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Neptune Statue in Virginia Beach. The Neptune Festival is an annual festival in Virginia Beach, Virginia. [1] Virginia Beach Chamber of Commerce President and RK Chevrolet founder Richard Kline created the idea in 1973, to celebrate the heritage of the city. The first celebration took place in 1974. [2]
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King Neptune is a large bronze statue located in Virginia Beach, Virginia designed by Paul DiPasquale. It stands at the entrance of Neptune Park on the Virginia Beach Boardwalk at 31st Street, and depicts the mythological god Neptune. [1] The sculpture weighs 12.5 tons [2] and is 34 feet (10 m) [1] [2] tall.
2024 NIT second round schedule, matchups Top left of bracket First round. Seton Hall 75, Saint Joseph's 72 (OT) North Texas 84, LSU 77. Boston College 62, Providence 57. UNLV 84, Princeton 77 ...
The Neptunalia was an obscure archaic two-day festival in honor of Neptune as god of waters, celebrated at Rome in the heat and drought of summer, probably 23 July (Varro, De lingua Latina vi.19). [1] It was one of the dies comitiales, when committees of citizens could vote on civil or criminal matters.
[a] Neptune's south pole is slightly above the bottom of the image. Neptune has been directly explored by one space probe, Voyager 2, in 1989. As of 2024, there are no confirmed future missions to visit the Neptunian system, although a tentative Chinese mission has been planned for launch in 2024. [1]
Neptune was the codename for a version of Microsoft Windows under development in 1999. Based on Windows 2000 , it was originally to replace the Windows 9x series [ 3 ] and was scheduled to be the first home consumer-oriented version of Windows built on Windows NT code.
The line-crossing ceremony is an initiation rite in some English-speaking countries that commemorates a person's first crossing of the Equator. [1] The tradition may have originated with ceremonies when passing headlands, and become a "folly" sanctioned as a boost to morale, [2] or have been created as a test for seasoned sailors to ensure their new shipmates were capable of handling long ...