* The Master Spanker ( 1966 ) by Edward Landon ( Unique Books ), Venus In Bondage ( 1969 ) by Lurene Jones ( N. P. Inc .), and Margo Lee: Diary of a Teenage Sado-Masochist ( 1969 ) by Red Young ( Classic Publications: Los Angeles ) are representative examples of the hundreds of S & M pulp novels produced in the U. S. in the 1960s by Corinth Publications, Taurus Press, Black Cat Books, Gargoyle Press, et al.

* In the Mutant Chronicles game universe, Venus is an important setting, following the pulp era jungle description.

Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.

Galileo announced his discovery that Venus had phases like the Moon in the form " Haec immatura a me iam frustra leguntur-oy " ( Latin: These immature ones have already been read in vain by me-oy ), that is, when rearranged, " Cynthiae figuras aemulatur Mater Amorum " ( Latin: The Mother of Loves Venus imitates the figures of Cynthia the moon ).

A marriage of sorts is arranged between Dido and Aeneas at the instigation of Juno, who was told of the fact that her favorite city would eventually be defeated by the Trojans ' descendants, and Aeneas's mother Venus ( the Roman adaptation of Aphrodite ), who realizes that her son and his company need a temporary reprieve to reinforce themselves for the journey to come.

Amazon preparing for a battle ( Queen Antiop or Armed Venus ), by Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert 1860 ( National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. )

Three of his bronzes grace the grand staircase of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City: Summer ( 1910 – 11 ), Venus Without Arms ( 1920 ), and Kneeling Woman: Monument to Debussy ( 1950 – 55 ).

In his Rudolphine Tables ( 1627 ), Johannes Kepler used a prototype of year zero which he labeled Christi ( Christ ) between years labeled Ante Christum ( Before Christ ) and Post Christum ( After Christ ) on the mean motion tables for the Sun, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury.

* the bronze statue of Venus ( 1558 – 59 ), in the Prado Museum ( Madrid, Spain ).

The five major planets are associated with and even named after the elements: Jupiter 木星 is Wood ( 木 ), Mars 火星 is Fire ( 火 ), Saturn 土星 is Earth ( 土 ), Venus 金星 is Metal ( 金 ), and Mercury 水星 is Water ( 水 ).

* Cleopatra ( crater ), an impact crater on Venus

*< cite id = refSitter1927 > W de Sitter ( 1927 ), " On the secular accelerations and the fluctuations of the longitudes of the moon, the sun, Mercury and Venus ", Bull.

Relativistic precession has been observed for all planets that allow for accurate precession measurements ( Mercury, Venus and the Earth ), as well as in binary pulsar systems, where it is larger by five orders of magnitude.

Space probes have been placed into orbit around all the five planets known to the ancients: first Mars ( Mariner 9, 1971 ), then Venus ( Venera 9, 1975 ; but landings on Venus and atmospheric probes were performed even earlier ), Jupiter ( Galileo, 1995 ), Saturn ( Cassini / Huygens, 2004 ), and most recently Mercury ( MESSENGER, March 2011 ), and have returned data about these bodies and their natural satellites.

During a ball, Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion sang Waltz ni Koi wo Nosete, and the Shitennou were paired with their respective partners, however, this romance was short-lived as Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Mercury, and Sailor Venus were each forced to fight Jadeite, Nephrite, Zoisite and Kunzite respectively.

Venus and the Razorblades were a short-lived New Wave rock band from Los Angeles, put

* 15-Yetunde Price, 30, sister of American tennis players Venus and Serena Williams.

* June 8 – Serena Williams defeats her sister Venus Williams in straight sets to win the 2002 French Open.

The Venera 1 spacecraft was the second of two attempts to launch a probe to Venus, immediately following the launch of its sister ship Venera-1VA, which failed to leave Earth orbit.

Both Lleyton Hewitt and Venus Williams were unsuccessful in their title defences, Hewitt being defeated in the semi-finals by Andre Agassi and Venus being defeated in the final by her younger sister Serena.

