Venus Sentence Examples

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  • Teacher says she can see Venus from our window, and it is a large and beautiful star.

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  • In 1871 he published a monograph on the Venus of Milo.

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  • Neptune, the twelfth house, Jupiter and Venus all play a role in that process.

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  • In terms of Pisces specially, Venus in Pisces acts very much like a sun sign Pisces would when in love.

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  • The planet Venus is responsible for the things a person likes and enjoys; their personal taste.

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  • Venus can often play a role in the types of things a person finds romantic or attractive.

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  • For example, most people know that Gemini is a rather logical sign, but a Gemini with a Venus in Pisces will behave uncharacteristically sentimental when in love.

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  • However, when it comes to finding your ideal love relationship, Venus is the ruling planet.

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  • Other aspects of each individual's chart, such as the placement of Venus and Mars as well as where the moon's emotional influence lies, all contribute to passion.

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  • The sign in which Venus falls rules the view one takes on love.

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  • If you're unsure of the position of Venus in your natal chart, you can get a free birth chart done up at Astrolabe.com.

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  • Though sun signs may clash, many people find themselves incredibly drawn to a partner with a complimentary Venus placement.

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  • This may not make for a flawless relationship, but a well-matched Venus can certainly establish a strong bond and sometimes even that "tractor-beam" sensation that brings two lovers together and keeps them happy long-term.

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  • Venus only has two jobs to complete in a romantic partnership.

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  • Neptune is the planet of dreams, romance and spirituality, and it is considered the higher octave of Venus.

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  • Ladies who love a little boost will flock to Venus, a peep-toe wedge with a four inch heel.

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  • It's also the astrological sign for Venus and the biological symbol for the female gender.

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  • This pose is named for the negative and positive sides of the Venus mounds, which are represented on each hand by the fleshy areas at the base of the thumbs.

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  • The planet Venus represents sensuality and sexuality, and this Mudra is said to channel the sexual energy while balancing the glandular system of the body.

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  • Body by Venus has an enormous selection of every type of lingerie including plus sizes, bustiers and garter sets, corsets, teddies and much more.

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  • I have an affinity for Aphrodite (Venus) but Athena (Minerva) or Artemis (Diana) are fun as well.

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  • Burke has extensive modeling experience, having worked for Frederick's of Hollywood and Venus Swimwear.

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  • The plant, called Audrey II by the smitten Seymour, is a type of Venus flytrap, which Seymour accidentally discovers thrives on human blood.

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  • Popular choices in fiction are Mars, Venus and the Moon.

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  • Of his astronomical writings during this period the most important are his investigation of the mass of Jupiter, his report to the British Association on the progress of astronomy during the 19th century, and his memoir On an Inequality of Long Period in the Motions of the Earth and Venus.

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  • Venus's fly-trap (Dionaea muscipula), a rare plant, is found only south of the Neuse river; and there are several varieties of Sarracenia, carnivorous pitcher plants.

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  • The combined mass of the earth and moon admits of being determined by its effect in changing the position of the plane of the orbit of Venus.

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  • The motion of the node of this plane is found with great exactness from observaMass, of the g tions of the transits of Venus.

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  • The stars had been numbered and named at an early date, and we possess tables of lunar longitudes and observations of the phases of Venus.

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  • From an investigation of all the observations upon Mercury and the other three interior planets, Simon Newcomb found it almost out of the question that any such mass of matter could exist without changing either the figure of the sun itself or the motion of the planes of the orbits of either Mercury or Venus.

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  • By later antiquarians Libitina was sometimes identified with Persephone, but more commonly (partly or completely) with Venus Lubentia or Lubentina, an Italian goddess of gardens.

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  • The similarity of name and the fact that Venus Lubentia had a sanctuary in the grove of Libitina favoured this idea.

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  • The inconsistency of selling funeral requisites in the temple of Libitina, seeing that she is identified with Venus, is explained by him as indicating that one and the same goddess presides over birth and death; or the association of such things with the goddess of love and pleasure is intended to show that death is not a calamity, but rather a consummation to be desired.

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  • These lines isolate certain swellings or monticuli, the largest of which is (I) the ball of the thumb, called the mountain of Venus; (2) that at the base of the index finger is the mountain of Jupiter; (3) at the root of the middle finger is the mountain of Saturn, while those at the bases of ring and little finger are respectively the mountains of the (4) Sun and (5) of Mercury.

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  • The swelling of the mountain of Venus is simply the indication of the size of the muscles of the ball of the thumb, and can be increased by their exercise.

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  • It was occupied from October 1874 to February 1875 by the expeditions sent from England, Germany and the United States to observe the transit of Venus.

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  • The greater of the two temples was sacred to Jupiter (Baal), identified with the Sun, with whom were associated Venus and Mercury as a-p,u co,uoc Beni.

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  • The extreme licence of the Heliopolitan worship is often animadverted upon by early Christian writers, and Constantine, making an effort to curb the Venus cult, built a basilica.

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  • The Sabaeans also recognize `Athtar; but with them he is superseded by Almaqah, who, according to Hamdani, is the planet Venus, and therefore is identical with `Athtar.

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  • Canova's statue of her as Venus reclining on a couch is well known.

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  • The zodiacal Virgo is held to represent the Assyrian Venus, Ishtar, the ruling divinity of the sixth month, and Sagittarius the archer-god Nergal, to whom the ninth month was dedicated.

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  • Thus Mercury, as the planet nearest the sun, obtained Virgo, the sign adjacent to Leo, with the corresponding lunar house in Gemini; Venus had Libra (solar) and Taurus (lunar); and so for the rest.

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  • The restored church of St Peter, of black and white marble (1118; destroyed by the Aragonese in 1494), is reputed to occupy the site of a temple of Venus.

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  • He became intimate with James Bradley in 1755, and in 1761 was deputed by the Royal Society to make observations of the transit of Venus at St Helena.

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  • Subsequent volumes of the same series contained his observations of the transits of Venus (1761 and 1769), on the tides at St Helena (1762), and on various astronomical phenomena at St Helena (1764) and at Barbados (1764).

