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Some legends state that Virgil, fearing that he would die before he had properly revised the poem, gave instructions to friends ( including the current emperor, Augustus ) that the Aeneid should be burned upon his death, owing to its unfinished state and because he had come to dislike one of the sequences in Book VIII, in which Venus and Vulcan have sexual intercourse, for its nonconformity to Roman moral virtues.
Vulcan created a net out of unbreakable steel so that he could catch Venus, the goddess of beauty, and Mars, the god of war, in the act of making love.
The Baron and Vulcan's wife, the Goddess Venus, attempt a romantic interlude by waltzing in air, but this cuts short the hospitality and Vulcan expels the foursome from his kingdom into the South Seas.
A self-portrait, undated, depicting a boy of about seventeen in broken straw hat, and a painting of Mars, Venus and Vulcan, signed and dated 1754, disclose crudities of execution which do not obscure the decorative intent and documentary value of the works.
The Greek gods were equated with the ancient Roman deities ; Zeus with Jupiter, Hera with Juno, Poseidon with Neptune, Aphrodite with Venus, Ares with Mars, Artemis with Diana, Athena with Minerva, Hermes with Mercury, Hephaestus with Vulcan, Hestia with Vesta, Demeter with Ceres, Hades with Pluto, Tyche with Fortuna, and Pan with Faunus.
In the Sala deilo Scrutinio Tintoretto painted the Capture of Zara from the Hungarians in 1346 amid a Hurricane of Missiles ; in the hail of the senate, Venice, Queen of the Sea ; in the hall of the college, the Espousal of St Catherine to Jesus ; in the Sala dell Anticollegio, four extraordinary masterpieces-Bacchus, with Ariadne crowned by Venus, the Three Graces and Mercury, Minerva discarding Mars, and the Forge of Vulcan which were painted for fifty ducats each, besides materials, towards 1578 ; in the Antichiesetta, St George and St Nicholas, with St Margaret ( the female figure is sometimes termed the princess whom St George rescued from the dragon ), and St Jerome and St Andrew ; in the hall of the great council, nine large compositions, chiefly battle-pieces.
Secondly, within the context of Classical Greek myth ( in which Vulcan constructs ) casts an invisible network in order to ensnare Venus, his wife in flagrante delicto with her lover Mars.
As for that famous network of Vulcan, which inclosed Mars and Venus, and caused that inextinguishable laugh in heaven ; since the gods themselves could not discern it, we shall not pry into it.
' Something similar to Bouillabaisse also appears in Roman mythology: it is the soup that Venus fed to Vulcan.
David Teniers the Elder, Venus ( mythology ) | Venus Visiting Vulcan ( mythology ) | Vulcan ’ s Forge, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
The earliest extant canvas by Floris is the Mars and Venus ensnared by Vulcan in the Berlin Museum ( 1547 ).
* Venus and Cupid with Vulcan ( 1528 ) -
* Venus and Vulcan Resting ( 1621 – 1633 )
A possible solution is discovered in Venus having actually married Vulcan, but Vulcan is her grandfather.
* evolution: the Jupiter Period, the Venus Period, the Vulcan Period.
* Luca Giordano ( 1634 – 1705 ) Venus, Mars and the Forge of Vulcan 1660s
*** Mars and Venus under the net which her husband Vulcan has designed to catch them
The war god Mars argued for his immediate destruction, but Vulcan, lame-legged god of fire and forge, spoke up in his defense, and Venus, Goddess of love agreed with Vulcan.

Vulcan and with
Modern weapons include the Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka and Tunguska-M1, South Korean K30 Biho and K263A1 radar-guided Vulcan, Chinese Type 95 SPAAA, Swedish CV9040 AAV, Polish PZA Loara, American M6 Bradley Linebacker and M1097 Humvee Avenger, Yugoslavian BOV-3, Canadian ADATS, aging German Gepard, Japanese Type 87 SPAAG and similar versions with the British Marksman turret ( which was also adapted for a number of other users ), Italian SIDAM 25 and Otomatic, and versions of the French AMX-13.
Vulcan skirmishes with the X-Men and eventually flees into space.
Its low reliefs depict and label by name several Roman deities such as Jupiter, Vulcan, and Castor and Pollux, along with Gallic deities such as Esus, Smertrios, and Tarvos Trigaranus.
A similar effect is found in VIII. 452, where Virgil describes how the blacksmith sons of Vulcan " take up their arms with great strength one to another " in forging Aeneas ' shield:
| guns = 1 × 20 mm ( 0. 787 in ) M61 Vulcan 6-barreled gatling cannon, with 675 rounds
After the Gatling gun was replaced in service by newer recoil-or gas-operated non-rotating machine guns and automatic cannons, the approach of using multiple rotating barrels fell into disuse for many decades, reappearing after World War II with the development of the M61 Vulcan.
More torpedo boats were constructed, with gradually increasing sizes having reached 800 tons for the V-25 to V-30 craft constructed by Vulcan in Kiel before 1914.
She also has her DNA stolen, along with Charles Tucker's, in order to make the first Vulcan / Human hybrid in the " normal " timeline, who died from complications.
He also has his DNA stolen, along with T ' Pol's, in order to make the first Vulcan / Human hybrid in the " normal " timeline, who died from complications.
In the series ' first episode, Voyagers Chief Medical Officer, along with his Vulcan nurse, were killed, necessitating extended use of the EMH.
Later that year, Vulcan engineer Vorik accidentally triggered Torres ' mating instincts when he initiated a telepathic bond with her while he is experiencing the pon farr.
The passionate, sometimes cantankerous McCoy frequently argues with Kirk's other confidant, science officer Spock, and occasionally is bigoted toward Spock's Vulcan heritage.
The Romulans also act as a counterpoint to the logical Vulcan race, whom they resemble and with whom they share a common ancestry.
The name is an homage to the Tal Shaya, a Vulcan method of execution from the original Star Trek series where the neck is broken with a swift stroke for a quick and merciful death.
In 2154, Romulans conspired with V ' Las, head of the Vulcan High Command, to invade Andoria.
Notably, Ambassador Sarek of Vulcan sat with his Romulan cousins during the conference, indicating a dialogue, or at least a display of goodwill between the two peoples.
Circa stardate 44995. 3 ( December 28, 2367 ), the Vulcan Ambassador Spock was discovered on Romulus, working with an underground movement for the reunification of the divided races.
Twenty quinqueremes, loaded with 1, 000 soldiers, raided the Aegadian Islands west of Sicily and eight ships intended to attack the Vulcan islands, but were blown off-course in a storm towards the Straits of Messina.
In January 1961 a Royal Air Force Vulcan visited the Douglas plant at Santa Monica to make sure the modifications to the aircraft were electrically compatible with the missile.
In Britain compatibility trials with mockups started on the Vulcan.
In keeping with this idea, for its first two seasons Star Trek: Enterprise was the only show to have an entirely Human crew owing to its being set before the formation of the Federation, though the vessel did carry Phlox, a Denobulan serving in a medical exchange program, and T ' Pol, then serving as an observer from the Vulcan High Command.
The episodes with the extra footage that made it to theaters were the original pilot, " The Vulcan Affair ," retitled To Trap a Spy and also from the first season, " The Double Affair " retitled as The Spy with My Face.
The bombers, whose names all started with the letter " V " and which were known collectively as the V-class, were the Vickers Valiant ( first flew 1951, entered service 1955 ), Avro Vulcan ( first flew 1952, in service 1956 ) and Handley Page Victor ( first flew 1952, in service 1958 ).

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