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The Venus Flytrap is the most famous of all carnivorous plants. Most early scientists believed the plant to be a myth until there was physical proof. Carnivorous plants occur naturally is swampy, marshy areas. The plant mostly lives in North and South Carolina along the coastal plain. There are ... species of carnivorous plants found in Canada, Russia, South America, Asia and Europe. Venus Flytrap is probably the most unusual plant that people probably know of, because of that the plant is taken from the wild.
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Venus, formerly known as Gossip, is on State Highway 67 some twenty miles east of Cleburne in eastern Johnson County. Though a number of families settled in the area in the late 1850s, a community did not develop there until the late 1880s. At that time J. C. Smyth purchased eighty acres in an abandoned cornfield and laid off town lots. He named the new community Venus in honor of the daughter of a local physician. In 1888 a post office branch opened, and by 1890 Venus had ten residents and was at the junction of the International-Great Northern and the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe railroads. By the mid-1890s Venus was one of the most prosperous towns in Johnson County, reporting thirteen businesses, thirty-one houses, a number of churches, a grade school, and Burnetta College.
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Venus has a variety of surface features, including level ground, mountains, canyons, and valleys. About 65 percent of the surface is covered by flat, smooth plains. On these plains are thousands of volcanoes, ranging from about 0.5 to 150 miles (0.8 to 240 kilometers) in diameter. Six mountainous regions make up about 35 percent of the surface of Venus. One mountain range, called Maxwell, is about 7 miles (11.3 kilometers) high and about 540 miles (870 kilometers) long. It is the highest feature on the planet. In an area called Beta Regio is a canyon that is 0.6 mile (1.0 kilometer) deep.
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Venus Flytrap has a dormant period in the winter. A Venus Flytrap going dormant usually show in growth, and the leaves may slowly turn black and die. The plant will come back in Spring. Dormancy can help a plant to survive bad conditions. In a Venus Flytrap it is because the bugs don't live in the winter and they don't have anything to eat.
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The thick cover of clouds around Venus meant that earlier generations of astronomers using telescopes had little information about conditions on the surface. Some researchers speculated that Venus might be a lush tropical world or an ocean planet drenched by thick rain clouds. Other scientists predicted a dry desert swept by dust storms, or with petroleum seas. The first clues that conditions on Venus might be extremely hot came from microwave observations in 1956. Earth-based radar studies in the 1960s discovered the planet’s slow retrograde rotation. It would take space probes to provide much more detailed information.
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On July 2nd, Venus did a tv show for a local belgian network (Télé Bruxelles, Télé Liège, …). The band played live two songs from their last Lp, ‘Add Star To The Sky’ and ‘The Red Room’, they were joined on that last one by Erwin Vann, one of the guest for the show. The two other great guests were Francoiz Breut and Laetitia Sheriff. While Francoiz played live two titles from her last album with Boris Gronemberger (guitar), with one where Venus joined in, Laetitia did one of her song and then one of Venus’ with them, ‘The Northern Cross’. Part of the program are filmed subjects on the band and their guests. It will be broadcasted during August.
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