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  • This was followed by a long series of popular treatises in rapid succession, amongst the more important of which are Light Science for Leisure Hours and The Sun (1871); The Orbs around Us and Essays on Astronomy (1872); The Expanse of Heaven, The Moon and The Borderland of Science (1873); The Universe and the Coming Transits and Transits of Venus (1874);(1874); Our Place among Infinities (1875); Myths and Marvels of Astronomy (1877); The Universe of Stars (1878); Flowers of the Sky (1879); The Peotry of Astronomy (1880); Easy Star Lessons and Familiar Science Studies (1882); Mysteries of Time and Space and The Great Pyramid (1883); The Universe of Suns (1884); The Seasons (1885); Other Suns than Ours and Half-Hours with the Stars (1887).

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  • He also vigorously criticized the official arrangements for observing the transits of Venus of 1874 and 1882.

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  • His family was of patrician rank and traced a legendary descent from lulus, the founder of Alba g Y, Longa, son of Aeneas and grandson of Venus and Anchises.

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  • Caesar made the most of his divine ancestry and built a temple in his forum to Venus Genetrix; but his patrician descent was of little importance in politics and disqualified Caesar from holding the tribunate, an office to which, as a leader of the popular party, he would naturally have aspired.

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  • Of the two latter titles, the first is derived from the name of Venus Genetrix, the ancestress of the Julian house, the second indicates that the colonists were drawn from the plebs Urbana.

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  • That of Mercury was actually seen by Gassendi in Paris on the 7th of November 1631 (being the first passage of a planet across the sun ever observed); that of Venus, predicted for the 6th of December following, was invisible in western Europe.

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  • This comet had been observed in 1066, and the accounts which have been preserved represent it as having then appeared to be four times the size of Venus, and to have shone with a light equal to a fourth of that of the moon.

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  • He now set himself to the revision of the Rudolphine Tables (published by Kepler in 1627), and in the progress of his task became convinced that a transit of Venus overlooked by Kepler would nevertheless occur on the 24th of November (O.S.) 1639.

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  • This transit of Venus is remarkable as the first ever observed, that of 1631 predicted by Kepler having been invisible in western Europe.

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  • After his death (which occurred soon after that of his friend) these were purchased by Dr Worthington, of Cambridge; and from his hands the treatise Venus in sole visa passed into those of Hevelius, and was published by him in 1662 with his own observations on a transit of Mercury.

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  • A memoir of his life by the Rev. Arundell Blount Whatton, prefixed to a translation of the Venus in sole visa, appeared at London in 1859.

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  • Such eyes on the mantle-edge are found in Pecten, Spondylus, Lima, Pinna, Pectunculus, Modiola, Cardium, Tellina, Mactra, Venus, Solen, Pholas and Galeomma.

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  • In the Egyptian astronomy, the order of the planets, beginning with the most remote, is Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, the Moon.

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  • In like manner the first hour of the 3rd day would fall to the Moon, the first of the 4th day to Mars, of the 5th to Mercury, of the 6th to Jupiter, and of the 7th to Venus.

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  • Other paintings with which the name of the gallery is generally associated are Correggio's "La Notte" and "Mary Magdalene"; Titian's "Tribute Money" and "Venus"; "The Adoration" and "The Marriage in Cana," by Paul Veronese; Andrea del Sarto's "Abraham's Sacrifice"; Rembrandt's "Portrait of Himself with his Wife sitting on his Knee"; "The Judgment of Paris" and "The Boar Hunt," by Rubens; Van Dyck's "Charles I., his Queen, and their Children."

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  • This work was refused; the jury alleged that a statue of Diana demanded drapery; without drapery, they said, the goddess became a "suivante de Venus," and not even the proud and frank chastity of the attitude and expression could save the Diana of Houdon (a bronze reproduction of which is in the Louvre) from insult.

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  • Her statue was placed in the temple of Venus, and she was numbered among the tutelary deities of Rome.

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  • The feast of Anahite, the Armenian Venus and spouse of the chief god Aramazd, was in the same way rededicated to the Virgin Mary, who for long was not very clearly distinguished by the Armenians from the virgin mother church.

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  • In the British Isles the 1 The name of the fishes of the genus Cyprinus is derived from the island of Cyprus, the ancient sanctuary of Venus; this name is supposed to have arisen from observations of the fecundity and vivacity of carp during the spawning period.

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  • The common epithetsKinrpcs and KvOEpeta (of Kuthera in Cyprus),Cypria and Paphia, show that she was identified with Aphrodite and Venus.

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  • The leaf of Venus's fly-trap (Dionaea muscipula) when cut off and placed in damp moss, with a pan of water underneath and a bell-glass for a cover, has produced buds from which young plants were obtained.

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  • The fifth temple, that of Venus Pompeiana, lay to the west of the basilica; traces of two earlier periods underlie the extant temple, which was in progress of rebuilding at the time of the eruption.

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  • The principal fruit of the observations was a catalogue of about a thousand stars, the places of which were determined by the methods usually employed in the 16th century, connecting a fundamental star by means of Venus with the sun, and thus finding its longitude and latitude, while other stars could at any time be referred to the fundamental star.

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  • It should be noticed that clocks, on which Tycho Brahe depended very little, were used at Cassel for finding the difference of right ascension between Venus and the sun before sunset; Tycho preferred observing the angular distance between the sun and Venus when the latter was visible in the daytime.

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  • At the order of Constantine, the shrine of Venus above mentioned was destroyed, and the accumulated rubbish removed, till the ancient rockfoundation was reached.

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  • Dark wampum, which was made from a "hard shell" clam (Venus mercenaria), popularly called quahang or quahog, a corruption of the Indian name, was the most valuable.

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  • With this last instrument he discovered in 1610 the satellites of Jupiter, and soon afterwards the spots on the sun, the phases of Venus, and the hills and valleys on the moon.

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  • James Bradley, on 27th December 1722, actually measured the diameter of Venus with a telescope whose objectglass had a focal length of 2124 ft.

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  • Newton's first telescope so far realized his expectations that he could see with its aid the satellites of Jupiter and the horns of Venus.

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  • This process, which reached its culmination in the post-Khammurabic period, led to identifying the planet Jupiter with Marduk, Venus with Ishtar, Mars with Nergal, Mercury with Nebo, and Saturn with Ninib.

