Only three standard models -- Buick, Chrysler, and Mercury -- had slight year-to-year gains in March sales in the county.

In September 1962, by which time two Project Mercury astronauts had orbited the Earth, Gilruth had moved his organization to rented space in Houston, and construction of the MSC facility was under way, Kennedy visited Rice to reiterate his challenge in a famous speech:

The instrument featured a shape inspired by Mercury, Stratocaster, and Rickenbacker's solidbodies and had a single-coil and a humbucker pickup.

Einstein himself had shown in 1915 how his theory explained the anomalous perihelion advance of the planet Mercury without any arbitrary parameters (" fudge factors ").

For him, the fact that his theory gave a straightforward explanation of the anomalous perihelion shift of the planet Mercury, discovered earlier by Urbain Le Verrier in 1859, was important evidence that he had at last identified the correct form of the gravitational field equations.

Later the staff had two intertwined snakes and sometimes it was crowned with a pair of wings and a ball, but the old form remained in use even when Hermes was associated with Mercury by the Romans.

This clearly shows how NASA use of ICBM boosters for Projects Mercury and Gemini ( blue ) served as a highly visible demonstration of confidence in reliability at a time when failure rates had been substantial.

It succeeded in the first but not the second: in the first Mercury mission on 5 May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space ; however the Soviet Union had put Yuri Gagarin into space one month earlier.

Although the contemporary score, which included pop songs by Freddy Mercury of Queen, Pat Benatar and Jon Anderson of Yes was controversial, the door had been opened for a new approach to presentation of classic " silent " films.

On May 15, 2008, a spokesperson for Mercury Nashville announced that Twain and Lange were separating after Lange allegedly had an affair with Twain's best friend, Marie-Anne Thiébaud.

) The Dolphins still had a powerful running attack, spearheaded by running backs Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick, and Eugene " Mercury " Morris.

Measurements of Mercury's exosphere, which is practically a vacuum, revealed more ions derived from water than scientists had expected .< ref > from the WayBackMachine archive of < nowiki > http :// www. planetary. org / news </ nowiki > for 13 October 2008 ; the MESSENGER selection under PLANETARY NEWS </ ref > All of these observations are consistent with water ice and / or other volatiles being available to hypothetical far future colonists of Mercury.

After his election in 1800, some called him the " Negro President ", with critics like the Mercury and New-England Palladium of Boston stating that Jefferson had the gall to celebrate his election as a victory for democracy when he won " the temple of Liberty on the shoulders of slaves.

Hanger had passed McVeigh's yellow 1977 Mercury Marquis and noticed that it had no license plate.

Also, by the end of the century, unmanned probes had visited the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and various asteroids and comets.

Grissom discovered that he was one of 110 military test pilots whose credentials had earned them an invitation to learn more about the space program in general and Project Mercury in particular.

Captain Grissom then underwent a series of physical and psychological tests and on April 13, 1959, was notified that he had been chosen as one of the seven Mercury astronauts.

In March 1966 he was selected as Senior Pilot ( second seat ) for the first manned Apollo flight, designated AS-204, along with Command Pilot Virgil " Gus " Grissom, who had flown in space on the Mercury 4 Liberty Bell 7 mission and as commander of the Gemini 3 Molly Brown mission, and Pilot Roger Chaffee, who had yet to fly into space.

From the beginning, Mercury had essentially the same aspects as Hermes, wearing winged shoes talaria and a winged petasos, and carrying the caduceus, a herald's staff with two entwined snakes that was Apollo's gift to Hermes.

Mercury is known to the Romans as Mercurius and occasionally in earlier writings as Merqurius, Mirqurios or Mircurios, had a number of epithets representing different aspects or roles, or representing syncretisms with non-Roman deities.

The flood of publicity after the broadcast had two effects: an FCC ban on faux news bulletins within dramatic programming, and sponsorship for The Mercury Theatre on the Air — the former sustaining program became The Campbell Playhouse to sell soup.

Relativistic precession has been observed for all planets that allow for accurate precession measurements ( Mercury, Venus and the Earth ), as well as in binary pulsar systems, where it is larger by five orders of magnitude.

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

On July 14, 2006, San Francisco businessman and real estate investor Clint Reilly filed a lawsuit against Hearst Corp. ( owner of the San Francisco Chronicle ) and MediaNews Group ( owner of the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Marin Independent Journal, Oakland Tribune and all other paid-circulation dailies in the Bay Area ), alleging that the two companies have been conspiring to control advertising rates, a violation of antitrust laws.

Space probes have been placed into orbit around all the five planets known to the ancients: first Mars ( Mariner 9, 1971 ), then Venus ( Venera 9, 1975 ; but landings on Venus and atmospheric probes were performed even earlier ), Jupiter ( Galileo, 1995 ), Saturn ( Cassini / Huygens, 2004 ), and most recently Mercury ( MESSENGER, March 2011 ), and have returned data about these bodies and their natural satellites.

