Mercury
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Mercury commonly refers to:
- Mercury (planet), the nearest planet to the Sun in the solar system
- Mercury (element), the chemical element (also called quicksilver)
- Mercury (mythology), or Mercurius, a Roman god
Mercury may also refer to:
[edit] Science
- Mercury (plant), members of the genus Mercurialis
- Project Mercury, an early American program for launching humans into space
- Good King Henry, a species of goosefoot also called mercury or English mercury
- Inches of mercury, a measure of atmospheric pressure
- Mercurius (crater), a crater on the Moon
- USNS Mercury (T-AGM-21), a Vanguard Class Missile Range Instrumentation Ship
[edit] Culture
[edit] Music
- Freddie Mercury, singer of the rock group Queen
- Mercury Music Prize, a British award
- Mercury Records, a commercial record label
- Mercury, the Winged Messenger, a movement in Gustav Holst's The Planets suite
- Mercury (album), a 2005 music album by Long-View
- Mercury (song) by the band Counting Crows, from the 1996 album Recovering the Satellites
- Mercury (American Music Club album)
[edit] Media
- Mercury (magazine), a popular astronomy magazine published by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Mercury FM, a commercial radio station in Surrey, United Kingdom
- Mercury 96.6, a commercial radio station in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
- The Mercury (Hobart), a newspaper published in Hobart, Australia
- The Mercury (Pennsylvania), a newspaper published in Pennsylvania, United States
- Sunday Mercury, a Sunday newspaper published in Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Mercury (comics), a.k.a. Cessily Kincaid, a Marvel Comics character who can turn herself into a mercurial substance
- Mercury (Amalgam Comics), a combination of the characters Impulse and Quicksilver made for Amalgam Comics
[edit] Other
- Mercury (TV series), an 1996 Australian television show
- Mercury dime, a coin preceding the current dime in the United States
- Mercury Theatre, a theatre company founded in New York by Orson Welles and John Houseman
- Mike Mercury, chief test pilot of the Supercar team
- Adam Birch, a professional wrestler with the stage name Joey Mercury
- Ami Mizuno, codenamed Sailor Mercury in the Sailor Moon franchise
- Mercury Rising, a 1998 movie starring Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin
- Archer Maclean's Mercury, a video game for the PlayStation Portable
- OZ-13MSX2 Mercurius, a mobile suit from the anime Gundam Wing
[edit] Technology
- Mercury (automobile), a marque of automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company
- Mercury (MTS), a mail server
- Mercury (computer), developed in the early 1950s by Ferranti and the University of Manchester computing department
- Mercury programming language, a functional/logical programming language based on Prolog
- Mercury (SMS), a program that sends Short Message Service messages
- Mercury (cipher machine), a British cipher machine used from the 1950s
- Mercury arc valve, a rectifier device intended for high electrical voltages/currents
- Mercury Autocode, a high-level language run by the above computer
- Mercury memory, kind of delay line memory, in use in the 1950s
- Mercury Messenger, a cross-platform Instant Messaging program
- Mercury OS, a real-time operating system for embedded systems
- Bristol Mercury, a 9-cylinder aircraft engine
- Operation Mercury, codename for the German invasion of Crete during World War II
[edit] Places
- Mercury, Nevada
- Mercury, Savoie, a commune in the Savoie département of France
[edit] Business
- Mercury Communications, a now-defunct British telco
- Mercury Computer Systems, an embedded digital signal and image processing solutions provider
- Mercury Drug, a Philippine drug store chain
- Mercury Energy, an energy company in New Zealand
- Mercury Interactive, a software and consulting company
- Mercury Insurance, an American automobile and property insurance company
- Mercury Marine, a manufacturer of marine engines and parts
- Mercury Records, an American record company
- Mercury (ship), a cruise ship that Celebrity Cruises owns and operates
- Mercury Cider, an alcoholic beverage produced by Cascade Brewery
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