She won her 13 Grand Slam doubles titles with her sister Venus Williams and the pair is unbeaten in Grand Slam finals .. Serena Williams is also a two time winner of the WTA Tour Championships

She is of African American heritage and is the youngest of Price's five daughters: half-sisters Yetunde ( 1972 – 2003 ), Lyndrea and Isha Price, and full sister Venus.

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Venus Williams has played against her sister Serena Williams in 23 professional matches since 1998, with Serena winning 13 of the 23 matches.

Williams made her first semifinal of the year at the Bangalore Open in Bangalore, India, where she met sister Serena for the first time since 2005 with Serena winning despite Venus holding a match point in the third set tie break.

The latter win meant that Venus led the head-to-head in career matches with her sister for the first time since 2002.

In professional women's tennis, Venus has played her sister Serena 23 times, accumulating a 10 – 13 record in the series.

In 2003, Venus and Serena Williams's older sister Yetunde Price, 31, was shot dead in Compton, California near the courts on which the sisters once practiced.

In August 2009, Venus Williams became part-owners of the Miami Dolphins with sister Serena Williams.

This made Venus and indeed her sister Serena the first African-American females to obtain ownership in an NFL franchise.

His song " Venus " additionally appeared in season 4 of the TV series Dexter in which John Lithgow's character, Arthur Mitchell, plays it to remember his deceased sister.

Their son, Himerus, having offended Venus, thanks to her " deflowered his sister Cleodice " while he was in a drunken state.

Scott's sister Sarah Beardsley is the publisher of Venus Zine, a women's music, DIY and culture multi-media company.

He buried his sister with the honors of an Augusta, acted as a grieving widower, and had the Roman Senate declare her a Goddess as " Diva Drusilla ", deifying her as a representation of the Roman goddess Venus or Greek goddess Aphrodite.

2003 champion Henin-Hardenne lost to Mary Pierce in the fourth round, while Venus Williams beat her sister, Serena, in the fourth round, before losing to Clijsters in the quarterfinals.

The most successful female players currently playing are Venus Williams and her sister Serena Williams, both with five Wimbledon singles titles.

The Earth is much like its " sister planet " Venus in bulk composition, size and surface gravity, but Mars ' similarities to Earth are more compelling when considering colonization.

Venus Williams was unsuccessful in her title defence, being defeated in the final by her younger sister Serena in the women's final.

Serena Williams defeated her sister Venus to win her second Grand Slam title, her first French Open title and the first of four consecutive Grand Slams in what was called the " Serena Slam ".

In 1990, she also joined the group Hi-Tek 3 who were heard on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie soundtrack.

* Baxter Stockman from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

* Krang from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

* The Rat King from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Joe: A Real American Hero, Inspector Gadget, Muppet Babies, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, DuckTales and Garfield and Friends.

* The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fight future crime in the year 2105 in the animated series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward.

* Raphael ( TMNT ), one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ( TMNT ), often shortened to Ninja Turtles, are a fictional team of four teenage anthropomorphic turtles, who were trained by their anthropomorphic rat sensei in the art of ninjutsu and named after four Renaissance artists.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was created in an American comic book published by Mirage Studios in 1984 in Dover, New Hampshire.

Accompanied by the popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 TV series, and the subsequent action figure line, the TMNT were soon catapulted into pop culture history.

On October 21, 2009 it was announced that cable channel Nickelodeon ( a subsidiary of Viacom ) had purchased all of Mirage's rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles property.

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Ninja appear in many forms of Japanese and Western popular media, including books ( Kōga Ninpōchō ), television ( Ninja Warrior ), movies ( You Only Live Twice, Ninja Assassin, The Last Samurai ), Satire ( REAL Ultimate Power: The Official Ninja Book ) video games ( Tenchu, Shinobi ), anime ( Naruto ), manga ( Basilisk ) and Western comic books ( Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and G. I.

Many NES games use this technique to draw their status bars, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game and Vice: Project Doom for NES use it to scroll background layers at different rates.

** Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time ( 1991 ): The Level " Neon Night Riders " Takes place in 2020.

Much of the episode Return of the Technodrome in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series take place near the Niagara Falls and its hydroelectric plant.

* Most of the Once Upon a Time Machine episode of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series is set in the year 2036.

* " Divide and Conquer " ( Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode )