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 ).

* Mail ( armour )

* Mail ( armour ) ( or " chainmail "), a type of armor made of interlocking chain links

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

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* Mail ( armour )

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

* Mail ( armour )

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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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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.

Rain of near cloudburst proportions had fallen for three full days and it was still raining on the morning of Friday, November 4, 1927, when officials of the Post Office Department's Railway Mail Service realized that their distribution system for Vermont had been almost totally destroyed overnight.

So with all this experience, Bob Fogg was a natural choice to receive the first Emergency Air Mail Star Route contract.

The London Illustrated News published this photo in January 1921 ( shown at right ) This 1921 photo was also used by the Perth Western Mail in 1924 in a montage and is shown at the right below it.

On 25 May 2006, the then British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott was photographed by The Mail on Sunday playing croquet at his official residence, Dorneywood.

Mail from dead combatants was frequently looted and was used by the new owner or sold for a lucrative price.

Mail typically persisted longer in less technologically advanced areas such as Eastern Europe but was in use everywhere into the 16th century.

Mail Armour was introduced to the Middle East and Asia through the Romans and was adopted by the Sassanid Persians starting in the 3rd century CE, where it was supplemental to the scale and lamellar armours already used.

Mail was also common in East Asia, primarily Japan, with several more patterns being utilised and an entire nomenclature developing around them.

ITV then confirmed to the Mail that a second version had been recorded in the 1970s, but was only used for a very short while before reverting to Hunt's 1960 recording.

It was Grierson who coined the term " documentary " to describe a non-fiction film, and he produced the movement's most celebrated film of the 1930s, Night Mail ( 1936 ), written and directed by Basil Wright and Harry Watt, and incorporating the poem by W. H. Auden.

IMAP was previously known as Internet Mail Access Protocol, Interactive Mail Access Protocol ( RFC 1064 ), and Interim Mail Access Protocol.

The original Interim Mail Access Protocol was implemented as a Xerox Lisp machine client and a TOPS-20 server.

The interim protocol was quickly replaced by the Interactive Mail Access Protocol ( IMAP2 ), defined in RFC 1064 ( in 1988 ) and later updated by RFC 1176 ( in 1990 ).

The major turnpikes radiated from London and were the means by which the Royal Mail was able to reach the rest of the country.

ICQ is an instant messaging computer program that was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company Mirabilis, then bought by America Online, and since April 2010 owned by Mail. ru Group.

An alternative view launched by R. Lee Ermey, on his television series Mail Call, disputes this, saying that the vehicle was designed for specific duties, and was never referred to as " General Purpose " and it is highly unlikely that the average jeep-driving GI would have been familiar with this designation.