Mercer Human Resource Consulting issues yearly a global ranking of the world's most livable cities based on 39 key quality-of-life issues.

The city has ranked as the least expensive city to live in for five years running by Mercer Human Resource Consulting.

Dr. Anton Mercer was on the verge of a scientific breakthrough during an experiment involving dinosaur DNA, when he was accidentally transformed into a dinosaur-like creature called Mesogog, an evil mastermind with plans to revert Earth back to the age of dinosaurs and turn the Human race into reptilian creatures like himself.

Mercer HR Consulting consistently rates the city among the top 10 cities with the highest quality of life worldwide — a 2007 survey ranked Munich as 8th.

A Mercer Consulting study indicated that the percentage of employer-sponsored health plans offering disease management programs grew to 58 % in 2003, up from 41 % in 2002.

Value Nets, Breaking the supply chain to unlock hidden profits, David Bovet, Joseph Martha, Mercer Management Consulting, 2000, John Wiley & Sons Inc.

* General Hospital: Jill Farren Phelps, Executive Producer ; Mary O ' Leary, Producer ; Carol Scott, Producer ; Mercer Barrows, Producer ; Michelle Henry, Producer ; Deborah A. Genovese, Coordinating Producer ; Charles Pratt Jr., Consulting Producer ; Robert Guza Jr., Consulting Producer

Its county seat is Celina and is named for Hugh Mercer, an officer in the American Revolutionary War.

The county was created by the 1874-1875 territorial legislature and was named for William Henry Harrison Mercer ( 1884 – 1901 ), an early rancher who settled north of Bismarck in 1869.

The county is named for Continental Army General Hugh Mercer, who died as a result of wounds received at the Battle of Princeton on January 3, 1777.

The county was organized February 14, 1845 and named for General John F. Mercer of the Revolutionary War.

It is named in honor of General John Francis Mercer who fought and died in the American Revolutionary War.

The town of Princeton, named for the battle where General Mercer was killed, was established as the county seat in 1847.

The county is named for General Hugh Mercer.

First visited by the explorer DeSoto in 1537, Cowley County was officially organized as a county, but reserved for the Osage Indians, by the Kansas Legislature in March 1867, originally named Hunter County for Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter ( 1809 – 1887 ), a Virginia Representative and Senator to Congress and Speaker of the House in the twenty-sixth Congress.

Some notable persons either born in or who resided in Columbia County include: Oliver Hardy ( comedian, born in Harlem ), Paul Hamilton Hayne ( poet and author ), Henry Louis Benning ( Confederate general for whom Fort Benning is named ), William Few, Abraham Baldwin, George Walton, George W. Crawford, William H. Crawford ( presidential candidate in 1824 ), Thomas Watson ( populist leader and Georgia senator born in Thomson when it was still in Columbia County ), George McDuffie ( South Carolina governor and senator in the early 19th century ), Jesse Mercer ( a long-time preacher in the county for whom Mercer University is named ).

The fort was named in honor of Brigadier General Hugh Mercer who had died earlier that year at the Battle of Princeton.

Originally called " Sandtown ," Mercerville is named after General Hugh Mercer who died on January 12, 1777 due to wounds incurred at the Battle of Princeton.

The name comes from William Henry Harrison Mercer, a well known rancher in the Missouri River Valley for many years and for whom Mercer County is also named.

He named the town for John Mercer Langston, a black member of the 51st United States Congress from Virginia.

The community was named after physician Brigadier General Hugh Mercer.

Mercer Island, named for the Mercer family of Seattle, was first settled between 1870 and 1880.

In front of the Mercer Chamber of Commerce's information center, there is a, statue named " Claire de Loon.

Lake Washington received its present name in 1854 after Thomas Mercer suggested it be named after George Washington, as the new Washington Territory had been named the year before.

Langston University is named for John Mercer Langston ( 1829 – 1897 ), civil rights pioneer, first African American member of Congress from Virginia, founder of the Howard University Law School, and American consul-general to Haiti.

His second wife, Lillian, was the mother of John H. Mercer.

Annexation was attempted a second time in 1895, when the legislature passed legislation expanding the boundaries of Stark, Billings and Mercer Counties, subject to approval by the counties ' voters.

The 1937 song ( lyrics by Johnny Mercer and music by Richard A. Whiting ) contains in the second verse:

George W Lightfoot, during 1930, requested a bridge between Mercer Island and Seattle ; the Lacey V Murrow Memorial Bridge, second longest floating bridge on Earth, was built and opened during 1940.

The other two are covers – " Courageous Cat " theme from the original Courageous Cat Cartoon series, and a second attempt at " Don't Mess With Cupid ," a song written by Steve Cropper and Eddie Floyd for Otis Redding and first recorded independently for what was later to become the Mercer Street / Blue Rock Sessions.

" In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening ", with lyrics by Johnny Mercer, featured in 1951's Here Comes the Groom, won Carmichael his first Academy Award for Best Original Song, and Mercer his second of four.

In 1775, he was made a Lieutenant Colonel and second in command to Hugh Mercer.

Shortly before Ellington went on his second European tour with his orchestra, from March to May 1939, Ellington announced to his sister Ruth and son Mercer Ellington, that Strayhorn " is staying with us.

In 2007 he published his second book, Rick Mercer Report: The Book.

The second season featured the Barenaked Ladies, Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, John O ' Hurley, Megan Follows, Christopher Plummer, Rick Mercer, Catherine O ' Hara and Don Knotts.

Altogether, sixteen of his songs received Academy Award nominations ; among lyricists, he is second only to Johnny Mercer, who was nominated eighteen times, in number of nominations.

He was the son of Major Lord Charles George Francis Mercer Nairne Petty-Fitzmaurice ( 1874 – 1914 ), second son of the fifth Marquess.

Midway through the second season, CTV moved the series from Tuesday to Monday when American Idol returned on Fox ( which CTV rebroadcasts ), ending up competing with The Rick Mercer Report, on CBC.

Then will be three large dining-rooms extending from the main hall on the second story to the Mercer street wall, the largest of which will accommodate 500 guests.

The second Root-Crosby cantata was Daniel, or the Captivity and Restoration, based on the Old Testament story of Daniel, that was composed in 1853 for Root's choir at the Mercer Street Presbyterian Church in Manhattan.

That role reunited him with actress Marian Mercer, with whom he also worked on the TV series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman ; he played Fernwood's mayor, Merle Jeeter and Marian played his second wife, Wanda Rittenhouse Jeeter.

He has nine grandchildren, seven from his second wife's children, Janice, Mercer, Toni.

Johnny Mercer put lyrics to this theme, and during Raksin's lifetime this was said to be the second most-recorded song in history following Stardust by Hoagy Carmichael and Mitchell Parish.

Both Washington and Mercer served under British General John Forbes during the second attempt to capture Fort Duquesne.

During the 2001 – 02 season, Rose was traded to the Chicago Bulls along with Travis Best, Norman Richardson, and a future second round draft pick in exchange for Brad Miller, Ron Mercer, Ron Artest and Kevin Ollie.

* Marian Mercer, Wanda Rittenhouse Jeeter, a widow of a city commissioner, and a former sanitarium mate of Mary's who became Jeeter's second wife while also carrying on a bisexual relationship with their maid, Lila.

Barred from seeking a second consecutive term by the state constitution, Adair retired to his farm in Mercer County at the expiration of his term as governor.

In 2010, Birmingham was ranked as the 52nd-most livable city in the world and the second most livable in the UK, according to the Mercer Index of worldwide standards of living.