While the vast majority of rotary shutters are naturally used on motion-picture cameras ( as well as projectors ), there were some still cameras that employed this type of shutter, notably the Univex Mercury and the Olympus Pen F SLR.

In 1881, he moved to Hobart where he was employed by The Mercury newspaper.

Mercury dissolves many metals, such as gold, silver, and tin, to form amalgams ( an alloy in a soft paste, or liquid form at ambient temperature ).

Impact craters are the dominant landforms on many solid Solar System objects including the Moon, Mercury, Callisto, Ganymede and most small moons and asteroids.

In the " Spotlight On The Suffolk Scene " article, of the Chronicle & Mercury in June 1949, it was noted that a great many houses were category five-derelict, and ready for demolition.

It attracted many well-known patrons, such as Freddie Mercury, Kenny Everett and Rudolph Nureyev.

Mercury has influenced the name of many things in a variety of scientific fields, such as the planet Mercury, and the element mercury.

Because most planets ( except Mercury ), and many small solar system bodies have orbits with small inclinations to the ecliptic, it is convenient to use it as the

In 2009, the Phoenix Mercury became the first professional basketball team to feature advertisements on their uniform when they sold an ad to LifeLock Insurance on the front of their jerseys, leading many people to wonder if ads on NBA uniforms were coming soon.

In fact, many planetariums today have what are called projection orreries, which project onto the dome a Sun with planets ( usually limited to Mercury up to Saturn ) going around it in something close to their correct relative periods.

They had many sons, the four Anemoi (" Winds "): Boreas, Notus, Eurus, and Zephyrus, and the five Astra Planeta (" Wandering Stars ", i. e. planets ): Phainon ( Saturn ), Phaethon ( Jupiter ), Pyroeis ( Mars ), Eosphoros / Hesperos ( Venus ), and Stilbon ( Mercury ).

It should be noted that many engineers involved in this and similar Avro designs were later heavily involved in NASA Projects Mercury Gemini, and Apollo.

Orson Welles's The Mercury Theatre on the Air and The Campbell Playhouse were considered by many critics to be the finest radio drama anthologies ever presented.

For example, to memorialize Queen lead-singer Freddie Mercury, there were many panels made, two of which were a solid white background with a blue and black guitar, and " Freddy Mercury " written down the sides in black, with the AIDS ribbon above his name ,< ref > Freddy Mercury AIDS quilt panel.

Pound trained his sister's son, James Bradley, and many of their observations were made together, including the opposition of Mars in 1719, and the transit of Mercury on 29 October 1723.

The Virgil I. Gus Grissom Memorial, located just inside of Spring Mill State Park near Mitchell, contains many mementos of Grissom's career, including the space capsule he commanded, " The Molly Brown ", from Gemini 3, and the space suit worn during his Mercury Liberty Bell 7 mission.

I spent many a happy evening in the centre of Peckwater Quadrangle at Christ Church, with a bow and arrow, trying to put an arrow over the Kilcannon building into the Mercury Pond in Tom Quad.

She was married to Jack Pickford and died of accidental self-induced poisoning by Mercury Bichloride at the age of 25 while on vacation in Paris, the first of many fatal Hollywood scandals of the 1920s.

However, despite being regarded by many as highly prestigious, it has been suggested that having an album nominated for or winning the Mercury Prize could be a curse on a career in music.

The symphony has produced many recordings on the Victor, London, Decca, Mercury, RCA, Chandos and DSO labels.

In July 2008, the Sunday Mercury newspaper reported that as many as 40 % of the venues between the Hyatt Hotel and Five Ways had

In July 1937 came the premiere of a seven-part adaptation of Les Misérables, produced, written, and directed by Orson Welles and featuring many of his Mercury Theatre performers — Mercury's first appearance on the air.

At Brussels Rude married the painter Sophie Fremiet, daughter of a Bonapartist compatriot to whom he had many obligations, but gladly availed himself of an opportunity to return to Paris, where in 1827 a statue of the Virgin for St Gervais and a Mercury fastening his Sandals ( now in the Musée du Louvre ) obtained much attention.

In the seventies, the label became part of the PolyGram label group, at this point incorporating the Mercury / EmArcy jazz catalog, which Philips, part owners of PolyGram, had earlier acquired.

Originally known as Concord Jazz, it was established in 1972 as an off-shoot of the Concord Jazz Festival in Concord, California, by festival founder Carl Jefferson, a local automobile dealer and jazz fan who sold his Lincoln Mercury dealership to found " the jazz label I can never find in record stores.

