Later, Pioneer Electronics purchased the majority stake in the format and marketed it as both LaserVision ( format name ) and LaserDisc ( brand name ) in 1980, with some releases unofficially referring to the medium as " Laser Videodisc ".

* Pioneer VP-1000 — Pioneer's first consumer player released in America in 1980.

( http :// www. ciclops. org / view_event / 178 / Lightning_Flashing_in_Daylight ) Though three visiting spacecrafts – Pioneer 11 in 1979, Voyager 1 in 1980 and Voyager 2 in 1981, failed to provide any convincing evidence from optical observations, in July of 2012 the Cassini spacecraft detected visible lightning flashes, and electromagnetic sensors aboard the spacecraft detected signatures that are characteristic of lightning.

He sought worldwide success, and in 1980 he signed a contract with the Warner Pioneer record company and moved to the West Coast of the United States.

Initially the missile was fitted with a single 1 Mt, 1. 6 ton warhead, later models could take one warhead or two and from 1980 three MIRV'd 150 kt devices ( Pioneer UTTH ).

Among his hundreds of publications were such major books as Franklin and Newton ( 1956 ), The Birth of a New Physics ( 1959 ), The Newtonian Revolution ( 1980 ), Revolution in Science ( 1985 ), Science and the Founding Fathers ( 1995 ), Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer ( 1999 ), and his last book, The Triumph of Numbers ( 2005 ), not to mention two jointly authored contributions, the variorum edition and new English translation of Newton's Principia.

In 1980, at the age of 72, Nolan recorded his last LP album, Bob Nolan: The Sound of a Pioneer.

* American Society of Mechanical Engineers ( November 18, 1980 ), The Pioneer Zephyr ( PDF ).

One of the larger mills in Radcliffe was the Pioneer Mill, built between 1905 and 1906, and which ceased weaving in July 1980 — the last mill in Radcliffe to use cotton.

It was originally released on April 25 1980 by Warner Pioneer.

In 1978, he moved to Minneapolis and started writing for The Saint Paul Pioneer Press as a features reporter ; in 1980, he became a daily columnist.

* The Ukrainian Pioneer ( 1980 ) Niagara Falls: Niagara Falls Art Gallery.

* 1980 – Venus Williams, American tennis player

* Venus Williams ( born 1980 ), professional tennis player

* Wagenvoort, Hendrik, " The Origins of the goddess Venus " ( first published as " De deae Veneris origine ", Mnemnosyne, Series IV, 17, 1964, pp. 47 – 77 ) in Pietas: selected studies in Roman religion, Brill, 1980.

They did however, perform live with their earliest songs such as " Venus " and " Never Marry a Railroad Man " in 1980.

* 1980 " Louise " / " Venus " ( promo )

* 1980 Venus ( Piccadilly )

From Venus orbit insertion to July 1980, periapsis was held between 142 and 253 km ( at 17 degrees north latitude ) to facilitate radar and ionospheric measurements.

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.

Venus and Her Mirror, 1980 ( video-installation )

* The Venus Belt ( 1980 ) takes place in outer space and discusses other settlements in the Gallatin Universe solar system.

By the end of 1980, he was collaborating with Lawrence " Lol " Elliot as The Cleaners From Venus, a band that mostly released their work on cassettes ( see Cassette culture ) outside the traditional music distribution channels.

The Transit of Venus, her third novel, won the 1980 National Book Critics Circle Award.

* The Transit of Venus ( 1980 ), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction

* In L. Neil Smith's The Venus Belt ( 1980 ), part of an alternative history series, an unrestrained capitalist free enterprise culture makes a huge success of colonizing the asteroid belt and decides to blow up and smash to pieces the " utterly useless planet " Venus so as to create a new Asteroid Belt ( hence the book's name ).

They married in 1980 after Venus was born.

It has often been stated during TV commentaries that Ruzici's victory in 1980 at a tournament in Salt Lake City was watched by Richard Williams who was inspired by her triumph and prize money to teach his daughters Venus Williams & Serena Williams to play tennis.

On August 7, 1980 Viking 1 Orbiter was running low on attitude control gas and its orbit was raised from 357 × 33943 km to 320 × 56000 km to prevent impact with Mars and possible contamination until the year 2019.

In its 1980 instruction on children's baptism the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith stated that " with regard to children who die without having received baptism, the Church can only entrust them to the mercy of God, as indeed she does in the funeral rite established for them ," leaving all theories as to their fate, including Limbo, as viable options.

Since 1980, linguists studying children, such as Melissa Bowerman, and psychologists following Jean Piaget, like Elizabeth Bates and Jean Mandler, came to suspect that there may indeed be many learning processes involved in the acquisition process, and that ignoring the role of learning may have been a mistake.

Before 1980, it was very heavily dependent on China and other communist countries for finance and for arms supplies-and indeed for weapons training.

Il canto sospeso has been described as an " everlasting warning " ( Annibaldi 1980 ); indeed, it is a powerful refutation to the apparent claim made in an often-cited, but out-of-context phrase ( cf.

Despite his initial support for Tyndall, Verrall did not follow him into the New National Front and indeed was appointed Deputy Chairman of the NF by Andrew Brons in 1980.

In 1980 it was marketed as " Your system for the 80s ", and indeed that decade proved to be its heyday.

After 1980 it weakened again as a major force inside mainstream churches ; indeed those churches were losing strength.

The court established that Andreotti had indeed had strong ties to the Mafia until 1980, and had used them to further his political career to such an extent as to be considered part of the Mafia itself.

Later he studied indeed in Europe: Piano tuning and building at the Bösendorfer Klavier Fabrik in Vienna ( 1980 – 82 ).

Since 1980, the chert has been examined by the Münster school, and from 1987 Aberdeen University, who confirmed that the chert was indeed produced by a hot spring setting.

The current president of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe lived in Highfield before coming to power in 1980, indeed he is a constituent member of Highfield.

The series attracted a substantial audience for its first few episodes ( indeed, the series was the 29th most-watched program of the 1979 – 80 U. S. television season, according to Nielsen ratings ), but viewership dropped off substantially after that and the series was not renewed for the 1980 – 81 season.

They had a terrible experience at the 1980 World Championships in Dortmund, West Germany ; Yao has said he remembers people in the audience laughing at their inferior skating ( among those people was Irina Rodnina, who later recalled the skating was indeed very funny ).