• Venus on the Half-Shell is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip José Farmer, writing pseudonymously as "Kilgore Trout", a fictional recurring...
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  • Venus on the Half-Shell and Others (ISBN 978-1-59606-128-6) is a collection mostly of science fiction author Philip José Farmer's pseudonymous fictional-author...
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    referenced in the title and cover artwork for Venus on the Half-Shell, a science fiction novel by Philip José Farmer. Andy Warhol reproduced the image in his series...
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  • Bottomless Pit and Other Stories (2007) ISBN 1-59606-128-6 Venus on the Half-Shell and Others (2008) includes novels Venus on the Half-Shell and The Adventure...
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    scallop shell, often found in Venus Anadyomenes, is a symbol of the female vulva. The subject never entirely disappeared in Western art, and revived greatly...
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    The Crouching Venus is a Hellenistic model of Venus surprised at her bath. Venus crouches with her right knee close to the ground, turns her head to the...
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    Venus and Mars (or Mars and Venus) is a panel painting of about 1485 by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli. It shows the Roman gods Venus...
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    Abalone (redirect from Venus ear)
    the family Haliotidae, which contains only one genus Haliotis (which once contained six subgenera). Other common names are ear shells, sea ears, and,...
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    Hard clam (redirect from Venus mercenaria)
    The hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), also known as the round clam, hard-shell (or hard-shelled) clam, or the quahog, is an edible marine bivalve mollusk...
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    adult and supported by a more-than-lifesized scallop shell. The Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli used the type in his The Birth of Venus. Other...
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  • of Venus Anadyomene stands on an opened half-shell, but this black Venus is surrounded by white cherubs and moves across the Middle Passage, urged on by...
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  • The Pseudodon shell DUB1006-fL or Pseudodon DUB1006-fL (540,000-430,000 BP) is a fossil freshwater shell of Pseudodon vondembuschianus trinilensis found...
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    19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus, a name that was later attributed to at least one other woman similarly exhibited. The women were exhibited...
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    Veneridae (redirect from Venus clam)
    The Veneridae or venerids, common name: Venus clams, are a very large family of minute to large, saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs. Over 500 living...
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  • the sewer floods. He has a good enough appetite to eat up the caterpillars and other insects. Venus flytrap – A venus flytrap who eats up anything on...
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    Molluscs in culture (category Biology and culture)
    the Venus shell as Venus dione, for the goddess of love and her mother, and named its parts using overtly sexual descriptors. Culture consists of the...
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  • woman". The album effectively marked a comeback for XTC, who spent half the decade on strike against their former label Virgin Records. Apple Venus was originally...
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  • Kilgore Trout (category Characters in American novels of the 20th century)
    view the character as the author's own alter ego. In an homage to Vonnegut, Kilgore Trout is also the ostensible author of the novel Venus on the Half-Shell...
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  • Mermaids (2003 film) (category Films based on The Little Mermaid)
    forgotten her mermaid heritage. Venus returns the shell, but Betty decides to stay on land because she has a human daughter. The three sisters learn that Mallick...
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    Aphrodite (category Articles having different image on Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretized Roman goddess counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. Aphrodite's major...
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    goddess Venus Genetrix, the founding goddess of the Julian gens. It was dedicated to the goddess on September 26, 46 BCE by Julius Caesar. The forum and temple...
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    studio assistants and by others. In all there are some thirty versions that may date from the 16th century, the nudity of Venus undoubtedly accounting for...
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  • been a T-2 at both the 2003 Shell Houston Open and the 2005 John Deere Classic. His best result in a major is a 65th-place finish at the 1999 U.S. Open....
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    significant market share, with snap-frozen raw Pacific oysters on the half shell, a less perishable and more convenient format for smaller retailers. Selective...
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  • Volcanism (redirect from Volcanism on Earth)
    activity at Venus's highest volcano Maat Mons, in the form of ash flows near the summit and on the northern flank. However, the interpretation of the flows...
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    of the unpublished prize-winning first novel of 20 years before) won him a third Hugo in 1972, for Best Novel. A 1975 novel, Venus on the Half-Shell, created...
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  • know about America's Ninja heroes in a half shell". Anderson Independent-Mail. p. 6A. Archived from the original on February 6, 2023. Retrieved April 21...
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  • and about half as wide across. The shell outline is bent, with one margin usually somewhat incurved, and the other strongly curved outwardly. The shell...
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    tellin Psammotellina capensis (Cape Agulhas to Transkei) Veneridae – Venus shells Heart clam Dosinia lupinus orbignyi (Namibia to Eastern Cape) Dosinia...
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    clear that the sequence relates to a wedding, with a focus on the universal anxiety experienced by a young bride, comforted and supported by Venus, waiting...
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