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 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 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.

The most commonly cited include the series of Chamber's Street loft concerts, New York, curated by Yoko Ono and La Monte Young in 1961 featuring pieces by Jackson Mac Low and Henry Flynt, the month-long Yam festival held in upstate New York by George Brecht and Robert Watts in May, 1963 with Ray Johnson and Allan Kaprow that was the culmination of a year's worth of Mail Art pieces, and a series of concerts held in Mary Bauermeister's studio, Cologne, 1960-61 featuring Nam June Paik and John Cage amongst many others.

These petitions were referred to Johnson's committee, and in response, Johnson, a practicing Baptist, drafted a report now commonly referred to as " The Sunday Mail Report ".

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.

Although there are materials and techniques which are commonly used and frequently favored by mailartists for their availability, convenience and ability to produce copies, Mail Art ’ s potential to surprise and delight is in part due to the unregulated wealth of media and styles employed by myriad mailartists.

Mail was commonly used to protect the face, neck and cheeks either as an aventail from the helmet or as a mail coif.

The Internet facilitated faster dissemination of Mail Art calls ( invitations ), Mail Art blogs and websites have become commonly used to display contributions and online documentation, and an increasing number of projects include an invitation to submit Email art digitally, either as the preferred channel or as an alternative to sending contributions by post.

According to the The Globe and Mail, the Chinese-Canadian community nicknamed Kenney the " Smiling Buddha " in reference to his efforts to garner ethnic votes on the basis of what some perceive as commonly held conservative values.

In an interview for The Globe and Mail on September 21, 2007, Karygiannis referred to ethnic Macedonians by the word Skopjans, commonly used in Greece, but seen as highly derogatory and racist by most Macedonians.

* The East Stand ( formerly sponsored by the Oxford Mail newspaper, and still commonly known as the Oxford Mail stand ) is home to the more vocal home supporters and can hold 2, 879 spectators.

Acadia also received several A-level grades in the 2010 Globe and Mail Canadian University Report, receiving highest marks in six of seventeen categories.

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

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 ).

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.

* K-9 Mail, a mail client for the Android ( operating system ), also called k9 or k9mail

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.

Mail was also monitored by the Censorship Board.

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.

Mountain Lion also includes more Chinese features including support for Baidu as an option for Safari search engine, QQ, 163. com and 126. com services for Mail, Contacts and Calendar, Youku, Tudou and Sina Weibo are integrated into share sheets.

Mail also provide IMAP and POP3 service.

* Freepost ( also known as Business Reply Mail )

The readership also differs greatly ; one of Britain's most well-known tabloids, the Daily Mail, boasts a mostly female readership, whereas that of The Morning Star, in keeping with its political leanings, is of unionised labourers.

In 1861 John Butterfield, who since 1858 had been using the Butterfield Overland Mail, also switched to the Central Route to avoid traveling through hostile territories during the American Civil War.

Mail, or post, is a system for transporting letters and other tangible objects: written documents, typically enclosed in envelopes, and also small packages are delivered to destinations around the world.

In addition to housing the DMGT head office, the building also houses the offices of The Independent series, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Evening Standard, and Metro.

The paper was formerly published by Associated Newspapers Ltd., a division of Daily Mail and General Trust, which also published the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, and Metro, a free morning paper distributed Monday through Friday at London stations.

He subsequently met W. H. Auden, who was also working for the GPO Film Unit ; together they worked on the films Coal Face and Night Mail.

A number of Gunderloy's zine reviews from Factsheet Five also appeared in edited form in High Weirdness by Mail.

Barbero also earned the distinction of launching the only delivery of Missile Mail.