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  • In five days its light had reached the first magnitude, and a little later it even equalled Venus in brilliancy and was observed in full daylight.

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  • It had the charge of the common shrine of Venus in Lavinium.

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  • Mercury and Venus were also studied, and he concluded that these planets rotated on their axes in the same time as they revolved about the sun; but these views are questioned.

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  • The city has a number of good statues, chief among which are copies of the Farnese Hercules (Victoria Square) and of Canova's Venus (North Terrace), statues of Queen Victoria and Robert Burns, Sir Thomas Elder's statue at the university, and a memorial (1905) over the grave of Colonel Light, founder of the colony, in Light Square.

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  • He discussed the transits of Venus of 1761 and 1769, and those of Mercury from 1677 to 1881.

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  • Bacchus and Venus go hand in hand, as in the ancient anteChristian age.

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  • I thought that if Jerez was the vineyard of Venus, this Alto Douro vineyard must be termed the vineyard of Hercules."

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  • Towards the close of the Franco-Prussian War he made an admirable defence of Brest, and his organization of the French expedition to the island of St Paul to observe the transit of Venus in 1874 obtained his election to the Academy of Sciences and his promotion as commander of the Legion of Honour.

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  • Similar honours were paid to other divinities in subsequent times - Fortuna, Saturnus, Juno Regina of the Aventine, the three Capitoline deities (Jupiter, Juno, Minerva), and in 217, after the defeat of lake Trasimenus, a lectisternium was held for three days to six pairs of gods, corresponding to the twelve great gods of Olympus - Jupiter, Juno, Neptune, Minerva, Mars, Venus, Apollo, Diana, Vulcan, Vesta, Mercury, Ceres.

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  • After he had observed the transit of Venus at Tahiti, he circumnavigated New Zealand and went in search of the eastern coast of the great continent whose western shores had long been known to the Dutch.

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  • During her husband's absence on an expedition to Syria, she dedicated her hair to Venus for his safe return, and placed it in the temple of the goddess at Zephyrium.

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  • Owing to the action of the planets, especially Venus and Jupiter, on the earth, the centre of gravity of the earth and moon deviates by a yet minuter amount, generally one or two tenths of a second, from the plane of the ecliptic proper.

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  • He died unmarried, and seemed so little susceptible to female influence that he was styled a Mars without a Venus.

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  • Lajard, Recherches sur le culte de Venus (1837), may still be consulted with advantage.

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  • The large bronzes are almost the only ones which have survived from classical times, the most famous of them being the seated Mercury and the dancing Faun; the marbles reckon among their vast number the Psyche, the Capuan Venus, the portraits of Homer and Julius Caesar, as well as the huge group called the Toro Farnese (Amphion and Zethus tying Dirce to its horns), the Farnese Hercules, the excellent though late statues of the Balbi on horseback and a very fine collection of ancient portrait busts.

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  • The transits of Venus of 1874 and 1882 were observed by expeditions trained for the purpose beforehand with every possible foresight, and sent out by the British,.

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  • It is the atmosphere of Venus that spoils the observation.

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  • Auwer's discussion of the sun's diameter is in the discussion of the transit of Venus observations for 1874 and 1882.

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  • I could also discern the Moon-like phase of Venus, but not very distinctly, nor without some niceness in disposing the Instrument.

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  • As an undergraduate he became deeply interested in astronomy; he observed the comet of 1759 and the transit of Venus of June 1769, and left a quarto volume of astronomical notes.

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  • Esther is a modification of Ishtar, the name of the Babylonian goddess of fertility and of the planet Venus, whose myth must have been partially known to the Israelites even in pre-exilic times,' and after the fall of the state must have acquired a still stronger hold on Jewish exiles.

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  • His discussion of the effects of parallax in the transit of a planet over the sun's disc excited great interest, having appeared (in 1764) between the dates of the two transits of Venus that took place in the 18th century.

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  • He was invited by the Royal Society of London to undertake an expedition to California to observe the transit of Venus in 1769; but this was prevented by the recent decree of the Spanish government for the expulsion of the Jesuits from its dominions.

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  • He further brought into prominence the effects of refraction in altering the apparent places of the heavenly bodies, and substituted Venus for the moon as a connecting-link between observations of the sun and stars.

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  • The Babylonian computers were not only aware that Venus returns in almost exactly eight years to a given starting-point in the sky, but they had established similar periodic relations in 4 6, 59, 79 and 83 years severally for Mercury, Saturn, Mars and Jupiter.

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  • Euler devised in 1753 a new method, that of the " variation of parameters," for their investigation, and applied it to unravel some of the earth's irregularities in a memoir crowned by the French Academy in 1756; while in 1757, Clairault estimated the masses of the moon and Venus by their respective disturbing effects upon terrestrial movements.

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  • Sir George Airy detected in 1831 an inequality, periodic in 240 years, between Venus and the earth.

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  • The next was that of Venus on the 24th of November (0.S.) 1639, of which Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree were the sole spectators.

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  • The way was thus prepared for availing to the full of the opportunities for a celestial survey offered by the transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769.

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  • Venus's flytrap is found along the coast.

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  • The Mexican " departmental " gods answer to those of other polytheisms; there is an Aztec Ceres, an Aztec Lucina, an Aztec Vulcan, an Aztec Flora, an Aztec Venus.

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  • Before the close of 1610 the memorable cycle of discoveries begun in the previous year was completed by the observation of the ansated or, as it appeared to Galileo, triple form of Saturn (the ring-formation was first recognized by Christiaan Huygens in 1655), of the phases of Venus, and of the spots upon the sun.

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  • Of the planets five were recognized - Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Mercury and Mars - to name them in the order in which they appear in the older cuneiform literature; in later texts Mercury and Saturn change places.

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  • In the system that passes under the name of Ptolemy, Saturn is associated with grey, Jupiter with white, Mars with red, Venus with yellow, while Mercury, occupying a peculiar place in Greek as it did in Babylonian astrology (where it was at one time designated as the planet par excellence), was supposed to vary its colour according to changing circumstances.

