It was originally published in three volumes of two or three books each – Quicksilver ( 2003 ), The Confusion ( 2004 ) and The System of the World ( 2004 ) – but was subsequently republished as eight separate books: Quicksilver, King of the Vagabonds, Odalisque, Bonanza, Juncto, Solomon's Gold, Currency, and System of the World.

The company was bought by Broadvision in 2000, which renamed its authoring products " Quicksilver.

" The availability of Quicksilver 3. 0 was announced in March 2007.

The key element of Fortitude South was Operation Quicksilver.

The mercury market was not as vigorous, however, as it was in the years when the New Almaden Quicksilver Mine was a major industry in San Jose ; the most visible result of the Farm Hill discovery today is a street named Silver Hill.

As an example, before D-Day, Operation Quicksilver, one element of Operation Fortitude, which itself was part of a larger deception strategy ( Operation Bodyguard ), created a fictional " First United States Army Group " ( FUSAG ) commanded by General George Patton that supposedly would invade France at the Pas-de-Calais.

Though not as commercially successful as contemporaries Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead, Quicksilver was integral to the beginnings of their genre.

Whether Quicksilver Messenger Service was what Valenti had in mind, it appears from Duncan's recollections that he had at least talked with Cipollina about forming a band ; Cipollina remembered that:

Capitol was the only company that had missed out on signing a San Francisco “ hippie ” band during the first flurry of record company interest and, consequently, Quicksilver Messenger Service was able to negotiate a better deal than many of their peers.

He was replaced by Mark Ryan ( bass ) and the group added Mark Naftalin ( later replaced in 1972 by " Chuck Steaks ") on keyboards, and this lineup recorded two more albums, Quicksilver ( Nov. 1971 ) and Comin ' Thru ( Apr.

In 2002, there was a Quicksilver tribute band formed called Quicksilver Gold.

While living in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1970s, Link was introduced to Quicksilver Messenger Service guitarist John Cipollina by bassist James Hutchinson.

Barry " The Fish " Melton was later a founding member of The Dinosaurs and has recently released new recordings of that band whose members included Peter Albin from Big Brother and The Holding Company and John Cipollina from Quicksilver Messenger Service and Copperhead.

Initially in 2004, the car was offered in several colors: Barbados Blue Metallic, Cosmos Purple Metallic, Quicksilver Metallic, Phantom Black Metallic, Impulse Blue Metallic, Torrid Red, and Yellow Jacket.

The options floor can be seen as it was in the mid-eighties in the 1986 film Quicksilver.

* Operation Quicksilver ( WWII ), a World War II plan by the Allies that was a sub-plan of Operation Fortitude

* Saint George was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915, renamed Quicksilver in 1907.

In Neal Stephenson's historical fiction novel Quicksilver one of the book's chief figures, Puritan Daniel Waterhouse, appears before an illegally reconstituted Star Chamber tribunal.

On January 14, alongside The Grateful Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane headlined the now-legendary " Human Be-In ", the famous all-day ' happening ' staged in Golden Gate Park, one of the key events leading up to the " Summer of Love ".

Though they were not part of the team as featured in the animated series, the following X-Men have all guest-starred in at least one episode: Colossus, Nightcrawler, Emma Frost, Forge, Havok, Polaris, Cannonball, Banshee, Northstar, Iceman, Archangel, Longshot, Dazzler, Sunfire, Quicksilver, Psylocke, Cable, and Bishop.

In Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver a story of d ' Artagnan's death is related by one of the characters, Half-Cocked Jack.

Also, the title Quicksilver connects the book to the method alchemists used to distill quicksilver, " the pure living essence of God's power and presence in the world ", from, as one character put it, " the base, dark, cold, essentially fecal matter of which the world was made.

From the foreign press, the review in the Frankfurter Allgemeiner points out the historical period of Quicksilver is one of the birth of science which corresponds with a period of language shift as English became the language of science.

During one mission Quicksilver is wounded by a Sentinel and in the title Fantastic Four is found by Crystal, a member of the Inhumans.

When the zombies from Earth-2149 cross over into Earth-Z, Quicksilver is transformed into a zombie, and in Marvel Zombies Return # 5 is one of the few remaining zombies left who fought against Spider-Man and his New Avengers, attempting to steal a canister containing the ' cure ' that Spider-Man had developed, only for the wall-crawler to accidentally pull Quicksilver's head off when trying to catch him with his webbing.

Andrew Leonard contrasted The Confusion with Quicksilver saying " If one could argue that " Quicksilver " was about the birth of the scientific method and the application of Reason to unlocking the mysteries of existence, then one could also say " The Confusion " is about money.

Jack Shaftoe ( also known, at various points, as King of the Vagabonds, L ' Emmerdeur, Half-Cocked Jack, Quicksilver, Ali Zaybak, Sword of Divine Fire, and Jack the Coiner ) is one of the three primary fictional characters in Neal Stephenson's 2, 686-page, Clarke Award-winning epic trilogy, The Baroque Cycle.

