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.

He founded IUOMA ( International Union of Mail-Artists ) in 1988 and is also the curator of the TAM-Rubberstamp Archive, the result of a Mail Art collection that has been accumulated by him from 1983 till now.

The predecessor to The Globe and Mail was The Globe, founded in 1844 by Scottish immigrant George Brown, who would later become a Father of Confederation.

Business News Network ( formerly ROBtv ) is a twenty-four hour news and business television station, founded by The Globe and Mail but operated by CTV through both companies ' relationship with CTVglobemedia.

Wareham Smith, advertising manager of the Daily Mail, founded the exhibition as a marketing event for the newspaper.

After studying at University of Dundee, in 1897 Forbes worked as a reporter and editorial writer with a local Dundee newspaper until 1901 when he moved to Johannesburg, South Africa, where he founded the Rand Daily Mail.

The Canadian politician George Brown, who also founded the Globe and Mail newspaper, was born in the town in 1818.

In 1844, Lysander Spooner founded the American Letter Mail Company, competing with the legal monopoly of the United States Post Office ( USPO ) ( now the United States Postal Service

The town has its own newspaper, the weekly Market Rasen Mail, which was founded in 1856.

The company founded its MS Mail team in 1987, but it was not until it acquired Consumers Software in 1991 to obtain Network Courier that it had a messaging product.

Before entering a career in politics, Turner founded and owned weekly newspapers in Ontario, worked as an editor for The Globe and Mail, Metroland Publishing and Thomson Newspapers, and helped launch Maclean's as a newsweekly magazine.

The college is named after George Brown, who was an important 19th century politician and newspaper publisher ( he founded the Toronto Globe, forerunner to The Globe and Mail ) and was one of the Fathers of Confederation.

Mail Boxes Etc., Inc. was founded in 1980 in the United States, and grew to be the world's largest franchisor of retail shipping, postal and business service centers.

Wright went along with the plan and founded The Globe and Mail, which became Canada's national newspaper.

In 1932 Royal Mail Group collapsed, Royal Mail Lines Ltd was founded and Nelson Line merged into the new company and disappeared as a separate company

The tendency of Ström founded the daily Arbetarposten ( Workers ' Mail ) and quickly unified itself with the " SKP " of Karl Kilbom and Nils Flyg.

Among the village's notable residents included Sir George Burns, who with Samuel Cunard founded the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company ( later the Cunard Line ), and his son John ( later 1st Baron Inverclyde ) who lived at Castle Wemyss, which stood on Wemyss Point above the bay itself.

The Daily Mail was founded in 1914 by former Alaska Gov.

A political party founded in 2000 by some former members of Plaid Cymru under the leadership of John Humphries, a former journalist and editor of the Western Mail.

The Croydon newspaper was founded by Jesse Ward in 1869, and it and the other Advertiser publications are now part of the Northcliffe Media Group, which is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and is the largest newspaper publisher in the United Kingdom.

It paved the way for popular journalism — the Daily Mail was founded by Alfred Harmsworth, a contributor to Tit-Bits, and the Daily Express was launched by Arthur Pearson, who worked at Tit ' Bits for five years after winning a competition to get a job on the magazine.

He later became a drama critic for the Pittsburg Leader and eventually founded the Pittsburg Evening Mail and the Southern Monthly Magazine.

* Pacific Fast Mail, a Seattle based model railroad company founded by William M. Ryan.

The Western Mail was founded in Cardiff in 1869 by John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute as a penny daily paper.