• 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...
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  • Italy Mercury Communications, a British telecommunications firm set up in the 1980s Mercury Corporation, an American aircraft manufacturer Mercury Cyclecar...
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    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...
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    The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize, is an annual music prize awarded for the best album released by a musical act from the United...
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  • the granting of a licence for a UK telecommunications network, Mercury Communications Ltd, as a rival to British Telecom. It was established as a subsidiary...
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    Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara; 5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991) was a British singer and songwriter who achieved worldwide fame as the lead...
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  • alternative telephone service to British Telecom (via subsidiary Mercury Communications). The company later offered cable TV to its customers, but it sold...
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  • First launched as Mercury One2One (stylised one2one) on 7 September 1993, the network was originally operated by Mercury Communications. one2one was purchased...
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    Mercury (/ˈmɜːrkjʊri/; Latin: Mercurius [mɛrˈkʊrijʊs] ) is a major god in Roman religion and mythology, being one of the 12 Dii Consentes within the ancient...
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  • switch supplier role in the public telephone network. In 1996, Mercury Communications Ltd, subsidiary of UK-based Cable & Wireless, pulled out of the...
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  • services did not then exist. The civil telecoms monopoly ended when Mercury Communications arrived in 1983. The Post Office system evolved into British Telecom...
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    The Boeing E-6 Mercury (formerly Hermes) is an airborne command post and communications relay based on the Boeing 707-300. The original E-6A manufactured...
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    planet Mercury between 2011 and 2015, studying Mercury's chemical composition, geology, and magnetic field. The name is a backronym for "Mercury Surface...
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    of the split, there were five local exchange codes assigned to Mercury Communications and numbers in these ranges could be assigned to either code. This...
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    The Mercury Tracer is an automobile manufactured and marketed by Ford's Mercury division for model years 1987 through 1999, over three generations in...
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    "Fibre optic technologies", Mercury Communications Ltd, August 1992. "Photonics & the future of fibre", Mercury Communications Ltd, March 1993. "Fiber Optic...
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    The Mercury Montego is a nameplate that was applied to three separate generations of vehicles marketed by the Mercury division of Ford Motor Company....
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  • Radiant Mercury is a cross-domain solution (CDS) software application developed by Lockheed Martin primarily in use by the US Navy. As a CDS, it is designed...
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    (JAXA) to the planet Mercury. The mission comprises two satellites launched together: the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and Mio (Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter...
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    The Mercury Seven were the group of seven astronauts selected to fly spacecraft for Project Mercury. They are also referred to as the Original Seven and...
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    Cholmondley-Warner and Grayson, also appeared in commercials, for Mercury Communications. Also in 2004 Enfield provided the voice of "The Roaming Gnome"...
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  • The Mercury News (formerly San Jose Mercury News, often locally known as The Merc) is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, in...
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  • telecommunications was broken with the granting of a licence to Mercury Communications. On 19 July 1982, the Government announced its intention to sell...
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    Company to expand into the satellite communications (SatCom), datalinks and space launch markets. In July 2017, Mercury Systems acquired Richland Technologies...
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    disappeared over the horizon. Between ground stations, Mercury spacecraft were out of communications, except for an occasional unreliable HF message. In...
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  • UK – on 8 September 2009. T-Mobile's UK unit had its origins in Mercury Communications, formed in 1989, and Orange had launched its services in 1994 while...
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  • are sold through mobile aggregators. 0500 numbers, introduced by Mercury Communications (later known as Cable & Wireless, now Vodafone) in 1982, were also...
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  • sleep. The characters also appeared in a series of TV adverts for Mercury Communications. The sketch Women: Know Your Limits! was plagiarised by a Danish...
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    (ICSTIS) at the request of three network operators (British Telecom, Mercury Communications, and Vodafone) as a response to public criticism of their profiting...
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  • The Mercury March was a song composed in 1974 by Major Albert Cornelius (Con) Furey. It is the march for the Communications and Electronics Branch of...
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