Venizelos
ELEUTHERIOS, Prime Minister of Greece, after absence from that country and in practical exile from the time of the return of King Constantine in 1921, was summoned back to Greece in 1923 as an adviser in the political troubles which existed during the greater part of that year. His attempts to compose the difference between the rival parties were in the main without success. He was seriously handicapped by illness. He opposed the establishment of a republic.
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Venlo
or VENLOO, a town of the Netherlands, in Limburg, on the Meuse, at the junction of several railways. ilways. In its earlier days it was strongly fortified and was the scene of many sieges and battles, having been at different times in the possession of France, Holland, England, Austria, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Its principal industries are the manufacture of tin, lead, and tobacco, together with brewing and tanning. Pop. about 20,000. VENTILATION. See HEATING and VENTILATION.
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Vent-wire
The wire with which a moulder pierces sand, in order to form passageways for the escape of gases. Large ones should be made fast to a crutch-handle, and the entering end for an inch high increased about 1/16 inch in diameter and pointed. The point then pierces the sand easily, and forms a passage slightly larger than the wire; which follows with little effort, there being comparatively no friction. Smaller wires will enter very freely if the end be simply cut off square across and perceptibly enlarged by a slight jumping. See VENTING.
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Ventilation
a change of air, resulting in a supply of fresh air. The need of ventilating rooms and approved methods are discussed under the article on HEATING AND VENTILATION. We may add here that an average adult person at rest gives off, manufactures, about .6 of a cubic foot of carbonic acid gas per hour. Outside air contains about four parts in 10,000 of this gas. The gas produced by an adult per hour, added to that already in the air, will bring the amount in 3,000 cubic feet of air up to the amount of six parts per 10,000, the limit beyond which we ought not to go. It follows, therefore, that an adult ought to be supplied with 3,000 cubic feet of air per hour or 50 per minute. Children do not vitiate air so rapidly. The amount of air that should be supplied to each person per hour may be stated in cubic feet: Class of Building Cu. feet per person each hour. Hospitals 3,000 to 4,000 High schools 3,000 Grammar schools 2,400 Theaters and assembly halls 1,500 Churches 1,200 Primary schools 2,000
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Ventnor
the principal town on the S. shore of the Isle of of Wight; 11 miles S. by W. of Ryde. Situated amid the finest of the fine scenery of the Undercliff, it has a S. exposure, well sheltered from the N., and so possesses a mild climate, suitable for various classes of invalids. The beach is composed of beautiful yellow shingle; and fossils are found in great quantity in the vicinity. VENTRICLES. See HEART.
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Venue
in law the place where an action is laid. In the United States, the county in which the trial of a particular cause takes place is said to be the venue of that trial. In local actions, as for damages for an actual trespass, or for waste, etc., affecting land, the plaintiff must lay his declaration, or declare his injury to have happened in the very county and place that it really did happen; but in transitory actions, for injuries that might have happened anywhere, as debt, detinue, slander, and the like, the plaintiff may declare in what county he pleases, and then the trial must be had in that county in which the declaration is laid. To lay a venue is to allege or fix a place of trial. To pray a change of venue is to petition that a cause may be tried before another judge or in another place than the one first selected.
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Venus
the most brilliant of the planets. It is the second in order from the sun and, like Mercury, is both an evening and a morning star . Venus flies around the sun in its orbit at a rate of about twenty-two miles a second. It is about four-fifths as heavy as the earth. Being nearer the sun it receives double the light and heat that the earth does. Astronomers say that Venus has an atmosphere, but they are uncertain whether the planet has water in its atmosphere. Venus passed between the earth and sun in 1874 and again in 1882, but the next transit will not occur for a hundred years. Among the ancients this planet was called Hesperus when an evening star, and Phosphor, or Lucifer, when a morning star.
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Venus
the Roman goddess of beauty and love. Venus corresponds to the Greek Aphrodite. Undraped figures of Venus were favorite subjects of classical art. The Venus of Milo, found by a rustic in the Island of Melos, 1820, is preserved in the Louvre, Paris, as one of its chief treasures. The arms are broken off, but figure, drapery, pose, and face are chaste and impressive. The Venus de Medici preserved in a gallery at Florence is equally celebrated as exhibiting perfection of female form. Venus appears in the names of a large number of plants, animals, and shells noted for grace and beauty. Pomona loves the orchard; And Liber loves the vine; And Pales loves the straw-built shed Warm with the breath of Kine; And Venus loves the whispers Of plightful youth and maid, In April's ivory moonlight, Beneath the chestnut shade. --Macaulay.
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Venus
Known to the Greeks as Aphrodite . One of the most celebrated deities of the ancients; the goddess of beauty, and mother of Love. She sprang from the foam of the sea, and was carried to heaven, where all the gods admired her beauty. Jupiter gave her in marriage to Vulcan, but she intrigued with some of the gods. and notably with Mars , their offspring being Hermione , Cupid, and Anteros. She became enamored of Adonis , which caused her to abandon Olympus . Her contest for the golden apple, which she gained against her opponents Juno and Minerva, is a prominent episode in mythology. She had numerous names applied to her, conspicuous among which may be named Anadyomene, under which cognomen she is distinguished in the picture by Apelles representing her as rising from the ocean. She was known under the Grecian name of Aphrodite. Venusia (Venosa). An ancient town of Apulia, south of the river Aufidus, and near Mount Vultur, situated in a romantic country, and memorable as the birthplace of the poet Horace.
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