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 U. S. Postal History Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Many transportation events in postal history were marked by great demonstrations: the Pony Express for example, and scheduled airmail service in 1918.
History proved differently, but this experiment with missile mail exemplifies the pioneering spirit of the Post Office Department when it came to developing faster, better ways of moving the mail.
The existence of postal zones in the larger cities, set in motion in 1943, helped to some extent, but, in cases where the old zones failed to fit within the delivery areas, new numbers had to be assigned.
www.slahs.org /history/local/postal/timeline.htm   (6428 words)

  
 Reference Museums History Europe United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Southwold Museum, Suffolk - the archaeology, local history and natural history of the area - A museum dedicated to the local and natural history of Southwold.
Swaffham Museum - Focuses on the social history of the town and surrounding villages.
Swaledale Folk Museum - Interprets the cultural history of Swaledale and Arkengarthdale through their farming and lead mining tools, their pastimes and the impact of the lead mines upon their lives.
www.iper1.com /iper1-odp/scat/id/Reference/Museums/History/Europe/United_Kingdom   (2100 words)

  
 Site Contents at the free Online Encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
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Timeline of the 2001 anthrax attacks in Florida
Timeline of the 2001 anthrax attacks in New York
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /index_322.html   (170 words)

  
 United States Postal Service
United States Postal Service (USPS) is the official organization responsible for providing postal service in the United States.
It is the result of the mandate for post offices by the United States Constitution.
For a number of years, the US Postal Service has been head sponsor of a professional cycling team, bearing its name.
www.ukpedia.com /u/united-states-postal-service.html   (243 words)

  
 Category:Timelines - Definition, explanation
Timeline of trends in music from the United States
Timeline of trends in music from the United States(1930-1970)
Timeline of trends in music from the United States to 1930
lexikon.calsky.com /en/txt/cat/timelines.php   (95 words)

  
 A History of Russian Philately   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
If you can add any more dates and details to this history, please let me know.
They have been collated from a range of various sources, and scanned at different dots per inch, meaning that you can not assume that because one image is bigger than another, the underlying stamp is also bigger.
I've prepared this timeline from a variety of sources.
www.rossia.com /stamps/history/history.htm   (969 words)

  
 Postal History Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
I have compiled up a postal history timeline.
Since this is a modern postal history site, I will only list the timeline from the modern era (1970-1992).
I will only list the items related to the postal history covers that I have featured.
www.geocities.com /postalhistorygirl/timeline.html   (111 words)

  
 Timeline: 60,000 to 1 BCE
He builds roads, creates a postal system and sees himself as conqueror of the world.
They bring with them their sacred hymns and oral history - stories that express their desire to please the gods, including their god Dyaus Pitar (Sky Father).
Hurrians, from the Zagros Mountains, dominate the city of Mari, on the upper Euphrates, and Nuzi, a thriving commercial center.
www.fsmitha.com /timeline.html   (7969 words)

  
 Discovering Democracy - Classroom Activities - Electoral events timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The information on this timeline was adapted from Fact Sheet 17, 'Australian Electoral History', published by the Electoral Education Centre, Canberra.
A detailed timeline is provided on the Discovering Democracy School Materials Project CD ROM, 'Stories of Democracy'.
Use the timeline to create a list of dates for each state and territory to indicate when women were allowed to vote.
www.curriculum.edu.au /democracy/classroom/timeline.htm   (823 words)

  
 History Timeline on Almondnet
To find out more about the history of the world just choose from the continents below to view their history.
Follow the history of Medieval Britain from the time of Alfred the Great, through the Norman...
British history links, articles and timeline for tourists, teachers and education, research, history enthusiasts...
www.packaging-wholesalers.co.uk /packaging/history_timeline.html   (386 words)

  
 List of themed timelines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
General: List of years in science, Timeline of scientific discoveries, Timeline of scientific experiments, Timeline of environmental history of New Zealand
Timeline of Another World - American soap opera
Fictional encyclopedia wiki with a section for fictional history
www.casimiro.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/l/li/list_of_themed_timelines.html   (252 words)

  
 Internet Timeline
The sources used to compile this timeline of Internet events were Gromov's Timeline/History of Internet [Gromov's Timeline], Gromov's Internet History/History of Internet and WWW: The Roads and Crossroads of Internet History [Gromov's Internet History], Hobbes' Internet Timeline [Zakon].
Just as the railroads of the 19th century enabled the Machine Age, and revolutionized the society of the time, the Internet takes us into the Information Age, and profoundly affects the world in which we live.
Web size estimates range between 275 (Digital) and 320 (NEC) million pages for 1Q.Network Solutions registers its 2 millionth domain on 4 May. Electronic postal stamps become a reality, with the US Postal Service allowing stamps to be purchased and downloaded for printing from the Web.
www3.baylor.edu /~Sharon_P_Johnson/etg/inthistory.htm   (2490 words)

