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 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.

They are alphanumeric and were introduced by the Royal Mail over a 15-year period from 11 October 1959 to 1974.

These codes were introduced by the Royal Mail between 1959 and 1974.

The Royal Mail stagecoach, a mail coach introduced in 1784, hastened the improvement of the road system in the British Isles through the turnpike trust system.

Although the last new U. S. Special Delivery stamp appeared issued in 1971, the service was continued until 1997, by which time it had largely been supplanted by Priority Mail delivery, introduced in 1989.

* 1955: Certified Mail service introduced

* 1989: Priority Mail introduced

The problem was solved when Royal Mail introduced postcodes meaning county names were no longer used in UK postal addresses.

The BNR Toronto lab introduced Meridian Mail in the 1980s, which went on to be a very successful product and forced the introduction of similar products from other telephony vendors.

Spector was influenced by Trotsky's work ' The Bolsheviki and World Peace ' which was published in the Toronto Mail and Empire in January 1918, and by Social Democratic Party of Canada ( SDP ) Dominion Secretary Isaac Bainbridge who introduced him to Lenin's writings and compelled him to join the SDP.

* Version 3. 0 ( September 2004 ) introduced customizable User Interface, virtual folders, Mail Chat, Biometric authentication and support of MAPI protocol to connect to Microsoft Exchange Servers.

Mail Classic " continues the availability of the original interface introduced in 1997.

cut free software client access and introduced the $ 29. 99 per year Mail Forwarding Service.

In 2012, in collaboration with Royal Mail, the BFPO introduced UK-style postcodes, to help ordering items online, owing to problems with websites not recognising the BFPO addressing format.

In 1840, Mulready designed the illustrations for the postal stationery, known as Mulready stationery were introduced by the royal Mail at the same time as the Penny Black in May 1840, They were issued in two forms ; one variant was precut to a diamond or lozenge shape and folded to form an envelope that could be held together by seal at the apex of the topmost flap ; and lettersheets that were cut in rectangles, folded over and sealed or tucked in.

Automated information services were introduced in 1960 providing subscribers with Mail Boat arrival data and a Daily Diary service, a Speaking clock service was introduced in 1964 using a system provided by Ericsson of Beeston.

PDN Mail was years ahead of its time and was also used by Microsoft Corporation until MIME was introduced.

It was introduced as both marketing for the then-new Lycos email service Spray Mail, and as a way for users to fight spam in a collective manner.

The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol ( SMTP ) introduced the idea of using four-letter abbreviations as codes for commands ( e. g. HELO, QUIT ).

The first Microsoft Mail product was introduced in 1988 for AppleTalk Networks.

The second Microsoft Mail product was introduced in 1991 for PC Networks.

The following year the company introduced its overnight letter to compete with the US Postal Service's Express Mail, and allowed document shipping for the first time.

In Dublin city and its suburbs, a system of postal districts was introduced in 1917 by the Royal Mail with the prefix " D ", and retained after separation, without the prefix.

Mail between Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China is treated as international.

Mail art is widely practiced in Europe, North and South America, Russia, Australia and Japan, with smaller numbers of participants also in Africa, China and other countries.

He continued his foreign reporting after joining The Mail on Sunday, for which he has written several foreign reports from all over the globe, including Russia, Ukraine, ( described by Edward Lucas as a " dismaying lapse ") Gaza, a visit to Iraq in the wake of the 2003 invasion, an undercover report from Iran, ( described by Iain Dale as " quite brilliant ") China, and

* Jones, Geo H. " The Japanese Invasion of Korea-1592 ", The China Review, or notes & queries on the Far East, 1899 ( Volume 23, Number 4-5: pp. 215 – 219, pp. 239 – 254 ), China Mail Office.

* Charles P. B. Taylor ( 1935 – 1997 ), radio / TV / print journalist ( Reuters in London 1955 -' 62 ; Globe & Mail in China 1962 -' 70s ), author, horsebreeder ( son of E. P. Taylor )

As recorded in a China Mail ( a Chinese newspaper ) on June 4, 1923, there was controversy in relation to a case involving 50, 000 yuan and Sun Fo.

Landon was private secretary to the Governor of New South Wales 1900 ; in 1903 he was special correspondent of the Daily Mail at the Delhi Durbar, in China, in Japan and in Siberia ; in 1903 – 1904 he was special correspondent of The Times on the British military expedition to Lhasa, Tibet ; in 1905 – 1906 he was special correspondent of The Times for the Prince of Wales ' visit to India ; and after that he was in Persia, India, and Nepal, 1908 ; Russian Turkestan 1909 ; Egypt and Sudan 1910 ; on the North Eastern Frontier of India and at the Delhi Durbar, 1911 ; in Mesopotamia and Syria, 1912 ; in Scandinavia and behind the British and French lines in 1914-1915 ; behind the Italian lines and to the Vatican in 1917 ( the war and Vatican visits with Kipling ); at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 ; in Constantinople, 1920 ; in India, Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine 1921 ; on the Prince of Wales ' tour of India and Japan, 1921-1922 ; in China and North America 1922 ; at the Peace Conference in Lausanne, 1923 ; in China, Nepal and Egypt 1924 ; and in China in 1925 ( source except where noted: Who Was Who ).

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.

from the Republic of China, Kuala Lumpur Malay Mail FC ( a defunct now-football club from Malaysia ), Hong Kong Rangers FC from Hong Kong, Royal Thai Air Force and two teams from the S. League, rivals Woodlands Wellington and Sembawang Rangers.

* 1867-1876 California China Mail and Flying Dragon

The California China Mail and Flying Dragon was a Chinese language publication and one of the first sources of advertisements encouraging Chinese emigrants to work on the Western railway.

* Holding Record from the University of California, Berkeley for a copy of the California China Mail and Flying Dragon

Other graduates include: James Morgan ( BBC News ), James Cheyne ( Sky News ), Gary Anderson ( Daily Mirror ), Rachel Richardson ( The Sun ) Aaron Pan ( Bloomberg ), Adam Forrest ( The Big Issue ), Anna Hart ( FHM ), Steve Dinneen ( City AM ), Susie Hanson ( BBC News ) Emilly Hill ( The Mail on Sunday ) Matt Rhodes ( BBC World ), David Crow ( The Financial Times ) Kirsteen Shields ( University of Dundee ), Ann Tornkvist ( Magnum ) and Chris Graham ( South China Morning Post ).

Canada's Globe and Mail stated that this " would help to advance Beijing ’ s goal of marginalizing Taiwan in the battle for global influence .” Michael Churchman, in the China Heritage Quarterly, has criticized teaching only simplified characters, arguing that it will hinder students also seeking to learn Classical Chinese.

She was purchased by Pacific Mail Steamship Company in December 1860, she entered it's Panama service and in February 1861 was sold to Flint & Holladay who chartered her for service in China.

* F. N. Otis, Isthmus of Panama: history of the Panama Railroad and of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, together with a traveller's guide and business man's hand-book for the Panama Railroad, and the lines of steamships connecting it with Europe, the United States, the North and South Atlantic and Pacific costs, China, Australia, and Japan, Harper, New York, 1867

* China Service Mail lists SCIS as one of the best international schools in Shanghai.