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Mercury (planet) Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System and the closest to the Sun. Its orbit around the Sun takes 87.97 Earth days, the shortest of all the Sun's planets. It is named after the Roman god ' ( Mercury), god of commerce, messeng ...
, the nearest planet to the Sun *
Mercury (element) Mercury is a chemical element with the symbol Hg and atomic number 80. It is also known as quicksilver and was formerly named hydrargyrum ( ) from the Greek words, ''hydor'' (water) and ''argyros'' (silver). A heavy, silvery d-block element, ...
, a metallic chemical element with the symbol Hg *
Mercury (mythology) Mercury (; la, Mercurius ) is a major god in Roman religion and mythology, being one of the 12 Dii Consentes within the ancient Roman pantheon. He is the god of financial gain, commerce, eloquence, messages, communication (including divina ...
, a Roman god Mercury or The Mercury may also refer to:


Companies

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Mercury (toy manufacturer) Mercury was an Italian manufacturing company of die-cast scale model cars. Based in Turin, Mercury was active from 1932 until 1980. Along with Dinky Toys in England, Mercury was a pioneer in 1:43 scale diecast toys made in Europe. Today, Mercu ...
, a brand of diecast toy cars manufactured in Italy *
Mercury Communications Mercury Communications was a national telephone company in the United Kingdom, formed in 1981 as a subsidiary of Cable & Wireless, to challenge the then-monopoly of British Telecom (BT). Although it proved only moderately successful at challen ...
, a British telecommunications firm set up in the 1980s *
Mercury Drug The Mercury Drug Corporation, better known as Mercury Drug, is a Filipino pharmacy chain. A subsidiary of the Mercury Group of Companies, it is headquartered in Bagumbayan, Quezon City. The chain was founded in Santa Cruz, Manila in 1945, making ...
, a Philippine pharmacy chain * Mercury Energy, an electricity generation and retail company in New Zealand *
Mercury Filmworks Mercury Filmworks is a Canadian independent animation studio based in Ottawa, Ontario. The studio was originally founded in Vancouver by Clint Eland, the current CEO, in 1997. Mercury Filmworks has produced animated television series and feature ...
, a Canadian independent animation studio *
Mercury General Mercury General Corporation is a multiple-line insurance organization offering personal automobile, homeowners, renters and business insurance. Founded in 1961 and headquartered in Los Angeles, Mercury has assets in excess of $4 billion, employs ...
, a multiple-line American insurance organization *
Mercury Interactive Mercury Interactive Corporation was an Israeli company acquired by the HP Software Division. Mercury offered software for application management, application delivery, change and configuration management, service-oriented architecture, change r ...
, a software testing tools vendor *
Mercury Marine Mercury Marine is a marine engine division of Brunswick Corporation headquartered in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The main product line is outboard motors. It also produces the MerCruiser line of sterndrives and inboard motors. Some manufacturi ...
, a manufacturer of marine engines, particularly outboard motors * Mercury Systems, a defense-related information technology company


Computing

* Mercury (programming language), a functional logic programming language * Mercury (metadata search system), a data search system for earth science research *
Ferranti Mercury The Mercury was an early commercial computer from the mid-1950s built by Ferranti. It was the successor to the Ferranti Mark 1, adding a floating point unit for improved performance, and increased reliability by replacing the Williams tube memory w ...
, an early 1950s commercial computer *
Mercury Browser Mercury Browser is a discontinued freeware mobile browser for Android (operating system), Android, developed by iLegendSoft. Mercury Browser uses the Webkit Browser engine, engine. It was formerly available for iOS, but in 2017, it was removed fro ...
, a freeware mobile browser *
Mercury Mail Transport System Mercury Mail Transport System (Mercury MTS) is a standards-compliant mail server developed by David Harris, who also develops the Pegasus Mail client. It was freeware prior to January 2007, but is now donationware for non-commercial and person ...
, an email server


