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Voyageurs National Park
Voyageurs National Park is a United States national park in northern Minnesota near the town of International Falls, Minnesota. It was Established in 1975. The park's name commemorates the colorful French Canadian Coureur des bois, fur traders who were the first white people to frequently travel through the area.


Voyeurism
Voyeurism is a practice in which an individual derives sexual pleasure from observing other people. Such people may be engaged in Human sexual behavior, or be nude or in undergarment, or dressed in whatever other way the "voyeur" finds appealing. The word derives from French language verb voir with the -eur suffix that translates as -er in English.


Vulcan
Vulcan, in Roman mythology, is the son Zeus and Juno, husband of Venus , and father of Caeculus. He was god of fire and volcano, and the manufacturer of art, arms, iron, and armor for gods and heroes. Vulcan's analogue in Greek mythology is the god Hephaestus.


Vulcanization
Vulcanization, or curing of rubber, is a chemical process in which individual polymer molecules are linked to other polymer molecules by atomic bridges. The end result is that the springy rubber molecules become cross-linked to a greater or lesser extent. This makes the bulk material harder, much more durable and also more resistant to chemical attack.


Vulgar Latin
Vulgar Latin is a blanket term covering the vernacular dialects of the Latin spoken mostly in the western Roman province of the Roman Empire until those dialects, diverging still further, evolved into the early Romance languages — a distinction usually made around the 9th century.


Vulgate
The Vulgate Bible is an early 5th century version of the Bible in Latin partly revised and partly translated by Jerome on the orders of Pope Damasus I in 382. It takes its name from the phrase versio vulgata, i.e., "the translation made public", and was written in a common 4th century style of literary Latin in conscious distinction to the more elegant Cicero Latin.


Vulpes
Vulpes is a genus of the Canidae family. It includes the true foxes, although there are species in other genera whose common names include the word "fox".


Vulture
Vultures are scavenger birds, feeding mostly on the carcasses of dead animals. Vultures are found in every continent except Antarctica and Oceania. A particular characteristic of many vultures is a bald head , devoid of feathers. This is likely because a feathered head would become spattered with blood and other fluids, and thus be difficult to keep clean.


VULTURE
VULTURE is the name of a fictional international crime cartel in the DC Comics universe. It first appeared in House of Mystery #160 July, created by Jack Miller and Joe Certa.


Vulva
The external Sex organ of the female are collectively known as the vulva. In human beings this consists of the labia majora and labia minora , clitoris, opening of the urethra , and the opening of the vagina.


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