Lugh's name was formerly interpreted as deriving from the Proto-Indo-European root * leuk -, " flashing light ", and he is often surrounded by solar imagery, so from Victorian times he has often been considered a sun god, similar to the Greco-Roman Apollo though historically he is only ever equated with Mercury ( citation ?).

Mission Critical IT, a software company, has also been using Mercury since 2000 to develop enterprise applications

A few space probes have been placed into orbit around other bodies and become artificial satellites to the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the Sun.

( This has been observed in the orbit of Mercury and in binary pulsars ).

He has been quoted as saying, " Apparently, the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad — ideally, naked and purring on the hood of a new car ", he said in a statement, referring to the Mercury Cougar.

Chief astronaut Deke Slayton wrote that he wanted one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts to be the first on the moon and, " Had Gus been alive, as a Mercury astronaut he would have taken the step ... My first choice would have been Gus, which both Chris Kraft and Bob Gilruth seconded.

Mercury, however, fell in love with Larunda and made love to her on the way ; this act has also been interpreted as a rape.

Although Lugus may originally have been a deity of light or the sun ( though this is disputed ), similar to the Roman Apollo, his importance as a god of trade made him more comparable to Mercury, and Apollo was instead equated with the Celtic deity Belenus.

By the end of the 19th century, it was known that its orbit showed slight perturbations that could not be accounted for entirely under Newton's theory, but all searches for another perturbing body ( such as a planet orbiting the Sun even closer than Mercury ) had been fruitless.

* c. 1500 BC: The element Mercury has been discovered in Egyptian tombs dating from this decade.

* The element Mercury has been discovered in Egyptian tombs dating from this decade.

Among others they supplied naval forces to the armament of Scipio Africanus the Younger, a service for which he requited them by restoring them a statue of Mercury which had been carried off by the Carthaginians.

Numerous attempts have been made to restore the film since the 1970s-80s, and music producer Giorgio Moroder released a version with a soundtrack by rock artists such as Freddie Mercury and Adam Ant in 1984.

Hermaphroditus, the two-sexed son of Aphrodite and Hermes ( Venus and Mercury ) had long been a symbol of bisexuality or effeminacy, and was portrayed in Greco-Roman art as a female figure with male genitals.

Mercury was often used in mining, to extract precious metals like gold and silver from their ores.

The most remarkable of his works are Mercury and Ignorance, the Deluge, Pharaoh's Host Drowned in the Red Sea ( after Titian ), the Triumph of Caesar ( after Mantegna ), and Christ retiring from the judgment-seat of Pilate after a relief by Giambologna.

At opposition to or conjunction with the Sun, aberration is 20. 5 ″ while light-time correction varies from 4 ″ for Mercury to 0. 37 ″ for Neptune ( the Sun's light-time correction is less than 0. 03 ″).

The support for DPNSS as BT's own signaling protocol also differentiated BT's private circuit ’ s services from those of its emerging rival Mercury Communications.

Roz Laws from the Sunday Mercury called the plot " shocking and ridiculous " and asked " are we really supposed to believe that Kat won't recognise that the baby looks different?

* The reverse of the United States " Mercury " dime ( minted from 1916 to 1945 ) bears the design of a fasces and an olive branch.

Another, dressed as Mercury, tests for life-signs with a heated " wand "; once confirmed as dead, the body is dragged from the arena.

Remotely guided space probes have flown by all of the planets of the Solar System from Mercury to Neptune, with the New Horizons probe currently en route to fly by the dwarf planet Pluto and the Dawn spacecraft en route to the dwarf planet Ceres.

The eccentricities of the planets known to Kepler vary from 0. 007 ( Venus ) to 0. 2 ( Mercury ).

* Mercury ( automobile ), produced by the Ford Motor Company from 1938 to 2011

* " Mercury ", a song by Kathleen Edwards from Failer

* " Mercury ", a song by Counting Crows from Recovering the Satellites

* " Thin Wild Mercury ", a song by Todd Snider from the album The Devil You Know

* Sailor Mercury, a character from Sailor Moon

* Phoenix Mercury, a Women's National Basketball Association team from Arizona, United States

* Sherborne Mercury, a defunct newspaper from Dorset United Kingdom

* Mercury ( cipher machine ), a British cipher machine from the 1950s

* Mercury dime, a United States dime minted from 1916 through 1945

The project name came from Mercury, a Roman god often seen as a symbol of speed.

A number of Mercury boilerplate spacecraft ( including mockup / prototype / replica spacecraft, made from non-flight materials or lacking production spacecraft systems and / or hardware ) were also made by NASA and McDonnell Aircraft.

During the launch phase of the mission, the Mercury spacecraft and astronaut were protected from launch vehicle failures by the Launch Escape System.

The Mercury spacecraft was designed to be completely controllable from the ground in the event that something impaired the pilot's ability to function.