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  • The sun was associated with gold, the moon with silver, Jupiter with electrum, Saturn with lead, Venus with copper, and so on, while the continued influence of astrological motives is to be seen in the association of quicksilver, upon its discovery at a comparatively late period, with Mercury, because of its changeable character as a solid and a liquid.

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  • Saturn, taking in Greek astrology the place at the head of the planets which among the Babylonians was accorded to JupiterMarduk, was given a place in the brain, which in later times was looked upon as the centre of soul-life; Venus, as the planet of the passion of love, was supposed to reign supreme over the genital organs, the belly and the lower limbs; Mars, as the violent planet, is associated with the bile, as well as with the blood and kidneys.

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  • Wednesday was assigned to the planet Mercury, the equivalent of the Germanic god Woden; Thursday to Jupiter, the equivalent of Thor; and Friday to Friga, the goddess of love, who is represented by Venus among the Romans and among the Babylonians by Ishtar.

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  • Nay, his complexion shows that Venus touches Libra.

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  • The legendary kings are but faint echoes of the kings of Biainas; the story of Semiramis and Ara is but another form of the myth of Venus and Adonis; and tradition has clothed Tigranes, the reputed friend of Cyrus, with the transient glory of the opponent of Lucullus.

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  • One or both of the pools below the citadel containing sacred fish may have been sacred to Atargatis, an IshtarVenus deity; and according to the Doctrine of Addai, alongside of Venus were worshipped the sun and the moon?

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  • Among the paintings exhibited by the artist are a " Venus," to which was awarded a medal in 1883, " Leda " (1884), and " Michaelangelo studying Anatomy " (1885) - his most dramatic work in this medium.

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  • The bas-reliefs of one of the chapels represent Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Mars and Diana, together with the signs of the zodiac. And these subjects are derived, it appears, from a poem in which Sigismondo had invoked the gods and the signs of the zodiac to soften Isotta's heart and win her to his arms. The pageants of Mars and Diana seem to have been suggested by the Trionfi of Petrarch.

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  • Nothing is too ominous, except Mars coming close to Venus.

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  • A few days later on May 10th, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Uranus all conjoined over it.

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  • With Venus at V2 and the Earth at E, the planet is said to be at superior conjunction.

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  • Hecat the Witch Queen battles with Love Goddess Venus in a Victorian courtroom to expose the Seven Deadly Sins in Shakespeare.

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  • Up to this time, Venus has had a superior declination to the Sun.

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  • Difficult aspects between Venus and the Moon are not well delineated.

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  • I realized my Venus had arrived, but had come with one of the thick dullards she usually hung with.

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  • Venus's rapid motion outward from the Sun will come to a halt when the planet reaches maximum western elongation on August 17th.

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  • Then again, a Venus flytrap looks nice from the outside, too.

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  • If Venus had looked inconsolable in New York, she looked positively narked in Munich.

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  • Craters on Venus seem to come in bunches indicating that large meteoroids that do reach the surface usually break up in the atmosphere.

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  • He was an artisan who made richly ornamented armor for Mars, or jewelry for Venus.

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  • Why not use the electric orrery to see how Venus remains a morning object over the next few months.

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  • A transit of Venus, as it is called, was once of great practical observational importance for determining the solar parallax.

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  • This underpins the 8 year periodicity in the transits of Venus.

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  • He has Mars, ascendant ruler, on the 5th house cusp, together with Venus and Mercury in the 5th house.

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  • Here perhaps I would look at the triplicity rulers of VII, or even Venus I guess.

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  • Venus by exaltation Mars daytime and night-time triplicity ruler.

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  • Venus sextile Mercury The sextile formed between Mercury and Venus shows grace and skill in your speech and writing.

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  • Venus is now 1 ' from the MC and Saturn is in its detriment in the 12th but still making a sextile to Venus.

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  • Saturn receives a sextile from Venus but is squared by Jupiter.

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  • Transiting Saturn is currently semi sextile my venus and sextile the progressed Venus.

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  • In our solar system, the astronomy of the inner planets (Venus and Mercury) suggests that Einsteinian space-time is influencing them.

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  • The Venus head was flanked by peacocks, the colors of which were enhanced by the use of glass tesserae.

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  • Used by His Majesty King George III to observe the 1769 transit of Venus.

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  • Venus trine Pluto The trine Pluto The trine formed between Venus and Pluto shows an intense romance nature.

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  • Pluto trine Venus The trine formed between Venus and Pluto shows an intense romance nature.

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  • Venus principally rules the Earth triplicity by day, with the onus of rulership given to the Moon at night.

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  • Many things about Venus remain unknown, including the cause of mysterious bursts of radio waves.

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  • Venus fly trap!

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  • Venus fly traps is not to keep them water logged.

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  • Venus flytrap looks nice from the outside, too.

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  • Venus brings the love interest and Uranus provides a zing that's both fascinating and unpredictable.

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  • Frazer's latest view is that he is the old cult associate of Diana of Aricia (to whom he is related as Attis to Cybele or Adonis to Venus), the mythical predecessor or archetype of the kings of the grove.

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  • In its descriptions of the various courts on their way to the palace, and of the poet's adventures - first, when he incautiously slanders the court of Venus, and later when after his pardon he joins in the procession and passes to see the glories of the palace - the poem carries on the literary traditions of the courts of love, as shown especially in the "Romaunt of the Rose" and "The Hous of Fame."

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  • From 1868 to 1873 he was in charge of a private observatory at Aberdeen, and from 1873-6 of Lord Crawford's observatory at Dunecht, organizing from there the expeditions to Mauritius to observe the transit of Venus in 1874 and to Ascension I.

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  • There he observed the transit of Venus of 1882 and photographed the great comet of that year.

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  • Venus, like other names ending in us, ought to have genitive Veni, but, as this might be taken for a verb, it has Veneris.

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  • He for ten years assisted his father in his business; but, his love of art having been awakened while journeying in Holland, he in 1832 began the study of painting at Munich under Cornelius and Schnorr, and in 1836 established himself at Paris, where he painted a number of pictures of more than average merit, among which may be mentioned the "Cumaean Sibyl" (1844); an "Offering to Venus" (1845); a "View of Rome" (1849); the "Death of Romeo and Juliet" (1857); and several Alpine landscapes.

