Avalon (disambiguation)
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Avalon is a legendary island in or near Britain. The name has been adopted for many other things:
[edit] Books
- Avalon (novel), a novel by Anya Seton
- The Avalon series, a series of fantasy books by Rachel Roberts.
- Avalon High a novel by Meg Cabot
[edit] Cinema
- Avalon (1990 film), a film directed by Barry Levinson
- Avalon (2001 film), a Japanese/Polish film directed by Mamoru Oshii
[edit] Comics
- Avalon (webcomic), a webcomic written by Josh Phillips
- Avalon (comics), name of a space station from Marvel Comics's X-Men series
- Avalon (DC comics), name of a planet in the 30th century of the DC Universe
- Surname of four American-version Cardcaptor Sakura characters:
- Avalon (planet), from the CrossGen universe, the first world Solusandra created and the planet Ethan of the Heron Dynasty is from.
[edit] Games
- Avalon, the Legend Lives, a MUD created in 1988 and still active today.
- Avalon, the First Age, a spin off of the original Avalon MUD.
- Avalon The 3D Adventure Movie, a computer game released on the ZX Spectrum in the 1980s
- Avalon, a 1998 computer game for MS-DOS developed by MiG Outpost
- Avalon (video game), an upcoming PlayStation 3 video game
[edit] Graveyards
- Avalon graveyard, in Soweto, South Africa
[edit] Music
- Avalon (band), a contemporary Christian music group
- Avalon (Avalon album), one of their albums is also titled Avalon
- Avalon (album), the final album of the British group Roxy Music, which includes a song also entitled "Avalon"
- The Avalon Boys were a 1930s musical group
- Avalon (jazz song), a jazz composition by Buddy DeSylva, Al Jolson, and Vincent Rose
- Avalon, a song by the swedish power metal band Nocturnal Rites, from the album New World Messiah (2004)
- Avalon, a song by the Icelandic musical band Sigur Rós
- Avalon, the title of a song by electronic dance artist Juliet Richardson
- Group Avalon, a Congolese music group
- "Avalon", a song by Blackmore’s Night from their 1999 album Under a Violet Moon
[edit] Organizations
- Avalon school, in St. Paul, Minnesota
- The Avalon Foundation, founded by Ailsa Mellon-Bruce in 1940 [1] and later merged into the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and, since the 1960s, the foundation's Avalon Professorship at such institutions of higher education as Dartmouth College [2], Morehouse College [3], Northwestern University [4], Princeton University [5], University of Pennsylvania [6], Yale University [7].
[edit] People
- Frankie Avalon, an American singer and actor popular during the 1950s and 1960s
- Arthur Avalon, a pseudonym of Sir John Woodroffe, one of the first Westerners to take an interest in Tantra and other Indian philosophies
- Avalon Hodges, actress and model
[edit] Places
- Australia
- Canada
- Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland
- Isthmus of Avalon, Newfoundland
- Avalon (electoral district), Newfoundland
- Avalon, Alberta
- Avalon Park, Ontario
- Avalon, Saskatchewan
- France
- New Zealand
- United States
[edit] Technology
- Apache Avalon Project, a software framework developed by the Apache Software Foundation
- Avalon Biometrics, a Spanish company that specializes on security solutions
- Avalon (DSRV), a U.S. Navy deep submergence rescue vehicle
- Avalon Project, a digital library of documents held by the Yale Law School
- Avalon (typeface)
- Avalon is the codename for Windows Presentation Foundation, a user interface API designed by Microsoft
[edit] Television
- Avalon is featured in the animated series Gargoyles as a sentient island on a parallel reality from Earth. It is home to Oberon and the third race.
- Avalon (Stargate SG-1), the first two episodes of the ninth season of Stargate SG-1
[edit] Theaters
- The Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California
- Avalon Theater (Brooklyn), Brooklyn, New York
- Avalon Theater (Catalina), Los Angeles, California
- Avalon Theatre, Easton, Maryland
[edit] Vehicles
- Toyota Avalon, a sedan car
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