What is "avalon"

n. (context: Arturian legend) An island, represented as an earthly paradise in the western seas, to which King Arthur and other heroes were carried at death.

Avalon (; ; probably from afal, meaning "apple") is a legendary island featured in the Arthurian legend. It first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1136 pseudo historical account Historia Regum Britanniae ("The History of the Kings of Britain") as the place where King Arthur's sword Excalibur was forged and later where Arthur was taken to recover from his wounds after the Battle of Camlann. Avalon was associated from an early date with mystical practices and people such as Morgan le Fay.

Avalon is an island in the Arthurian legend.

Avalon may also refer to:

Avalon was a webcomic by Josh Phillips set in the fictional city of Avalon, Ontario, Canada. It focused on a group of high school students, and while it was originally gag-a-day, it evolved into a coherent, long-term story with realistic characters. The comic launched on 8 November 1999 and was originally scheduled to end in August 2002.

After a series of lengthening delays, Phillips eventually placed the comic on indefinite hiatus on 24 August 2004 and posted a text summary of how the story would have played out, including the revelation that one of the presumed to be heterosexual characters would enter a lesbian affair. Phillips announced that, having recently been married, he had "outgrown" Avalon and cartooning in general, and had no further need to continue the project.

Avalon was a member of Keenspot.

Avalon is a 1990 drama film directed by Barry Levinson. It is the third in Levinson's semi-autobiographical tetralogy of "Baltimore films" set in his hometown during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: Diner (1982), Tin Men (1987), Avalon (1990), and Liberty Heights (1999). The film explores the themes of Jewish assimilation into American life.

Avalon is a federal electoral district on Newfoundland Island in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2004.

Avalon is an American contemporary Christian vocal quartet. The group has earned multiple RIAA-certified gold records, sold four million albums, and released 22 number-one Christian hits.

Avalon is a 1965 novel by the American author Anya Seton.

It is a fictional story about Saint Rumon and Merewyn, set against a broad historical background of Anglo-Saxon England and the Viking expansion to Iceland and Greenland. It follows their journey and acceptance into the English royal court, Merewyn's kidnapping by Vikings, Rumon's epic search for her and their ultimate reunion back in England.

Avalon is Avalon's first studio album, released in December 1996 on Sparrow Records. It includes a cover of the hymn "My Jesus, I Love Thee" and the Andrae Crouch song "Jesus Is Lord". Produced by Charlie Peacock, Avalon catapulted the smooth quartet into the Christian music scene, with four No. 1 radio hits and a Dove Award from the Gospel Music Association in 1998 for "New Artist of the Year".

Avalon is the name of two fictional locations in the DC Comics universe. They are inspired by the mythical Avalon of Arthurian legend.

Avalon or Group Avalon was a band consisting of Djo Moupondo (aka as DJ Djo) and his brother Mohombi Moupondo with Congolese ancestry. A multilingual band, they performed songs in Swedish, French, English and Lingala. Mohombi has gone on to create a successful international solo career signing with RedOne.

Avalon is the RIAA Platinum-certified eighth and final studio album by the English rock band Roxy Music. Released in May 1982, it was recorded in 1981–82 at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas, and is generally regarded as the culmination of the smoother, more adult-oriented sound of the band's later work. It was the band's most successful studio album, reaching No. 1 in the UK (for 3 weeks) and staying on the album charts for over a year. Although it only climbed as high as No. 53, Avalon is notable for being the band's only million-selling record in the United States.

A single, " More Than This", preceded the album and was a Top 10 hit in Britain, Australia, and several European countries. The title track was released as the album's second single and also became a UK Top 20 hit. A third extract, "Take a Chance With Me", with a remixed version of album track "The Main Thing" on the b-side, reached the UK Top 30 and was Roxy Music's last UK hit single to date.

, also known as Gate to Avalon, is a 2001 Japanese-Polish science fiction drama film directed by Mamoru Oshii and written by Kazunori Itō. The film stars Małgorzata Foremniak as Ash, a player in an illegal virtual reality video game whose sense of reality is challenged as she attempts to unravel the true nature and purpose of the game. Avalon was filmed in Wrocław, Nova Huta, the Modlin Fortress and Warsaw. The 2009 film Assault Girls that was written and directed by Oshii, is a stand-alone sequel set in the same fictional universe as Avalon.

