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.

Avalon was eventually found by Apocalypse forces and destroyed by the Shadow King who mind-controlled its inhabitants into killing each other.

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.

Hurt attempted further negotiations with Okeh to record again, but after the commercial failure of the resulting records, and Okeh Records going out of business during the Great Depression, Hurt returned to Avalon and obscurity, working as a sharecropper and playing local parties and dances.

In the season 9 opener " Avalon ", Vala seeks out Daniel at Stargate Command ( SGC ) and prevents him from going to Atlantis.

It was later published by Avalon Hill before going to the creator's new company Columbia Games which currently publishes the third edition.

He hands the crown to his kinsman Constantine and is taken to the isle of Avalon to be healed of his wounds, never to be seen again.

The most successful card wargame ( as a card game and as a wargame ) would almost certainly be Up Front, a card game about tactical combat in World War II published by Avalon Hill in 1983.

It has been suggested that the concept may be based on Hy Brasil, a mythical land that can reputedly be seen off the coast of Ireland for one day in every seven years, as well as other paradise islands like Avalon, Saint Brendan's Island etc.

SPI had generally specialized in wargames that were more complex and attempted to be more exacting simulations than what Avalon Hill published.

The later development of the legends of the Holy Grail and Joseph of Arimathea by Robert de Boron interconnected these legends with Glastonbury and with Avalon an identification which also seems to be made in Perlesvaus.

The spot seems to have been called Ynys yr Afalon ( meaning " The Isle of Avalon ") by the Britons, and it is believed by some to be the Avalon of Arthurian legend.

Baywatch Avalon and Avalon Fire Department medics responded immediately, but he could not be revived and was pronounced dead.

While not the first boxed solitaire board wargame to be produced ( Avalon Hill's B-17, Queen of the Skies had preceded it in 1983 ), Ambush!

Like many Avalon Hill games, Up Front continues to be popular among loyal fans.

Corwin believes Benedict to be angry at having discovered either that Corwin has been using Avalon to arm himself for an attempt on the throne ( compromising Benedict's neutrality ) or that Corwin has slept with Dara.

Linfox vowed to resolve the Government's concerns and build the terminal, but on 14 November 2008, announced that upgrading Avalon to handle international flights would no longer be viable due to the government's resistance.

In the Historia, Geoffrey explains that, after Arthur is seriously wounded at the Battle of Camlann, he is taken off to Avalon, the Isle of Apples, to be healed.

A series of crises and calamities led Calvert to quit the colony in 1629 for " some other warmer climate of this new world ", which turned out to be Maryland, though his family was to maintain agents to govern Avalon until 1637, when the entire island of Newfoundland was granted by charter to Sir David Kirke and James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton.

This advertising campaign led to a much larger subscriber base and SPI came to be seen as a serious competitor to Avalon Hill, the company that had founded the board wargaming hobby.

The settlement appeared to be progressing so well that in January 1623 Calvert obtained a concession from King James for the whole of Newfoundland, though the grant was soon reduced to cover only the Avalon peninsula, owing to competing claims.

He wrote to his friends Francis Cottington and Thomas Wentworth enlisting their support for this new proposal, admitting the impression his abandonment of Avalon might make in England: " I shall rayse a great deal of talke and discourse and be censured by most men of giddiness and levity ".

One especially remarkable case is the Avalon Hill board game ( later adapted to computer systems ) Star Command, in which characters formally called Espers are available as support troops in infantry squads, and have abilities more or less matching the parapsychological theories of what an esper would be capable of.

He journeys to The Isle of Avalon, which is said to have magical properties, in hope that he can be healed, but dies there.