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Mercedes is a girl's name of Spanish origin, referring to a title for the Virgin Mary, "Our Lady of Mercy".
The word may also refer to:
- Automobile-related
- Mercedes (car), the pre-1927 brand name of German automobile models and engines built by Daimler company
- Mercedes-Benz, the post-1926 German brand of automobiles, engines, and trucks owned by Daimler AG
- Mercedes-AMG, a subdivision of Daimler AG providing high-powered models
- Mercedes GP, Formula One racing team
- American Mercedes (1904 automobile), a company licensed to build Mercedes automobiles in America
- Women with the first name Mercedes
- Mercedes, Princess of Asturias (1880–1904), Spanish royal
- Mercedes de Acosta (1893–1968), poet and socialite
- Mercedes Bresso (born 1944), Italian politician
- Mercedes Calderón (born 1965), Cuban volleyball player
- Mercédès Jellinek (1889–1929), the namesake for Mercedes-Benz automobiles
- Mercedes Lackey (born 1950), fantasy author
- Mercedes Lander, drummer for Canadian alt-metal band Kittie
- Mercedes McCambridge (1916–2004), actress
- Mercedes McNab (born 1980), Canadian-born actress
- Mercedes of Orléans (1860–1878), queen consort of Spain
- Mercedes Pérez (born 1987), Colombian weightlifter
- Mercedes Peris (born 1985), Spanish backstroke swimmer
- Mercedes Ruehl (born 1948), U.S. actress
- Mercedes Sahores (born 1974), Argentine ski mountaineer and mountain climber
- Mercedes Sosa (1935–2009), Argentine singer
- Mercedes Stephenson, Canadian military analyst and media personality
- Mercédesz Stieber (born 1974), Hungarian water polo player
- Mercedes Yvette Scelba-Shorte (born 1981), fashion model and actress
- Mercedes (singer), stage name of R&B and hip-hop singer Raquel Miller
- Women with the second name Mercedes
- Lilian Mercedes Letona (1954-1983), Salvadoran guerrilla and revolutionary
- People with the last name Mercedes
- Eleoncio Mercedes (1957–1985), boxer
- Nina Mercedez, pornographic actress
- Fictional characters
- Mercédès, character in Alexandre Dumas's novel The Count of Monte Cristo
- Mercedes McQueen, character in the British soap opera Hollyoaks
- Mercedes, one of the five main characters of Odin Sphere
- Mercedes, a character in the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet
- Mercedes Jones, a character from the TV series Glee
- Mercedes "Meche" Colomar, a character from the video game Grim Fandango
- Mercedes Cortez, a character from the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- Places
- Mercedes, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
- Mercedes, Corrientes, Argentina
- Mercedes, Camarines Norte, Philippines
- Mercedes, Eastern Samar, Philippines
- Mercedes, Texas, United States
- Mercedes, Uruguay
- Ships
- Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, a Spanish treasure ship sunk by the British in 1804
- Mercedes (shipwreck), a freighter shipwrecked off Florida in 1984
- Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes, a cruiser that was scuttled as a blockship in 1898. It was later salvaged and saw service with the United States Navy as USS Reina Mercedes (IX-25)
- USS Mercedes (YT-108) – see List of United States Navy ships: M
- BAP Mercedes, a Peruvian Navy frigate in service from the 1840s to the 1850s
- RFA Mercedes, a collier which served with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
- Other uses
- Mercedes, a proposed gossamer-winged butterfly genus nowadays again included in Calycopis
- "Mercedes", a song by Joseph Arthur, featured on the album Big City Secrets
- Mercedes College (Adelaide), South Australia
- Mercedes College, Perth, Western Australia
See also [link]
- Mercedes-Euklid, an early 20th-century computing device
- Mercedita (disambiguation)
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MV Mercedes I
Mercedes I was a merchant ship built in 1952 in Hamburg, Germany. She was 194 feet (59 m) long and displaced 496 tons. She was originally named Jacob Rusch, later being renamed Rosita Maria, Rita Voge, and finally Mercedes I in 1976.
She was caught in a storm while at anchor off Palm Beach, Florida on 23 November 1984, and was driven ashore where she crashed into the seawall front of the home of Palm Beach socialite, Mollie Wilmot, who served the 12 Venezuelan sailors caviar, finger sandwiches and freshly brewed coffee in her gazebo, offered martinis to journalists and photographers, and granted the stranded Venezuelans access to her swimming pool. The incident received national and international coverage.
After being abandoned by her owners, she was salvaged by the Donjon Marine Company, who sold her for $29,000 to the Broward County Environmental Quality Control Board. They scuttled her on 30 March 1985 with 350 pounds of TNT off the coast of Ft. Lauderdale, in order to create an artificial reef. She currently rests upright in 97 feet (30 m).
Mercedes, Texas
Mercedes is a city in Hidalgo County, Texas. The population was 15,570 at the 2010 United States Census. It is part of the McAllen–Edinburg–Mission and Reynosa–McAllen metropolitan areas.
Geography
Mercedes is located at 26°8′58″N 97°55′7″W / 26.14944°N 97.91861°W (26.149315, -97.918675).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 8.6 square miles (22 km2), of which 8.6 square miles (22 km2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) (0.69%) is water.
History
Mercedes is known as "The Queen City of the Valley" or "La Reina del Valle". The city of Mercedes was founded September 15, 1907, by the American Rio Grande Land & Irrigation Company, and was incorporated March 8, 1909. It is one of the oldest towns in the Rio Grande Valley, and the city celebrated its centennial in 2007.
The city was located in Capisallo Pasture, part of Capisallo Ranch owned by Jim Welles. This location was known as the Pear Orchard because of the vast numbers of prickly pear cactus growing there at that time.
Ska
Ska (/ˈskɑː/, Jamaican [skjæ]) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. It is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the upbeat. Ska developed in Jamaica in the 1960s when Prince Buster, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, and Duke Reid formed sound systems to play American rhythm & blues and then began recording their own songs. In the early 1960s, ska was the dominant music genre of Jamaica and was popular with British mods. Later it became popular with many skinheads.
Music historians typically divide the history of ska into three periods: the original Jamaican scene of the 1960s; the English 2 Tone ska revival of the late 1970s, which fused Jamaican ska rhythms and melodies with the faster tempos and harder edge of punk rock; and the third wave of ska, which involved bands from the UK, other European countries (notably Germany), Australia, Japan, South America and the US, beginning in the 1980s and peaking in the 1990s.
SKA2
SKA2 (spindle and kinetochore associated complex subunit 2) is a human gene. Its protein product associates with the kinetochore in a protein complex with SKA1, and assists mitosis.Genetic variants of SKA2 and epigenetic modifications of SKA2 have been linked to suicidal thoughts and behaviour in one study.
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SKA
SKA may refer to:
Army sports clubs
SKA (Cyrillic: СКА) is an abbreviation for "Sports Club of the Army" in several Slavic languages, and refers to military sports teams in several countries:
