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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.
Mail, sometimes called " chainmail ", made of interlocking iron rings is believed to have first appeared some time after 300 BCE.
* 1934 – The " Surgeon's Photograph ", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail ( in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax ).
Mail regulation is a national competency.
Mail ( maille, chainmail ) is a type of armour consisting of small metal rings linked together in a pattern to form a mesh.
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 is widely used in industrial settings as shrapnel guards and splash guards in metal working operations.
Mail is especially popular amongst those groups which use steel weapons.
The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Montreal ’ s La Presse, The Gazette, the Florida Times Union, the Indianapolis Star, the Providence Journal, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Brisbane Courier-Mail, the Windsor Star, The Economic Times and San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications, run the comic in their business section rather than in the regular comics section, similar to the way in which Doonesbury is often carried in the editorial section due to its pointed commentary.
Mail correspondence, which is the oldest form of distance education, is an asynchronous delivery technology and others include message board forums, e-mail, video and audio recordings, print materials, voicemail and fax.
Mail post is never considered as a reliable communication mean in Egypt.
* 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.
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.
* Mail sent to Jardines requires no address — just the name is enough to ensure its delivery.
" As critic Jack Tinker noted in the Daily Mail: " The performance is not so much downright bad as heroically ludicrous.
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions ( MIME ) is an Internet standard that extends the format of email to support:
Mail exchanged across networks is passed between mail servers that run specially designed software.
* 1924 – The forged Zinoviev Letter is published in the Daily Mail, wrecking the British Labour Party's hopes of re-election.
Mail is retrieved and marked for deletion by message-number.
In the United Kingdom, " political correctness gone mad " is a catchphrase associated with the conservative Daily Mail newspaper.

Mail and used
The 1921 first published photo of the Ashes Urn used in a montage by the Perth Western Mail in 1924.
Mail continued to be used to protect those joints which could not be adequately protected by plate, such as the armpit, crook of the elbow and groin.
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 from dead combatants was frequently looted and was used by the new owner or sold for a lucrative price.
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 commonly also used as horse armour for cataphracts and heavy cavalry as well as armour for the soldiers themselves.
Mail can be used under everyday clothes and many reenactors wear a hauberk under their regular clothes to accustom themselves to it.
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.
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 ).
The counties remain in use for some purposes, including the three-letter coding of vehicle number plates, the Royal Mail postcode address file ( which records counties in all addresses although they are no longer required for postcoded mail ) and Lord Lieutenancies ( for which the former county boroughs are also used ).
* GM Iron Duke engine, the nickname given to a 151 cid ( cubic inch displacement ) 4-cylinder internal combustion engine used in many 1980s-era General Motors automobiles, pickup trucks, and the United States Postal Service's LLV Mail trucks
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.
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.
Sendmail is a general purpose internetwork email routing facility that supports many kinds of mail-transfer and-delivery methods, including the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol ( SMTP ) used for email transport over the Internet.
The military ensign was also to be used by civil government ships and buildings, such as the Customs, Harbour pilots and the Royal Mail.
Excitement was high ; the 19 November 1981 issue of the Globe and Mail said that " Telidon may become as commonly used as the telephone and will have just as great a social impact, a representative of the Videotex Consultative Committee told the Canadian Computer Show and Conference in Toronto.
The Butterfield Overland Mail in 1858 used Emigrant's Crossing, where exposed rocks afford one of the few places safe for fording the Pecos River.
Royal Mail has given the postcode E20 to the Olympic Park and Stratford City developments, this was only used by the BBC TV soap EastEnders for the fictional suburb of Walford.
The Butterfield Overland Mail route used White's Westview Inn as its Davidson Station on its trail from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast from 1858 to 1861.
The wooden bridge was used for a portion of the Butterfield Overland Mail stage route.

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