Agamemnon's son Orestes later avenged his father's murder, with the help or encouragement of his sister Electra, by murdering Aegisthus and Clytemnestra ( his own mother ), thereby inciting the wrath of the Erinyes ( English: the Furies ), winged goddesses who tracked down egregiously impious wrongdoers with their hounds ' noses and drove them to insanity.

As opposed to the psychoanalytic tradition, driven by the relatively speculative ( in the sense of being hard to empirically verify ), theoretical concepts such as the Oedipus complex or Electra complex, the cognitive tradition of research on unconscious processes is based on relatively few theoretical assumptions and is very empirically oriented ( i. e., it is mostly data driven ).

" Electra in Euripides ' Electra ( c. 410 BCE, line 54 ), in the translation by David Kovacs ( 1998 ).

His best-known plays include Anna Christie ( Pulitzer Prize 1922 ), Desire Under the Elms ( 1924 ), Strange Interlude ( Pulitzer Prize 1928 ), Mourning Becomes Electra ( 1931 ), and his only well-known comedy, Ah, Wilderness !, a wistful re-imagining of his youth as he wished it had been.

When James discovers in horror that his father is a slave trader, he frees the slaves on the ship and overthrows the ship's captain ( who then is killed by Electra ), and then murders the quartermaster with a metal hook.

The story of Orestes was the subject of the Oresteia of Aeschylus ( Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides ), of the Electra of Sophocles, and of the Electra, Iphigeneia in Tauris, Iphigenia at Aulis ( in which he appears as an infant carried by Clytemnestra ), and Orestes, of Euripides.

25 ), Orestes was saved by his old nurse or by Electra, and was taken to Phanote on Mount Parnassus, where King Strophius took charge of him.

* Mourning Becomes Electra ( film ), a film by Dudley Nichols, starring Rosalind Russell and Michael Redgrave.

Emathion was king of Samothrace, was the son of Zeus and Electra ( one of the Pleiades ), brother to Dardanus, Iasion, Eetion, and ( rarely ) Harmonia.

Artifacts discovered by TIGHAR on Nikumaroro have included improvised tools, an aluminum panel ( possibly from an Electra ), an oddly cut piece of clear Plexiglas the same thickness and curvature of an Electra window and a size 9 Cat's Paw heel dating from the 1930s which resembles Earhart's footwear in world flight photos.

Troma produced or acquired early films featuring several rising talents, such as Carmen Electra ( The Chosen One ), Billy Bob Thornton ( Chopper Chicks in Zombietown ), Vanna White ( Graduation Day ), Kevin Costner ( Sizzle Beach, U. S. A .), Samuel L. Jackson ( Def by Temptation ), Marisa Tomei ( The Toxic Avenger ), Vincent D ' Onofrio ( The First Turn-On!

His first American film role was opposite Rosalind Russell in Mourning Becomes Electra ( 1947 ), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.

He states in a video ( Mikey Gear Tour part II ), " My hope is to just write lots of music and then by the time we get to the point to where we're going to finish the tour I'll have a lot of music written and then people won't have to wait five more years for another album ( laughs ).

As tensions mount, Ryker hires Jack Wilson ( Jack Palance ), an unscrupulous, psychopathic gunslinger, who laughs at the thought of murder.

Heathcliff in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights ( 1847 ), is suspected of being a vampire by his housekeeper at one point, which she immediately laughs off as " absurd nonsense.

Desperate, he heads to the Philippines to seek a medical “ miracle ” ( actually psychic surgery ), where doctors supposedly pull out infected organs from the body ; he discovers the scam and laughs at the irony.

Film historian John DiLeo has written that Magnani's acting in the film " displays why she is inarguably one of the half dozen greatest screen actresses of all time ", and added :" Whenever Magnani laughs or cries ( which is often ), it's as if you've never seen anyone laugh or cry before: has laughter ever been so burstingly joyful or tears so shatteringly sad?

* In September 1964, the comedy / drama Kentucky Jones ( NBC, 1964 – 65 ), starring Dennis Weaver, tried to eliminate laughs, simulated or live.

The laughs the Kroffts isolated were of a better variety, ranging from loud belly laughs, to soft titters, and even the sounds of children's laughter: some of these laughs were older ( from the laugh track of the mid-to-late 60s ), while others were of the current 1976-1977 television season, just before the real television laugh track was overhauled by the 1977-1978 television season.

The first special, subtitled " The Challenge ", was loosely based on the Super Friends and the 1960s Batman series ( played for laughs, but this time, including a laugh track ) and included several other DC characters who replaced Samurai, Black Vulcan, and Apache Chief: Black Canary, the E-2 Huntress Helena Wayne ( a new DC character, gathering her own following in All-Star and Adventure Comics JSA runs as a JSA member ), and Shazam!

