Her second album, newly released at the start of the series, is called " Venus " and her most popular song is " C ' est La Vie ", which is a Japanese pun: in Japanese, the French phrase and the name of her alter-ego, Sailor V, are pronounced almost identically ( as sērāvī ).

Her father home-schooled Serena and her sister Venus < ref >

Venus and Her Mirror, 1980 ( video-installation )

Her symbols were the lion, the horse, the sphinx, the dove, and a star within a circle indicating the planet Venus.

Her Venere Dormiente ( The Sleeping Venus ), today at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, and her Ester ed Assuero ( Esther and Ahasuerus ) located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, are testimony of her assimilation of the lessons of Venetian luminism.

Her subsequent West End plays included A Damsel in Distress, Happy Families, The Merchant and Venus, Lovers ' Meeting, Line Engaged, Night Must Fall — also acting in the 1937 film version — Flare Path, The Winslow Boy and Watch It Sailor !.

Her AV debut was in the May 2000 Media Station Cosmos Plan release, Venus.

Her name is derived from the appearance on Earth of the planet Venus, the " morning star ," which is why she wears an eight-pointed star ornament on her forehead.

Her most famous work includes the fictional novels Monsieur Vénus / Monsieur Venus ( 1884 ) and La Jongleuse / The Juggler ( 1900, rev.

Venus at Her Mirror: Velázquez and the Art of Nude Painting.

Her best Grand Slam finish was the third round at Wimbledon ( losing to Maria Sharapova 6 – 2, 6 – 4, but she was the only player to break the defending champion's serve before Sharapova's semifinal loss to Venus Williams ).

Her anima form is like a headless Venus of Willendorf with gigantic leather bat wings.

Her name, Chulpan, means " morning star " ( i. e. Venus ) in Tatar.

Her final film performance was the minor role of a prostitute named Lola in Josef von Sternberg's 1932 film Blonde Venus, playing opposite Cary Grant and Marlene Dietrich.

Her final tournament before the French Open was the 2012 Internazionali BNL d ' Italia where she defeated Sara Errani 6 – 3, 7 – 5 to make the third round where she lost to former world number 1 Venus Williams 4 – 6, 3 – 6.

Her biggest achievement came in during the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where she won the silver medal in doubles, partnering Kristie Boogert, losing the final match to Venus and Serena Williams.

The observed intensity of the radio emission of Venus is much higher than the expected thermal intensity, although the spectrum indicated by measurements at wave lengths near 3 cm and 10 cm is like that of a black body at about 600-degrees.

Clockwise from upper left: a self-portrait from Vincent van Gogh, an African Chokwe people | Chokwe statue, detail from the The Birth of Venus ( Botticelli ) | Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli and a Japanese Shisa | Shisa lion

* 1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.

The Birth of Venus ( Botticelli ) | The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1485

This image of a fully mature " Venus rising from the sea " ( Venus Anadyomene ) was one of the iconic representations of Aphrodite, made famous in a much-admired painting by Apelles, now lost, but described in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder.

The Birth of Venus ( Bouguereau ) | The Birth of Venus by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, c. 1879

The Vulcan Presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas is a template for a tapestry made by this factory.

The following year he was put in charge of the Greek games that were staged in honor of the Temple of Venus Genetrix, built by Julius Caesar.

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.

However, the messenger god Mercury was sent by Jupiter and Venus to remind Aeneas of his journey and his purpose, compelling him to leave secretly.

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

* Pictures of the cave where it is believed by Christians that Jesus was buried and from which it is believed he resurrected and a picture of the remains of the walls of the Temple of Venus previously constructed on that site by the Emperor Hadrian

On other planets and moons that experience more-active surface geological processes, such as Earth, Venus, Mars, Europa, Io and Titan, visible impact craters are less common because they become eroded, buried or transformed by tectonics over time.

* Linda Nagy, aka Ellen Troy, who has wetware in her brain, spines in her fingers ( for linking with computers ) and an antenna that lets her shut down machine remotely from the Venus Prime series by Arthur C. Clarke and Paul Preuss

In ‘ Stray Dog Strut ’ the final fight between Spike and Hakim is influenced by Bruce Lee ’ s Game of Death while in ‘ Waltz for Venus ’, Spike ’ s kung fu lesson is eerily similar to a scene from Lee ’ s Enter the Dragon.

Because there are no plate tectonics on Venus, heat is only lost by conduction through the lithosphere.

Although the term " dominatrix " was not used, the classic example in literature of the female dominant-male submissive relationship is portrayed in the 1870 novella Venus in Furs by Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.

* 1962 – NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.

His Venus auf Erden (" Venus on Earth "), a revue-like one-act play was created in 1897 at the Apollo Theater in Friedrichstraß.

* Venus auf Erden ( Berlin 1897 )

English erotic novels from this period include The Lustful Turk ( 1828 ); The Romance of Lust ( 1873 ); The Convent School, or Early Experiences of A Young Flagellant ( 1876 ) by Rosa Coote ; The Mysteries of Verbena House, or, Miss Bellasis Birched for Thieving ( 1882 ) by Etonensis, actually by George Augustus Sala and James Campbell Reddie ; The Autobiography of a Flea ( 1887 ); Venus in India ( 1889 ) by ' Captain Charles Devereaux '; Flossie, a Venus of Fifteen: By one who knew this Charming Goddess and worshipped at her shrine ( 1897 ) and My Lustful Adventures by ' Ramrod '.

The thought of using magnets for propulsion continues to this day and has been dreamed of since at least 1897 when John Munro published his fictional story " A Trip to Venus ".

He first began to sketch warships in his teens, and was notable in the 1890s for illustrating scientific romances by George Griffith and other authors, as well as for his own novels such as To Venus in Five Seconds ( 1897 ) and The Violet Flame ( 1899 ).

* In John Munro's A Trip to Venus ( 1897 ), the narrator, an engineer, an astronomer and his daughter travel by a newly-invented flying machine to Venus and Mercury.

* Fred T. Jane's To Venus in Five Seconds ( 1897 ) is a satire and parody of the popular fiction of its era ; it features Venusian natives that blend the characteristics of elephants and horse-flies.