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Venus (/ ˈ v iː n ə s /; Classical Latin: [ˈu̯ɛnʊs̠] Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈvɛ(ː)nus]) is a Roman goddess whose functions encompass love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. In Roman mythology, she was the ancestor of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy.
Because Venus is completely covered in clouds, human knowledge of surface conditions was largely speculative until the space probe era. Until the mid-20th century, the surface environment of Venus was believed to be similar to Earth, hence it was widely believed that Venus could harbor life.
A diagram from Rittenhouse's observations of the 1769 transit of Venus. In 1768, the same year that he became a member of the American Philosophical Society, Rittenhouse announced plans to observe a pending transit of Venus across the Sun from several locations. The American Philosophical Society persuaded the legislature to grant £100 towards ...
The Maasai people named the planet Kileken, and have an oral tradition about it called The Orphan Boy. [81] Venus is important in many Australian aboriginal cultures, such as that of the Yolngu people in Northern Australia. The Yolngu gather after sunset to await the rising of Venus, which they call Barnumbirr. As she approaches, in the early ...
The image shows the alignment of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Neptune and Uranus from the perspective of the moon. Neptune and Uranus would not have been visible to the naked eye if you were ...
Venus of Hohle Fels, the earliest known Venus figurine. The Vénus impudique, which was the figurine that gave the whole category its name, was the first Palaeolithic sculptural representation of a woman to be discovered in modern times.
The movie dives into the Spanish Inquisition, which is a very real event. However, it says that the Inquisition was driven by a master exorcist who was possessed by a demon called Asmodeus, who ...
Fair question given the show's main character, Charlie Croker, feels like a thinly-veiled nod to any number of real-life business moguls featured in the headlines of grocery-store tabloids.