His time in England was fruitful in the making of lifelong friendships with the leaders of English thought in the days of King Henry VIII: John Colet, Thomas More, John Fisher, Thomas Linacre and William Grocyn.

While dining in the magical abode of the Fisher King, Perceval witnesses a wondrous procession in which youths carry magnificent objects from one chamber to another, passing before him at each course of the meal.

For Chrétien a grail was a wide, somewhat deep dish or bowl, interesting because it contained not a pike, salmon or lamprey, as the audience may have expected for such a container, but a single Mass wafer which provided sustenance for the Fisher King ’ s crippled father.

Loomis traced a number of parallels between Medieval Welsh literature and Irish material and the Grail romances, including similarities between the Mabinogions Bran the Blessed and the Arthurian Fisher King, and between Bran's life-restoring cauldron and the Grail.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and The Fisher King are more recent adoptions.

However, the most significant for the development of the Arthurian legend are Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, which introduces Lancelot and his adulterous relationship with Arthur's queen ( Guinevere ), extending and popularizing the recurring theme of Arthur as a cuckold, and Perceval, the Story of the Grail, which introduces the Holy Grail and the Fisher King and which again sees Arthur having a much reduced role.

The romance tradition did, however, remain sufficiently powerful to persuade Thomas Hardy, Laurence Binyon and John Masefield to compose Arthurian plays, and T. S. Eliot alludes to the Arthur myth ( but not Arthur ) in his poem The Waste Land, which mentions the Fisher King.

The 26 founding members came from the group of 32 members who had paid dues by March 13, including strip cartoonists Wally Bishop ( Muggs and Skeeter ), Martin Branner ( Winnie Winkle ), Ernie Bushmiller ( Nancy ), Milton Caniff, Gus Edson ( The Gumps ), Ham Fisher ( Joe Palooka ), Harry Haenigsen ( Penny ), Fred Harman ( Red Ryder ), Bill Holman ( Smokey Stover ), Jay Irving ( Willie Doodle ), Stan MacGovern ( Silly Milly ), Al Posen ( Sweeney and Son ), Clarence Russell ( Pete the Tramp ), Otto Soglow ( The Little King ), Jack Sparling ( Claire Voyant ), Raeburn Van Buren ( Abbie an ' Slats ), Dow Walling ( Skeets ) and Frank Willard ( Moon Mullins ).

Some of Tim Powers novels are examples of this, such as Last Call, which suggests that Bugsy Siegel's actions were due to his being a modern-day Fisher King.

Gilliam is also known for directing several films, including Brazil ( 1985 ), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1988 ), The Fisher King ( 1991 ), 12 Monkeys ( 1995 ), and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ( 1998 ).

Throughout the 1990s, Gilliam directed his Trilogy of Americana, The Fisher King ( 1991 ), 12 Monkeys ( 1995 ), and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ( 1998 ), which were based on scripts by other people, played on North American soil, and while still being surreal, had less fantastical plots than his previous trilogy.

As Gilliam is fascinated with the Baroque due to the historical age's pronounced struggle between spirituality and logical rationality, there is often a rich baroqueness and dichotomous eclecticity about his movies, with, for instance, high-tech computer monitors equipped with low-tech magnifying lenses in Brazil, and in The Fisher King a red knight covered with flapping bits of cloth.

On the other hand, Gilliam's first successful feature, Time Bandits ( 1981 ), earned more than eight times its original budget in the United States alone ; The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1988 ) was nominated for four Academy Awards ( and won, among other European prizes, three BAFTA Awards ); The Fisher King ( 1991 ) ( his first film not to feature a member from Python ) was nominated for five ( and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress ); and 12 Monkeys went on to take over US $ 168 million worldwide ; whilst The Brothers Grimm, despite a mixed critical reception, grossed over US $ 105 million worldwide.

* Robin Williams ( The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King ; also was to play Cavaldi in The Brothers Grimm until objections by producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein )

* Jeff Bridges ( The Fisher King, Tideland )

* Michael Jeter ( The Fisher King, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas )

* Tom Waits ( The Fisher King, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus )

Other recurring collaborators include Gilliam's cinematographers Roger Pratt ( Brazil, The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys ) and Nicola Pecorini ( Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Brothers Grimm, Tideland, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus ), and his co-writer McKeown ( Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus ).

Other projects Gilliam has been trying to get off the ground since the 1990s are an adaptation of Charles Dickens ' A Tale of Two Cities ( starring Mel Gibson ), an adaptation of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain ( which has been adapted into movies several times before ), and a script titled The Defective Detective that Gilliam has co-authored with Richard LaGravenese ( who wrote Gilliam's The Fisher King before ).

* The Fisher King ( 1991 )

* The Fisher King ( 1991 )

Waits continued to appear in movie acting roles, the most significant of which was his uncredited cameo as a disabled veteran in Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King.

Popular music stars in the early 1950s included Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Frankie Laine, Patti Page, Judy Garland, Johnnie Ray, Kay Starr, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Dean Martin, Georgia Gibbs, Eddie Fisher, Teresa Brewer, Dinah Shore, Kitty Kallen, Joni James, Peggy Lee, Julie London, Toni Arden, June Valli, Doris Day, Arthur Godfrey, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Guy Mitchell, Nat King Cole, and vocal groups like The Mills Brothers, The Ink Spots, The Four Lads, The Four Aces, The Chordettes, Fontane Sisters, The Hilltoppers and The Ames Brothers.