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  • Of existing statues the most famous is the Aphrodite of Melos (Venus of Milo), now in the Louvre, which was found on the island in 1820 amongst the ruins of the theatre; the Capitoline Venus at Rome and the Venus of Capua, represented as a goddess of victory (these two exhibit a lofty conception of the goddess); the Medicean Venus at Florence, found in the porticus of Octavia at Rome and (probably wrongly) attributed to Cleomenes; the Venus stooping in the bath, in the Vatican; and the Callipygos at Naples, a specimen of the most sensual type.

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  • In one system the seat of Mercury, representing divine intelligence as the source of all knowledge - a view that reverts to Babylonia where Nebo (corresponding to Mercury) was regarded as the divine power to whom all wisdom is due - was placed in the liver as the primeval seat of the soul (see Omen), whereas in other systems this distinction was assigned to Jupiter or to Venus.

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  • There was the cult of the planet Venus which was revered as a great goddess under the name of al-Uzza.

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  • You see, Bova 's tales of Venus, Mars and Jupiter were all rollicking good fun !

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  • Venus trine Pluto The trine formed between Venus and Pluto shows an intense romance nature.

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  • Will the so-called " super greenhouse " theory and other uniformitarian assumptions answer the many difficulties Venus present us?

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  • The one on the right here is quite nice - the flying camera thing narrowly avoids being swallowed by a venus fly trap !

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  • The secret with venus fly traps is not to keep them water logged.

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  • Venus brings the love interest and Uranus provides a zing that 's both fascinating and unpredictable.

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  • Lange's Venus 8 ski boots were introduced in 2010 and designed specifically for women.

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  • The cache-sexe can be traced to the Paleolithic period, where stone carvings of fecund women, such as the Venus of Lespugue, depict panels of string fore and aft.

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  • There are double-flowered forms of all these variations, which last longer in flower than the single kinds, and also many named selections, such as Triumph, Snow King, Elfride, Venus, and Empress of India.

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  • Ceres, rosylilac; Gloria, rich rose; Kriemhilde, salmon; opal, purplish-pink; Siegfried, carmine; Venus, rosy-purple; Queen Alexandra, pink; and Salmon Queen, are a selection of the best.

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  • Zeus and the Titaness, Dione, are given as parents of Aphrodite (counterpart of the Roman Venus - goddess of love) in Homer's Illyiad / Iliad.

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  • The Gillette Venus Divine has three blades, a large pivoting head and lubrication strips to help you get a clean, close shave and avoid nicks and cuts.

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  • Venus Swim sells a triangle top bikini in turquoise.

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  • Venus also has a lipstick pink sliding triangle top bikini that is affordable and cute.

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  • Venus sells the Diva with a padded top and moderate coverage scoop bottom.

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  • Venus also offers a banded halter top bikini in black.

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  • Venus swimwear offers quite a selection of animal print suits, both in the usual colors and in colors that are a little more extreme.

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  • Finally, we turn to Venus Swimwear, and one three-in-one top in particular.

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  • Born Brooke Lisa Burke in Hartford, Connecticut of Jewish, Irish, French and Portuguese ancestry, Brooke first got her start as a swimwear model for Venus Swimwear.

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  • Venus is known for sexy summer suits, but they also offer several cute tankinis as well.

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  • Venus has a large selection of bikinis in the latest styles and cuts.

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  • Venus sells a peppermint pink halter top bikini that will flatter any figure.

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  • Look at Venus' Red enhancer top bikini that will look great on any beach body.

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  • Venus has several white bikini separates to choose from.

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  • Browsing through swimsuit catalogues, like the one from Venus swimwear, is a great way to get a handle on the latest fashion styles for the beach.

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  • Venus offers some beguiling suits for swimmers that want to just test the minimal waters.

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  • If you're looking for a suit that gives a pop of color, then try Venus's under wire triangle top with a Brazilian bottom.

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  • Venus has expanded beyond swimsuits, but if that's what you need, the brand still carries some of the hottest swimwear around.

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  • Sisters Serena and Venus Williams are phenoms that took the tennis world by storm with their high-powered game and strong fashion statements.

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  • Venus Swimwear has long been known for their figure hugging and provocative bikinis, and with the development of their Enhancer Tops, that sexy quotient has skyrocketed.

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  • One of the advantages of shopping at Venus is their tremendous selection; there are literally reams and reams of the different models that are available for purchase.

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  • As with Venus, the styles available at Victoria's Secret are quite varied, and many of them have the added advantage of being of the mix and match variety.

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  • Along with her sister, tennis star Venus Williams, Serena has brought excitement, stylish flair and a new fashion vibe to the tennis courts.

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  • Serena loves fashion and pursues an interest in the industry with her sister, Venus.

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  • Speedo does carry a versatile line of women's swimsuits that are both high quality and fashionable, but perhaps a bit more conservative than swimsuits from other designers such as Salinas, and Venus.

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  • Many famous faces (and bodies) have graced the pages of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition over the years, including Tyra Banks, Kathy Ireland, Christie Brinkley, Heidi Klum and tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams.

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  • On the cover, Brooklyn sports a yellow string bikini, and while you may prefer to leave your bikini top on, you can find a similar style at Venus Swimwear.

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  • The online clothing shop Venus has a large selection of tankinis, many of which feature bandeau tops.

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  • This includes some popular retailers such as Venus and Victoria's Secret.

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  • It's always a pleasure to browse at Venus Swimwear, and here you'll find one of the best selections of swimsuits anywhere.

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  • As at Swim Outlet, you'll need to pair up your top and bottoms from Venus' separates.

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  • Anyone who appreciates the latest and hottest swimwear is probably familiar with Venus bathing suits.

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  • Venus provides a huge selection of styles, colors and sizes so that any young woman can find the perfect swimsuit.

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  • One thing Venus prides itself on is keeping up with trends and offering the latest in stylish swimsuit attire.

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  • Pick a color, any color, and you'll find a Venus swimsuit in it.

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  • Well known for its Model Search competition, Venus knows that top models are what make their bikinis look fantastic.

