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Electra was a teletext service in the United States that was in operation from the early 1980s up until 1993, when it was shut down due to a lack of funding, and discontinuation of teletext-capable television sets by the only US television manufacturer offering teletext capability at the time, Zenith.
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In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (; Ancient Greek: ; modern Greek:, " very steadfast ") was the son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra, and the father of Electra and Orestes.
There are several reasons throughout myth for such wrath: in Aeschylus ' play Agamemnon, Artemis is angry for the young men who will die at Troy, whereas in Sophocles ' Electra, Agamemnon has slain an animal sacred to Artemis, and subsequently boasted that he was Artemis ' equal in hunting.
it was released on the 27th of April in Ireland and the 30th of April in the UK, and features the titular character, Electra Heart, as a fictional character of Marina's creation who epitomizes the American female at her very worst, in the four " Archetypes "; the Primadonna, SuBarbieA, Homewrecker, and the Teen Idle.
Other tragedians also used recognition scenes but they were heroic in emphasis, as in Aeschylus's The Libation Bearers, which Euripides parodied with his mundane treatment of it in Electra ( Euripides was unique among the tragedians in incorporating theatrical criticism in his plays ).
In contrast, Aeschylus never exceeded twenty lines of stichomythia ; Sophocles's longest such scene was fifty lines and it is interrupted several times by αντιλαβή ( Electra, lines 1176-1226 ).
The technology of the Lockheed Electra airliner was also used in military aircraft, such as the P-3 Orion and the C-130 Hercules, using the Allison T56.
* The first flight at Dulles was an Eastern Air Lines Super Electra turboprop arriving from Newark International Airport in New Jersey on November 19, 1962.
That attempt ended in Hawaii when her Lockheed Electra 10E was severely damaged.
According to Pindar, the young Orestes was saved by his nurse Arsinoe ( Laodamia ) or his sister Electra, who conveyed him out of the country when Clytemnestra wished to kill him.
In his twentieth year, he was urged by Electra to return home and avenge his father's death.
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.
In Greek mythology, Dardanus ( Greek: Δάρδανος ) was a son of Zeus and Electra, daughter of Atlas, and founder of the city of Dardania on Mount Ida in the Troad.
This tradition holds that Dardanus was a Tyrrhenian prince, and that his mother Electra was married to Corythus, king of Tarquinia ( Aeneid 7. 195-242 ; 8.
In Greek mythology, Electra (, Ēlektra ) was the daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra, and thus princess of Argos.
Electra was absent from Mycenae when her father, King Agamemnon, returned from the Trojan War to be murdered, either by Clytemnestra's lover Aegisthus, by Clytemnestra herself, or by both.
Eight years later, Electra was brought from Athens with her brother, Orestes.
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.
Electra was not hounded by the Erinyes.
* Electra, a lost play by Quintus Tullius Cicero of which nothing is known but the name and that it was " a tragedy in the Greek style "
Strophius was also the name of one of Pylades ' sons with Electra, Orestes ' sister.
In some versions he was sent away by Clytemnestra to avoid having him present during the murder of Agamemnon ; in others Electra herself rescued the infant Orestes and sent him away to protect him from their mother.
According to one account, she is the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite ; By yet another account, Harmonia was from Samothrace and was the daughter of Zeus and Electra, her brother Iasion being the founder of the mystic rites celebrated on the island.
Electra and teletext
* Electra ( teletext ), a teletext service from the early 1980s to the early 1990s
Screenshot of an Electra teletext page.
Screenshot of an Electra teletext page.
Electra used the World System Teletext ( WST ) protocol, the same protocol used by Ceefax and ORACLE, as well as by other teletext services in the rest of the European continent.
Electra was one of the very few American teletext services in operation.
Electra also carried another teletext service on its higher-numbered pages, a service called Tempo.
Electra and service
Western later was awarded a route between Minneapolis and Salt Lake City via Casper, Wyoming, allowing the airline to grow into a large regional airline, introducing service on the Douglas DC-6B, and Lockheed Electra.
With the introduction to service of the Lockheed Electra, expansion into Central America was made possible and service to Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and Costa Rica began.
In 1962 Western began nonstop service to San Francisco ( one Electra daily ) and Bonanza began nonstop F27s to Phoenix in 1967 ; jets arrived in 1968.
National also operated Lockheed L-188 Electra II turboprop service from the airport in the mid 1960's.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the airport also had scheduled airline service operated by Eastern Airlines, which utilized Boeing 727 and Douglas DC-9 jetliners as well as Lockheed L-188 Electra turboprop aircraft on flights serving Melbourne.
In later years, Eastern operated Lockheed L-188 Electra turboprop service from the airport.
Before introducing Boeing 727 jet service, National operated Lockheed L-188 Electra II turboprop aircraft from the airport.
The airline's initial market of service as of their January 1967 debut was between Orange County Airport ( SNA ) and San Francisco International Airport ( SFO ), a previously unserved routing, using four-engine Lockheed Electra airliners.
Air California was one of the last 20 carriers to utilize the Electra in regular service.
With equipment such as the DC-4, DC-6, Convair 640, Lockheed Electra, Boeing 727 and Boeing 737, Pacific Western provided scheduled air service throughout B. C., Alberta and the Northwest Territories.
* 5 Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra, introduced in 1938 for the Australia service.
Electra and United
Unable to return to Greece, she emigrated to the United States, where she had earlier appeared in 1931, performing Clytemnestra in a modern Greek version of Electra.
Ultimately, the Electra ended up at the United States Navy's Luke Field on Ford Island in Pearl Harbor.
The United States Coast Guard cutter was on station at Howland, assigned to communicate with Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10E and guide them to the island once they arrived in the vicinity.
Operators across the Pacific and the United States may have heard signals from the downed Electra but these were unintelligible or weak.
Despite an unprecedented search by the United States Navy and Coast Guard no physical evidence of Earhart, Noonan or the Electra 10E was found.
In late July 1937, Putnam chartered two small boats and while he remained in the United States, directed a search of the Phoenix Islands, Christmas ( Kiritimati ) Island, Fanning ( Tabuaeran ) Island, the Gilbert Islands and the Marshall Islands, but no trace of the Electra or its occupants was found.
Electra is a city in Wichita County, Texas, United States.
The current masthead features a stylised version of the Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom and " The Age " in Electra Bold type.
* Electra ( band ), an electronic musical band from the United Kingdom
The band landed a United States deal with Electra.
Between 1997 and 2006 two Lockheed L-188 Electra were operated for United Parcel Service and TNT N. V ..
USS Electra ( 1843 ) and USS Electra ( AK-21 / AKA-4 ), both of United States Navy.
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