*" Dark Alliance ", by Gary Webb, San Jose Mercury News, August 1996.

*< cite id = refSitter1927 > W de Sitter ( 1927 ), " On the secular accelerations and the fluctuations of the longitudes of the moon, the sun, Mercury and Venus ", Bull.

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 ?).

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

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

* " Mercury, the Winged Messenger ", a movement in Gustav Holst's The Planets

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

To the Ancient Greeks, some " stars ", known as planets ( Greek πλανήτης ( planētēs ), meaning " wanderer "), represented various important deities, from which the names of the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were taken.

Work began on the console in under the codename " Project Mercury ", following Sega's policy at the time of codenaming their systems after planets.

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.

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.

Tacitus also named the German " Mars " as the primary deity, along with the German " Mercury ", associated with the Germanic custom of the disposal of the spoils of war ; as practiced from the 4th century BC to the 6th century AD.

In the " interpretatio romana ", Gregory of Tours gave the Germanic gods that Clovis abandoned the names of roughly equivalent Roman gods, such as Jupiter and Mercury.

Mercury himself joined the band shortly thereafter, changed the name of the band to " Queen ", and adopted his familiar stage name.

It was also around this time Freddie changed his surname to " Mercury ", inspired by the line " Mother Mercury, look what they've done to me ," in the song My Fairy King.

The Mercury penned ballad, " Love of My Life ", featured a harp and overdubbed vocal harmonies.

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.

Brian May's website also stated that Rodgers would be " featured with " Queen as " Queen + Paul Rodgers ", not replacing Mercury.

" Mars ", " Venus " and " Jupiter " were from 1914, " Saturn ", " Uranus " and " Neptune " from 1915 and " Mercury " from 1916.

Holst's original manuscripts for it are now in the holdings of the Royal College of Music (" Mars ", " Venus ", " Saturn ", " Uranus ", " Neptune "), Royal Academy of Music (" Mercury ") and British Library (" Jupiter ", " Saturn ", " Uranus ").

For the reverse, Dupré apparently followed one of Jefferson's suggestions, depicting a scene of international commerce portrayed as Mercury ( the god of diplomacy ) in conference with the genius of America ( shown as an Indian chief, similar to some early American copper coins ).

The scene again reached a peak during the mid-1990s, at that time tied closely to The Mercury Theatre, a popular all-ages venue where many Knoxville bands, such as Superdrag, got their start.

Favorable press in newspapers including the L. A. Music Scene, which compared them to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Faith No More, coupled with the exploding alternative music scene, brought the band to the attention of several A & R execs, and Animalbag was eventually signed to Mercury records in 1992.

When Daniela Mercury released O Canto da Cidade in 1992, axé entered the mainstream pop music scene and became one of the most popular genres in Brazil.

The current British hip hop scene features strong women like Estelle, Baby Blue, Shystie, Misha B, Notorious T, and Mercury prize winners Speech Debelle and Ms. Dynamite.

In that final show, Floyd is seen visiting Goober's gas station in a sleek Mercury convertible that is driven to and from that scene by a double.

By comparison, among the early Big Three compacts ( Ford Falcon, Mercury Comet, Chevrolet Corvair and Plymouth Valiant ) that arrived on the scene in 1960, only the Valiant could break the 20-second mark from 0-60 mph.

Since then, Mercury has stood alone in the race scene.

Other newcomers to the scene were Universe ( a similar " perfect pop " concept to Viva ) and Acacia ( an earlier incarnation of which featured future Mercury Music prize winner Talvin Singh.

In early 1991, Material Issue broke onto the national scene with their debut album International Pop Overthrow ( IPO ) which sold over 300, 000 copies for Mercury Records.

Pioneered by figures like Club Rage DJs Fabio and Grooverider, in the mid-1990s the genre expanded from an underground and pirate radio scene to form sub-genres including the intelligent drum and bass pioneered by LTJ Bukem, and the ambient jungle of Goldie's crossover debut Timeless ( 1995 ) and the jazzstep of Roni Size's Mercury Award-winning New Forms ( 1997 ).

Mercury, Alkaline and White Child Rix continued with the group, releasing a succession of singles in 1991 / 1992 that soon cemented them a place as one of the leaders of the UK hip hop scene.

Mercury had been smelted from cinnabar for thousands of years.

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

* 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.