Welcome to the Path of Venus.  For choosing the path of the Goddess of Love… …we salute you and wish you the best of luck on your journey, for the path of righteousness is not always an easy path on which to tread! Continue on the Path of Venus by clicking here.

You are not the first to choose a path… “Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost.” -Durante degli Alighieri, The Divine Comedy (1300-1322) “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.” -Robert Lee Frost, “The Road Not Taken” (1916)  Which path will you choose to follow? The Path of Satan                     The Path of Venus

A Brief History On November 13, 2013, a painting painted by Francis Bacon in 1969 called Three Studies of Lucian Freud sold for an incredible $142.4 million, the most ever paid for a painting.  Bacon was an Irish-born British painter who lived from 1909 to 1992.  The painting depicts three poses of his friend and artistic rival Lucian Freud.  Digging Deeper On the same day, an orange, marble-sized, 14.82-carat diamond known simply as “The Orange” was auctioned off by Christie’s in Geneva for $35.5 million, a world record for a diamond of its color, and just a day later, a pink 59.60-carat diamond known as…

A Brief History On November 12, 1944, the Royal Air Force (RAF) used its heavy bomber, the Avro Lancaster, to drop Tall Boy bombs on the last German battleship, the Tirpitz.   This attack was the 26th Allied attempt in a series of attacks over a 4-year period to sink her like her sister ship, the Bismarck.  And with 3 direct hits, over she capsized.  Digging Deeper The Tall Boys were giant 12,000-pound bombs designed by the British weapons designer Barnes Wallis.  They were so big that only Lancasters could lug them to the target.  No U.S. bomber of World War II times was…

A Brief History On November 11, 1911, the Midwest region of the United States experienced one of the weirdest weather days in American history when it was hit by the cold wave “The Great Blue Norther.” Digging Deeper Many cities went through the process of recording their record high temperature for the date only to record their record low for the date later that same day!  Some of those cities and towns even suffered tornadoes and blizzards. Examples of this bizarre temperature fluctuations include: Kansas City, Missouri which had its record high of 76° Fahrenheit (F) in the late morning and a low…