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The ideal of the kouros ( a beardless, athletic youth ), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun, truth and prophecy, healing, plague, music, poetry, and more.
Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis.
However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.
The Vedic Rudra has some similar functions with Apollo.
A non-Greek origin of Apollo has long been assumed in scholarship.
Apollo promises to protect Orestes, as Orestes has become Apollo's supplicant.
Apollo has ominous aspects aside from his plague-bringing, death-dealing arrows: Marsyas was a satyr who challenged Apollo to a contest of music.
Apollo was the immortal god of ideal balance and order ; his shrine in Delphi has the inscription: " Nothing in excess ".
From Aeschylus ' Agamemnon, it appears that she has made a promise to Apollo to become his consort, but broke it, thus incurring his wrath: though she has retained the power of foresight, no one will believe her predictions.
No trace of it has been found, but the location of the stadium and some remnants of retaining walls lead to the conclusion that is was set on a plain apart from the main part of the city and well away from the Peribolos of Apollo.
The term most commonly applies to a spacewalk made outside a craft orbiting Earth ( such as the International Space Station ), but also has applied to lunar surface exploration ( commonly known as moonwalks ) performed by six pairs of American astronauts in the Apollo program from 1969 to 1972.
It shows that he has paid his penance for his blood crimes, as well as come to integrate the balancing powers to his early over-reliance upon Apollo, the god of the individual, the sun, and reason.
It shows that he has paid his penance for his blood crimes, as well as come to integrate the balancing powers to his early over-reliance upon Apollo, the god of the individual, the sun, and reason.
After Patroclus has routed the Trojan army, Hector, with the aid of Apollo and Euphorbus, kills Patroclus, vaunting over him:
No horse since Apollo in 1882 has won the Derby without having raced at age two.
Lugh's name was formerly interpreted as deriving from the Proto-Indo-European root * leuk -, " flashing light ", and he is often surrounded by solar imagery, so from Victorian times he has often been considered a sun god, similar to the Greco-Roman Apollo though historically he is only ever equated with Mercury ( citation ?).
Single-stage-to-orbit has been achieved from the Moon by both the Apollo program's Lunar Module and several robotic spacecraft of the Soviet Luna programme ; the lower lunar gravity and absence of any significant atmosphere makes this much easier than from Earth.
The newspaper has to publicly take it all back later on July 17 1969 when the Apollo crew is on its trek to the Moon.
1296 – 1272 ) makes a treaty with Alaksandu ( possibly Alexander ), king of Wilusa ( Ilium ); and another document has Wilusa swearing by Appaliuna ( Apollo ).
Experience has shown the greatest chance of exposure occurs near the gravitational field of a moon or planet, so these were first employed on the Apollo lunar EVA suits ( see American suit models below ).
Most of the research effort to date has centered on Earth atmosphere entry configurations ( Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Shuttle ), planetary entry designs ( Viking, Pioneer Venus, Galileo and MSL ), and aerobraking ( AFE ) configurations.
The moon, as another extraterrestrial body that has not undergone plate tectonics and that has no atmosphere, provides quite precise age dates from the samples returned from the Apollo missions.

Apollo and often
As a quintessentially Greek god, Apollo had no direct Roman equivalent, although later Roman poets often referred to him as Phoebus.
Apollo is often associated with the Golden Mean.
Apollo as a handsome beardless young man, is often depicted with a kithara ( as Apollo Citharoedus ) or bow in his hand, or reclining on a tree ( the Apollo Lykeios and Apollo Sauroctonos types ).
In the classical period of Greek mythology, Artemis ( Greek: ( nominative ), ( genitive ) ) was often described as the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo.
The combined 30. 15 million audience figure often sees it attributed as the highest-rated program in UK television for the 1980s, comparable to the records set by the 1970 splashdown of Apollo 13 ( 28. 6 million viewers ), and Princess Diana's funeral in 1997 ( 32. 1 million viewers ).
The early era of space exploration was driven by a " Space Race " between the Soviet Union and the United States, the launch of the first man-made object to orbit the Earth, the USSR's Sputnik 1, on 4 October 1957, and the first Moon landing by the American Apollo 11 craft on 20 July 1969 are often taken as the boundaries for this initial period.
* At the first site, which was Epidaurus, sacred to Apollo and the healer Aesculapius, Theseus turned the tables on the chthonic bandit, the " clubber " Periphetes, who beat his opponents into the Earth, and took from him the stout staff that often identifies Theseus in vase-paintings.
It is often said that the Pythia delivered oracles in a frenzied state induced by vapors rising from the ground, and that she spoke gibberish, believed to be the voice of Apollo, which priests reshaped into the enigmatic prophecies preserved in Greek literature.
He was an avid jazz fan, often attending concerts at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.
Since the Renaissance she is often shown with a wreath of myrtle and roses, holding a lyre, or a small kithara, a musical instrument that Apollo or she herself invented.
The myth of Cyparissus, like that of Hyacinthus, has often been interpreted as reflecting the social custom of pederasty in ancient Greece, with the boy the beloved ( eromenos ) of Apollo.
The stag as a gift from Apollo reflects the custom in Archaic Greek society of the older male ( erastēs ) giving his beloved an animal, an act often alluded to in vase painting.
Morpheus is the father of Greek hero Orpheus by the muse Calliope, and once-patron of Aristeas of Marmora, taking the role given in legend to Apollo, with whom he is often confused.
When paired with Sirona, Apollo is often assimilated with a Gaulish deity, such as Apollo Borvo or Apollo Grannus.
He often was interviewed on television news programs and public-affairs documentaries to provide historical perspective on such events as the Apollo XI moon landing and the Watergate crisis.
During later Apollo missions he served as a news consultant, often being interviewed by Walter Cronkite on CBS News.
To use this CPU, one must either use the VIA Apollo Pro 133A chipset, an Intel 800-series chipset ( which was relatively expensive and often required RDRAM, limiting it to high-end workstations or servers ), or the Intel 440BX outside of its specifications ( which, on some motherboards, is indeed possibly stable ).

