It has been made from a variety of materials ; from rudimentary leather protection, personal armour evolved to Mail and full plated suits of armour.

Mail ( maille, chainmail ) is a type of armour consisting of small metal rings linked together in a pattern to form a mesh.

Mail may have been inspired by the much earlier scale armour.

Mail continues to be used in the 21st century as a component of stab-resistant body armour, cut-resistant gloves for butchers and woodworkers, shark-resistant wetsuits for defence against shark bites, and a number of other applications.

Mail armour and equipment of Polish medium cavalryman, from the second half of the 17th century

Mail was commonly also used as horse armour for cataphracts and heavy cavalry as well as armour for the soldiers themselves.

Mail was introduced to China when its allies in Central Asia paid tribute to the Tang Emperor in 718 by giving him a coat of " link armour " assumed to be mail.

Mail spread to Korea slightly later where it was imported as the armour of imperial guards and generals.

Mail armour provided an effective defence against slashing blows by an edged weapon and penetration by thrusting and piercing weapons ; in fact a study conducted at the Royal Armouries at Leeds concluded that " it is almost impossible to penetrate using any conventional medieval weapon " Generally speaking, mail's resistance to weapons is determined by four factors: linkage type ( riveted, butted, or welded ), material used ( iron versus bronze or steel ), weave density ( a tighter weave needs a thinner weapon to surpass ), and ring thickness ( generally ranging from 18 to 14 gauge in most examples ).

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Mail armour spread throughout the Mediterranean Basin with the expansion of the Romans.

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Mail armour of this type was also known as a byrnie or brynja.

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* Mail ( armour ), a type of protective body armor

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Mallory is an English surname thought to be derived from a French word meaning " beautiful " or alternately a different French word for Mail ( armour ).

Mail armour was introduced to China when its allies in Central Asia paid tribute to the Tang Emperor in 718 by giving him a coat of " link armour " assumed to be chainmail.

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Mail, sometimes called " chainmail ", made of interlocking iron rings is believed to have first appeared some time after 300 BCE.

*" Mail: Unchained ", an article taking an in-depth look at the construction and usage of European chainmail

Mail, also referred to as chainmail, is made of interlocking iron rings, which may be riveted or welded shut.

Mail service was established, and after rejecting several names for the budding town ( including naming it in honor of then-President Millard Fillmore ), the locals suggested the name Plano ( from the Spanish word for " flat "), a reference to the local terrain.

The game is also known as telephone, grapevine, broken telephone, whisper down the lane, க ி ச ு க ி ச ு ( Tamil " grapevine ") Развален телефон ( Bulgarian for " broken telephone ") gossip, secret message, Le téléphone arabe ( French for " Arab phone "), Stille Post ( German for " Silent Mail "), Gioco del Telefono ( Italian for " Telephone Game "), Telefono senza fili ( Italian for " Cordless Phone "), Telefone estragado ( Portuguese for " Broken / Ruined Phone "), Głuchy telefon ( Polish for " deaf telephone "), Gluhi telefon ( Croatian for " deaf telephone "), Зламаний телефон ( Ukrainian for " Broken telephone "), Глуви телефони ( Serbian for " deaf telephones "), Telefonul fără fir ( Romanian for " Cordless phone "), Сломанный телефон ( Russian for " broken telephone "), Rikkinäinen puhelin ( Finnish for " Broken telephone "), viskleken ( Swedish for " the whispering game "), viskeleken ( Norwegian for " the whisper ( ing ) game "), Teléfono chocho ( Spanish-Costa Rica for " Broken Phone "), Tichá pošta ( Czech and Slovak for " silent mail "), the messenger game and pass the message.

The trolls are also seen in the movies The Borrowers, Tank Girl, Whore, 54, Over the Hedge, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Snow Day, and Toy Story 3, as well as episodes in various television series, such as King of the Hill, Gomer Pyle, USMC, Living Single, The Nanny, The King of Queens, Friends, Step by Step, 7th Heaven, The Simpsons ( episodes " Flaming Moe's ", " Bart's Girlfriend " and " I Am Furious Yellow "), Family Guy ( Peter transforms into one in segment two of " Family Guy Viewer Mail # 1 ") and The Office.

This is not the case in most books on local history and place-names, but there are examples of earlier use in a will dated 1543, Kelly's Directory (" comprising Great and Little Billington "), the Victoria County History (" hamlets of Great and Little Billington "), and the Royal Mail Postcode Directory ( either " Great " or " Little " in the official postal addresses ).