Film and television

* ''Mercury'' (film), a 2018 Indian silent horror thriller by Karthik Subbaraj * ''Mercury'' (TV series), an Australian television series *Mercury, a fictional town in ''Young Adult'' * Mercury Black, a character in the ''RWBY'' web series *
Sailor Mercury is a fictional character in the ''Sailor Moon'' manga series created by Naoko Takeuchi. She is the alternate identity of , a teenage Japanese schoolgirl, and a member of the Sailor Guardians, supernatural female fighters who protect the Solar Sys ...
, a character in the ''Sailor Moon'' manga and anime franchise


Literature


Comics

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Mercury (Marvel Comics) Mercury (Cessily Kincaid) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character has appeared in the ''X-Men'' series. She is a teenage member of the student body at the Xavier Institute and a recurrin ...
, a character who can turn herself into a mercurial substance *
Makkari (comics) Makkari, formerly known as Hurricane and Mercury, is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is depicted as a member of the Eternals, a race of superhumans in the Marvel Universe. He firs ...
or Mercury, an Eternal, a Marvel Comics race of superhumans * Mercury, a member of the
Metal Men The Metal Men are a group of superheroes that appear in DC Comics. The characters first appeared in ''Showcase'' #37 (March–April 1962) and were created by writer Robert Kanigher and artist Ross Andru. Debuting in the Silver Age of Comic Bo ...
, a DC Comics team * Mercury, a member of
Cerebro's X-Men Cerebro's X-Men are a team of supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They are a nanotechnology version of the X-Men created by Cerebro when the supercomputer briefly goes rogue. This team was created and de ...
* Mercury, an Amalgam Comics character


Magazines

* ''Mercury'' (magazine), an astronomy magazine * ''
The American Mercury ''The American Mercury'' was an American magazine published from 1924Staff (Dec. 31, 1923)"Bichloride of Mercury."''Time''. to 1981. It was founded as the brainchild of H. L. Mencken and drama critic George Jean Nathan. The magazine featured wri ...
'', originally a literary magazine, gradually more political


Newspapers

* ''The Mercury'' (Hobart), Tasmania, Australia * ''The Mercury'' (South Africa), Durban * ''The Mercury'' (Pennsylvania), US * ''Mercury'' (Newport), Rhode Island, US * ''The Mercury'', former name of the ''
Reading Mercury The ''Reading Mercury'' was a weekly newspaper covering the county of Berkshire and neighbouring Oxfordshire, founded and based in the town of Reading. Published between 8 July 1723 and 28 May 1987, the ''Reading Mercury'' was regarded throughou ...
'' * List of newspapers named ''Mercury'', for newspapers whose titles include that word


Novels

* ''Mercury'' (Bova novel), a novel by Ben Bova * ''Mercury'' (Livesey novel), a novel by Margot Livesey * ''Mercury'', a novel by Anna Kavan


Music

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Mercury Nashville Universal Music Group Nashville is Universal Music Group's country music subsidiary. Some of the labels in this group include MCA Nashville Records, Mercury Nashville Records, Lost Highway Records, Capitol Records Nashville and EMI Records N ...
, a record label *
Mercury Records Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. It had significant success as an independent operation in the 1940s and 1950s. Smash Records and Fontana Records were sub labels of Mercury. In the United States, it ...
, a record label *
Mercury Prize The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize, is an annual music prize awarded for the best album released in the United Kingdom by a British or Irish act. It was created by Jon Webster and Robert Chandler in association with the ...
, an annual music prize awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom * " Mercury, the Winged Messenger", a movement in Gustav Holst's ''The Planets''


Albums

* ''Mercury'' (American Music Club album) (1993) * ''Mercury'' (Longview album) (2003) * ''Mercury'' (Madder Mortem album) (1999) * '' Mercury – Act 1'' (2021), by Imagine Dragons * '' Mercury – Acts 1 & 2'' (2022), by Imagine Dragons


