In a televised TV Patrol interview shortly after the Miss Universe 2010 pageant on 23 August, Díaz commented on Miss Philippines contestant Venus Raj becoming 4th runner-up.

Caesar was born into a patrician family, the gens Julia, which claimed descent from Iulus, son of the legendary Trojan prince Aeneas, supposedly the son of the goddess Venus.

* Venus Lacy ( born 1967 ), American former Olympic and professional basketball player

* Venus Ramey ( born 1924 ), Miss America in 1944

* Venus Terzo ( born 1967 ), actress

* Venus Williams ( born 1980 ), professional tennis player

* Mark Venus ( born 1967 ), English football coach and former player

* Michael Venus ( born 1987 ), New Zealand tennis player

* Mary, born Allucquere in a religious commune on Venus, is Heinlein's classic heroine.

Because he was born in space, with one parent from Venus and the other from Earth, he claims Venusian citizenship ; more importantly, Sir Isaac vouches for him.

It is there that the myth of Astarte ( Venus ) and Adonis was born.

Despite the presence in the story of Neptune, Mercury, Venus and other immortals, she does not date from Classical times, was born around 1000, and has a character almost diametrically opposed to that cited for her namesake in the previous paragraph.

Venus pitied the girl's fate, changing her into a myrrh tree, from which was born Adonis.

Simonetta was, not coincidentally, born in the Tuscan seaside town of Portovenere ( the port of Venus ).

Venus Ebony Starr Williams ( born June 17, 1980 ), is an American professional tennis player who is a former World No. 1 and is ranked World No. 41 as of September 24, 2012 in singles.

Mani Ratnam was born as Gopala Ratnam Subramaniam in Madurai, Madras Presidency, the present day Tamil Nadu His father, Ratnam Iyer, was a film producer who worked under the banner of production company, Venus Pictures.

Timothy L. " Tim " Reid ( born December 19, 1944 ) is an American actor, comedian and film director best known for his roles in prime time American television programs, such as Venus Flytrap on WKRP in Cincinnati ( 1978 – 82 ), Marcel " Downtown " Brown on Simon & Simon ( 1983 – 87 ), Ray Campbell on Sister, Sister ( 1994 – 99 ) and William Barnett on That ' 70s Show ( 2004-2006 ).

* John Gray ( U. S. author ) ( born 1951 ), author best known for his book Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

Caelus substituted for Uranus in Latin versions of the myth of Saturn ( Cronus ) castrating his heavenly father, from whose severed genitals, cast upon the sea, the goddess Venus ( Aphrodite ) was born.

The Romanization of the region came with the transfer of 20 000 settlers, was born near Venus, in 291 BC Sunnis are descended from many other ethnic groups: Irpini Caudini Bruzi etc ..

Richard Williams ( born February 16, 1942 ) is an American tennis coach, and the father of Venus and Serena Williams.

They married in 1980 after Venus was born.

Saartjie Baartman-the " Hottentot Venus "-was born around 1789 in the vicinity of the Gamtoos river.

Gennady Komov was born in 2103 and by 2118 had proven himself as a man ( at that time-still a boy ) of action by organizing and nearly succeeding in a flight to Venus, together with his friends, Michael Sidorov, Paul Gnedyh and Alexander Kostylin.

Mark Venus ( born 6 April 1967 in Hartlepool ) is an English football coach and former player.

** Venus Prime 2: Maelstrom ( 1988 )

Other films he scored included Mobile Suit Gundam Movie II: Soldiers of Sorrow ( 1981 ), Mobile Suit Gundam Movie III: Encounters in Space, ( 1982 ), Birth ( Bâsu ) ( 1984 ), Arion ( 1986 ), Robot Carnival ( 1987 ), Totoro ( 1988 ), Crest of the Royal Family and Maison Ikkoku-Apartment Fantasy ( both 1988 ), Venus Wars ( 1989 ), Kiki's Delivery Service ( 1989 ), Porco Rosso ( 1992 ) and Ocean Heaven ( 2010 ).

Giles Smith joined Newell as the only other official member of Cleaners From Venus between 1986 and 1988, and in 1987, Newell returned to performing live under The Cleaners of

Orgasm control is called " slow masturbation " in Alex Comfort's The New Joy of Sex ( 1993 ) and " extended massive orgasm " in Vera and Steve Bodansky's 2000 book of the same name, and is similar to the Venus Butterfly technique used in the volume The One Hour Orgasm ( 1988 ) by Leah and Bob Schwartz.

* Venus and Lucrece by Bardy Thomas from Shakespeare, 27 January-20 February 1988 ( 92 )

The left part of the southern part of the building houses the 4 halls of the Treasure Chamber ( opened in 1988 ) with a collection of the most precious archaeological findings and other objects found in Slovakia, including the prehistoric statute called the Venus of Moravany.

* In Pamela Sargent's Venus series, Venus of Dreams ( 1986 ), Venus of Shadows ( 1988 ), and Child of Venus ( 2001 ), the setting is provided by the terraforming of Venus.

* Paul Preuss ' Venus Prime second book Maëlström ( 1988 ), is set on Venus.

He appeared as the Ghost of Christmas Present in a TV production in the Bill Murray comedy Scrooged in 1988, with his final appearance being in Ted & Venus.

These films show the close relationship between film and the traditional art nude in art in films such as The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1988 ), by Terry Gilliam, where Uma Thurman poses as Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, and Goya in Bordeaux ( 1999 ) by Carlos Saura, where Maribel Verdú poses as Goya's The Naked Maja.

She became popular to the European public as Coco, a sensuous but dangerous seductress in the 1988 German blockbuster Die Venusfalle / The Venus Trap.

* Die Venusfalle aka The Venus Trap ( 1988 )

* Venus of Shadows ( 1988 )

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.