Apollo and featured
The show featured the Michigan Marching Band and the crew of Apollo 17 who exactly one month earlier had been the final humans to date to leave the Moon.
The Beatles were fans of the Bonzos: they featured them in the 1967 film Magical Mystery Tour and Paul McCartney ( working with Gus Dudgeon under the alias Apollo C. Vermouth ) had produced their 1968 hit single " I'm the Urban Spaceman ".
From the early 1930s to the late 1940s, New York City's famous Apollo Theater in Harlem featured skits in which almost all black male performers wore the blackface makeup and huge white painted lips, despite protests that it was degrading from the NAACP.
Apollo Creed's wife Mary Anne ( Sylvia Meals ) made her third and final appearance in the series, the first being Rocky II, although the character was mainly featured in " Rocky II ".
The golden glove necklace featured so prominently in this film was first seen in Rocky II ( worn by Apollo Creed ), then again throughout Rocky III and IV.
Though the Hall & Oates original ( recorded in a Memphis-soul style ) was never released as a single, it remains a fan favorite on the duo's greatest hits albums and was featured on their Apollo Theater CD in 1985, and is frequently featured in their live set to this day.
In 1994, a unique gathering at the event featured 15 of the 25 then-surviving Apollo astronauts, including the complete crews of Apollo 11 ( Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins ) and Apollo 8 ( Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders ).
The episode featured an Apollo astronaut " Bob Grodin " ( played by Shane Rimmer ) who claims to have stumbled on a mysterious lunar base during his moonwalk.
The first volume was composed entirely of music featured in the film ( with the exception of Carl Cox's " Phoebus Apollo "), while the second and third are a mix of music " inspired by the film " as well as music actually in the film.
Some film scores featured include Patton, MacArthur, Air Force One, The Blue Max, Explorers ( all by Jerry Goldsmith ), The American President ( by Marc Shaiman ), Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story ( by Randy Edelman ), The Last Starfighter ( by Craig Safan ), Apollo 13 and The Rocketeer ( both by James Horner ), Always ( by John Williams ) and the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers ( by Michael Kamen ).
SA-3 also featured the first use of retrorockets on Apollo hardware.
The flight featured a production model LES and a boilerplate ( BP-6 ) Apollo spacecraft, the first mission to feature one.
The observatory and telescope were featured in the 2000 film The Dish, a fictionalised account of the observatory's involvement with the Apollo 11 moon landing.
The first Apollo was called the " Mobbel ", and featured an air-cooled 624cc single-cylinder ioe engine.
The Apollo was featured in The Love Bug, a 1969 Disney movie.
Mansart's elevations for the pavilions were to be frescoed to designs adapted from a suite that Le Brun had recently drawn and the frescoed exteriors of the otherwise somewhat severe buildings created a richly Baroque ensemble of feigned sculptures against draperies and hangings, with vases on feigned sculptural therms against the piers — all in the somewhat eclectic Olympian symbolism that Le Brun and the King favoured everywhere at Versailles: the decor of the pavillon du Roi featured Apollo, the Sun King's iconographic persona, and Thetis.
The otherwise silent bits featured Red and another performer, dressed as moon creatures, playing with equipment left behind by the Project Apollo astronauts.
which featured remixes by The Orb, Apollo 440 and Renegade Soundwave.
Another example of greeble application was the Battlestar Galactica model for the original 1970s series, which featured on its hull pieces from a wide assortment of kits, including Apollo orbiters, Saturn rocket boosters, F-16 fighter jets, and various tanks.
Bantry Bay was featured during a famous Gulf Oil commercial showing the supertanker " Universe Kuwait " that aired during Apollo space coverage in 1971
" Apollo Sound " featured musicians from the ensemble of Tito Puente, " Cortijo y Su Combo ", " El Gran Combo " and " Los Sunsets ", among others.

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