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  2. Mercury (element) - Wikipedia

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    Mercury is a chemical element; it has symbol Hg and atomic number 80. It is also known as quicksilver and was formerly named hydrargyrum ( / h aɪ ˈ d r ɑːr dʒ ər ə m / hy- DRAR -jər-əm ) from the Greek words hydor ' water ' and argyros ' silver ' , from which its chemical symbol is derived. [ 9 ]

  3. H. G. Wells - Wikipedia

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    H. G. Wells is a member of a fellowship of vampire hunters set in the year 1888 in the novel Modern Marvels– Viktoriana (2013) written by Wayne Reinagel. The fellowship includes Mary Shelley , Edgar Allan Poe , Jules Verne , Bram Stoker , Arthur Conan Doyle , Nikola Tesla , Harry Houdini and H. Rider Haggard .

  4. H. G. Wells bibliography - Wikipedia

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    H. G. Wells (1866–1946). H. G. Wells was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His writing career spanned more than sixty years, and his early science fiction novels earned him the title (along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback) of "The Father of Science Fiction".

  5. Hg (equity firm) - Wikipedia

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    Hg is a private equity firm targeting technology buyouts primarily in Europe and the US. Hg focuses on investments in technology and services sectors. It invests out of its 8th £2.5 billion core fund and its 2nd £575 million Mercury fund, targeting smaller technology buyouts, both raised in February 2017. [1]

  6. The Time Machine - Wikipedia

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    The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701.

  7. Things to Come - Wikipedia

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    Things to Come (also known as Shape of Things to Come [2] and in promotional material as H. G. Wells' Things to Come) is a 1936 British science fiction film produced by Alexander Korda, directed by William Cameron Menzies, and written by H. G. Wells.

  8. The War of the Worlds - Wikipedia

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    The War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells. Librivox recording by Rebecca Dittman. Book 1, Chapter 1. The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was written between 1895 and 1897, [2] and serialised in Pearson's Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan magazine in the US in 1897.

  9. The Invisible Man - Wikipedia

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    The Invisible Man is an 1897 science fiction novel by British writer H. G. Wells. Originally serialised in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man to whom the title refers is Griffin , a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and who invents a way to change a body's refractive ...