The encryption / signing support is arguably also useful ( although not widely used in the " real world "), and it has reappeared in Apple's bundled Mail application starting with Mac OS X 10. 2 Jaguar in August 2002.

His voice has also appeared in an episode of The Simpsons ( where he provided the voice of a virtual doctor, saying " You've got leprosy " and " Goodbye "), and in advertising for the movie You've Got Mail.

Each issue contains a comic strip (" Kokopelli & Company ") written by Larry Gonick, a spoof about the main subject of the issue ( Dear Muse Reader ), a fun facts page ( Bo's page ), letters from readers ( Muse Mail ), a contest, a question-and-answer page written by Robert Coontz, Rosanne Spector, and Rebecca Lasley ; an article written by a Muse reader (" Muserology "), a short article based on a surprising photo (" Last Page "), and articles on various topics.

WWI pen franked " Soldier Mail " In addition to this type of franking privilege, from time to time ( especially during wartimes ) governments and / or postal administrations also authorize active duty service members and other designated individuals to send mails for free by writing " Free " or " Soldier's Mail " ( or equivalent ) on the item of mail in lieu of paid postal franking, or by using appropriate free franked postal stationery.

* Superfast / Mail Trains in India, a type of fast trains in India

The reason given for this by the Royal Mail is that they needed to increase the type size of the wording on the " plate " listing the collection times to improve legibility for those with poor sight and that consequently there was insufficient room for listing all collection times throughout the day.

For example, an address record, having mnemonic A for IPv4 and AAAA for IPv6, maps the domain name in the first field to an IP address in the fourth field, and a mail exchanger record ( type MX ) specifies the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol ( SMTP ) mail host for a domain.

Mail armor continues to be used as protection against stab / slash attacks.

Mail worn today for re-enactment and recreational use can be made in a variety of styles and materials.

Mail can also be made of titanium, aluminium, bronze, or copper.

Mail has applications in sculpture and jewellery, especially when made out of precious metals or colourful anodized metals.

Woolworths with a head and neck made of plastic wood, built by Christian Spurling, the son-in-law of Marmaduke Wetherell, a big game hunter who had been publicly ridiculed in the Daily Mail, the newspaper that employed him.

The early converts from broadsheet format made the change in the 1970s ; two notable British papers that took this step at the time were the Daily Mail and the Daily Express.

On June 28, 2007, the UK national newspaper The Mail on Sunday revealed that it had made a deal to give Prince's new album, Planet Earth, away for free with an " imminent " edition of the paper, making it the first place in the world to get the album.

During the Daily Mail Snowman Expedition of 1954, the mountaineering leader John Angelo Jackson made the first trek from Everest to Kanchenjunga in the course of which he photographed symbolic paintings of the Yeti at Tengboche gompa.

The Daily Mail prize was first announced in October 1908, with a prize of £ 500 being offered for a flight made before the end of the year.

The possessions included the fourth of the final plasters known made to create the Machin stamp series, the three others are kept in the Royal Mail archives.

In 1927, the Daily Mail reported that Norris had made under-the-counter payments to Sunderland's Charlie Buchan as an incentive for him to join Arsenal in 1925 ; this was in an era of the League's maximum wage, and any additional financial incentives to players were strictly outlawed, although many clubs at the time broke the rules.

Consequently, mail artists made up a reasonable proportion of the participants at the Festivals of Plagiarism, and Mail Art publications disseminated the Art Strike campaign.

George has three known cousins: Shelly, who appeared in " The Contest ", George Howarth, and Rhisa, who made an appearance in " The Junk Mail ".

By 1997 Octel's biggest competitors were Audix, made by Lucent, and Meridian Mail, made by Nortel.

Mail filter programs such as procmail can be made to pipe all incoming mail through SpamAssassin with an adjustment to user's < tt >. procmailrc </ tt > file.

* 1635 31 July – Charles I made the Royal Mail service available to the public for the first time with postage being paid by the recipient.

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* 1635: Royal Mail service first made available to the public by Charles I.

Royal Mail is famous for its custom load-carrying bicycles ( with the rack and basket built into the frame ), made by Pashley Cycles since 1971.

Under Thomas Witherings, chief postmaster under Charles I, the Royal Mail was made available to the public ( 1635 ), with a regular system of post roads, houses, and staff.

A counteroffer was soon made by a group of Toronto investors led by former Globe and Mail business reporter Fabrice Taylor.

After 1769, the River Stort was made navigable, and the town was made a stagecoach stop on the Mail coach road between Cambridge and London.