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King Neptune, a 1979 album by Dexter Gordon; King Neptune, a 1932 animated short film in the Silly Symphonies series; King Neptune, a large bronze statue in Virginia Beach; King Neptune, a large limestone sculpture at Two Rocks, Australia; King Neptune's Adventure, an adventure video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System
King Neptune is a 1932 cartoon by Walt Disney, the second in the Silly Symphonies series produced in Technicolor. While Flowers and Trees was originally intended as a black and white cartoon, King Neptune was meant to be in colors already from the start, and was able to take full advantage of this.
Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus [nɛpˈtuːnʊs]) is the god of freshwater and the sea in the Roman religion. [1] He is the counterpart of the Greek god Poseidon . [ 2 ] In the Greek-inspired tradition , he is a brother of Jupiter and Pluto , with whom he presides over the realms of heaven , the earthly world (including the underworld ), and the seas ...
King Neptune is a large bronze statue located in Virginia Beach, Virginia designed by Paul DiPasquale. It stands at the entrance of Neptune Park on the Virginia Beach Boardwalk at 31st Street, and depicts the mythological god Neptune. [1] The sculpture weighs 12.5 tons [2] and is 34 feet (10 m) [1] [2] tall.
The line-crossing ceremony is an initiation rite in some English-speaking countries that commemorates a person's first crossing of the equator. [1] The tradition may have originated with ceremonies when passing headlands, and become a "folly" sanctioned as a boost to morale, [2] or have been created as a test for seasoned sailors to ensure their new shipmates were capable of handling long ...
King Neptune (May 16, 1942 – May 14, 1950) was a pig used by a United States Navy recruiter to raise $19 million (equivalent to $321,560,074 in 2023) in war bonds for the construction of the Iowa-class battleship Illinois between 1942 and 1946.
King Neptune (subtitled Dexter in Radioland Vol. 3) is a live album by American saxophonist Dexter Gordon recorded at the Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1964 by Danmarks Radio and released on the SteepleChase label in 1979.
Neptune and Salacia in a mosaic, Herculaneum, 1st c. AD Neptune and Amphitrite by Sebastiano Ricci, c. 1690. In ancient Roman mythology, Salacia (/ s ə ˈ l eɪ ʃ ə / sə-LAY-shə, Latin: [saˈɫaːkia]) was the female divinity of the sea, worshipped as the goddess of salt water who presided over the depths of the ocean. [1]