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Mercedes-Benz W124
The Mercedes-Benz W124 is an executive saloon built by Daimler-Benz from 1984 to 1997 and, from June 1993, the first generation to carry the E-Class name.
Mercedes-Benz W126
The Mercedes-Benz W126 is the second generation of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, built from 1979 to 1991, known for the first series-production driver airbag and 892,123 units sold.
Mercedes-Benz W140
The Mercedes-Benz W140 is the S-Class luxury saloon Mercedes-Benz built from 1991 to 1998, introducing the company's first series-produced V12 engine and pioneering ESP stability control.
Mercedes-Benz W201
The Mercedes-Benz W201, sold as the 190, is a compact executive saloon produced by Mercedes-Benz from 1982 to 1993 and the direct predecessor of the C-Class.
Mercedes-Benz X-Class
The Mercedes-Benz X-Class is a midsize pickup truck Mercedes-Benz built on the Nissan Navara platform from 2017 to 2020, its first and only pickup, sold in Europe, Australia, and South Africa.
Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction (2005) is a Pandemic Studios open-world action game published by LucasArts for PS2 and Xbox, set in a fictional coup-led North Korea where a mercenary hunts the 52-card Deck of 52 bounties; sold over 1.4 million copies.
Mercenary
Mercenary: a soldier who fights for any country or group that pays them, also called a soldier of fortune. Covers the everyday meaning, the six-part legal test under Geneva Protocol I, the 1989 UN Mercenaries Convention, and modern private military companies such as the Wagner Group.
Mercenary War
Mercenary War, or Truceless War (241-237 BCE): revolt of Carthage's unpaid mercenaries and Libyan subjects after the First Punic War, crushed by Hamilcar Barca and Hanno the Great, leading to Rome's seizure of Sardinia and Corsica.
Mercenary: An Extraction Series
Mercenary: An Extraction Series is an upcoming Netflix action-thriller, the first TV series in the Extraction universe. Omar Sy stars as mercenary Kalidou Diallo rescuing hostages in Libya; Glen Mazzara showruns for AGBO, eight episodes, filmed in Ireland and Morocco, wrapped March 2026.
Mercer (consulting firm)
Mercer, also known as Mercer LLC, is a New York-based consulting firm, founded in 1945 and owned by Marsh & McLennan, advising on human resources, retirement, and investments.
Mercer County, New Jersey, United States
Mercer County, New Jersey, a county formed February 22, 1838 from Burlington, Hunterdon, Middlesex, and Somerset counties, named for General Hugh Mercer; county seat Trenton, the state capital; 2020 population 387,340.
Mercer Island, Washington
Mercer Island, Washington: an affluent residential city on an island in Lake Washington between Seattle and Bellevue, incorporated 1960, population 25,748 (2020), accessed only via Interstate 90.
Mercer Private Investment Partners
Mercer Private Investment Partners is a series of Delaware private equity fund vehicles managed by Mercer Investments LLC of St. Louis, Missouri, filed with the SEC from 2013 through 2024.
Mercer University
Mercer University, founded 1833 in Penfield, Georgia, by Georgia Baptists and named for Jesse Mercer, is a private R2 research university in Macon with about 9,000 students, 12 schools and colleges, and campuses in Macon, Atlanta, Savannah, Columbus, and Valdosta.
Mercer's theorem
Mercer's theorem, proved by James Mercer in 1909, states that a continuous symmetric positive semidefinite kernel expands as a uniformly convergent series of eigenfunctions with nonnegative coefficients.
Mercerization
Mercerization is a chemical finishing treatment that swells cellulose fibers, typically cotton, in concentrated sodium hydroxide while held under tension, increasing luster, tensile strength, dimensional stability, and dye uptake.
Merchandise Mart
The Merchandise Mart, known as The Mart, is a colossal Art Deco commercial building on the Chicago River, built for Marshall Field & Co. in 1930.
Merchandising
Merchandising is the retail discipline of planning, selecting, buying, presenting, and measuring the products a store sells, so the right goods arrive at the right price.
Merchant
A merchant, also known as a commission merchant, is a person or business that buys and sells goods or services for profit, spanning wholesale, retail, legal, and payments senses.
Merchant bank
A merchant bank is a financial institution that invests capital in private companies and provides underwriting, loans, advising, and trade finance to corporations and wealthy individuals.
Merchant capitalism
Merchant capitalism, also called commercial or mercantile capitalism, is a form of capitalism in which profit comes from trade, buying cheap and selling dear, rather than from production.
Merchant Capitalists of Shu (Zhuo and Cheng clans)
The Merchant Capitalists of Shu (蜀卓氏与程郑) were two iron-smelting merchant families, the Zhuo clan and Cheng Zheng, who grew rich at Linqiong in Han-dynasty Shu.
Merchant Ivory Productions
Merchant Ivory Productions, independent film company founded 1961 by producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory, with screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; known for low-budget literary adaptations A Room with a View, Maurice, Howards End, and The Remains of the Day.
Merchant Marine Act of 1920
The Merchant Marine Act of 1920, also known as the Jones Act, is a US federal law reserving shipping between US ports for American-built, -owned, and -crewed vessels.
Merchant navy
The merchant navy, called the merchant marine in the United States, is a country's commercial shipping fleet, the ships and seafarers carrying cargo and passengers for trade rather than military activity.
Merchant Navy (United Kingdom)
The Merchant Navy, also called the British Merchant Service, is the United Kingdom's merchant shipping industry and its civilian seafarers, distinct from the Royal Navy.
Merchant ship
A merchant ship, also called a merchant vessel or merchantman, is a commercial vessel for goods or passengers that carries around 80% of international trade by volume.
Merchants of Doubt
Merchants of Doubt is a 2010 nonfiction book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway documenting how a few scientists sowed doubt on tobacco and climate.
MerchantWise Solutions, LLC
MerchantWise Solutions, LLC is a Houston, Texas software company founded in 2018, led by CEO Perry Turbes, which raised over $161 million in two private equity offerings.
Mercia
Mercia (Old English Mierce) was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom centered in the midlands of Britain, existing from 527 until the late ninth century. It held power through the eighth century.