Timon spots Simba running away after his off-screen argument with Nala and laughs it off ( Not explaining that Timon thought they were still together in the first film ), Pumbaa feeling guilty.

And lyrics to a song like that were not so serious and more cliché metal lyrics, you know about a metal machine ( laughs ), so I think some of the new songs may go in that direction.

* An episode of the anime Digimon Frontier, entitled " The Great Trailmon Race " ( a homage to Wacky Races ), a ShadowWereGarurumon and his Dogmon sidekick attempted to undermine the other racers, as a reference to Dastardly and Muttley, and, at one point in the original Japanese version, ShadowWereGarurumon gives Doggymon a Dick Dastardly-style knock to the head after Doggymon laughs.

" Even if it's a sequel ( laughs ), lots of people have to give their all to make a game, but some people think the sequel process happens naturally.

) The main difference between the two versions is that the UK version was played entirely for laughs, with all of the contestants being young stand-up comedians ( including an early appearance by Laura Solon ), and no significant prize money at stake-the prize being merely the average daily wage for the job they took on.

Starting from Julian Date 2443144. 5 ( 1 January 1977 00: 00: 00 ), corrections were applied to the output of all participating clocks, so that TAI would correspond to proper time at mean sea level ( the geoid ).

Next were films such as The Winds of the Aures ( 1965 ) of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Patrol To The East ( 1972 ) of Amar Laskri, Prohibited Area of Ahmed Lallem, ( 1972 ), The Opium and the stick of Ahmed Rachedi, or The Battle of Algiers ( 1966 ) which is an Algerian-Italian film selected three times at the Oscars.

The magicians were also called " seer-doctors " ( ιατρομάντεις ), and they used an ecstatic prophetic art which was used exactly by the god Apollo at the oracles.

The myth explains the connection of Apollo with δάφνη ( daphnē ), the laurel whose leaves his priestess employed at Delphi.

According to Christopher Ehret ( 2002: 35 – 36 ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 11, 000 BC at the latest and possibly as early as c. 16, 000 BC.

Tadpoles have cartilaginous skeletons, gills for respiration ( external gills at first, internal gills later ), lateral line systems and large tails which they use for swimming.

The western terrestrial garter snake ( Thamnophis elegans ) in California is largely aquatic and depends heavily on two species of frog that are diminishing in numbers, the Yosemite toad ( Bufo canorus ) and the mountain yellow-legged frog ( Rana muscosa ), putting the snake's future at risk.

The appellate court will typically be deferential to the lower court's findings of fact ( such as whether a defendant committed a particular act ), unless clearly erroneous, and so will focus on the court's application of the law to those facts ( such as whether the act found by the court to have occurred fits a legal definition at issue ).

Personal Emergency Response Systems ( PERS ), or Telecare ( UK term ), are a particular sort of assistive technology that use electronic sensors connected to an alarm system to help caregivers manage risk and help vulnerable people stay independent at home longer.

In other types of alphabet either the vowels are not indicated at all, as was the case in the Phoenician alphabet ( such systems are known as abjads ), or else the vowels are shown by diacritics or modification of consonants, as in the devanagari used in India and Nepal ( these systems are known as abugidas or alphasyllabaries ).

Moseley, after discussions with Bohr who was at the same lab ( and who had used Van den Broek's hypothesis in his Bohr model of the atom ), decided to test Van den Broek and Bohr's hypothesis directly, by seeing if spectral lines emitted from excited atoms fit the Bohr theory's demand that the frequency of the spectral lines be proportional to a measure of the square of Z.

It is generally contrasted with vagueness, in that specific and distinct interpretations are permitted ( although some may not be immediately apparent ), whereas with information that is vague it is difficult to form any interpretation at the desired level of specificity.

The Hittite Kingdom at the height of its power ( red ), bordering on the Egyptian Empire ( green ).

Starting from an initial state and initial input ( perhaps empty ), the instructions describe a computation that, when executed, will proceed through a finite number of well-defined successive states, eventually producing " output " and terminating at a final ending state.

There is a wide variety of representations possible and one can express a given Turing machine program as a sequence of machine tables ( see more at finite state machine, state transition table and control table ), as flowcharts ( see more at state diagram ), or as a form of rudimentary machine code or assembly code called " sets of quadruples " ( see more at Turing machine ).

* Atlas Computer ( Manchester ) ( 1962 – 1971 ), an early computer built at the University of Manchester

Almost all species have a tight cluster of leaves ( a rosette ), either at the base of the plant or at the end of a more-or-less woody stem ; the leaves are less often produced along the stem.

The three sepals are generally colourful and bright ( which is why they are sometimes called outer tepals ), with one on each side (" lateral sepals ") and one usually at the top of the flower (" dorsal sepal "), sometimes forming a hood.