Mercer's first task was to construct a temporary Fort to hold the Forks of the Ohio in case the French were able to execute their plans to return in the Spring of 1759.

Drawing of the time call this temporary fortification " Mercer's Fort ".

Mercer's Fort stood at the site of what is today a parking lot between Point State Park and the Pittsburgh Post Gazette Building.

But Mercer's explanation was simple: `` I made out the check and carried it around a few days unsigned -- in case I lost it ''.

She sang " When October Goes " – lyrics by Johnny Mercer and music by Barry Manilow ( after Mercer's death ) – from Manilow's 1984 album 2: 00 AM Paradise Cafe, and discussed what an excellent musician Manilow was.

The Mercer's Mill Covered Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

He was said to be one of Mercer's most respected, well-liked residents who was always ready to help his fellow townspeople.

Caxton was in London by 1438, when the registers of the Mercers ' Company record his apprenticeship to Robert Large, a wealthy London mercer, or dealer in luxury goods, who served as Master of the Mercer's Company, and Lord Mayor of London in 1439.

However, countering these successes, Carmichael's and Mercer's Broadway score for Walk With Music was unsuccessful.

Mercer's first cartoon was King of the Mardi Gras ( 1935 ).

Mercer's natural voice was relatively high-pitched for a man, and he was able to do some of the female voices as well.

Mercer's first wife was Margie Hines, who provided the voice of Olive Oyl from 1939 to 1944.

Mercer's second in command, Colonel John Haslet, was shot through the head and killed.

On Mercer's death at Princeton, Weedon was promoted to Brigadier General in 1777 and again succeeded him.

The special was a co-production between Island Edge ( Rick Mercer's production company ) and Salter Street Films ( at the time the producer of 22 Minutes ).

In 1970 Groupie Girl was released by American International Pictures and was written by director Derek Ford and Suzanne Mercer based on Mercer's experiences as a groupie.

One of Mercer's trademark comedy routines on 22 Minutes was Talking to Americans, in which he would travel to a major American city or institution and conduct on-the-street interviews with average Americans regarding Canadian politics, the weather, etc., often with hilarious results as the subject's ignorance about Canada was illustrated.

This was Mercer's first book since his bestselling Streeters of 1998, and contained a collection of the best of Mercer's " rants " from the first four seasons of Rick Mercer Report, together with choice moments from interviews for the program and other writings by Mercer.

It is said that the Grocers ' Company used to be first in the order, until Queen Elizabeth I, as Honorary Master of the Mercer's Company, found herself in procession, after her coronation, behind the Grocers ' camel which was emitting unfortunate smells.

Wrangler conceived the idea of a ballet based on Mercer's 1946 musical St. Louis Woman, which was performed by the Dance Theater of Harlem in 2003.

These include Johnny Mercer's and Harold Arlen's " That Ol ' Black Magic ", which was a Top 20 hit in the US in 1958.

On October 17 – 19, 2008, some 2, 000 Revolutionary War reenactors ( www. battleofthehook. com ) will converge on Warner Hall in Gloucester County to commemorate the defeat of Banastre Tarleton and his British Legion by the colorful hussars of the Duc de Lauzun's Legion and Mercer's Select Battalian of Virginia Militia Grenadiers.

Mercer's troops advanced, pushing back the British light troops.

When his men reached the top of the hill and saw Mercer's men fleeing from the British, most of the militia turned around and ran back down the hill.

While leading a vanguard of 350 soldiers, Mercer's brigade encountered two British regiments and a mounted unit.

When he learned of the British attack and saw some of Mercer's men in retreat, Washington himself entered the fray.

Washington rallied Mercer's men and pushed back the British regiments, but Mercer had been left on the field to die with multiple bayonet wounds to his body and blows to his head.

The present-day Mercer's Hall and Chapel, opened in 1958, are built on the site.

He next appeared opposite the seventeen-year-old Joan Leslie in the wartime drama The Sky's the Limit ( 1943 ), where he introduced Arlen and Mercer's " One for My Baby " while dancing on a bar counter in a dark and troubled routine.

This rather detached attitude toward life's encumbrances has seemed to be the dominant trait in Mercer's personality ever since.

Mercer's Whiteman association brought him into contact with Hoagy Carmichael, whose `` Snowball '' Mercer relyriced as `` Lazybones '', in which form it became a hit and marked the real beginning of Mercer's song-writing career.

Mercer's lyrics are characterized by an unerring ear for rhythmic nuances, a puckish sense of humor expressed in language with a colloquial flair.

Though versatile and capable of turning out a ballad lyric with the best of them, Mercer's forte is a highly polished quasi-folk wit.

This time B'dikkat smiled pleasantly at the little head which had grown out of Mercer's thigh -- a sleeping child's head, covered with light hair on top and with dainty eyebrows over the resting eyes.

When B'dikkat cut the head from Mercer's thigh, he felt the knife grinding against the cartilage which held the head to his own body.

Upon Mercer's departure, Verne Lundquist joined the network, and became their play-by-play announcer by 1977, serving eight years in that capacity before handing those chores permanently over to Brad Sham, who joined the network in 1977 as the color analyst and occasional fill-in for Lundquist.

Mick Mercer's 2002 release 21st Century Goth explores the modern state of the goth scene around the world, including South America, Japan, and mainland Asia.

Paul Ellington, Mercer's youngest son and executor of the Duke Ellington estate, kept the Duke Ellington Orchestra going from Mercer's death onwards.

Two widely known measures of livability are the Economist Intelligence Unit's quality-of-life index and Mercer's Quality of Living Reports.

*" Mercer " or " Mercer's Bacterial Disease " is a common misnomer for the acronym MRSA or Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

* Sienna Mercer's My Sister the Vampire series.

The Mercer's Mill Covered Bridge or Mercer's Ford Covered Bridge is a covered bridge that spans the East branch of the Octoraro Creek on the border between Lancaster County and Chester County in Pennsylvania, United States.

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