) Later, when Vortigern's power has faded, the two brothers return from exile with a large army, destroy Vortigern and become friends with Merlin.

If one has to name a famous wizard, the names would typically be Merlin, Gandalf or Harry Potter.

The site's largest dish, dubbed " Merlin ", has a diameter of 32 metres.

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

Another version has it that Merlin angers Arthur to the point where he beheads, cuts in half, burns, and curses Merlin.

Starting with J2SE 1. 4 ( Merlin ), Java SE has been developed under the Java Community Process.

One idea has been to fit the existing Searchwater radar to the Merlin helicopter, while other options have included the E-2 Hawkeye and an ASaC version of the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft.

Polly Parrish ( Ginger Rogers ) is a salesgirl at the department store John B. Merlin and Son in New York City who has just been told that since the Christmas season is ending she is going to be dismissed.

Merlin discovers the body of his ex-girlfriend Julia, apparently killed by beasts from another shadow, and subsequently finds himself in sorcerous combat with a lady named Jasra, who has a poisonous sting in her bite.

Merlin traces his way back to his first confrontation with Jasra, where he finds himself at a magical fort, the Keep of the Four Worlds, a nexus of magical energies which has recently fallen under the control of a mysterious blue-masked sorcerer calling himself " Mask ", who seems to have a vendetta against Merlin.

" Vinta " reveals that she is not what she seems, but is a being that has apparently appeared to Merlin in " possession " of several different bodies.

He leaves Luke to sober up and seeks his stepbrother Mandor, who thinks that their half-brother Jurt may be at least one of the assassins trying to kill Merlin-right now, most likely, for headship of the House of Sawall once its current lord dies, since Mandor ( the eldest son ) has stepped aside, leaving that office to be disputed between Merlin and Jurt ( who was indeed the werewolf from earlier.

In the Courts of Chaos, Merlin uses Ghostwheel ( which has by now traversed the Logrus as well as the Pattern ), his own Spikard, and all his magical powers in the final fight for survival: finally declaring-and forcing Dara and Mandor to accept-that although he did not want to rule, if forced to do so, it will not be as anyone's puppet.

That the series focuses on Oberon has disappointed many Amber fans who, after reading the Merlin series and the other Amber short stories, realized that Zelazny almost certainly was planning another series to wrap up the story that was left hanging.

Christopher Robin has appeared on House of Mouse with his friends, but he is the only main Winnie-the-Pooh character not to appear in the Kingdom Hearts video game series ; in this continuity, the Winnie-the-Pooh book belongs to Merlin and Christopher Robin's role is played out mostly by Sora.

In the BBC series Merlin, Uther, played by Anthony Head, has banned magic in Camelot and slaughtered the magic-users.

Other films which he has starred or co-starred are Dance to Win ( also known as War Dancing ) ( 1989 ), Love Potion No. 9 ( 1992 ) as Enrico Pazzoli, Dead Men Can't Dance ( 1997 ), Susan's Plan ( also known as Dying to Get Rich ) ( 1998 ), Merlin: The Return ( 1999 ) as Lancelot, Convergence ( also called Premonition ) ( 1999 ), The Void ( 2001 ), The Breed ( 2001 ), Code Hunter ( 2002 ), Nemesis Game ( 2003 ) Throttle ( 2005 ), and Phantom Below ( also known as Tides of War ) ( 2005 ).

In this presentation, Arthur ( the verifier ) is a probabilistic, polynomial-time machine, while Merlin ( the prover ) has unbounded resources.

Recognisable for his distinctive rich voice, he has also enjoyed a successful voice acting career, starring in films such as Watership Down, The Lord of the Rings and Dogville, as well as BBC television series Merlin.

Legend has it that the Mound is the burial site of Merlin and that the name of the town, Marlborough comes from Merlin's Barrow.

The Lady of the Lake is the title of the ruling priestess of Avalon, and the Merlin is a Druid who has pledged his life to the protection of Britain.

