Virgin cave systems comprise some of the last unexplored regions on Earth and much effort is put into trying to locate and enter them.

On 9 February 2007, Branson announced the setting up of a new Global science and technology prize — The Virgin Earth Challenge — in the belief that history has shown that prizes of this nature encourage technological advancements for the good of mankind.

The panel of judges will be assisted in their deliberations by The Climate Group and Special Advisor to The Virgin Earth Prize Judges, Steve Howard.

Hell on Earth is a controversial heavy metal and industrial rock band whose songs include " Toilet Licking Maggot " and " Raped by the Virgin Mary ".

* Virgin Earth Challenge — competition to find solutions to global warming

In Seventh Doctor Virgin New Adventures novel Blood Heat ( 1993 ), Silurians of an alternate reality have conquered Earth after the Third Doctor was killed in their initial appearance.

* In Doctor Who the 30th century features the decline of the Earth Empire, as seen in the television serial The Mutants and the Virgin New Adventures novel Original Sin.

* Pool of Virgin Earth Alan Sonfist 1975

The Virgin New Adventures, beginning with Love and War refer to the creatures as Earth Reptiles for the most part.

* The Virgin New Adventures novel Blood Heat features an alternate universe where the Doctor died in captivity during the events of this serial and Earth was subsequently conquered by the Silurians.

* The Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer piloted by Steve Fossett for the first solo nonstop and nonrefueled circumnavigation of Earth

Their affair lasted for about a year and he painted her five times in the Chapingo murals, including as " The Earth Enslaved ", " Germination ", and " Virgin Earth "

LauncherOne is an orbital launch vehicle, publicly announced by Virgin Galactic in July 2012, designed to launch " smallsat " payloads of into Earth orbit, with launches projected to begin in 2016.

* Virgin Earth Challenge

* Virgin Earth Challenge

The Seventh Doctor encounters an alternate version of Jo in the Virgin New Adventures novel Blood Heat in an alternate timeline where the Third Doctor was killed and the Silurians have conquered Earth ( Doctor Who and the Silurians ).

The video release Downtime and its novelisation by Marc Platt as part of the Virgin Missing Adventures range, reveals that she struggles to adapt to twentieth century life and eventually returns to the Detsen monastery in Tibet, where she again falls under the influence of the Great Intelligence, now trapped on Earth after the end of The Web of Fear.

The Priest lifts up the Virgin and takes her to the High Altar, seating her upon the summit of the Earth.

* The Earth Empire and the Draconians as featured in this story form the backdrop to several novels in the Virgin New Adventures series, in particular those featuring archaeologist Professor Bernice Summerfield who comes from this period before becoming a companion of the Seventh Doctor.

The Seventh Doctor visited Mars in the Virgin New Adventures novel GodEngine by Craig Hinton, set in the 22nd century just prior to the events of The Dalek Invasion of Earth.

* Planet Earth ( 1978 ), Virgin

Doyle has recently broken another World Physical Fitness Challenge record on the February 16, 2005 at the Virgin Active health Club Great Britain.

NetPlay TV signed production and gaming agreements with Virgin Media Television for an initial period until June 30, 2013, and take over production of Challenge Jackpot, including its website and television channel.

Ftn's schedule featured entertainment and reality programming, and also programming from other Virgin Media Television cable channels, such as Living, Living2, Bravo, Bravo 2, Trouble, and Challenge.

He was co-skipper with Richard Branson on Virgin Atlantic Challenger I and Virgin Atlantic Challenger II in 1985 and 1986 respectively, before founding the Challenge Business to organise the 1992 / 1993 British Steel Challenge in 1989.

* F1 Challenge, a 1995 Sega Saturn game by Virgin Interactive

Shaw presented a live gameshow Bingolotto on Virgin 1 and Challenge every Friday night which Virgin 1 announced was its highest rated Gameshow.

On 17 March 2009, Virgin Media Television indicated it would close Trouble and replace with a version of Living, the closure was blamed on declining viewing figures and it was part of operational review at Virgin Media TV ( which included the sad budget cuts at Challenge TV ) which saw then being sold to BSkyB, Bravo and Virgin 1 ( by then renamed Channel One ) closed later after Virgin sale.

The Virgin Group then became the majority shareholder and in 1999, they reached the Challenge Cup Final, losing to Leeds Rhinos in what proved to be the last rugby league game ever to be played at the old Wembley Stadium.

Division six will be headed by the Coast Guard, followed by the reserve forces of all services, five states, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the trust territories and the Canal Zone.

Virgin Oceanic, sponsored by Richard Branson's Virgin Group, designed by Graham Hawkes, and piloted by Chris Welsh, for which the solo pilot will take 140 minutes to reach the seabed ; and

BIZVI's proprietary technologies and already running platforms in the Virgin Islands like Career. VI will be used to provide support to the YouthNet program.

Often the subjects on the two panels will be a matched set, such as Christ and the Theotokos, or the Annunciation ( with the Archangel Gabriel on one side and the Virgin Mary on the other ), or Saints Peter and Paul.

However, Virgin Galactic is planning to build a spaceplane called SpaceShipThree, which will offer this service in the future.

The widespread belief that the cathedral was also the site of a pre-Christian druidical sect who worshipped a ' Virgin who will give birth ' is purely a late-medieval invention.

The work, which depicts the Virgin Mary being taught to read, will be restored by conservators at Yale.

On 25 September 2004, Branson announced the signing of a deal under which a new space tourism company, Virgin Galactic, will license the technology behind Spaceship One — funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and designed by legendary American aeronautical engineer and visionary Burt Rutan — to take paying passengers into suborbital space.

Virgin will initially lease Airbus A319s for three daily flights between the airports, providing a link for international passengers flying to London.

On this feast day, people will pin money on a Blessed Virgin Mary statue as a symbol of prosperity.

However, following a public outcry, Virgin Australia has announced that it will review its policy.

Chapter Three quotes the angel ’ s message to the Virgin Mary, “ – the Holy Spirit will come over you “-as an indication of the existence of the Holy Spirit and the Trinity.

The deal included a 30-year exclusive branding agreement that will see NTL adopt the Virgin name across its consumer operations as it merges operations with its current Telewest brand.

However with Virgin Group seeking a judicial review, it is unknown if the franchise will pass to First West Coast as originally announced by the Department for Transport on 9 December 2012.

The Allmusic review by Alex Henderson awarded the album 4. 5 stars stating " Those who aren't big dancehall fans may find the hip-hop-influenced CD hard to get into ; those who are heavily into it will find a lot to admire on My Xperience, which contains major dancehall hits like " Living Dangerously " and " Virgin Island.

" By herself, Mary admits that she needs more drugs and hopes that someday she will “ accidentally ” overdose, because she knows that if she did so on purpose, the Virgin would never forgive her.

The Cypriot market will be able to travel to Boston, New York, Newark and Los Angeles on behalf of Virgin, with connecting flights at London Heathrow Airport.

Passengers will fly from Cyprus to London, and then from London to the new American destinations on Virgin.

Virgin will also code-share flights between London and Larnaca on behalf of Cyprus Airways.

For a number of these, one of the images of the Virgin of the Remedies will also “ visit .”

Some sources, including Canon Barthas and Cardinal Ottaviani, said that Lúcia insisted to them it must be released by 1960, saying that, " by that time, it will be more clearly understood ", and, " because the Blessed Virgin wishes it so.