The Elroy PCI adapters have been replaced with Mercury PCI-X adapters and one Quicksilver AGP 8x adapter.

Ladd plays many Deep cuts both from mainstream artists, as well as artists from forgotten eras that no one else plays, such as Tommy Bolin, Quicksilver Messenger Service & Fairport Convention.

Vance becomes one of the teaching staff of " Avengers Academy ", alongside former Avengers teammates Hank Pym, Tigra, Quicksilver and former New Warriors teammate Speedball.

It was revealed that Astra was the one who created the mutated clone versions of Blob, Mastermind, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, and Toad to make up Joseph's incarnation of the Brotherhood of Mutants.

When Layla Miller revealed what truly happened to Callisto and Marrow, Rictor used his powers to expel the Terrigen crystals from Quicksilver's body ( except for one, which Quicksilver kept ) at the cost of his powers.

Rictor confronts Quicksilver again, ending up with Rictor apparently depowered one more time and the mutagenic Terrigen Crystals in Quicksilver's body destroyed.

At one point, Quicksilver and the Thing witnessed what appeared to be Lockjaw, apparently a sentient being once mutated by Terrigen Mists, speaking to them.

At the time the mine was explored by Becker in 1887, the Sulphur Bank Quicksilver Mining Company had gone into bankruptcy after a decade of being one of the highest producing mines in California.

Initially four locomotives were built, all with the word ' silver ' as part of their names, the first being 2509 Silver Link ; the others being 2510 Quicksilver, 2511 Silver King and 2512 Silver Fox.

Particularly prominent products of the scene were The Grateful Dead ( who had effectively become the house band of the Acid Tests ), Country Joe and the Fish, The Great Society, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Charlatans, Moby Grape, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Airplane.

His key followers, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, were Roma ( gypsies ).

Additionally, two more original shows were added in June 1994: Free 4 All and Quicksilver.

They were to open for Van Morrison and Quicksilver Messenger Service at the Fillmore East in New York City, on 3 and 4 April 1970.

They were billed with such groups as Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Moby Grape, Blue Cheer, Led Zeppelin, and Iron Butterfly.

Some of the bands that performed in this manner were Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Country Joe and the Fish, Moby Grape and Jimi Hendrix.

Spraymate were the club's first shirt sponsor, and have since been followed by an array of local and national companies: Lynfox, Howlett, Fujitsu, Beaumont Stainless Steels, Premier Travel, C and R Windows, Quicksilver ( couriers ), Capital Sports, The Global Group, Haart, Global Self Drive, and in 2009 – 10 Greene King IPA.

Higher up the range, electric windows, central locking ( standard on the Quicksilver / XR models ) manual pop-up sunroof ( electric sunroof was a very rare extra ), radio-cassette or radio-CD and rear wash-wipe were available.

Yan detachable lifts were subject to a series of accidents, most notably the Quicksilver lift at Whistler Mountain in British Columbia, Canada.

The original terminals on the Quicksilver Quad were all completely enclosed, but in 1985, in time for the Vail Ski Resort high speed quads, the terminal design changed to what is now classified as a CLD-260 terminal.

Obvious sources were The Velvet Underground ( the Dream Syndicate could be called early VU revivalists ) and Television, but echoes of the Quicksilver Messenger Service and Creedence Clearwater Revival could also be discerned.

Paul Boutin at Slate Magazine comments that Quicksilver offers an insight into how advanced and complicated science was during the age of " alchemists and microscope-makers "; and that the scientists of the period were " the forerunners of the biotech and nanotech researchers who are today's IT Geeks ".

Quicksilver features with the Inhumans and Fantastic Four against the villain the Sphinx in a Fantastic Four annual, and the siblings ' origin is explored in the title Avengers when gypsy Django Maximoff kidnaps Pietro and Wanda and returns to Mount Wundagore in the country of Transia, where they were born.

Quicksilver loses the respect of his daughter Luna when he lies to the Inhumans and claims that many of his past actions were actually perpetrated by a Skrull impostor.

Following his sister orders, Quicksilver tried to help the White House, only resulting in the death of many mutants at the hands of Nimrod Model Sentinels, which were controlled by the Reverend Stryker before his death.

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.

Again, like Quicksilver, reviewers of Confusion were impressed by its quality, some noting the greater complexity and others its more action oriented approach.

# Quicksilver I was the basic " story " for Fortitude: the First United States Army Group, based in the southeast of England, was to land in Pas-de-Calais after German reserves were committed to Normandy.

# Quicksilver VI was night lighting to simulate activity at night where dummy landing craft were situated.

As the war escalated and Earth's position became increasingly precarious, the original Avengers ( including Thor, Iron Man and Captain America ) were recalled to active service after a Skrull scouting party ( led by interstellar menace The Super-Skrull ) managed to abduct Marvel, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch.

While Valenti and Duncan were in New York, British keyboardist Nicky Hopkins joined Quicksilver for their third album, Shady Grove ( December 1969 ).