Certain facts of their lives have been attributed to him, as well as some of their works: thus the Life of St Bernard should be ascribed to Alain of Auxerre and the Commentary upon Merlin to Alan of Tewkesbury.

He gave a concert of his own compositions in London, performing on various instruments, one of which was a five-string cello known as a pentachord, which had been recently invented by John Joseph 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 king sent Merlin, Uther Pendragon ( Arthur's father ), and 15, 000 knights, to remove it from Ireland, where it had been constructed on Mount Killaraus by the Giants.

Several " Chronicles of Amber " omnibus anthologies have also been published collecting the 5 novels from the original ' Corwin cycle ' or all 5 novels of the ' Merlin cycle ' or ( as in The Great Book of Amber ) all 10 novels.

Merlin calls in Mandor to imprison the t ' yiga, which turns out ( a ) to have been sent with orders to act as a bodyguard to Merlin, by an unknown sponsor, and ( b ) reveals that Jurt is in league with Mask, and is trying to gain power from the Keep of the Four Worlds in the same way that Brand did, and become a Living Trump.

Merlin returns to his birthplace in the Courts of Chaos in order to solve the existential riddle in which he is involved-to find that he is suddenly a lot closer to the throne of Chaos itself than he thought, King Swayvill having finally died of a long-standing illness ( aggravated, it is said, by the death curse of Eric of Amber ), and many other candidates having either been assassinated or dropped out, which pushes his own house of Sawall unexpectedly to the forefront.

Another legend is that Merlin had prophesied the death on Llechllafar of an English King, conqueror of Ireland, who had been injured by a man with a red hand.

Bardsey Island in Gwynedd, famous for its apples and also connected with Merlin and St Michael's Mount in Cornwall, near to other locations associated with the Arthurian legends have also been suggested.

These entries have been presented in the past as proof of the existence of Arthur and Merlin, although that view is no longer widely held.

Some say it is interesting to note that all the other people mentioned in the chronicle are real and this argument is often offered as evidence for the historicity of Arthur, Merlin and Mordred ; however, given that the entries, or at least the insertion of the names of Arthur and Merlin, could have been added arbitrarily as late as 970, long after the development of the early Arthurian myth, it cannot be taken as a particularly conclusive argument.

A suggestion by the RAF that North American switch the P-51's powerplant from its original Allison engine to the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine may have been one of the most significant events in WWII aviation, as it transformed the P-51 into what many consider to be the best American fighter of the war.

* There have been several incidences of self-fulfilling prophecy in the series Merlin.

* Merlin Minshall, who worked for Fleming in NID, participated in several operations and has been claimed as one of the inspirations for James Bond.

The engine had originally been an effort by Ford to produce a V-12 liquid cooled aircraft engine patterned after the Rolls-Royce Merlin, but failed to earn any aircraft orders and so was adapted as a V-8 for use in tanks.

Mimesis has been theorised by thinkers as diverse as Plato, Aristotle, Philip Sidney, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Adam Smith, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Erich Auerbach, Luce Irigaray, René Girard, Nikolas Kompridis, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Michael Taussig, Merlin Donald, and Homi Bhabha.

* Merlin, a first-generation computer developed in 1956 by Brookhaven National Laboratory

* Merlin M4000, a personal computer sold by British Telecom in the 1980s

Merlin has spent the last several years on Earth learning computer science while building Ghostwheel, a trump-and pattern-based computer, elsewhere in Shadow.

The basic assumption is that Arthur is a standard computer ( or verifier ) equipped with a random number generating device, while Merlin is effectively an oracle with infinite computational power ( also known as a prover ); but Merlin is not necessarily honest, so Arthur must analyze the information provided by Merlin in response to Arthur's queries and decide the problem itself.

* Merlin Tonto, a hybrid personal computer / telecommunications terminal.

There are many computer packages for analyzing genetic association, such as UNPHASED, WHAP, FBAT, Merlin, PLINK, and Golden Helix's Software.