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

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

* Mail ( armour )

* 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 spread to North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, India, Tibet, Korea and Japan.

News of this spread to the press, including the British tabloid newspaper The Daily Mail who strongly objected to the idea.

The Western Mail and the South Wales Daily News, Wales ’ daily newspapers spread news of conversions and generated an air of excitement about the Revival that helped to fuel it further.

Shops throughout Northern Europe were rebranded to MyTravel however UK retail outlets remained under the banner of Going Places due to the immense brand awareness and popularity-a brand that continually wins the accolade of ‘ UK ’ s Favourite Travel Agent ’ as voted for by Daily Mail readers.

Although the paper is sold throughout Canada and has long called itself " Canada's National Newspaper ", The Globe and Mail also serves as a Toronto metropolitan paper, publishing several special sections in its Toronto edition that are not included in the national edition.

Both The Advertiser and the Sunday Mail are available for purchase throughout South Australia and some towns and regions in New South Wales, Victoria and the Northern Territory located near or adjacent to the South Australia state border such as Broken Hill, Mildura, Nhill and Alice Springs.

Trends in interface design have also changed throughout the years, and Pegasus Mail has not followed those changes, still having essentially the same user interface it had in its first Windows version, with very few later additions ( such as the " preview window " mode ).

Articles of the Daily Mail regularly advocated anti-German sentiments throughout the 20th century, telling British readers to refuse service at restaurants by Austrian or German waiters on the claim that they were spies and told them that if a German-sounding waiter claimed to be Swiss that they should demand to see the waiter's passport.

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.

The reason given for this by the Royal Mail is that they needed to increase the font 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.

There are approximately 1, 500 Postal Inspectors stationed throughout the United States and abroad who enforce more than 200 federal laws covering investigations of crimes that adversely affect or fraudulently use the U. S. Mail and postal system.

He handled the distribution throughout the Middle East of American recordings, in addition to local broadcasts of Command Performance, Mail Call, Personal Album, Radio Bric-a-Brac and Front Line Theatre.

It operated scheduled services from Bournemouth to the Channel Islands and nightly cargo services to Europe and throughout the UK on behalf of Royal Mail and other overnight express carriers.

Beginning in 1920, the Battalion began guarding US Mail trains throughout the United States.

She attended the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and worked as a journalist throughout her twenties, writing women's features for The Daily Express, The Daily Mail, Cosmopolitan and others.

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

More recently, Canadian newspapers have adopted the British spelling variants such as-our endings, notably with The Globe and Mail changing its spelling policy in October 1990.

Mail, if a warrior could afford it, provided a significant advantage to a warrior when combined with competent fighting techniques.

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

Mail remained in use as a decorative and possibly high-status symbol with military overtones long after its practical usefulness had passed.

On November 18, von Hindenburg testified in front of this parliamentary commission, and cited a December 17, 1918 Neue Zürcher Zeitung article that summarized two earlier articles in the Daily Mail by British General Frederick Barton Maurice with the phrase that the German army had been ' dagger-stabbed from behind by the civilian populace ' (" von der Zivilbevölkerung von hinten erdolcht .").

* Ronald Munson used an epistolary style in " Fan Mail " ( 1994 ), where the entire plot is told using e-mails, letters, transcripts of television shows and telephone conversations, faxes, and interactions with a computer program called ELIZA.

Support for the Internet standard protocols allows many e-mail clients such as Pegasus Mail or Mozilla Thunderbird ( see comparison of e-mail clients ) to access these servers, and allows the clients to be used with other servers ( see list of mail servers ).

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.

The British historian Victor Rothwell wrote that the newspapers that Ribbentrop used to provide his press summaries for Hitler, such as the Daily Express and the Daily Mail, were out of touch not only with British public opinion, but also with British government policy in regard to Poland.

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.

Spurling claimed that to get revenge, Marmaduke Wetherell committed the hoax, with the help of Chris Spurling ( a sculpture specialist ), his son Ian Marmaduke, who bought the material for the fake, and Maurice Chambers ( an insurance agent ), who asked surgeon Robert Kenneth Wilson to offer the pictures to the Daily Mail.

The Post Office Railway, also known as Mail Rail, was a narrow-gauge driverless underground railway in London, built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, to move mail between sorting offices.

After Clinton's autobiography My Life appeared in 2004, Lewinsky said in an interview with the British tabloid Daily Mail:

Mac OS X v10. 6 also features Microsoft Exchange Server support for Mail, iCal, and Address Book, new 64-bit technology capable of supporting greater amounts of RAM, an all new QuickTime X with a refreshed user interface and more functionality that used to be only available to QuickTime Pro owners.

Compared to 1979, the Daily Mail published " Blocked: The Arctic ice, showing as a pink mass in the 1979 picture, links up with northern Canada and Russia.

Mail steamer Mariposa ( ship ) | Mariposa casting off in Auckland in the 1880s, with a paddle steamer ferry in the front.

In the United Kingdom, " political correctness gone mad " is a catchphrase associated with the conservative Daily Mail newspaper.

On March 26, 2010, in an interview with The Globe and Mail, Lifeson reconfirmed that the band had already written a half-dozen songs and that there was the potential for two supporting tours, one planned for Summer 2010 and a more extensive tour planned for Summer 2011.

George B. Armstrong, manager of the Chicago Post Office, is generally credited with being the founder of the concept of en route mail sorting aboard trains which became the Railway Mail Service.

Mail had been carried in locked pouches aboard trains prior to Armstrong's involvement with the system, but there had been no organized system of sorting mail en route, to have mail prepared for delivery when the mail pouches reached their destination city.

The Railway Mail Service reached its peak in the 1920s, then began a gradual decline with the discontinuance of RPO service on branchlines and secondary routes.

The judges were charged with RICO after allegedly committing acts of Wire fraud, Mail Fraud, Tax Evasion, Money Laundering, and honest services fraud.

* With the Night Mail ( 1905, A Story of 2000 A. D., together with extracts from the magazine in which it appeared )