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 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 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.

Mail addressed to Taiwan is still delivered there, albeit through a third country.

* James, Brian: " The Dream that Wouldn't Die ", an account of John H. Noble ’ s experiences in Buchenwald under Soviet Rule and the Soviet camp system in the 1950s, in You Magazine delivered with ( The Mail on Sunday / Daily Mail ), August 1992.

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.

* The Sunday Mail Report authored and delivered by Johnson to the Senate on January 19, 1829

The Oamaru Mail, published from Mondays to Fridays, has its base in Oamaru as well as The Oamaru Telegram which is delivered every Tuesday and the Waitaki Herald, both Wednesdays and Fridays.

Mail delivered to addresses within the community are addressed to the city of Richmond or El Cerrito, depending on their location within the CDP.

Mail is delivered through the Waynesville post office and telephone service is provided through the Waynesville exchange.

Mail is delivered through the Pleasant Plain post office while telephone service is provided through the Butlerville exchange.

Mail to and from the city was delivered by the Pony Express.

Mail is delivered through the Monroe, Middletown, and Lebanon post offices.

Some mailartists claim that Mail Art began when Cleopatra had herself delivered to Julius Caesar in a rolled-up carpet, others consider early avant-garde experiments with the postal system to be the origin of the movement, but the term Mail Art was coined in the 1960s.

Mail isn't being delivered, bank accounts are inaccessible, and nothing is as it should be.

Mail is delivered to both settlements twice monthly by airplane from Anchorage, Alaska.

Mail is delivered from the Battery.

The temporary storage area to which E-mail is delivered by a Mail Transfer Agent and in which it waits to be picked up by a Mail User Agent is sometimes called a mail spool.

Mail from central Norway to Hammerfest which had taken three weeks in the summer and up to five months in winter could now be delivered in a mere seven days.

Mail is delivered from Stronsay, once a month, by a fishing boat.

Letters sent by serving Armed Forces members to family and friends in the UK ( from Operational Theatres ) are downloaded and printed at various locations in the UK and then delivered to the Royal Mail for final delivery.

* Private Mail Bag – delivered to recipient by contractor.

He delivered 640 letters and 1, 280 postcards, including a letter to himself from the United States Postal Service designating him as " Official Air Mail Pilot # 1.

However, there was some resistance to using it by the general public, members of whom would mail items without ZIP Code, almost invariably at the full First Class Mail rate, which by regulation had to be delivered if at all possible and feasible.

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.

Beano stamp issued by Royal Mail

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

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 ).

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 .").

In addition to the LEMONADE " trio ", Courier Mail Server offers a non-standard method of sending using IMAP by copying an outgoing message to a dedicated outbox folder.

The book was a nominee for the National Book Award in 1978, and received dozens of positive book reviews, including those by well-known critics such as John Updike in The New Yorker, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in the New York Times, and Marshall McLuhan in the Toronto Globe and Mail.