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unusual facts about The Round Table


The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs

All were members of 'Milner's Kindergarten', an informal reference to a group of young civil servants under Milner.


Siége Perilous

In Arthurian legend, the Siege Perilous, otherwise known as "The Seat Perilous", is the seat at The Round Table reserved for the knight who would quest for and return the Holy Grail.


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Bors

In 1975's Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Sir Bors (played by Terry Gilliam) is the first Knight of the Round Table to succumb to the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog; he is quickly decapitated before he can attempt a single blow.

Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies

Daffy Duck is in Hollywood producing a movie about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, starring himself; also appearing in the film are Porky Pig, Petunia Pig, Sylvester, Tweety, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Foghorn Leghorn, Pepé Le Pew, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, and Charlie Dog.

Indépendance Cha Cha

The song itself was an appeal for unity in the post-independence Congo, both through its combined use of the languages of Belgian and French Congos, as well as the appeal for unity amongst Congolese political factions, including Asoreco, ABAKO, CONAKAT, Cartel, Front Commun, MNC, PDC, UGECO, ABAZI and PSA which all participated in the Round Table talks and which are all explicitly mentioned in the song.

Polish Round Table Agreement

Andrzej Gwiazda, who was one of the leaders of the so-called First Solidarity (August 1980 – December 1981), claims that the Round Table Agreement and the negotiations that took place before it at a Communist government's Ministry of the Interior and Administration (Poland) conference center (late 1988 and early 1989) in the village of Magdalenka had been arranged by Moscow.

Round Table movement

Many of these original contributors were believers in the idea of an "imperial federation in which the British Empire would be united by a new centralized Imperial Parliament. However, after the First World War, this scheme appeared less realistic and the Round Table members became more drawn to a conception of the empire as a "Commonwealth of Nations".

Round Table Talks

The Round Table Talks were a series of negotiations that took place in several countries of the Eastern Bloc between Communists and the opposition.

Rupert Taylor

His publications include articles in African Affairs, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Peace and Change, The Political Quarterly, Race and Class, The Round Table, and TELOS.

Sir Bedivere

Bedivere, a Knight of the Round Table, who returns Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake

Squareheads of the Round Table

Like Fiddlers Three and The Hot Scots, Squareheads of the Round Table was filmed on the existing set of the feature film The Bandit of Sherwood Forest.

Writers of the Round Table Inc.

Writers of the Round Table Inc headquarters is in Mundelein, Illinois, USA, with principals in Maine, Texas, and Florida.