Philips classical, jazz and pop records were marketed by Mercury in the U. S. under the Philips label.

By the mid-1990s, Polygram Classics handled the classical labels ( Philips, Mercury, Decca, DGG ) and Verve Music Group handled the jazz back catalogue ( from Verve, Mercury, etc.

EmArcy Records is a jazz record label founded in 1954 by Mercury Records, and today a European jazz label owned by Universal Music Group.

They are joined by jazz saxophonist Tom Challenger and guest vocalists Gavin Clarke ( UNKLE, Clayhill ) and Mercury Prize nominee Eliza Carthy.

Greetings From Mercury is a Belgian jazz fusion band led by saxophonist Jeroen Van Herzeele.

Heiwa is a 2002 album by jazz fusion band Greetings From Mercury.

Continuance is a 1999 album by jazz fusion band Greetings From Mercury.

The five major planets are associated with and even named after the elements: Jupiter 木星 is Wood ( 木 ), Mars 火星 is Fire ( 火 ), Saturn 土星 is Earth ( 土 ), Venus 金星 is Metal ( 金 ), and Mercury 水星 is Water ( 水 ).

Hobart's major newspaper is The Mercury, which was founded by John Davies in 1854 and has been continually published ever since.

In 1979, aged twenty, Kurtis Blow became the first rapper to be signed by a major label, Mercury, which released " Christmas Rappin '".

Many of the major gods were related to Greek gods ; the primary god worshiped at the time of the arrival of Caesar was Teutates, the Gallic equivalent of Mercury.

Because Mercury was not one of the early deities surviving from the Roman Kingdom, he was not assigned a flamen (" priest "), but he did have a major festival on May 15, the Mercuralia.

The major hit on the album was " Somebody to Love ", a gospel-inspired song in which Mercury, May, and Taylor multi-tracked their voices to create a 100-voice gospel choir.

On August 24, 1987, the five major objects closest to the Earth — the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, and Mars — were within approximately five degrees of one another, the Sun setting first, followed by Mars, Venus, Mercury, and the Moon, in that order, within 20 minutes.

Jarvis Cocker and the band became major figures in the Britpop movement, and were nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 1994 for His ' n ' Hers ; they won the prize in 1996 for Different Class.

In 1992, the band released their major label debut Hit to Death in the Future Head after the recording of which Donahue left the band to concentrate on Mercury Rev.

With a cast that included hall-of-famer Nancy Lieberman, and possible future hall-of-famers Michele Timms of Australia, and Jennifer Gillom, hyper-active star Bridget Pettis, and outspoken coach Cheryl Miller, the Mercury quickly established itself as a major franchise.

In June 2009 the Mercury and WNBA announced a sponsorship agreement with identity theft protection service LifeLock to place that company's logo on their jerseys through the 2011 season, making the Mercury among the first non-soccer franchises in the major leagues of North America to place a company logo on their uniforms.

The band signed to their first major label when they joined the Mercury Records roster and soon recorded the Ska-Core, the Devil, and More EP.

Their growing popularity led to a record deal with the major label Phonogram / Vertigo ( Mercury Records in the US ).

In Paris they signed to Mercury Records, christened " Aphrodite's Child " and released their first single " Rain and Tears ", a reworking of Pachelbel's Canon in D major.

The discontinuation of Merkur began another major transition of the Mercury lineup.

During the mid-2000s, after relative stagnation, the Mercury range was targeted for major updates to attract new ( primarily, younger ) buyers.

On 1 April 1999, Mercury Energy, then the major lines and supply company for Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, was split between lines and supply.

The Crown Victoria shared the Ford Panther platform and major powertrain and suspension components with the Lincoln Town Car and Mercury Grand Marquis.

In the early 1950s, MGM Records was considered one of the " major " record companies ( besides Columbia, RCA, Decca / Coral, Capitol and Mercury ).

On May 6, 1997, the band released their first major studio album, Middle of Nowhere, with Mercury Records.

A long period of inactivity ended in 1994, when the Circle Jerks – along with the Wonderful-era lineup – reunited and signed a major label deal with Mercury Records, a move that had a few business complications: Hetson was still with Bad Religion, who had signed a long-term contract with Atlantic Records, while Schloss had been part of a band contracted to Interscope.

Westly also gained the support of 85 % of the major newspapers that endorsed in the race, including the San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Los Angeles Daily News, LA Weekly, Fresno Bee, and many others.