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  • Advertised as the most popular bra top from Venus, it's no surprise when you consider you can increase a full cup size with removable push-up pads.

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  • The one-piece offerings from Venus are anything but plain.

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  • You can either order directly from the Venus website or visit one of the retail locations for the hottest Venus bathing suits.

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  • If you know you want a red hot suit, all you have to do is click on "Red Hot (RDD)"" and you'll see all of the suits Venus offers in this color.

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  • You don't have to be a Venus model to look fantastic in their swimsuits.

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  • Venus Swimwear has a great selection of swimsuits, including bikinis, thongs and cover-ups.

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  • Venus offers their customers a detailed sizing chart to assist them with their purchases, and allows them to view exactly how each style looks when worn.

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  • Venus Swimwear has something for everybody.

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  • A large quantity of the clothing at Venus is a bit on the risqué side--better for the beach or nights out on the town.

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  • Venus does offer fun, flirty clothing appropriate for daytime wear, as well.

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  • If you like your shoes to match your dress while making a statement, Venus doesn't disappoint with sky-high heels and eye catching styles.

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  • The Venus Swimwear catalog is a great way to get a handle on what the latest swim styles are this season.

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  • With so much convenience and great fashions at your fingertips, Venus just might be the place to find the summer swimwear, and other fashions you've been looking for.

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  • In fact, since Venus provides such a comprehensive collection of styles, you may actually find that the brand truly offers one-stop shopping.

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  • If you're a fan of Venus Swimwear, be sure to check out this interview.

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  • Having been with the company since its inception, Jodi has seen Venus grow from a small mail-order catalog company to the multi-million dollar swimwear giant that it is today.

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  • Today, Venus is known not only for its fabulous prints, but also for great fitting bikinis!

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  • LoveToKnow Swimsuits had a rare opportunity to speak with Jodi about the behind-the-scenes production of Venus Swimwear, and get the inside scoop on what's hot for the 2007 season.

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  • Venus became a major player in the swimsuit industry because we listened to our customers!

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  • Being direct mail, Venus has had the opportunity to hear directly from the end users.

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  • Our mix and match separates and our "perfect fit guarantee" have helped Venus become a household name in swimwear.

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  • Venus has defined its customer and refined its patterns to fit that customer.

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  • Venus designs all its swimwear in-house.

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  • Venus designs suits that you want to wear because they are sexy, stylish and fit!

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  • At Venus, you'll find over fifty different prints from which to choose.

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  • Every season Venus introduces new body styles to fit the needs and desires of its customers.

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  • One thing that I would like to share with your readers about Venus, is that it is our sincere goal to provide our customers with a fashionable, high quality product, and a pleasurable shopping experience.

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  • The Venus Swimwear models are beautiful girls that show off Venus' swimwear and fashion styles in the most flattering light.

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  • The planet Venus has historically been associated (through myths) with beauty and wealth, and when Venus Swimwear took this planet as their namesake, they did the grand lady herself justice!

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  • You can find everything to complete your wardrobe at Venus.

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  • Venus' clothing styles are cut in such a way as to celebrate the curves of the female form, and their accessories are true adornments with necklaces and belly chains that lglitter spectacularly against the body.

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  • Venus' swimsuit cover-ups are embellished with rhinestones, and while some are done in terry cloth and others are lacy and sheer, all of their looks are sexy!

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  • With sexy, eye catching looks like these, it's no wonder that the Venus swimsuit models are in such demand!

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  • Indeed, the Venus swimsuit models are fresh-faced and healthy looking, with bodies that support lush, real-world feminine curves.

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  • It's this charm and beauty that is front and center during the Venus Swimwear Model Search.

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  • Since 1989 Venus has been conducting this search, mostly though local venues, to find the next fresh face to represent the Venus style.

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  • Venus takes their search and their contest seriously.

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  • Venus Swimwear models include some pretty famous faces.

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  • After winning one of Venus' modeling contests, she went on to host E!'s Wild On! and Rock Star.

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  • She also worked with Venus to create her own line of swimwear called Barely Burke.

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  • Want to feel like Venus herself rising from the foam of the ocean?

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  • Venus swimwear is known for their sexy, hot styles, but they do offer a tankini short set that might just be perfect for you, particularly if you favor a shorter cut bottom.

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  • Venus has monokinis for those who like to add a little glamour to their swimsuits.

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  • Venus is known for their sexy suits, but the site also offers a wide and varied collection of tankini styles that might just be perfect for you.

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  • To the south-west of the Forum are the remains of three small temples, one dedicated to Venus, and a well-preserved Mithraeum, with mosaics representing the seven planets, &c. To the south-west again is the conspicuous brick cella of a lofty temple, on arched substructures, generally supposed to be that of Vulcan, with a threshold block of africano (Euboean) marble over 15 ft.

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  • From a fresh discussion of the transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769 he deduced (1822-1824) a solar parallax of 8" 57, long accepted as authoritative.

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  • For, if the Sun presides over the first hour of Sunday, and therefore also over the eighth, the fifteenth and the twenty-second, Venus will have the twenty-third hour, Mercury the twenty-fourth, and the Moon, as the third in order from the Sun, will preside over the first hour of Monday.

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  • In the astral-theological system he is represented by the number 30, and the planet Venus as his daughter by the number 15.

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  • By 1669 they were playing in Paris at the Theatre du Marais, her first appearance there being as Venus in Boyer's Fete de Venus.

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  • On the 12th of April 1769 the British expedition to observe the transit of Venus, under the naval command of James Cook, arrived at Tahiti.

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  • In 1767 he sailed for Tahiti, with the object of observing the transit of Venus, accompanied Captain ' '.

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  • Airy's discovery of a new inequality in the motions of Venus and the earth is in some respects his most remarkable achievement.

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  • Eight times the mean motion of Venus is so nearly equal to thirteen times that of the earth that the difference amounts to only the 2.

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  • This is true not only of the major planets Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune; it is also true of the host of more than five hundred minor planets.

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  • To Eusebius the erection of a temple of Venus over the sepulchre of Christ was an act of mockery against the Christian religion.

