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

Among other incidents, Mercury shows himself to be an expert pickpocket, while Neptune causes chaos in the fish market.

In January 1967, Johnson and Winding were in an all-star line-up ( alongside the likes of Clark Terry, Charlie Shavers and Joe Newman ) backing Sarah Vaughan on her last-ever sessions for Mercury Records, released as the album Sassy Swings Again, with three of the cuts, including Billy Strayhorn's " Take the " A " Train ", being arranged by Johnson himself.

His father, who himself published both prose and verse, owned and edited from 1845 to 1852 the Nottingham Mercury, one of the chief journals in his native town.

1937 also saw a ten minute made-for-TV extract from Richard III, directed by Stephen Thomas, and starring Ernest Milton as Richard and Beatrix Lehm as Lady Anne ( 9 April ); a one-hundred minute abridged version of Orson Welles ' legendary modern dress Mercury Theatre production of Julius Caesar, starring Welles himself as Caesar and George Coulouris as Mark Antony ; and a thirty minute extract from André van Gyseghem's Embassy Theatre production of Cymbeline starring George Woodbridge as Cymbeline and Joyce Bland as Imogen ( 29 November ).

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.

Both the pop-off hatch and the lanyard are standard features of ejection seats used in military aircraft, but in the Mercury design, the pilot still had to exit the craft himself, or be removed by emergency personnel.

It is believed that also on this occasion, either Lorenzo il Magnifico or Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco himself, commissioned Botticelli's Allegory of Spring to celebrate the wedding-with Mercury representing Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco and Semiramide represented by the central Grace ( or possibly Flora ).

This origin was referred to on a coin of the gens, the obverse of which depicts the head of Mercury or Hermes, the ancestor of Ulysses, and the reverse Ulysses himself, clad in the humble disguise he assumed to avoid being recognized by the suitors of Penelope.

Now an evil parody of himself, Dark Prince Endymion, he almost killed Sailor Mercury when Sailor Moon was forced to kill him to stop Metaria.

One of Saturos ' original companions, a powerful and enigmatic Mercury Adept named Alex, allies himself with a second pair of powerful and imposing Mars Adept warriors, Karst and Agatio.

Pressure had come from a more directly involved constituency as well ; both NASA officials and the President himself had been lobbied by the " Mercury Seven " astronauts for a seventh Mercury mission.

In 1951, Sam had customized a new Mercury coupe for himself, and a customer who saw it ordered a similar car.

Mercury had been concerned that financial support should be available to those less fortunate than himself.

Finding himself out of sympathy with monastic life, he fled in 1783 to North Germany, and settled in Weimar, where he became Christoph Martin Wieland's collaborator on the German Mercury ( Der Teutsche Merkur ), and eventually his son-in-law.

In The Flash: Rebirth # 4, Max Mercury revealed to Barry Allen that the Speed Force was created by Allen, himself, when he became the Silver Age Flash ; adding that, " When runs, he generates the kinetic wall between the present and the time barrier.

Shortly after meeting Starr and Bigman, Mindes takes them onto the surface of Mercury and explains his worries ; but works himself into a frenzy and fires a blaster at Starr, whereupon Bigman tackles him and he is brought unconscious into the observatory.

Mencken rarely if ever flinched from controversy, and he found himself in the thick of it when The American Mercury was just over two years old, when the April 1926 issue published " Hatrack ," a chapter from Herbert Asbury's Up From Methodism.

Huie found himself facing financial difficulties sustaining the Mercury as he pursued the new direction, and was forced to sell to a sometime financial contributor, Russell Maguire, owner of the Thompson Submachine Gun Company, in August 1952.

Various interest groups, beginning with the Anti-Defamation League, accused Maguire's Mercury of ongoing and increasing Jew-baiting, particularly when it drew a number of purportedly anti-Jewish comments from the writings of Mencken himself back for reprint.

Gemini: Is adjudged barren, being the house of Mercury, who discerns nothing of himself.

Bit parts were given to Welles ' Mercury Theatre producer John Houseman, assistant director John Berry, composer Marc Blitzstein and the New York Herald Tribunes drama critic Herbert Drake ; Welles gave himself a small role as a Keystone Kop.

It includes Freddie Mercury doing all of the harmony vocals in the chorus ( multi-tracking himself ) and Brian May singing the " two steps nearer to my grave " line instead of Mercury ( who did it live and in earlier versions ).

In 1990, Mercury made his final public appearance when he joined the rest of Queen to collect the BRIT Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music.

Nathan Roberts replaced English and Jonathan Donahue ( also a member of the alternative rock band Mercury Rev ) joined in 1989.

Mercury Rev is often compared to The Flaming Lips, and in fact share close ties: soon after the band's formation, Donahue also joined the Flaming Lips as second guitarist and appeared on two of their albums ; and since the 1990 album In a Priest Driven Ambulance, Dave Fridmann has co-produced every Flaming Lips studio album to date except 1993's Transmissions from the Satellite Heart.

All-star guard Cappie Pondexter was traded to the New York Liberty amid some controversy in the offseason ; All-Star Candice Dupree joined the duo of Taurasi and Penny Taylor as the Mercury looked to repeat in 2010.

A mechanical engineering graduate of Purdue University, he joined the United States Air Force and was selected as a member of NASA's Project Mercury space program.

In late 1935, Rothko joined with Ilya Bolotowsky, Ben-Zion, Adolph Gottlieb, Lou Harris, Ralph Rosenborg, Louis Schanker and Joseph Solman to form " The Ten " ( Whitney Ten Dissenters ), whose mission ( according to a catalog from a 1937 Mercury Gallery show ) was " to protest against the reputed equivalence of American painting and literal painting.

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.

She performed Queen songs alongside George Michael and joined the remaining members of Queen at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert on 20 April 1992.

In 1985, with a recording contract with Mercury / Polygram Records in the works, guitarist Jeff LaBar and drummer Jim Drnec joined the band.

They were also joined by the Camaro-based Pontiac Firebird and the Mustang-based Mercury Cougar.

In 1963, Bishop joined the ground handling operation of Manchester-based Mercury Airlines, a schedule and charter airline, which was taken over by British Midland Airways ( later re-branded as BMI ) in October 1964.

Upon Staffell's departure, Smile were joined by Freddie Mercury and John Deacon to form the band Queen.

After journalistic work in Lincoln and London he joined the staff of the Leicester Mercury in 1840.

In 1958 the Turnpike Cruiser joined the mid-range Mercury Montclair line with only minor trim changes to the car from the previous year, but the convertible version was not offered this year.

In 1948, Hall joined forces with fellow Yale graduate John Hammond on a quest to post-war Europe on behalf of Mercury Records, then a Chicago-based produced of " pop " material.

They are joined by Mercury and as they approach the cemetery they find Predator X feasting on the bodies of dead mutants much to their horror.

Afterwards, Mercury joined the survivors in a last-ditch assault on Emperor Sunfire's forces.

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

Sloane eventually joined Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre, and acted in Welles's films in roles such as Citizen Kane's Bernstein in 1941 and The Lady from Shanghais Arthur Bannister in 1948.

At the Mercury Lounge they were also joined onstage with Tim Wheeler.

In this series, the Roman mythological figures Hercules and Mercury are joined by Astrea, a character created specifically for the series, to form a superhero team to protect mankind.