During the Middle Ages, festivals called Round Tables were celebrated throughout Europe in imitation of Arthur's court.

Edward was an Arthurian enthusiast who attended at least five Round Tables and hosted one himself in 1299, which may have been the occasion for the creation of the Winchester Round Table.

Round Tables were a 13th-century enthusiasm and can be reconstructed to have been an elimination jousting event.

Mayburgh and King Arthur's Round Tables, 1769

Today, in the United Kingdom, there are 600 local Round Tables, with a combined membership of close to 8, 000.

In the UK many Round Tables operate these activities through charitable trusts which are registered with, and regulated by, the Charities Commission.

Among these were honors from two Civil War Round Tables ( Houston and Baton Rouge ).

), the yearly Round Tables on the Ethnogenesis of South and Central Asia ( 1999 sqq ) and, since 2005, conferences on comparative mythology ( Kyoto, Beijing, Edinburgh, Ravenstein ( Netherlands ), Tokyo, Harvard ).

Infill galleries were constructed for Assyrian sculptures and Sydney Smirke's Round Reading Room, with space for a million books, opened in 1857.

Rock art of the " Round Head " style, found in the Ennedi region, has been dated to before the 7th millennium BC and, because of the tools with which the rocks were carved and the scenes they depict, may represent the oldest evidence in the Sahara of Neolithic industries.

Round argued that the Normans had brought feudalism with them to England, while Maitland contended that its fundamentals were already in place in Britain before 1066.

The following weekend they were defeated 20-13 by the Baltimore Ravens, in Baltimore, in the Divisional Round.

The Round Britain Powerboat has been run on 3 previous occasions-1969, 1984 and 2008, the previous winners were Timo Mäkinen, Fabio Buzzi and Vassilis Pateras.

Despite those two close triumphs ( 22 – 21 against the Dolphins in the Divisional Round, and 17 – 13 against the Steelers in the AFC Championship Game ), the Chargers lost Super Bowl XXIX to the San Francisco 49ers by a score of 49 – 26, who were led by quarterback Steve Young ( Super Bowl MVP ) and wide receiver Jerry Rice.

There were " Last Round on the Underground " parties on the night before the ban came into force.

Ferber and another member of the Round Table, Alexander Woollcott, were long-time enemies, their antipathy lasting until Woollcott's death in 1943, although Howard Teichmann states in his biography of Woollcott that their feud was due to a misunderstanding.

Therefore in 1863, the tribes from the area surrounding the middle Sacramento and Feather rivers, the Konkow group, were removed and marched forcibly to the Round Valley Indian Reservation near the Eel River.

In 1994 NAFTA came into force and the 1988 – 1994 Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations were completed.

Julian and Sandy were characters on the BBC radio comedy programme Round the Horne from 1965 to 1968 and were played by Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams respectively, with scripts written by Barry Took and Marty Feldman.

In the 2003-5 stage show Round the Horne ... Revisited ( filmed for BBC Four ), Paddick and Williams ( and therefore Julian and Sandy ) were played by Nigel Harrison and Robin Sebastian.

Originally, buccaneer crews were larger, more apt to attack coastal cities, and more localized to the Caribbean than later pirate crews who sailed to the Indian Ocean on the Pirate Round in the late 17th century.

Complicated by Indonesian demands, the Round Table Conference Agreements were signed in 1949 transferring Maluku to Indonesia with mechanisms for the islands to choose or opt out of the new Indonesia.

The writers were fans of the old variety show scene, and singalongs were not uncommon on Round the Horne, particularly at the end of a series or in a Christmas edition.

Episodes of Round the Horne were included in the package of programmes held in 20 underground radio stations of the BBC's Wartime Broadcasting Service, designed to provide public information and morale-boosting broadcasts for 100 days after a nuclear attack.

Under his guidance, the team were unbeaten in their World Cup qualification group and made it through the group stages at the FIFA World Cup 2006, but were eliminated in a frenzied 1 – 0 loss to Portugal in the Round of 16.

Kidd then sailed to the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb at the southern entrance of the Red Sea, one of the most popular haunts of rovers on the Pirate Round.

He did some studio work for RCA that year but had relocated to Knoxville again where he worked with Homer and Jethro on WNOX's new Saturday night radio show The Tennessee Barn Dance and the popular Midday Merry Go Round.

Edmund held many tournaments at Kenilworth in the late 13th century, including a huge event in 1279, presided over by the royal favourite Roger de Mortimer, in which a hundred knights competed for three days in the tiltyard in an event called " the Round Table ", in imitation of the popular Arthurian legends.

My Ladye Nevells Booke also contains two monumental Grounds, and sets of keyboard variations of variegated character, notably the huge set on Walsingham and the popular variations on Sellinger's Round, Carman's Whistle and Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home.

It was popularised in the 1960s by camp characters Julian and Sandy in the popular BBC radio show Round the Horne.

Ill health forced him to choose between commerce and show business after 1958, and, choosing the latter, he made two further popular radio series, Beyond Our Ken ( 1958 – 1964 ) and Round the Horne ( 1965 – 1968 )

At the age of 22, Collins headed to Hollywood and landed sultry roles in several popular films, including The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing ( 1955 ) and Rally ' Round the Flag, Boys!

Horse racing is also very popular in the city, and Kalgoorlie-Boulder is home to the internationally recognised annual ' Race Round '.

Barry Took returned together with Marty Feldman to write a new series with the same cast, which became Round the Horne and was one of the most popular and influential shows of its day, despite having a shorter run.

Devils Lake, Round Lake, Posey Lake and Wamplers Lake are popular weekend destinations only a few miles away.

Round castles were unusually popular throughout Cornwall and Devon.

Round Hill is a popular playing area for children in the area.

* Shelley Winters, a main character in the popular webcomic Scary Go Round

During the summer, the " Golden Round Trip "-a popular route for tourists-involves taking a boat from Lucerne across Lake Lucerne to Alpnachstad, going up on the cogwheel railway, coming down on the aerial cableways and panorama gondolas, and taking a bus back to Lucerne.

Hayward is a popular fishing destination because of the many lakes in the area including Lac Courte Oreilles, Grindstone Lake, Round Lake, Moose Lake, Windigo Lake, and the Chippewa Flowage, which are known for yielding trophy-sized muskellunge (" muskie " or " musky "), northern pike, walleye, and smallmouth bass.

The publication of these diaries as New Voyage Round the World in 1697 was a popular sensation creating interest at the British Admiralty and in 1699 Dampier was given the command of the Roebuck with a commission from the Admiralty ( and by inference King William III who had reigned jointly with Queen Mary II before her death in 1694 ).

During 1923, the first large groups of tourists started visiting the Sabie Game Reserve, but only as part of the South African Railways ' popular " Round in Nine " tours.

Two of Marie's lais – " Lanval ," a very popular work that was adapted several times over the years ( including the Middle English Sir Launfal ), and " Chevrefoil " (" The Honeysuckle "), a short composition about Tristan and Iseult – mention King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.

The Himalayans song " Round Here " was recorded on Counting Crows ' first album ( being the opening track ), and remains popular at their live performances.

** Round and Round ( Shapiro / Stallman song ), a popular song by Joe Shapiro and Lou Stallman published in 1956

It was the central theme of the popular song " Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree ", Written by Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown and recorded by Tony Orlando and Dawn ( among many others ), as the sign a released convict requested from his wife or lover to indicate that she would welcome him home.

and whose popular works include Round The Twist which was adapted for television.