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  • There are also a theatre, in which, besides the famous Venus of Arles, discovered in 1651, many other remains have been found; an ancient obelisk of a single block, 47 ft.

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  • Delisle is chiefly remembered as the author of a method for observing the transits of Venus and Mercury by instants of contacts.

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  • Of the names of the planets Estera (Ishtar Venus, also called Ruha d'Qudsha, "holy spirit"), Enba (Nebo, Mercury), Sin (moon), Kewan (Saturn), Bil (Jupiter), and Nirig (Nirgal, Mars) reveal their Babylonian origin; Il or Il Il, the sun, is also known as Kadush and Adunay (the Adonai of the Old Testament); as lord of the planetary spirits his place is in the midst of them; they are the source of all temptation and evil amongst men.

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  • Her star was the planet Venus, and classical writers give her the epithet Caelestis and Urania.

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  • The weakest passages in Der fliegende Hollander are not so helpless as the original recitatives of Venus in the first act; or Tannhauser's song, which was too far involved in the whole scheme to be ousted by the mature " New Venusberg music " with which Wagner fifteen years later got rid both of the end of the overture and what he called his " Palais-Royal " Venus.

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  • The earlier part of it treated of the mythical adventures of Aeneas in Sicily, Carthage and Italy, and borrowed from the interview of Zeus and Thetis in the first book of the Iliad the idea of the interview of Jupiter and Venus; which Virgil has made one of the cardinal passages in the Aeneid.

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  • The transits of Venus observed in 1874 and 1882 might be expected to hold a leading place in the discussion.

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  • In the preceding century reliance was placed entirely on the observed moments at which Venus entered upon or left the limb of the sun, but in 1874 it was possible to determine the relative positions of Venus and the sun during the whole course of the transit.

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  • One was to use a heliometer to measure the distance between the limbs of Venus and the sun during the whole time that the planet was seen projected on the solar disk, and the other was to take photographs of the sun during the period of the transit and subsequently measure the negatives.

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  • By the American photographs the distances between the centres of Venus and the sun, and the angles between the line adjoining the centres and the meridian, could be separately measured and a separate result for the parallax derived from each.

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  • The failure of the method based on transits of Venus led to an international effort carried out on the initiative of Sir David Gill to measure the parallax by observations on those minor planets which approach nearest the earth.

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  • From the observed motion of the node of Venus, as shown by the four transits of 1761, 1769, 1874 and 1882, is found Mass of (earth +moon) _Mass of sun 332600 In gravitational units of mass, based on the metre and second as units of length and time, Log.

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  • His archaeological and mythological Memoire sur Venus (1775),(1775), which has been ranked with similar works of Heyne and Winckelmann, gained him admission to the Academie des Inscriptions (1778).

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  • The lyric and epic poems of Stephen GyongyOsi, who sang the deeds of Maria Szechy, the heroine of Murany, Murdnyi Venus (Kassa, 1664), are samples rather of a general improvement in the style than of the purity of the language.

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  • All phenomena, moral as well as material, are contemplated by him in their relation to one great organic whole, which he acknowledges under the name of "Natura daedala rerum," and the most beneficent manifestations of which he seems to symbolize and almost to deify in the "Alma Venus," whom, in apparent contradiction to his denial of a divine interference with human affairs, he invokes with prayer in the opening lines of the poem.

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  • Its political importance now ended, but its temple of Adonis and Aphrodite (Venus Amathusia) remained famous in Roman time.

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  • Other Italian cults introduced at this period were those of Juno Sospes and Juno Regina, Venus and Fortuna Primigenia, a goddess of childbirth who came from Praeneste.

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  • Ciriaco, is said to occupy the site of a temple of Venus, who is mentioned by Catullus and Juvenal as the tutelary deity of the place.

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  • It has ten columns which are attributed to the temple of Venus, and there are good screens of the 12th century, and other sculptures.

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  • As the transit of Venus of 1874 approached, prepara tions were set on foot by the German Government in good time; a commission of the most celebrated astronomers was appointed, and it was resolved that the heliometer should be the instrument chiefly relied on.

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  • Stone observed the transit of Venus.

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  • Hadrian then turned Jerusalem into a Roman colony, changed its name to Aelia Capitolina, built a temple of Jupiter on the site of the Jewish temple and (it is alleged) a temple of Venus on the site of the Holy Sepulchre, and forbade any Jew, on pain of death, to appear within sight of the city.

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  • The stars are held, not only to prognosticate the future but also to influence it; the child born when Mars is in the ascendant will be war-like; Venus has to do with love; the sign of the Lion presides over places where wild beasts are found.

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  • He thought the key to the event had been the arrival of Venus by axial rotation to the opposition of Saturn.

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  • My soul delights in the repose and gracious curves of the Venus; and in Barre's bronzes the secrets of the jungle are revealed to me.

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  • Venus, best known for their line of swimwear, has women's jumpsuits as well.

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  • Created by John Gray, author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.

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  • While women aren't really from Venus, nor men from Mars, it can sometimes seem that the two sexes are worlds apart in what they consider to be a "sweet idea."

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  • For example, does your Mars trine Venus?

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  • To clarify even further, if you happen to be an Aries, but have Venus, Mars or both in Pisces, this aspect will greatly affect you.

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  • Venus in a horoscope chart deals with how you convey love and influences what you consider beautiful.

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  • In fact, when one reads her books, what really comes across is her sense of wit and charm (sun conjunct Venus).

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  • Venus in Aries is often flamboyant and intrigued by things that are new and refreshing.

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  • In order to use a moon calendar to your advantage, you should know the location of all the major planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto).

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  • An individual's moon sign, and signs like Mars, Venus and Mercury, alongside factors such as the ascendant, are also very important.

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  • Taurus is governed by the planet Venus which oversees domestic affairs.

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  • An individual with an Aries moon and a Venus in Taurus can expect some conflicts within his character.

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  • Profiles about Sagittarius are typically based solely on the sun sign; they don't take into account the moon sign, nor the Venus and Mars placements.

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  • However, other important planets such as the moon, Mars, Mercury and Venus can exercise a vast influence over a person's natal chart.