Songs

* "Mercury" (song), a 2008 song by Bloc Party * "Mercury", a song by Counting Crows from ''
Recovering the Satellites ''Recovering the Satellites'' is the second studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, released on October 15, 1996, in the United States. Released three years after their debut album (and two years of worldwide touring), it reached No. 1 ...
'' * "Mercury", a song by Kathleen Edwards from ''
Failer ''Failer'' is the debut full-length studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards, released in 2002. The album was originally released independently in early 2002 before being picked up for wider release by MapleMusic Recordings in ...
'' * "Mercury", a song by Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly and James McAlister from ''
Planetarium A planetarium ( planetariums or ''planetaria'') is a Theater (structure), theatre built primarily for presenting educational entertainment, educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navi ...
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Military

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Operation Mercury The Battle of Crete (german: Luftlandeschlacht um Kreta, el, Μάχη της Κρήτης), codenamed Operation Mercury (german: Unternehmen Merkur), was a major Axis airborne and amphibious operation during World War II to capture the islan ...
, codename for the German invasion of Crete during World War II * 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 * , various vessels or shore establishments of that name * , seven vessels of that name * , an 1820 warship *
Mercury (pigeon) Mercury was a pigeon who received the Dickin Medal in 1946 from the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals for bravery in service during the Second World War. Mercury served with the National Pigeon Service (Special Section). It received the awar ...
, honored for bravery during World War II


People

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Mercury (name) Mercury is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname *Daniela Mercury, Brazilian singer *Eric Mercury, Canadian singer *Freddie Mercury, singer of the rock group Queen *Joey Mercury or Adam Birch, professional ...
, including a list of people with that surname or given name


Places

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Mercury, Savoie Mercury () is a commune close to Albertville in the Savoie ''département'' in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It is part of the urban area of Albertville.Mercury Bay Mercury Bay is a large V-shaped bay on the eastern coast of the Coromandel Peninsula on the North Island of New Zealand. It was named by the English navigator Captain James Cook during his exploratory expeditions. It was first named ''Te-Whangan ...
, New Zealand * Mercury, a place in Alabama *
Mercury, Nevada Mercury is a closed village in Nye County, Nevada, United States, north of U.S. Route 95 at a point northwest of Las Vegas. It is situated within the Nevada National Security Site and was constructed by the Atomic Energy Commission to hou ...
, a closed city within the Nevada Test Site, United States * Mercury, Texas, United States


Plants

* Mercury (plant), members of the plant genus ''Mercurialis'' *
Annual mercury ''Mercurialis annua'' is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae known by the common name annual mercury or (rarely) French mercury. It is native to Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East but it is known on many other ...
(''Mercurialis annua''), a species of flowering plant *
English mercury ''Blitum bonus-henricus'' (syn. ''Chenopodium bonus-henricus''), also called Good-King-Henry, poor-man's asparagus, perennial goosefoot, Lincolnshire spinach, Markery, English mercury, or mercury goosefoot, is a species of goosefoot which is nat ...
, or mercury goosefoot (''Blitum bonus-henricus''), a species of goosefoot


Radio

* Mercury FM, a radio station in Surrey, United Kingdom * Mercury 96.6 or Heart Hertfordshire, a radio station in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom


Sports

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Edmonton Mercurys The Edmonton Mercurys ("Mercurys", "Mercs") were an intermediate-level senior ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada during the 1940s and 1950s. The team represented the Canada men's national ice hockey team twice, and won the ...
, a 1940s and 1950s intermediate ice hockey team from Canada *
Fujita Soccer Club Mercury was a women's football team from Hiratsuka which played in Division 1 of Japan's Nadeshiko League. It founded the league back in 1989. The club was disbanded in 1999. History The club was acquired in 1990 by Fujita Industries, parent company of ...
, a Japanese women's football team active from 1989 to 1999 *
Memphis Mercury Memphis Mercury was an American women's soccer team, founded in 2005. The team was a member of the Women's Premier Soccer League The Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL) is an amateur women's soccer league in the United States and Canada. It is ...
, American women's soccer team *
Phoenix Mercury The Phoenix Mercury are an American professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The team was founded before the league's inaugural 1997 season ...
, a Women's National Basketball Association team from Arizona, United States *
Toledo Mercurys The Toledo Mercurys is a discontinued International Hockey League franchise from Toledo, Ohio. The Toledo Franchise was the first IHL franchise to be granted outside of the Windsor-Detroit area, for the cost of $1000 to Virgil Gladeaux of Toledo ...
, a defunct International Hockey League franchise from Ohio, United States


