Mercury

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Mercury usually refers to:

Mercury (element), a metallic chemical element
Mercury (mythology), a Roman god
Mercury (planet), first planet from the Sun

Mercury may also refer to:

In arts and entertainment

Comics

Mercury (Marvel Comics), a character who can turn herself into a mercurial substance
Mercury (Amalgam Comics), a combination of the characters Impulse and Quicksilver
Makkari (comics) or Mercury, an Eternal, a Marvel comics race of superhumans
Mercury, a member of the Metal Men, a DC comics team
Mercury, a member of Cerebro's X-Men

Music

Recordings

Mercury (Longview album)
Mercury (American Music Club album)
Mercury (Madder Mortem album)
"Mercury" (song), 2008, by Bloc Party
"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

Other uses in music

Mercury Records, a record label
Freddie Mercury, frontman for the rock group Queen
Daniela Mercury, Brazilian singer, songwriter and record producer
Mercury Prize, an annual music prize awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom

Literature and journalism

Mercury (magazine), an astronomy magazine
Mercury (newspaper), any of several English-language newspapers
Mercury (novel), 2005, by Ben Bova
Mercury, a novel by Anna Kavan

Other media

Mercury (TV series), from Australia
Mercury FM, a radio station in Surrey, United Kingdom
Mercury 96.6, present-day Heart Hertfordshire, a radio station in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Sailor Mercury, a character in the Sailor Moon franchise
Archer Maclean's Mercury, a PlayStation Portable video game

Businesses

Mercury Communications, a British telecommunications firm set up in the 1980s
Mercury Drug, a Philippine pharmacy chain
Mercury Insurance Group
The Mercury Mall, a shopping centre in Romford, England
Mercury Marine, a major manufacturer of marine engines, particularly outboard motors
Mercury Provident, a former British ethical bank
Shuttle America, a regional airline (callsign "Mercury")

In the military

Operation Mercury, codename for the German invasion of Crete during World War II
HMS Mercury, any of several ships of the Royal Navy
USS Mercury, any of several ships of the United States Navy
Boeing E-6 Mercury, an American aircraft used as an airborne command post and communications relay
Miles Mercury, a British aircraft designed during the Second World War
Russian brig Mercury, a warship

People

Mercury (name), any of several people with that surname or given name
Mercury Morris, former American football player

Places

Mercury Bay, on the North Island of New Zealand
Mercury Islands, off the northeast coast of New Zealand
Mercury, Nevada, a closed city within the Nevada Test Site, United States
Mercury, Savoie, a commune in southeastern France
Mercury Boulevard, a road in Virginia, United States

Science and technology

Computing

Mercury Interactive, a software testing tools vendor
Mercury (programming language)
Mercury Systems, a defense-related information technology company
Ferranti Mercury, an early 1950s commercial computer
- Mercury Autocode, a programming language for the Ferranti Mercury computer
Mercury Mail Transport System, an email server

Transportation

Mercury (automobile), produced by the Ford Motor Company from 1938 to 2011
Mercury (cyclecar), an American cyclecar from 1914
Mercury (train), a family of New York Central streamliner passenger trains (1936–1958)
Blackburn Mercury, a British aircraft from 1911
Bristol Mercury, a nine-cylinder aircraft engine

Other uses in science and technology

Project Mercury, the first United States human spaceflight program
Mercury (cipher machine)
Mercury (plant), members of the plant genus Mercurialis
Mercury (satellite)

Sports

Edmonton Mercurys, a 1940s and 1950s intermediate ice hockey team from Canada
Phoenix Mercury, a Women's National Basketball Association team from Arizona, United States
Toledo Mercurys, a defunct International Hockey League franchise from Ohio, United States
Fujita Soccer Club Mercury, a Japanese women's football team from 1989 to 1999

Other uses

Mercury dime, a United States coin minted from 1916 through 1945
Mercury Fountain, in Tom Quad, Christ Church College, Oxford, England

See also

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