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Mercer Island WA: Starmont House, 1990.

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" Urban Gothic: The Fiction of Ramsey Campbell ", in Darrell Schweitzer ed., Discovering Modern Horror Fiction, Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, July 1985, pp. 13 – 20.

Rock Island, Mercer, Henderson, Warren, Knox, Henry, and Jo Daviess

Reynolds is a village in Mercer and Rock Island Counties in the U. S. state of Illinois.

Designated keeper in charge of the 8th District Life Saving Station on Mustang Island was John G. Mercer.

Mercer Island in relation to the Greater Seattle Area

Mercer Island is a city in King County, Washington, United States and the name of the island in Lake Washington on which the city sits.

The ZIP code 98040 is unique to Mercer Island.

Residents would summer on Mercer Island, then most similar to the San Juan Islands and the Hamptons.

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 City of Mercer Island was incorporated from East Seattle on 5 July 1960 and composed of all the island less the 70 acre ( 280, 000 m² ) business district.

Just over one month later, 9 August, the Town of Mercer Island was incorporated from that business district.

The two aforementioned municipalities merged as the City of Mercer Island 19 May 1970.

Mercer Island is located at ( 47. 569271 ,-122. 232337 ).

The Mercer Island School District overviews six common schools on the island: three primary schools ( Lakeridge Elementary, Island Park Elementary and West Mercer Elementary ); one Middle school ( Islander Middle School ); one High school ( Mercer Island High School ); one alternative secondary school ( Crest Learning Center ).

Mercer Human Resources Consulting named Bangui as the second worst city out of 221 in their 2010 quality of living survey.

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.

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.

Young Mercer showed a remarkable lack of aptitude for both instruments.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

During the summers, while he was still in school, Mercer worked for his father's firm as a messenger boy.

It is, however, a disarming disguise, or perhaps a shield, for not only has Mercer proved himself to be one of the few great lyricists over the years, but also one who can function remarkably under pressure.

In 1927 his father's business collapsed, and, rather than go bankrupt, Mercer senior turned his firm over to a bank for liquidation.

Some years later the bank handling the Mercer liquidation received a check for $300,000, enough to clear up the debt.

When he remembered that he might have not signed the check, Mercer made out another for the same amount, instructing the bank to destroy the other -- especially if he had happened to have absent-mindedly signed both of them.

When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.

A story, no doubt apocryphal, for Mercer himself denies it, has him sporting a monacle in those Village days.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.

He had yet to meet Harold Arlen, for although they had `` collaborated '' on `` Satan's Li'l Lamb '', Mercer and Harburg had worked from a lead sheet the composer had furnished them.

Mercer has also written both music and lyrics for several songs.

Arlen is one of the few ( possibly the only ) composer Mercer has been able to work with so closely, for they held their meetings in Arlen's study.

Mercer stammered, not knowing what B'dikkat meant, and the two-nosed man answered for him, `` I think he has a nice baby head, but it isn't big enough for you to take yet ''.

Glieber is one of the original voices of the Cowboys Radio Network, along with Bill Mercer, famous for calling the Ice Bowl of 1967 and both Super Bowl V and VI.

" Mercer emphasized that he was not blaming heavy metal music for Gill's actions and added " It doesn't matter actually what music he liked.

Luanda was ranked the most expensive city to live in for expatriates by Mercer, in 2011, but was surpassed by Tokyo in 2012.

In April 1974, Patti Smith, a member of the Mercer Arts Center crowd and a friend of Hell's, came to CBGB for the first time to see the band perform.

* Asa Shinn Mercer travels from Seattle to the U. S. East Coast and recruits 11 Mercer Girls, potential wives for men on the West Coast.

As stated by the Mercer international surveys for quality of life in cities around the world, Bucharest occupied the 94th place in 2001 and slipped lower, to the 108th place in 2009 and the 107th place in 2010.

His son Mercer Ellington, who had already been handling all administrative aspects of his father's business for several decades, led the band until his own death in 1996.

He and Stewart would listen to records and invite Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael, Dinah Shore, and Nat King Cole over for music, with the latter giving the family piano lessons.