* June 22 – Execution of John Fisher, Cardinal and Bishop of Rochester, by order of King Henry VIII of England.

Leia briefly appears in the 1978 TV movie The Star Wars Holiday Special, where she is once again portrayed by Fisher.

The Fisher King first appears in Chrétien de Troyes's 12th century French romance Perceval, the Story of the Grail ; he has been dealt a mortal wound in the leg ( Brân's wound was in his foot ) but stays alive in his mystical castle due to the effects of the Grail, waiting to be healed by Percival.

A similar recipe appears in 1881 in a book by Abby Fisher, the first Black American woman and a former slave from Mobile, Alabama, who recorded her recipes in a cookbook called What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking, Soups, Pickles, Preserves, Etc.

Her step-sister is the actress India Fisher, who appears with her in the Doctor Who audio play Other Lives, and who is perhaps best known as the narrator of the BBC's MasterChef ( UK TV series ).

Terry as he appears at the Cape Fear Museum in Wilmington, North Carolina | Wilmington, North Carolina, near which he captured Fort Fisher in 1865.

The influential interest-based model for conflict resolution, negotiation, and mediation developed by Fisher, Ury, and Patton at the Harvard Negotiation Project in the 1980s appears to have some conceptual overlap with NVC, although neither model references the other.

The character of the Fisher King appears ( though he is not called such ) and presents Peredur with a severed head on a platter.

The Fisher King also appears in a series 3 episode of the BBC's Merlin.

NB: Carrie Fisher appears in the episode

He currently draws the comic strip Fisher, which appears daily in The Globe and Mail.

His character is a deceased patriarch of the Fisher family, who regularly appears to his family as a ghost or in a dream.

He is an afternoon news anchor on CBLA, CBC Radio One's station in Toronto, appears on most of the network's Ontario stations as a political analyst, and files occasional science news reports, under the pseudonym " Dr. Fisher ", for the network's flagship interview program As It Happens.

Over the first five frames, Jack Fisher, the big righthander who figures to be in the middle of Oriole plans for a drive on the 1961 American League pennant, held the A's scoreless while yielding three scattered hits.

The first governor of South Australia, John Hindmarsh, clashed frequently with others, in particular with the Resident Commissioner, James Hurtle Fisher.

" Fisher repeatedly brought Leviticus and his clan back, claiming their primacy as comics ' first hillbilly family — but he was missing the point.

The first ships to bear the formal designation " torpedo boat destroyer " ( TBD ) were the Daring class of two ships and Havock class of two ships of the Royal Navy, developed in 1892 under the newly appointed Third Sea Lord Rear Admiral " Jackie " Fisher.

Irving Fisher in his 1930 book " The Theory of Interest " and John Burr Williams's 1938 text ' The Theory of Investment Value ' first formally expressed the DCF method in modern economic terms.

The first soul food cookbook is attributed to Abby Fisher, entitled What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking and published in 1881.

At the time this accreditation was gained, all business programs at the college were brought together in 2003 to form St. John Fisher College ’ s first professional school, which was named the Bittner School of Business.

The phrase " test of significance " was coined by Ronald Fisher: " Critical tests of this kind may be called tests of significance, and when such tests are available we may discover whether a second sample is or is not significantly different from the first.

He is also known to have ' cheated ' on his experiments, removing outliers and generally ' tidying ' datasets-statistics, and repeating the experiments, shows that his results were just ' too perfect ', a point first noted by the Godfather of statistics, RA Fisher, in 1936: http :// www. cs. brown. edu / courses / csci1950-l / presentations / REVISED -- AFCB % 202007 % 20Course % 20Fisher % 20and % 20Mendel. ppt

The term variance was first introduced by Ronald Fisher in his 1918 paper The Correlation Between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance:

Crooners such as Eddie Fisher, Perry Como, and Patti Page, who had dominated the first half of the decade, found their access to the pop charts significantly curtailed by the decade's end.

He supervised the thesis of Irving Fisher, who received the first Ph. D. in economics from Yale in 1891.

The album ’ s first single, " Mr. Fisher ", was released on June 26, 2012.

In general this conforms to the first theorem in extreme value theory ( Fisher and Tippett, 1928 ; Gnedenko, 1943 ).

The first VLIW compiler was described in a Ph. D. thesis by John Ellis, supervised by Fisher.

He also starred in the 2005 Terry Gilliam film Tideland, his second with the director ( the first being 1991's The Fisher King ).

The reporter's first assignment is Stephen Fisher ( Herbert Marshall ), leader of the Universal Peace Party, at an event held by Fisher in honour of a Dutch diplomat named Van Meer ( Albert Bassermann ).

The first use of " randomization " listed in the Oxford English Dictionary is its use by Ronald Fisher in 1926.

Reynolds's first marriage, to popular singer Eddie Fisher, produced a son and a daughter, actress / author Carrie Fisher, but ended in divorce in 1959 when Fisher fell in love with Reynolds's former ( and later ) friend Elizabeth Taylor.