlain by the Avalon terrane and was once part of the micro-continent Avalonia prior to closure of the Iapetus ocean.

* The famed " skull and roses " poster for a Grateful Dead show at the Avalon Ballroom done by Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse was adapted from Edmund J. Sullivan's illustrations for The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

The latter was published by Avalon Hill, a subsidiary of Wizards of the Coast.

The early history of board wargaming was dominated by Avalon Hill, even though other companies, such as SPI, left their own permanent marks on the industry.

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

According to a legend linked to Arthurian myth, a Danish king known as Ogier the Dane, was taken to Avalon by Morgan le Fay.

De Camp himself was the model for the character named " Geoffrey Avalon ".

Titan went out of print in 1998, when Avalon Hill was sold and ceased operations.

Duel was released in 1986 with highlights of Seek – Locate – Destroy, Duel and Project Avalon.

Wargaming was reaching its high water mark, just as the release of Squad Leader by Avalon Hill took the wargaming world by storm ( eventually resulting in an unprecedented 200, 000 copies sold ).

He designed Jutland, which Avalon Hill published in 1967, following it up with 1914 the next year, and PanzerBlitz in 1970, which eventually sold most than 300, 000 copies.

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.

After much time, believed by Daniel Jackson to be thousands of years, the Ancients discovered a " great belt of stars ", which they named " Avalon " ( Milky Way Galaxy ) where they eventually built an impressive empire.

Linfox hoped Avalon would capture 10 % of the Melbourne domestic passenger market by 2010, increasing to 20 % by 2017 which it was claimed would eventually represent up to 3. 4 million passengers a each year.

He was also responsible for the destruction of the secret heaven located in the Savage Land known as Avalon, but was eventually defeated by Nightcrawler, Mystique, Switchback, and his former student Damask.

Marion Zimmer Bradley ( 1930 – 1999 ) wrote under various pen names, eventually becoming quite popular for her Avalon and Darkover series.

Kelly has produced three creator-owned works: Steampunk, pencilled by Chris Bachalo and published by DC through Wildstorm's Cliffhanger imprint in 2000 ( a second part, Drama Obscura, brought closure to the story, but Kelly has said he intends to eventually continue the book ); M. REX with penciller Duncan Rouleau, which was published by the now-defunct Avalon Studios ( it was cancelled after two issues ); and Ballast, with penciller Ilya, a one-shot published by Active Images.

Because of problems with their publishers, Digital Tome eventually disbanded and shut down the Siege of Avalon website.

So the hero goes into the ruined village to find and save his brother eventually helping the people of Avalon with many quests and tasks and becoming a knight of Avalon.

After nearly breaking even on Tactics, he decided to found the Avalon Hill Game Company as a publisher of intelligent games for adults, and is called " The father of board wargaming ".

Two hundred colonists arrive on Avalon to found a new community, having made the 100-year journey from Earth in suspended animation on the starship Geographic ( the expedition is funded by the National Geographic Society ).

The Avalon Peninsula is a noted region for Precambrian fossils, and many Lagerstätten of the diverse Ediacaran biota are found on the peninsula.

Hank McCoy helped to deliver Avalon ’ s first baby, and examining the boy, he found something special in his genetic make-up.

Dual VVT-i is also found in Toyota's new generation V6 engine, the 3. 5-liter 2GR-FE first appearing on the 2005 Avalon.

But, before he left, he found time to record one last album with Avalon.

After a few years, he declared Avalon a failure and traveled to the Colony of Virginia, where he found the climate much more suitable, but met with an unwelcome reception from the Virginians.

He was found by the Acolytes, and Exodus ordered him brought aboard Avalon.

She tells her friend Caillean ( who was rescued from her uncaring mother in Hibernia by Lhiannon ) to take a group of young priestesses to the isle of Avalon to found a new sanctuary and become the first high-priestess of Avalon.

Sometime later, in the 20th century, Magneto found and freed Exodus, taking him back to Avalon.

The Acolytes escaped prison and found the remains of Avalon, worshipping it and the return of Magneto.