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Avalon (/ ˈ æ v ə l ɒ n /) [note 1] is a mythical island featured in the Arthurian legend.It first appeared in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1136 Historia Regum Britanniae as a place of magic where King Arthur's sword Excalibur was made and later where Arthur was taken to recover from being gravely wounded at the Battle of Camlann.
The Avalon was a new model introduced in February 1994 at the Chicago International Auto Show and launched in late 1994 for the 1995 model year.Development began in 1990 under the 299T project code (ending in 1993), with the design phase concluding in 1991 with internal approval of the final design.
Francis Thomas Avallone (born September 18, 1940), [2] better known as Frankie Avalon, is an American singer, actor and former teen idol. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] He had 31 charting U.S. Billboard singles from 1958 to late 1962, including number one hits, " Venus " and " Why " in 1959.
Avalon is the only incorporated city on Santa Catalina Island, in the California Channel Islands, and the southernmost city in Los Angeles County.The city is a resort community with the waterfront dominated by tourism-oriented businesses.
Avalon Entertainment, a television production and management company co-founded by Jon Thoday Avalon Guitars , a Northern Ireland guitar manufacturer Avalon Hill , an American game company that specializes in wargames and strategic board games
The Avalon explosion was a time of early evolution and low diversity in species. There were over 270 species defined, [ 10 ] with 50 different morphological characteristics categories, many of whose anatomical structures had to be inferred with fossils and casts.
Avalonia is named for the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland. Avalonia developed as a volcanic arc on the northern margin of Gondwana. It eventually rifted off, becoming a drifting microcontinent. The Rheic Ocean formed behind it, and the Iapetus Ocean shrank in front.
The Province of Avalon was the area around the English settlement of Ferryland in what is now Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada in the 17th century, which upon the success of the colony grew to include the land held by Sir William Vaughan and all the land that lay between Ferryland and Petty Harbour.