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  • A chart-dominant Capricorn can do very well with a partner whose chart is dominated by water and perhaps features a Venus and Moon in Cancer.

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  • Cancer is governed by the moon, but its domestic nature really emphasizes the home and love-oriented capacity of Venus.

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  • A Venus and moon in Cancer helps display some dominant Cancer characteristics.

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  • The attraction to the water signs might be further exasperated if you have many planets located in that that house, like Venus or Mars, that are also in water signs.

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  • The planets that astrologers turn to for romantic matters are Venus and Mars; Mars rules energy, particularly sexual energy, and Venus rules romantic likes and dislikes.

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  • For example, if Venus is in Aries for the man, he would like strong, courageous women, while if the Venus sign is in Cancer, he may prefer a woman who enjoys the more domestic side of life.

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  • Once you have that, take a look at whether or not your Venus sign makes aspects to other planets in your chart.

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  • If there are no Venus aspects, use the aspect your sun makes to the other planets.

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  • Each person's Venus falls within a specific zodiac house, and wherever Venus falls, things feel easier or come more naturally to you.

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  • For example, if your Venus falls in your eleventh house, there's a very good chance that you'll find love with a friend.

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  • If your Venus falls in your seventh house, partnerships of all kinds will prove particularly beneficial.

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  • However, note that if you have other planets in the same house that Venus in is, you'll need to engage those planets as well.

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  • Men who are looking for love should look to the sign in which their Venus falls.

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  • His sensual nature is best matched with that of the air sign Libra who, like Taurus, is also ruled by Venus, the goddess of love.

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  • When you have Venus, the Goddess of Love, as your ruling planet, you don't stand a chance of avoiding the inevitable - love.

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  • You may run into an occasional Taurean who denies how important love is to him, but it's rare to find a cynical love child of Venus.

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  • Virgo's potential as a lover is primarily channeled through the moon and planet Venus.

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  • So when you approach romantic compatibility from an astrological perspective, you will want to ensure that the individual you are examining is a chart-dominant Virgo with at least a moon or Venus in this sign.

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  • If Taurus or Scorpio rests in several of the major planets such as the sun, moon, Mars and Venus, this can make for a fairly dominant chart.

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  • In fact, the emotional responses to life are found mostly under the moon sign, whereas an individual's domestic nature is marked by the placement of Venus.

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  • A person with a moon and Venus in Aries can be expected to manifest many of the aforementioned behaviors regardless of his sun sign.

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  • Taurus is a lucky woman indeed as she can thank her ruler, Venus, for her good looks and considerable charm.

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  • Venus rules both Taurus and Libra, and in Libra, Venus bestows quite a sociable personality.

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  • If your Venus, moon, Mars, and Mercury fall into a water element, not only will your personality exhibit some conflicts, but your ideal partner will need to possess and energy that can match the large ratio of water in your chart.

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  • The planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, respectively.

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  • You cannot do a project that requires you to observe a Venus Fly Trap if you can't get your hands on one!

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  • When you order your venus fly trap make sure that you follow instructions regarding how to care for it.

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  • Gold, the most perfect metal, had the symbol of the Sun, 0; silver, the semiperfect metal, had the symbol of the Moon, 0j; copper, iron and antimony, the imperfect metals of the gold class, had the symbols of Venus Mars and the Earth tin and lead, the imperfect metals of the silver class, had the symbols of Jupiter 94, and Saturn h; while mercury, the imperfect metal of both the gold and silver class, had the symbol of the planet,.

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  • Up to about the middle of the 19th century it was supposed that transits of Venus across the disk of the sun afforded the most trustworthy method of making the determination in question; and when Encke in 1824 published his classic discussion of the transits of 1761 and 1769, it was supposed that we must wait until the transits of 1874 and 1882 had been observed and discussed before any further light would be thrown on the subject.

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  • His university training was supplemented (1714) by a continental tour, untrammelled by a governor; at the Hague his ambition for the applause awarded to adventure made a gamester of him, and at Paris he began, from the same motive, that worship of the conventional Venus, the serious inculcation of which has earned for him the largest and most unenviable part of his reputation.

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  • The city was famous for the temple of Venus Erycina, to the foundations of which a wall of 12 courses of masonry in the castle probably belongs.

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  • Saturn for lead, Venus for copper, and Mars for iron, and the belief that the colours of flowers ' The Egyptians believed that the medicinal virtues of plants were due to the spirits who dwelt within them.

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  • Originally a nature goddess (like Venus the garden goddess, with whom she was sometimes identified), she represented at first the hope of fruitful gardens and fields, then of abundant offspring, and lastly of prosperity to come and good fortune in general, being hence invoked on birthdays and at weddings.

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  • Thus in 1857 he went to Peru in order to determine the magnetic equator; in1861-1862and 1864, he studied telluric absorption in the solar spectrum in Italy and Switzerland; in 1867 he carried out optical and magnetic experiments at the Azores; he successfully observed both transits of Venus, that of 1874 in Japan, that of 1882 at Oran in Algeria; and he took part in a long series of solar eclipse-expeditions, e.g.

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  • Transits of Venus and observations of Deterrnina- various kinds on Mars are all to be included in this tion.

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  • Amongst the finest of his classical pictures were - "Syracusan Bride leading Wild Beasts in Procession to the Temple of Diana" (1866), "Venus disrobing for the Bath" (1867), "Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon," and "Helios and Rhodos" (1869), "Hercules wrestling with Death for the Body of Alcestis" (1871), "Clytemnestra" (1874), "The Daphnephoria" (1876), "Nausicaa" (1878), "An Idyll" (1881), two lovers under a spreading oak listening to the piping of a shepherd and gazing on the rich plain below; "Phryne" (1882), a nude figure standing in the sun; "Cymon and Iphigenia" (1884), "Captive Andromache" (1888), now in the Manchester Art Gallery; with the "Last Watch of Hero" (1887), "The Bath of Psyche" (1890), now in the Chantrey Bequest collection; "The Garden of the Hesperides" (1892), "Perseus and Andromeda" and "The Return of Persephone," now in the Leeds Gallery (1891); and "Clytie," his last work (1896).

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  • Such figurines are in a sense the prototypes of the Venus of Medici.

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