Vehicles


Air

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Blackburn Mercury The Blackburn Mercury was an early British aircraft designed as a pilot trainer for the Blackburn Flying School, Filey, in 1911. It was an enlarged, two-seat version of the Second Monoplane that flew earlier that year. It was a mid-wing monop ...
, a British aircraft from 1911 *
Bristol Mercury The Bristol Mercury is a British nine-cylinder, air-cooled, single-row, piston radial engine. Designed by Roy Fedden of the Bristol Aeroplane Company it was used to power both civil and military aircraft of the 1930s and 1940s. Developed from ...
, a nine-cylinder aircraft engine


Land

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Mercury (automobile) Mercury is a defunct division of the American automobile manufacturer Ford Motor Company. Created in 1938 by Edsel Ford, Mercury served as the medium-price brand of Ford for nearly its entire existence, bridging the price gap between the Ford ...
, brand of automobiles produced by the Ford Motor Company from 1938 to 2011 *
Mercury (cyclecar) The Mercury was a cyclecar built in Detroit, Michigan, by the Mercury Cyclecar Company at 807 South Scotten Street in 1913-1914. History The Mercury Cyclecar had a self-supporting body that eliminated the need for a chassis frame. The vehicle ...
, an American cyclecar from 1914 * ''Mercury'' (train), a family of New York Central streamliner passenger trains (1936–1958)


Sea

* , several ships of that name * Cape Cod Mercury 15, an American sailboat design *
Mercury 18 The Mercury 18, sometimes just referred to as a Mercury, is an American sailboat that was designed by Ernest Nunes as a one design Sailing (sport), racer and first built in 1939. The boat was one of the first one-design sailboat classes design ...
, an American sailboat design


Space

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Project Mercury Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Un ...
, a United States human spaceflight program, 1958–1963 ** The space capsule used for the flights, also called Mercury *
Mercury (satellite) Mercury, also known as Advanced Vortex, was a series of three United States spy satellites launched in the 1990s. These satellites were launched and operated by the National Reconnaissance Office with the participation of the United States Ai ...
, a series of American spy satellites


Other uses

* '' Archer Maclean's Mercury'', a 2005 PlayStation Portable video game *
Mercury (cipher machine) Mercury was a British cipher machine used by the Air Ministry from 1950 until at least the early 1960s. Mercury was an online rotor machine descended from Typex, but modified to achieve a longer cycle length using a so-called ''double-drum bas ...
, a 1950s British cipher machine *
Mercury Boulevard Mercury Boulevard in the cities of Hampton and Newport News in the Peninsula region of southeastern Virginia carries U.S. Route 258 (US 258) approximately south from Fort Monroe at Old Point Comfort on Hampton Roads to the north end of ...
in Virginia, United States *
Mercury Cinema Mercury CX, formerly Media Resource Centre (MRC), is a not-for-profit film and television training organisation based in the Lion Arts Centre on the corner of Morphett Street and North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, which aims to give scr ...
, a theatre in Adelaide, Australia * Shuttle America's callsign *
The Mercury Mall The Mercury Mall is an enclosed shopping centre in Romford town centre, in the London Borough of Havering, Greater London. It opened in June 1990 as Liberty 2. From 2006 to August 2010 it was owned by The Mall Fund and was known as The Mall Romfo ...
, a shopping centre in Romford, England


