It had been the capital of Wessex under Alfred the Great, and boasted the Winchester Round Table, an artifact constructed in the 13th century but widely believed to be the original by Malory's time.

" Jumpers " is a somewhat swifter and more exciting variation of Round the Clock believed to have originated amongst the British ex-pat community in Asia.

He firmly believed in the process of taking power from the ruling Polish United Workers ' Party through negotiation and thus he played an active role in the Polish Round Table Talks, becoming one of the most important architects of the agreement by which partially free elections were held on 4 June 1989 and won by Solidarity in a historic landslide.

During his reign, Henry VIII had the " Round Table " at Winchester Castle – then believed to be genuine – repainted.

Round gobies usually feed nocturnally ( but have been observed to feed diurnally as well ) and are believed to detect prey only while stationary.

The site was believed to have used originally during the Sasanid era as a Zoroastrian temple., An inscription located 14 metres high on the south wall which in old Kufic script mentions Qubbeye Masud ibn Davud or Kubey Mesud ibn Da ’ ud, an architect active during the 12th century ; he was the father of architect who built the Mardakan Round Tower.

The descent of the Spencer family from the Medieval Despencers has been challenged, especially by Horace Round in his essay on The Rise of the Spencers.

`` That House & Home Round Table was the real starting point for today's revolution in materials handling '', says Clarence Thompson, long chairman of the Lumber Dealers' Research Council.

He was a knight of the Round Table, `` Sir Quintus the Brave '', slaying evil spirits and banshees and vampires and witches with warty noses.

Until 1997, when the British Library ( previously centred on the Round Reading Room ) moved to a new site, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building.

The Round Reading Room, which was designed by the architect Sydney Smirke, opened in 1857.

In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the Museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round Reading Room 1854 – 1857 ; at in diameter it was then the second widest dome in the world, the Pantheon in Rome being slightly wider.

Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

In his first ever appearance for the Dons, against Hawthorn in Round 1 1949, he booted 12 of his side's 18 goals to create an opening round record which was to endure for forty five years.

Two seasons later Coleman's career was tragically ended after he dislocated a knee during the Round 8 clash with the North Melbourne Football Club at Essendon.

The Uruguay Round was also the first set of multilateral trade negotiations in which developing countries had played an active role.

Although it was designed to serve multilateral agreements, during several rounds of GATT negotiations ( particularly the Tokyo Round ) plurilateral agreements created selective trading and caused fragmentation among members.

* Rodney Eade – Australian Rules Footballer who played 259 games for Hawthorn and the Bears, was head coach of the Western Bulldogs until Round 21, 2011

In 1976 he was awarded the Faith and Freedom Award by the Religious Heritage of America for his portrayal of the Prodigal Son in ABC Directories series Round Trip.

Also as a result of the pact, Gandhi was invited to attend the Round Table Conference in London as the sole representative of the Indian National Congress.

Back in New York and in better health, in 1955 Davis attended the Newport Jazz Festival, where his performance ( and especially his solo on "' Round Midnight ") was greatly admired and prompted the critics to hail the " return of Miles Davis ".

On his first trip to England in 1931 he traveled on the Rajputana, the same ship that was carrying Mahatma Gandhi, who was sailing to the second Round Table Conference in London.

On 26 November 2005, a Round Table Conference ( RTC ) was held between the governments of the Netherlands, Aruba, the Netherlands Antilles, and each island in the Netherlands Antilles.

The first big coup for the Qatari government was hosting a major round of trade talks that resulted in what is referred to as the Doha Round.

Wace claims he was not the source of the Round Table ; both he and Layamon credit it instead to the Bretons.

In 2010, following archaeological discoveries at the Roman ruins in Chester, some writers suggested that the Chester Roman Amphitheatre was the true prototype of the Round Table but the English Heritage Commission, acting as consultants to a History Channel documentary in which the claim was made, declared that there was no archaeological basis to the story.

The artifacts known as the " Winchester Round Table ," a large tabletop hanging in Winchester Castle bearing the names of various knights of Arthur's court, was probably created for a Round Table tournament.

Five years ago a House & Home Round Table cosponsored by the Lumber Dealers' Research Council reported unhappily:

Some parts of Austin are served by other districts, including Round Rock, Pflugerville, Leander, Manor, Del Valle, Lake Travis, Hays, and Eanes ISDs.

Lionel Curtis, writing in the imperialist journal The Round Table, wrote: " If the British Commonwealth can only be preserved by such means, it would become a negation of the principle for which it has stood ".

It is surrounded by plains and forests, and its magnificent cathedral, St. Stephen's, is the religious centre for Arthur's Knights of the Round Table.

In its Round 16 match against the Kangaroos, Essendon produced one of the biggest comebacks in AFL / VFL history winning by 12 points after trailing the Kangaroos by as much as 69 points during the second quarter.

Most notably, in Round 15 against, the Bombers jumped the Saints early by kicking the first 16 points of the match and led for the majority of the match, only to lose the lead by halfway through the final quarter, and ultimately the match by just three points.

The competition begins in August with the lowest-ranked clubs ; they contest the Extra Preliminary Round, followed by the Preliminary Round and First Qualifying Round.

The 32 winners from that round progress to the First Round ( often called the First Round Proper ) – they are joined by the 48 clubs from League One and League Two.

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

The Algonquin Hotel in New York City is famed as the meeting place of the literary group, the Algonquin Round Table, and Hotel Chelsea, also in New York City, has been the subject of a number of songs and the scene of the stabbing of Nancy Spungen ( allegedly by her boyfriend Sid Vicious ).

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Mordred, Arthur's final foe according to Geoffrey of Monmouth, illustrated by Henry Justice Ford | H. J. Ford for Andrew Lang's King Arthur: The Tales of the Round Table, 1902

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.

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The symbolism of the Round Table developed over time ; by the close of the 12th century it had come to represent the chivalric order associated with Arthur's court, the Knights of the Round Table.