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1 Culture

• Mercury (mythology) – a Roman god
• Freddie Mercury – in rock music, a singer from the group Queen
• Mercury Records – in the music industry, a commercial record label
• The Mercury – a newspaper published in Hobart, Australia
• Mercury dime – a coin preceding the current dime in the United States
• Mercury, France – a commune in the Savoie départementThe departements (or departments) are administrative units of France, roughly analogous to British counties and are now grouped into 22 metropolitan and four overseas regions''. They are subdivided into 342 arrondissements''. Departements are also found i of FranceThe French Republic or France ( French: Republique francaise or France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents.
• “ Mercury, the Winged Messenger ” – in musicMusic often an art/ entertainment, is a total social fact whose definitions vary according to era and culture," according to Jean Molino. 1 It is often contrasted with noise. According to musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez: "The border between music and no, a movementIn music, a movement is a large division of a larger composition or musical form. Symphonies are typically divided into four movements, for example, and concertos into three. Each movement has a distinct tempo and structure. Symphonies usually contain at in Gustav HolstGustavus Theodore von Holst ( September 21, 1874 May 25, 1934) was an English composer with Latvian (and some Spanish) roots. Born in Cheltenham, he went on to study at the Royal College of Music in London. His best-known work is probably his orchestral s's The PlanetsThis page is about a suite of music by Gustav Holst''. For celestial bodies, see planet, for the 1990s jazz rap band, see Digable Planets. The Planets (also known as The Planets Suite , opus 32, is an orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst. suite

2 Science

• Mercury (planet)Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, and the second-smallest planet in the solar system. Mercury ranges from 0. 5 in apparent magnitude; Mercury is sufficiently "close" to the Sun that telescopes rarely examine it (the greatest elongation is 28. – in astronomyAstronomy which etymologically means " law of the stars," (from Greek: + nomos) is a science involving the observation and explanation of events occurring outside Earth and its atmosphere. It studies the origins, evolution, physical and chemical propertie, the nearest planet to the Sun in the solar system
• Project Mercury – in astronautics, an early American program for launching humans into space
• Mercury (element) – in chemistry, a chemical element
• Mercury (magazine) – a popular astronomy magazine published by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific [1]