The difference in ethanol free gas. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. THOMASVILLE, N.C. -- With warmer weather on the way, one Thomasville business owner has a warning before you start to pull out lawn equipment this Spring.
How did Venus get its name? A: The name for the planet Venus comes from the name of the ancient Roman goddess of beauty, fertility and love, which was also Venus. Every planet in the solar system except Earth is named after a Roman deity, but Venus is the only one to be named after a goddess instead of a god. Continue Reading.
Roman name Venus. See The Olympians for more information and another picture; also this picture. Aphrodite was the goddess of love. The Romans called her Venus (hence the famous armless statue known as the Venus de Milo). Aphrodite lived on Mount Olympus with the other supreme deities and was married to the homely craftsman-god, Hephaestus. She was said to have been born from the foam of the sea (hence Botticelli's much-reproduced painting of the goddess floating on a seashell).