The captain's gig of H.M.S. Mercury was being rowed to H.M.S. Neptune.

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

First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.

Project Mercury was followed by the two-man Project Gemini ( 1962-66 ).

The Apollo program was conceived early in 1960, during the Eisenhower administration, as a follow-up to America's Mercury program.

While the Mercury capsule could only support one astronaut on a limited Earth orbital mission, the Apollo spacecraft was to be able to carry three astronauts on a circumlunar flight and eventually to a lunar landing.

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:

However, the messenger god Mercury was sent by Jupiter and Venus to remind Aeneas of his journey and his purpose, compelling him to leave secretly.

The first documented account of a bare-knuckle fight in England appeared in 1681 in the London Protestant Mercury, and the first English bare-knuckle champion was James Figg in 1719.

They told Columbanus it was intended as a sacrifice to their god Wodan ( Illi aiunt se Deo suo Vodano nomine ), whom they identified with Roman Mercury.

While Cernunnos was never assimilated, scholars have sometimes compared him functionally to Greek and Roman divine figures such as Mercury, Actaeon, specialized forms of Jupiter, and Dis Pater, the latter of whom Julius Caesar said was considered the ancestor of the Gauls.

To promote it in the United States, Mercury Records financed a coast-to-coast publicity tour in which Bowie, between January and February 1971, was interviewed by radio stations and the media.

The work De nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae (" About the wedding of Mercury and Philologia ") written by Martianus Capella ( 4th-5th century ) was very influential on the successive medieval encyclopedias.

At one point, while aboard HMS Mercury, she anchored off New York, where, among other visitors, the captain entertained William Tryon ; Allen reports that Tryon glanced at him without any sign of recognition, although it is likely the New York governor knew who he was.

Celeris was given to Castor by Mercury.

Mercury was added to the tube, trapping a fixed quantity of air in the short, sealed end of the tube.

Mercury is a Ford Motor Company division, and Mercury's 427 was exactly the same engine as Ford's with different logos.

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.

Similarly, Brooks was influenced by 1970s-era rock of Billy Joel, and Bruce Springsteen and the operatic rock of Queen with Freddie Mercury.

Mercury, vital for the production of silver was scarce, besides the neglect of the officials.

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

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.

Mercury was influenced early on by the Indian playback singer Lata Mangeshkar along with western influences such as Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and The Beatles.

After fans noticed Mercury's increasingly gaunt appearance in 1988, rumours began to spread that Mercury was suffering from AIDS.

Into the 1980s, Polydor continued to do respectable business, in spite of becoming increasingly overshadowed by its PolyGram sister label Mercury Records.

After managing to land on Mariposa Three, an orbital city near Mercury, the party makes its way through a military complex and fights through a series of increasingly difficult battles.

He found that each of the five Platonic solids could be uniquely inscribed and circumscribed by spherical orbs ; nesting these solids, each encased in a sphere, within one another would produce six layers, corresponding to the six known planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

There is a suggestion that Mercury could be colonized using the same technology, approach and equipment that is used in colonizing the Moon.

Vulcan managed to catch them but, afterwards, Mercury stole the net from the blacksmith god so that he could catch Cloris, a nymph whom he admired.

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.

Le Verrier postulated that the excess precession could be explained by the presence of a small planet inside the orbit of Mercury, and he proposed the name " Vulcan " for this object.

Phoenix averaged a league-record 88. 97 points per game in 2007 ; teams could not keep up with the new style of play, and the Mercury were propelled into first place in the Western Conference.

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.

As an example, the MESSENGER mission used gravity assist maneuvering to slow the spacecraft on its way to Mercury ; however, since Mercury has almost no atmosphere, aerobraking could not be used for insertion into orbit about it.

It featured a reverse slant rear window that could be lowered for ventilation, a feature introduced in a production car by Mercury in 1957 and still in production in 1966.

The larger Maia took off, carrying the smaller Mercury loaded to a weight greater than it could take off with.

" Savage claimed in an article in The Portland Mercury that, while Adams followed the " campsite rule " – Breedlove did not claim that Adams had given him any diseases or caused him emotional trauma, and in fact still refers to Adams as a friend – Breedlove violated the Tea and Sympathy rule by making public statements that he knew could ruin Adams ' career.

Unfortunately, the issue of the Cape Fear Mercury that Martin referred to could not be found.

After winning the Mercury Prize, the band went back to Parr Street Studios, pressing on with recording as much material as they could between tours.

Anthem was formed so that Rush would have more control of their work at home in Canada ( their international deal with Mercury Records initially included Canada ), and so other Canadian bands would have a home, as they could not get signed by the major labels ' offices in Toronto or Montreal.

Given Hathaway's behavior, Mercury said that he decided the recording session could not continue, so he aborted it and all of the musicians went home.

Paired " Security and Luck " could also be represented by Hercules and Mercury.

Each Metal Man also possessed abilities that reflected the traits of their namesake metal: Gold could stretch his form almost infinitely, Iron was super strong, Lead could block harmful radiation by morphing into thick shields, Mercury could melt and pass through small spaces before reforming and Platinum could stretch or flatten.

On 19 June 2009 David Harris announced on the Pegasus Mail site that all development of Pegasus Mail and the associated Mercury program could only continue if sufficient users would commit to donating US $ 50 annually ; on 21 July 2009 he said that there had been a good start.

M for the Speed of Mercury: By channeling Mercury's speed, Mary Marvel, while not as fast as the Flash, could fly and move at hypersonic speeds exceeding Mach 10 ( 2 miles a second ) while in Earth's atmosphere and could fly at close to light speed through space.