*" Dark Alliance ", by Gary Webb, San Jose Mercury News, August 1996.

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Lugh's name was formerly interpreted as deriving from the Proto-Indo-European root * leuk -, " flashing light ", and he is often surrounded by solar imagery, so from Victorian times he has often been considered a sun god, similar to the Greco-Roman Apollo though historically he is only ever equated with Mercury ( citation ?).

* " Mercury ", a song by Kathleen Edwards from Failer

* " Mercury, the Winged Messenger ", a movement in Gustav Holst's The Planets

* " Thin Wild Mercury ", a song by Todd Snider from the album The Devil You Know

To the Ancient Greeks, some " stars ", known as planets ( Greek πλανήτης ( planētēs ), meaning " wanderer "), represented various important deities, from which the names of the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were taken.

Work began on the console in under the codename " Project Mercury ", following Sega's policy at the time of codenaming their systems after planets.

After his election in 1800, some called him the " Negro President ", with critics like the Mercury and New-England Palladium of Boston stating that Jefferson had the gall to celebrate his election as a victory for democracy when he won " the temple of Liberty on the shoulders of slaves.

He has been quoted as saying, " Apparently, the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad — ideally, naked and purring on the hood of a new car ", he said in a statement, referring to the Mercury Cougar.

Tacitus also named the German " Mars " as the primary deity, along with the German " Mercury ", associated with the Germanic custom of the disposal of the spoils of war ; as practiced from the 4th century BC to the 6th century AD.

" Mercury and Herse ", scene from The Loves of the Gods by Gian Giacomo Caraglio, showing Mercury ( mythology ) | Mercury, Herse, and Aglaulus, daughter of Cecrops | Aglaulos

In the " interpretatio romana ", Gregory of Tours gave the Germanic gods that Clovis abandoned the names of roughly equivalent Roman gods, such as Jupiter and Mercury.

Mercury himself joined the band shortly thereafter, changed the name of the band to " Queen ", and adopted his familiar stage name.

It was also around this time Freddie changed his surname to " Mercury ", inspired by the line " Mother Mercury, look what they've done to me ," in the song My Fairy King.

The Mercury penned ballad, " Love of My Life ", featured a harp and overdubbed vocal harmonies.

The major hit on the album was " Somebody to Love ", a gospel-inspired song in which Mercury, May, and Taylor multi-tracked their voices to create a 100-voice gospel choir.

Brian May's website also stated that Rodgers would be " featured with " Queen as " Queen + Paul Rodgers ", not replacing Mercury.

" Mars ", " Venus " and " Jupiter " were from 1914, " Saturn ", " Uranus " and " Neptune " from 1915 and " Mercury " from 1916.

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 ").

* " Holes " ( song ), by Mercury Rev

* " Mercury " ( song ), by Bloc Party

Having written the song on guitar and played rhythm on the record, Mercury played rhythm guitar while performing the song live, which was the first time he ever played guitar in concert.

** Barcelona ( Freddie Mercury song ) is a song ( 1987 ) from that album

" has been used in the Beverly Hills, 90210 episode " U4EA ", in this episode the song is being played while Brandon and Emily are dancing at a downtown Los Angeles rave, and in the 2008 commercial by the Ford Motor Company for their Mercury Mariner.

Mercury and fellow band member Brian May later sang the first song of the three-part Wembley event finale, " Is This The World We Created ...?

Morgan Fisher went on to play piano on Queen's ' Hot Space ' tour in 1982, and Brian May, Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor performed backing vocals on the Ian Hunter solo song, " You Nearly Did Me In ".

They also recorded the song for Mercury Records.

Alan also appeared on an episode of Home Improvement, singing his hit song Mercury Blues in 1996, appearing on Tool Time to sing about his 1950 Mercury.

Additionally, he changed the lyrics " Crazy ' bout a Mercury " of the song " Mercury Blues " to " Crazy ' bout a Ford truck " in a TV ad for the Ford F-series.

Mercury Records released it as a single, appearing on 7-inch green vinyl and backed by the original Kiss version of the song.

Queen frontman, Freddie Mercury, sings " My kingdom for a horse " in the song " Lily of the Valley " on the album Sheer Heart Attack ( 1974 ).

Gore was given first shot at recording " A Groovy Kind of Love ", but Shelby Singleton, a producer for Smash Records, a Mercury subsidiary, recommended that she not record a song with the word " groovy " in it.

In the mid-1990s the brand received some free advertising when country music star Alan Jackson scored a hit with a 1993 cover of K. C. Douglas ' " Mercury Blues ", a song which heaped praise on their vehicles.

The earlier live performances of the song had drummer Roger Taylor on lead vocals during the chorus, as opposed to the album version which was sung by Mercury in its entirety.

First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.

Project Mercury was followed by the two-man Project Gemini ( 1962-66 ).

In September 1962, by which time two Project Mercury astronauts had orbited the Earth, Gilruth had moved his organization to rented space in Houston, and construction of the MSC facility was under way, Kennedy visited Rice to reiterate his challenge in a famous speech:

However, the messenger god Mercury was sent by Jupiter and Venus to remind Aeneas of his journey and his purpose, compelling him to leave secretly.

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.

The instrument featured a shape inspired by Mercury, Stratocaster, and Rickenbacker's solidbodies and had a single-coil and a humbucker pickup.

To promote it in the United States, Mercury Records financed a coast-to-coast publicity tour in which Bowie, between January and February 1971, was interviewed by radio stations and the media.

The work De nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae (" About the wedding of Mercury and Philologia ") written by Martianus Capella ( 4th-5th century ) was very influential on the successive medieval encyclopedias.

Celeris was given to Castor by Mercury.

For him, the fact that his theory gave a straightforward explanation of the anomalous perihelion shift of the planet Mercury, discovered earlier by Urbain Le Verrier in 1859, was important evidence that he had at last identified the correct form of the gravitational field equations.

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.

Similarly, Brooks was influenced by 1970s-era rock of Billy Joel, and Bruce Springsteen and the operatic rock of Queen with Freddie Mercury.

Hobart's major newspaper is The Mercury, which was founded by John Davies in 1854 and has been continually published ever since.

Later the staff had two intertwined snakes and sometimes it was crowned with a pair of wings and a ball, but the old form remained in use even when Hermes was associated with Mercury by the Romans.

Mercury was influenced early on by the Indian playback singer Lata Mangeshkar along with western influences such as Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and The Beatles.

Remotely guided space probes have flown by all of the planets of the Solar System from Mercury to Neptune, with the New Horizons probe currently en route to fly by the dwarf planet Pluto and the Dawn spacecraft en route to the dwarf planet Ceres.

He found that each of the five Platonic solids could be uniquely inscribed and circumscribed by spherical orbs ; nesting these solids, each encased in a sphere, within one another would produce six layers, corresponding to the six known planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

In 1979, aged twenty, Kurtis Blow became the first rapper to be signed by a major label, Mercury, which released " Christmas Rappin '".

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.

* Back by Popular Demand ( 1988, Mercury )

* Mercury ( automobile ), produced by the Ford Motor Company from 1938 to 2011