"Avalon" (Parts 1 and 2) are the Season 9 premiere episodes of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. They marked the beginning of a "new" Stargate SG-1 that continued after the total closure and possible ending of the previous season. Despite seeing the departure of Richard Dean Anderson's Jack O'Neill, it sees the introduction of Ben Browder as Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell, Beau Bridges as Major General Hank Landry, and Lexa Doig as Dr. Carolyn Lam. They also bring in Claudia Black's character Vala Mal Doran as a recurring character, later to become a regular in Season 10, and introduce entire new storylines including further information about the Ancients, their links to Arthurian legends, and their origins.

Otherworld is a fictional dimension in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe. It is more commonly known as, and based on, the mythical Avalon from Celtic and more specifically Welsh mythology.

Avalon first appeared in Fantastic Four #54 (September 1966) by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Avalon's dimension was referred to as Otherworld for the first time in Captain Britain #1 (October 1976) by Chris Claremont, Herb Trimpe, and Fred Kida.

Avalon, in comics, may to:

• Avalon (webcomic), a webcomic written by Josh Phillips
• Marvel Comics locations:
  • Avalon (Marvel Comics), an otherdimensional realm which has also been called "Otherworld"
  • Avalon, in the Marvel Comics alternate reality Age of Apocalypse, the name given to the Savage Land
  • Avalon, the name Magneto gave to Cable's space station Greymalkin, when he took it over. After the station returned to Earth, Cable rebuilt it and renamed it Providence (comics)
• Avalon (DC Comics), a fictional planet in the 30th century of the DC Universe
• Avalon, the surname of four Cardcaptors characters (the American-version of Cardcaptor Sakura):
  • Sakura Avalon
  • Tori Avalon
  • Aiden Avalon
  • Natasha Avalon
• Captain Avalon, an alias used briefly by The Captain

Avalon is the debut solo album by current Saosin and current Circa Survive, vocalist Anthony Green. It was released August 5, 2008 on Photo Finish Records, with a US tour to coincide with its release. Keith Goodwin, Tim Arnold, and Dan Schwartz (also known as the band Good Old War) have guest appearances on this record. The album leaked in its entirety on August 1, 2008. Anthony Green's Avalon is being made available on vinyl LP. The package includes the limited Vinyl LP and Digital Remix CD of Avalon, remixes created by Colin Frangicetto of Circa Survive.

Avalon is a historic home located near New Windsor, Carroll County, Maryland. It is a -story, early-19th-century brick house constructed c. 1814, and reflecting Neoclassical architecture influence.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

"Avalon" is a song by the Swiss rockband Lovebugs. The song is featuring the Norwegian singer Lene Marlin but Lovebugs also recorded and played the song themselves. Avalon is included in Lovebugs album In Every Waking Moment from 2006. The song was released as single the same year. It reached place 10 in Swiss list and place 13 in the Norwegian. The whole album reached number one in the Swiss charts.

"Avalon" is a 1982 song by the English rock band Roxy Music. It was released as the second single from their album Avalon. The single, with its B-side, "Always Unknowing", charted at No. 13 in the UK.

Avalon is the original soundtrack of the 1990 film Avalon starring Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elizabeth Perkins, Kevin Pollak and Elijah Wood. The original score was composed by Randy Newman.

The score was nominated for 3 awards:

• Academy Award (lost to the score of Dances with Wolves),
• Golden Globe (lost to the score of The Sheltering Sky),
• Grammy Award (lost to the score of Dances with Wolves).

Avalon is a station stop on the RTA Blue Line in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. It is located at the intersection of Avalon Road and Van Aken Boulevard in Shaker Heights.

The station comprises two side platforms, the westbound platform east of the intersection, and the eastbound platform west of the intersection, with a small shelter on the westbound platform and two small shelters on the eastbound platform. Diagonal parking is provided on both sides of Van Aken Boulevard adjacent to the westbound platform and off westbound Van Aken adjacent to the eastbound platform. __NOTOC__

"Avalon" is a 1920 popular song written by Al Jolson, Buddy DeSylva and Vincent Rose referencing Avalon, California. It was introduced by Jolson and interpolated in the musicals Sinbad and Bombo. Jolson's recording rose to number two on the charts in 1921. The song was possibly written by Rose, but Jolson's popularity as a performer allowed him to claim composer co-credit. Originally, only Rose and Jolson were credited, and DeSylva's name was added later.

