She found this immensely comforting, even though Mercer did not make much sense out of it.

Finally, Mercer did manage to follow B'dikkat to the door of the cabin.

Only the memory of previous hurt, bewilderment and perplexity made him sure that if he did not ask B'dikkat when he, Mercer, was happy, the answer would no longer be available when he needed it.

Millstone was briefly connected to the Pennsylvania Railroad when the Mercer and Somerset Railway was extended to the town in the 1870s and connected via a bridge across the Millstone River to the Pennsylvania Railroad's Millstone and New Brunswick Railroad, but that arrangement did not last into the 1880s.

" Goody Goody " ( written by Matty Malneck and Johnny Mercer and originally performed by Benny Goodman ) was a # 20 pop hit, but did not appear on the R & B chart.

The show did away with Felix's previous supporting cast and introduced many new characters, all of which were performed by voice actor Jack Mercer.

Mercer also did other cartoon voices, including all the voices for a series of Felix the Cat cartoons produced in 1959-1960.

Mercer also did the voices of Wimpy, Poopdeck Pappy, Popeye's nephews, King Little and the bumbling spies, Sneak, Snoop, and Snitch in Fleischer's Gulliver's Travels ( 1939 ), and a number of voices for Fleischer's Mister Bug Goes to Town ( 1941 ).

Snider did, however, win the Sporting News National League Player of the Year Award for 1955, and the Sid Mercer Award, emblematic of his selection by the New York branch of the BBWAA as the National League's best player of 1955.

Lowrance did return to the Sportatorium as ring announcer in September 1990 ( as did Mercer, who filled in for Lowrance on a few cards ), when World Class seceded from the USWA, and appeared occasionally during the 1990s in other Dallas-based promotions such as the Global Wrestling Federation.

The small plane is normally not used for people to float freely and experience weightlessness, however comedian Rick Mercer did so for a segment on his show.

He attended Mercer University, but did not graduate.

To some, the Afro also represented a reconstitutive link to Africa, however some critics have suggested that the Afro hairstyle is not particularly African: In his book Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies, cultural critic Kobena Mercer argued that the contemporary African society of the mid-20th century did not consider either hairstyle to denote any particular " Africanness "; conversely, some Africans felt that these styles signified " First-worldness ".

Prior to Mercer's drafting, Pitino was recorded as saying that he did not envisage Mercer as having the necessary talent to be selected very high.

( Legend has it that a beaten Mercer, with a bayonet still impaled in him, did not want to leave his men and the battle and was given a place to rest on a white oak tree's trunk, while those who remained with him stood their ground.

Their drummer did not show up one night for a gig, so Jerry Mercer was brought in and ended up joining the band.

Mercer generally did not affix a potter's mark to tiles made while he directed the work at MPTW.

After Trent Mercer turned good again because his evil energy was sucked out of the Life Force-extractor by Mesesgog for ruining his lab although it was Zeltrax who did it just to frame Trent since Trent defeated him in a battle earlier.

She auditioned for the role of Tess Mercer on Smallville but did not get the role.

Mercer then went on tours of India and Ceylon without doing anything spectacular, and in 1927 when pitches were almost always soft and wet ( often so much so as to be really easy for batting ) he did not do as well as expected until late in the season.

In this season, he claimed a personal best 145 wickets, but strains in his thigh caused a gradual decline during the early 1930s and Mercer did not even take 50 wickets in 1934.

Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer got to know each other in Waco when they both joined the Antioch Community Church, an evangelical, non-denominational church.

When black abolitionist leader John Mercer Langston urged the governor to enlist African-American soldiers to help the state fill its draft quotas, Tod responded sharply, saying, " Do you not know, Mr. Langston, that this is a white man's government ; that white men are able to defend and protect it?

Two days later in London, Wulfgar converses with his contact at a party, Kenna, who tells Wulfgar that Mercer, who we never see but come to know as the financier of Wulfgar's operations, is withholding money owed to Wulfgar because several children were killed in Wulfgar's latest bombing.

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 ''.

" 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.

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.

In a Talking to Americans segment on the Canadian mock television news show This Hour Has 22 Minutes during the 2000 American election, comedian Rick Mercer posed as a reporter and asked several people ( including then-Texas governor George W. Bush ) what they thought of " Prime Minister Jean Poutine " and his endorsement of Bush for president.

The first permanent settlements in what is now Mercer County were in 1837 when a few families from other parts of Missouri moved to the area.

In 1777, during the American Revolutionary War, the Continental Army under command of George Washington constructed two forts on the Delaware River to block the approach to Philadelphia: Fort Mifflin on the Pennsylvania side and Fort Mercer on the New Jersey side in what is now National Park.

On July 19, 1850, William H. Adams, John Mercer and Philo T. Farnsworth, Mormon pioneers sent by Brigham Young, arrived at the area now known as Pleasant Grove and staked out farms in what is now the southwest corner of the city.

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.

Settlement of what was variously known as Bantatown, Pleasureville, and North Pleasureville begin in 1784 when Dutch Huguenot families moved from Mercer county.

It is not the " facts " about one-self but rather what one believes to be true about one-self ( Sarah Mercer, p. 14 ).

Some place his birth as early as 1706 in Stonington, Connecticut ; others insist that he was born in 1713, and after his parents had moved to Hopewell Township, New Jersey in what was then Hunterdon County ( now part of Mercer County ).

He regards his personal life as private, and says little about it in public beyond acknowledging that he is gay ; in a 2011 interview on CBC Radio One's The Current, he clarified that he doesn't specifically mention his sexuality on Rick Mercer Report because it's just " not what the show is about ".

There is what one might call the " establishment " view, which favors the centrality of the Denny Party ( generally the Denny, Mercer, Terry, and Boren families ), and Henry Yesler.

In an attempt to recoup his tarnished reputation from his defeat at Trenton, Donop volunteered to attempt the capture of Fort Mercer at Red Bank in what is now National Park, New Jersey.

In 1997, Mercer began writing what would eventually become The Shins ' first record.

The Keith Line, as the demarcation is known, ran through the center of what is now Mercer.

On January 11, 1776, Mercer was appointed Colonel to what soon became the 3rd Virginia Regiment of the Virginia Line, and the next day George Weedon was appointed Lieutenant Colonel.

In 1882, the Lake Union and Lumber Company established a sawmill ( the city's largest ) on the south shore of the lake, near what is now the corner of Mercer and Westlake ; Denny bought it in 1884, renaming it the Western Mill.

Organized in 1836, the township was originally part of Mercer County and included portions of what are now Jennings Township in Van Wert County and Spencer Township in Allen County.

After the creation of Auglaize County in 1848, the remaining portions of Salem Township were joined with the northern portions of what was then Wayne Township in Mercer County.

Before the creation of Auglaize County in 1848, Noble Township and the southern part of neighboring Salem Township were part of what was then Wayne Township in Mercer County.

After receiving what she described as a " dramatic " response from members who promised to return to the border armed, Mercer called for the dissolution of the group on March 23 citing her concern of being held responsible should members fail to follow the proper " rules of engagement ".

Battle was taped in a secretly recorded conversation indicating that they had considered killing Deputy Mercer when confronted: “ We was up there blowin it up … We was lightin ’ it up … e looked at it as worship because what our intentions were, to learn to shoot for.