Mercury ( cipher machine ) •

No complete aircraft as in the previous war but 50, 800 radial aero-engines — Bristol Mercury, Hercules and Pegasus — with full sets of parts for a further 9, 500 of these engines ; propeller shafts for Rolls-Royce aero-engines ; 14, 356 gun-turrets for bombers including their Browning machine guns ; 74, 000 Bren guns — bombed-out that production had to be moved to a boot and shoe factory in Burton-on-Trent.

", which became another of the Tubes ' signature songs, satirizes consumerism and celebrity culture and climaxes in a " hard-sell " monologue by Waybill, which name-checks celebrities such as Bob Dylan, Paul Williams and Randolph Mantooth and well-known products of the period including the Dynagym exercise machine and a host of American vehicles including the Winnebago and the Mercury Montclair.

The machine could run the Mercury Autocode simplified coding system, later described by the new term "( high-level ) programming language ".

* In John Munro's A Trip to Venus ( 1897 ), the narrator, an engineer, an astronomer and his daughter travel by a newly-invented flying machine to Venus and Mercury.

The most remarkable of his works are Mercury and Ignorance, the Deluge, Pharaoh's Host Drowned in the Red Sea ( after Titian ), the Triumph of Caesar ( after Mantegna ), and Christ retiring from the judgment-seat of Pilate after a relief by Giambologna.

In his Rudolphine Tables ( 1627 ), Johannes Kepler used a prototype of year zero which he labeled Christi ( Christ ) between years labeled Ante Christum ( Before Christ ) and Post Christum ( After Christ ) on the mean motion tables for the Sun, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury.

* Bach ( crater ), located on the planet Mercury

The five major planets are associated with and even named after the elements: Jupiter 木星 is Wood ( 木 ), Mars 火星 is Fire ( 火 ), Saturn 土星 is Earth ( 土 ), Venus 金星 is Metal ( 金 ), and Mercury 水星 is Water ( 水 ).

They told Columbanus it was intended as a sacrifice to their god Wodan ( Illi aiunt se Deo suo Vodano nomine ), whom they identified with Roman Mercury.

*< cite id = refSitter1927 > W de Sitter ( 1927 ), " On the secular accelerations and the fluctuations of the longitudes of the moon, the sun, Mercury and Venus ", Bull.

Relativistic precession has been observed for all planets that allow for accurate precession measurements ( Mercury, Venus and the Earth ), as well as in binary pulsar systems, where it is larger by five orders of magnitude.

* " Holes " ( song ), by Mercury Rev

On July 14, 2006, San Francisco businessman and real estate investor Clint Reilly filed a lawsuit against Hearst Corp. ( owner of the San Francisco Chronicle ) and MediaNews Group ( owner of the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Marin Independent Journal, Oakland Tribune and all other paid-circulation dailies in the Bay Area ), alleging that the two companies have been conspiring to control advertising rates, a violation of antitrust laws.

Space probes have been placed into orbit around all the five planets known to the ancients: first Mars ( Mariner 9, 1971 ), then Venus ( Venera 9, 1975 ; but landings on Venus and atmospheric probes were performed even earlier ), Jupiter ( Galileo, 1995 ), Saturn ( Cassini / Huygens, 2004 ), and most recently Mercury ( MESSENGER, March 2011 ), and have returned data about these bodies and their natural satellites.

Citizen Kane launched the film careers of the Mercury Players, including Agnes Moorehead ( who played Kane's mother ), Ruth Warrick ( Kane's first wife ), and Ray Collins ( Kane's political opponent ).

The Mercury / Polygram single, co-produced by Kurt, included the collaborative efforts of Stephanie Mills, Whitney Houston, New Edition, El Debarge, James " JT " Taylor, The Fat Boys, Menudo ( Ricky Martin ), Teena Marie and Run DMC.

Prolog gave rise to the programming languages ALF, Fril, Gödel, Mercury, Oz, Ciao, Visual Prolog, XSB, and λProlog, as well as a variety of concurrent logic programming languages ( see Shapiro ( 1989 ) for a survey ), constraint logic programming languages and datalog.

* Mercury ( planet ), the first planet orbiting the Sun

* Mercury ( element ), a metallic element

* Mercury ( mythology ), a Roman god

* Blackburn Mercury, British airplane made in 1911

* Miles Mercury, a British aircraft designed during the Second World War

* Mercury Communications, a British telecommunications firm set up in the 1980s

In 1995, Dummy was awarded the Mercury Music Prize as the best British album of the year, giving trip-hop as a genre its greatest exposure yet.

* February 5 – An observer in Wilmington, North Carolina reports to the Edinburgh newspaper Caledonian Mercury that three ships were seized by British men-of-war on the charge of carrying official documents without stamps.

* Speech Debelle, the British rapper and Mercury Prize winner

Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of the late Freddie Mercury ( lead vocals, piano ), Brian May ( guitar, vocals ), John Deacon ( bass guitar ), and Roger Taylor ( drums, vocals ).

In 1990, Mercury made his final public appearance when he joined the rest of Queen to collect the BRIT Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music.

Holst's original manuscripts for it are now in the holdings of the Royal College of Music (" Mars ", " Venus ", " Saturn ", " Uranus ", " Neptune "), Royal Academy of Music (" Mercury ") and British Library (" Jupiter ", " Saturn ", " Uranus ").

* Freddie Mercury – ( 1946 – 1991 ), British musician, frontman of Queen

An example of this type of name change involved Freddie Mercury of the British rock band Queen, who was born Farrokh Bulsara to Parsi parents ; his name change was partly intended to conceal his heritage.

" We Are the Champions " is a power ballad written by Freddie Mercury and recorded and performed by British rock band Queen for their 1977 album News of the World.

The album was shortlisted for the 1996 Mercury Prize award for best album, and won the band two BRIT Awards for Best British Band and Best British album, as well as yielding the hit singles " Australia ", " Everything Must Go " and " Kevin Carter ".

The first small steam powered cruisers were built for the British Royal Navy with HMS Mercury launched in 1878.

* Charles Gildon becomes editor of The British Mercury.

An engine factory division, PZL WS-1 in Warsaw-Okęcie ( Wytwórnia Silników-Engine Works 1 ), produced mostly licensed versions of British Bristol engines, such as the Bristol Pegasus and the Bristol Mercury.

The 1930s British Short Mayo Composite, in which a smaller floatplane aircraft, the four-engined " Mercury ", was carried aloft on the back of a larger four-engined flying boat named " Maia "; this enabled the Mercury to achieve a greater range than would have been possible had it taken off under its own power.

In 1963, Mercury switched British distribution from EMI to Philips.

In the mid-1980s, it became the first company in the UK to offer an alternative telephone service to British Telecom ( via subsidiary Mercury Communications, merged into C & W in 1997 ).

Part of the privatisation included the granting of a licence for a UK telecommunications network, Mercury Communications Ltd, as a rival to British Telecom.

* 1805-Foundation of The Quebec Mercury ( newspaper ) by Thomas Cary, supporter of the British Tories.

Before starting work on the album, the band toured with Full Cycle DJs Krust and Die ( in fact, their band with Roni Size, Reprazent, won the Mercury Prize in 1997 and thus put the kibosh on a notion to have them produce )-- and by a scattershot approach to production: Tchad Blake ( Soul C's Ruby Vroom, Latin Playboys, Sheryl Crow ) Pat Dillett ( They Might Be Giants, Doveman, Mary J. Blige ), and British drum and bass DJ Optical ( Goldie, Grooverider, Ed Rush.