The Newport Mercury exhibited more concern over the possibility of the abolitionists making a martyr of Brown than it did over the development of sympathy for him.

Mercury had been smelted from cinnabar for thousands of years.

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.

At opposition to or conjunction with the Sun, aberration is 20. 5 ″ while light-time correction varies from 4 ″ for Mercury to 0. 37 ″ for Neptune ( the Sun's light-time correction is less than 0. 03 ″).

Other Autocodes were developed for the Titan ( computer ) ( a prototype Atlas 2 ) at Cambridge and the Ferranti Mercury.

The San Jose Mercury News reported that, " Philippe Kahn, who founded the company in 1983 and headed it until 1994, called the deal a ' great fit and synergism for both companies and excellent outcome for employees, customers and shareholders.

With DeMille renowned for his flamboyance and showmanship, Queen frontman Freddie Mercury famously said of his band, " We're the Cecil B. DeMille of rock and roll, always wanting to do things bigger and better ".

The support for DPNSS as BT's own signaling protocol also differentiated BT's private circuit ’ s services from those of its emerging rival Mercury Communications.

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.

Another, dressed as Mercury, tests for life-signs with a heated " wand "; once confirmed as dead, the body is dragged from the arena.

Mercury, vital for the production of silver was scarce, besides the neglect of the officials.

This clearly shows how NASA use of ICBM boosters for Projects Mercury and Gemini ( blue ) served as a highly visible demonstration of confidence in reliability at a time when failure rates had been substantial.

The two-picture deal promised full creative control for the young director below an agreed budget limit, and Welles intention was to feature the Mercury Players in his productions.

We would dismiss it with some portentous words of Sir Kenelm Digby, in his observations on Browne's religio Medici: ' I have much ado to believe what he speaketh confidently ; that he is more beholding to Morpheus for learned and rational as well as pleasing dreams, than to Mercury for smart and facetious conceptions '.

In the " Spotlight On The Suffolk Scene " article, of the Chronicle & Mercury in June 1949, it was noted that a great many houses were category five-derelict, and ready for demolition.

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.

In this story, the coldest place concerned is the dark side of Mercury, which at the time the story was written was thought to be tidally locked with the Sun ( it was found to rotate in a 2: 3 resonance after Niven received payment for the story, but before it was published ).

* Project Mercury, a codename for handheld game console Sega Game Gear

* The Mercury Award, an international airline award for in-flight catering

* Operation Mercury, codename for the German invasion of Crete during World War II

The Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo capsules and the Space Shuttle were also tested in this tunnel complex.

Most of the research effort to date has centered on Earth atmosphere entry configurations ( Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Shuttle ), planetary entry designs ( Viking, Pioneer Venus, Galileo and MSL ), and aerobraking ( AFE ) configurations.

On October 29, 1998, he became the oldest person to fly in space, and the only one to fly in both the Mercury and Space Shuttle programs, when at age 77, he flew on Discovery ( STS-95 ).

He was also known for his extensive coverage of the U. S. space program, from Project Mercury to the Moon landings to the Space Shuttle.

: U. S. Manned Space from Mercury to the Shuttle.

It covered the trivial questions and answers from the Project Mercury era to the Space Shuttle / International Space Station era.

This was the only astronaut group with members that flew on all classes of NASA manned orbital spacecraft of the 20th century — Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and the Space Shuttle.

Maxime A. Faget ( pronounced FAYHgit ) ( August 26, 1921 – October 9, 2004 ), better known as Max Faget, was the designer of the Mercury capsule, and contributed to the later Gemini and Apollo spacecraft as well as the Space Shuttle.

Thiokol also produced a variety of liquid and solid rocket motors for the US space program, including deorbit motors for the Mercury and Gemini programs, rocket stages and separation rocket motors for the Apollo program, motors for the Pioneer, Surveyor, Viking, Voyager, and Magellan missions, updated CASTOR boosters for the Delta rocket, and the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster.

* America ( 1985, Mercury )

* 1962-The US launches Mercury MA-6 ( Friendship 7 ) on an Atlas D booster, John Glenn finally puts America in orbit.

For the reverse, Dupré apparently followed one of Jefferson's suggestions, depicting a scene of international commerce portrayed as Mercury ( the god of diplomacy ) in conference with the genius of America ( shown as an Indian chief, similar to some early American copper coins ).

In June 2009 the Mercury and WNBA announced a sponsorship agreement with identity theft protection service LifeLock to place that company's logo on their jerseys through the 2011 season, making the Mercury among the first non-soccer franchises in the major leagues of North America to place a company logo on their uniforms.

For the first time since the 1991 Capri, the Cougar was a Mercury product line that had no direct Ford equivalent ( in North America ).

Unfortunately this was of limited usefulness, and the Mercury had to be returned from America by ship.

Along with its rebadged Mercury and Lincoln variants, the Crown Victoria was the final full-frame rear-wheel-drive passenger sedan produced in North America.

Intended as a world car, it replaced the Ford Sierra in Europe, the Ford Telstar in a large portion of Asia and other markets, while the Ford Contour and Mercury Mystique replaced the Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz in North America.

In 1998, Ford released in Europe a sports car with a coupé bodyshell based upon the Mk II Mondeo called the Ford Cougar ( or Mercury Cougar in North America ).

Mercury contamination may be a problem for populations in northeastern North America.

The NYAC's Mercury Cup series is the premier regional fencing event in North America.

The paper says that the name " Mercury " refers to the importance of the mercury industry during the California Gold Rush, when the city's New Almaden Mines ( now Almaden Quicksilver County Park ) were the largest producer of mercury in North America.

In April 1970, Ford began selling the Capri outside Europe, in North America as the Mercury Capri, South Africa and Australia.

The Familia was also rebranded as the Ford Laser and Ford Meteor in Asia, Oceania, some Latin American countries and, from 1991, as the Ford Escort and Mercury Tracer in North America.

Fleet Air Wing Five aircraft also played an important part in America ’ s early manned space programs in 1965 and 1966, helping to locate Mercury and Gemini capsules after splashdowns.

* Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz Car Club of America

The Mercury Capri was marketed in North America by the Lincoln-Mercury division of the Ford Motor Company.

From the 1991 model year, this car was sold in North America as the Mercury Capri.

* 1984 – 1987 Ford Escort / Mercury Lynx ( North America )

Vertigo later became the European home to various hard rock bands signed to Mercury in North America, such as Bon Jovi, Rush and Kiss.

In 1973, Atlantic stopped distributing Charisma in America ; as a result, in the US Charisma's bands signed to various labels such as Mercury Records ( Van der Graaf Generator ) and Arista Records ( Monty Python ).

Ferman moved to the United States of America and began working on the magazine American Mercury, the primary publication of the Mercury Press, which added Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in 1941.