MERLIN. The origins of Merlin, the magician, prophet, and guardian of the legendary British king Arthur and a central figure in medieval Arthurian romance in both French and English, are to be found in a number of early Welsh poems and related material...

. A number of authors, beginning in the late 13th century, compiled lengthy bodies of French Arthurian material, drawn from earlier sources and often assembled with little concern for coherent organization. The Roman de Roi Artus of Rusticiano da Pisa,...

. Not to be confused with Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Prophetiae Merlini, with which it has nothing in common beyond the title, the Prophecies de Merlin dates from the 1270s and is attributed to Maistre Richart d’Irlande. The prose work,...

The Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN) is an Interferometer array of radio telescopes spread across Britain. The array is run from Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire by the University of Manchester on behalf of PPARC as a...

The chicken coops in Indonesia's earthquake-flattened Pentong village are filled with salvaged TVs, cooking utensils, refrigerators _ and scores of people. Aid workers fear they could also contain bird flu. Flies buzz everywhere, as children play barefoot on a bamboo...

Storms and gusting winds have chiseled away at this corner of southwestern England for centuries, but the legends that inhabit the area still loom large.The rocky headland near the village of Tintagel has become so entwined with the legend of King Arthur that its true...

The Spoleto Festival USA will celebrate the life of the late Gian Carlo Menotti, who founded Spoleto 30 years ago, and organizers envision doing so with least one additional presentation this spring."All of the artists and all of the members of the audience, board and...

Lamar Lundy, a member of the Fearsome Foursome defensive line for the Los Angeles Rams in the 1960s, died Saturday. He was 71. Lundy died after a long illness in his hometown, the Community Family Funeral Home said.Lundy spent his entire 13-year career with the...