See also

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The American Mercury ''The American Mercury'' was an American magazine published from 1924Staff (Dec. 31, 1923)"Bichloride of Mercury."''Time''. to 1981. It was founded as the brainchild of H. L. Mencken and drama critic George Jean Nathan. The magazine featured wri ...
'', an American magazine published from 1924 to 1981 *
Mercuri Mercuri is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alessandro Mercuri (born 1973), French-Italian author and director * Mark Mercuri (born 1974), retired Australian rules football player *Rebecca Mercuri, computer scientist specializi ...
, a surname and list of people with the surname * Mercury 1 (disambiguation) *
Mercury 2 (disambiguation) Mercury 2 or variants may refer to: * Mercury 2, a spacecraft of Project Mercury * Mercury(II), an oxidation state of the element Mercury * Mercury II, a version of the Blackburn Mercury early British aircraft * Mercury II, a 1928 version of the B ...
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Mercury 3 (disambiguation) Mercury 3 or variants may refer to: * Mercury 3, a spacecraft of Project Mercury * Mercury(III), an unknown compound of the element Mercury * Mercury III, a version of the Blackburn Mercury early British aircraft * Mercury III, a 1929 version of ...
* Mercury 4 (disambiguation) *
Mercury 5 (disambiguation) Mercury 5 or variants may refer to: *Mercury 5, a spacecraft of Project Mercury *Mercury V, a version of the Bristol Mercury aircraft engine See also *Mercury-Atlas 5 Mercury-Atlas 5 was an American spaceflight of the Mercury program. It was ...
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Mercury 6 (disambiguation) Mercury 6 or variants may refer to: *Mercury 6, a spacecraft of Project Mercury *Mercury VI, several versions of the Bristol Mercury aircraft engine See also *Mercury-Atlas 6 Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) was the first crewed American orbital spacefl ...
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Mercury 7 (disambiguation) The Mercury Seven were the seven original American astronauts. Mercury 7 may also refer to: * Mercury 7, a spacecraft of Project Mercury * Mercury VII, a version of the Bristol Mercury aircraft engine See also *Mercury (disambiguation) Mercur ...
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Mercury 8 (disambiguation) Mercury 8 or variants may refer to: * Mercury Eight, a Ford motor car 1939–1951 * Mercury 8, a spacecraft of Project Mercury * Mercury VIII, a 1935 version of the Bristol Mercury aircraft engine See also * Mercury (disambiguation) * Mercury-Atl ...
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Mercury City (disambiguation) Mercury City may refer to: * Mercury City Tower, skyscraper in Moscow, Russia * Merqury City Meltdown, course in ''SSX ''SSX'' is a series of snowboarding and skiing video games published by EA Sports. It is an arcade-style racing game with l ...
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Mercury FM (disambiguation) Mercury FM was a radio station in Crawley and Horsham. Mercury FM may also refer to: * Heart Hertfordshire * KMFM Medway * KMFM West Kent {{Disambiguation, callsign ...
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Mercury House (disambiguation) Mercury House may refer to: * Mercury House (publishers) Mercury House is nonprofit publishing company, founded in 1986 by William M. Brinton. References {{Reflist Small press publishing companies Publishing companies established in 1986 ...
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Mercury mission (disambiguation) Mercury mission may refer to: * Exploration of Mercury, a mission to the planet Mercury * Project Mercury, a mission of the NASA Mercury program See also * ''Mission to Mercury'', 1965 novel * Mercury (disambiguation) Mercury commonly refers t ...
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Mercury program (disambiguation) The Mercury program was Project Mercury, the first successful American crewed spaceflight program, 1958–63. Mercury Program may also refer to: * The Mercury Program, an American post-rock band formed 1997 Other uses *''The Mercury Theatre on th ...
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Mercury project (disambiguation) Mercury project may refer to: * Project Mercury, the first human spaceflight program of the U.S., 1958–1963 * ''Project Mercury'' (album), by Rosetta and Balboa, 2007 * Mercury (satellite), a series of three U.S. spy satellites launched in the ...
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