A popular jazz standard, the song has been recorded by many artists, including Cab Calloway (1934), Coleman Hawkins (1935) and Eddie Durham (1936). The Benny Goodman Quartet played the song in their famous 1938 Carnegie Hall concert. The song was included in the biographical films The Jolson Story (1946) and The Benny Goodman Story (1956), and is also being noodled by Sam ( Dooley Wilson) at the piano right before he plays As Time Goes By in the movie Casablanca (1942). The tune remains popular in the gypsy jazz repertoire, having been performed by Wawau Adler and others.

The tune's opening melody resembles a part of Giacomo Puccini's aria E lucevan le stelle, from the opera Tosca, but in the major key. Puccini's publishers sued the song's composers in 1921 for use of the melody, and were awarded $25,000 and all subsequent royalties of the song by the court.

Avalon The 3D Adventure Movie is a computer game released for the (48k) ZX Spectrum by Hewson Consultants in 1984.

Avalon is the first solo studio album by American rock musician Sully Erna, released on September 14, 2010. Avalon is a combination of work that took Sully Erna almost seven years to complete.

"Avalon" is a song by British rapper Professor Green, taken from his second studio album, At Your Inconvenience. The track features vocals from singer-songwriter Sierra Kusterbeck. The track serves as the album's fourth official single, and was released as a digital download in the United Kingdom on 16 September 2012. For its single release, the track has been remixed, with a heavier, guitar-laden sound. A music video to accompany the release of "Avalon" was filmed on 23 August 2012. Kusterbeck appeared in the video alongside Green.

Prior to release, the song featured on the first ever Relentless TV advert featuring footage of Professor Green drinking the energy drink whilst vandalizing cars by walking on top of their roofs, and performing the track live alongside Sierra Kusterbeck. For the advert, the lyric in the first verse was adjusted in order to mention Relentless. The video was directed by Ross Cairns and filmed at various locations in London. Professor Green is a Relentless Energy Drink brand ambassador.

Timo Tolkki's Avalon (also known simply as Avalon) is a metal opera project created by Timo Tolkki (formerly of Stratovarius, Revolution Renaissance and Symfonia) in 2013.

According to Tolkki "I find the Metal Opera concept fascinating and logical to me at this point of my career. I love classical music and just like in Classical Opera, in the Metal Opera you can also create stories and have almost limitless possibilities musically".

Avalon is Leon Kane, a British Psytrance producer & DJ from London, UK.
Leon started his way on the music industry a a promoter around 2013, putting on underground warehouse and outdoor parties in the United Kingdom.
Around 2003 he started DJ-ing due to lack of available DJ’s and later started producing music “Just For Fun”.

Avalon is the debut studio album by Australian progressive metal band Chaos Divine. It was released on September 12, 2008 through Firestarter Music & Distribution.

Avalon is a mixed-use development in Alpharetta, Georgia. Phase I of the site includes of retail, a 12-screen Regal Cinemas theater, 105,000 square foot of Class A office space over retail, 101 single-family residences and 250 luxury rental homes. The developer, North American Properties Atlanta, LTD ("NAP"), founded by Mark Toro, who also owns and manages Atlantic Station in Atlanta, promises "resort-level hospitality" and "an experience in the timeless art of living well".

The Alpharetta City Council approved the project in April 2012, began construction on January 28, 2013, held the topping out for the project on April 23, 2014, and celebrated grand opening with multiple events October 29-November 2, 2014.

Alpharetta City Council approved Phase II on October 28, 2014. Phase II is scheduled to open in Fall, 2016 and includes 90,000 square feet of retail, 550,000 square feet of office space in two buildings, 276 multi-family units and a hotel with 325 rooms and a conference center with 45,000 square feet of meeting space.

Upon completion, Avalon is projected to generate approximately $21 million annually in sales tax revenue, $4.5 million annually in new property taxes, $1.1 million annually in hotel taxes and more than 4,000 new permanent retail sector, white-collar and hotel service jobs.