  
 Computing at Columbia Timeline
It does not aspire to be a general history or museum of computing, but in some ways it's not far from one either.
Numerov, Boris Vasilyevich: The website of the Tosno Museum of Local History and Tradition (Leningrad Region) says (as of 12 Sep 2003) "An exhibit section is devoted to Boris Numerov (1891-1941) - a prominent astronomer, land-surveyor and geophysicist, a creator of various astronomic instruments and means of minerals exploring.
See [39] for an excellent history (albeit with nothing on computing) of what is now called the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory.
www.columbia.edu /acis/history   (14532 words)

  
 Marblehead Magazine's History Of Marblehead Timeline
It was this event in the life of Sir Harry Franklin that caused deep introspection about the life of self-immersion he had been living and ultimately resulted in his marriage proposal to Agnes, finally granting the humble Marblehead girl the status and respect she so richly deserved.
In what was the largest celebration in the history of Marblehead to that point, the 18 1/2 foot monunent was erect to honor the memory of Captain James Mugford, on the centennial of his death in the Revolutionary War.
Made of Hallowell Granite from Maine, it escape destruction in the next year's fire and was moved to the summit of Old Burial Hill in 1912.
www.legendinc.com /Pages/MarbleheadNet/MM/Articles/Timeline.html   (9512 words)

  
 San Francisco History - A Timeline
European discovery and exploration of the San Francisco Bay Area and its islands began in 1542 and culminated with the mapping of the bay in 1775.
The entrance to San Francisco Bay, La Boca del Puerto (The mouth of the Port) is discovered on November 1 by Sergeant Jose Ortega.
On a spring day in 1868, banker James Sloan Hutchinson stepped in to stop two horsemen who were dragging a squealing boar off to market along the street's rough cobblestones.
www.zpub.com /sf/history/sfh2.html   (1977 words)

  
 Postal History
The United States Postal Service was the basis of the information infrastructure in Wisconsin in the 19
After parcels were approved for delivery by U.S. Mail in 1861, and the subsequent advent of mail-order businesses, families "on the frontier" had access to a greater variety of consumer goods.
Postmasters and mail carriers left their marks on Wisconsin history in a variety of ways, from artistic methods of canceling postage to a permanent name change of Wisconsin's largest city.
www.scils.rutgers.edu /~dalbello/FLVA/infrastructure/infoinfra/post   (150 words)

  
 History/Culture Timeline
Postal money orders sold in U.S; $1.3 million in 6 months.
Postal reform bill lowers rates and regulates domestic and international service.
Huge tin ore deposits discovered on the west coast; subseqent discoveries lead to rapid exploration in that region.
www.labyrinth.net.au /~saul/history/to1900.html   (4621 words)

  
 California, Timeline of State History - SHG Resources
Eclipsed by highway and bridge construction during the 1930's, a faster generation of ferries are once more becoming valuable cross-bay connectors offering alternatives to congestion in some corridors, and as emergency alternatives to these same highways and bridges.
The bomb was concealed in a suitcase; ten bystanders were killed and forty wounded in the worst terrorist act in San Francisco history.
Their goal was to create a memorial for those who had died of AIDS, and to thereby help people understand the devastating impact of the disease.
www.shgresources.com /ca/timeline   (5959 words)

  
 Timeline on Almondnet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Read about timeline in the free online encyclopedia and dictionary.
History comes alive at the AOL Research & Learn online resource center.
The Neale Donald Walsch (CWG) and Ryan Eure (Eur-Knighted Movement) ticket will begin their campaign for the presidency this month on Howard Stern's Sirius satellite radio channel.
www.gonorth.org.uk /scotland/timeline.html   (441 words)

  
 List of themed timelines
Timeline is a 1999 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton
Timeline is a 2003 film based on the novel.
List of ticker-tape parades in New York City
www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/l/li/list_of_themed_timelines.html   (204 words)

  
 List of themed timelines at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Alternative meanings: Timeline is also the title of a 1999 science fiction novel by...
Military history (list of wars) List of treaties.
Alternative meanings: Timelines are sequences of related events in chronological order.
www.springknow.com /List_of_themed_timelines.html   (622 words)

  
 History's Timeline B.C.
History's Timeline B.C. Timeline BC Timeline 1st Millennium
Perhaps, if we looked across the broad spectrum, we would realize that nothing happens in isolation.
History is an evolutionary development that happens over time.
www.agnosticwitch.catcara.com /nonscript-version/timelineBC-part1.htm   (819 words)

  
 Geoffrey Nunberg - Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
This is a pretty arbitrary list of landmarks in the history of information (whatever those might be), which I compiled for the Encyclopedia Britannica with the historian Daniel Brownstein.
postal service carries news and information throughout the country, a model for postal service in other nations.
1874 Twenty-two nations sign a treaty in Bern establishing the General Postal Union, later the Universal Postal Convention, which sets procedures for the exchange of international mail.
www-csli.stanford.edu /~nunberg/timeline.html   (5784 words)

  
 History Timeline BC
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”
History's Timeline B.C. To fully aprreciate what history has to offer, sometimes we need to take a couple of steps back to view its' bigger picture.
Proto Germanic people settle in the general area of modern Scandinavia and begin to develop a linguistic /cultural / religious identity separate from that of general Indo-European stock.
www.agnosticwitch.catcara.com /timelineBC-part1.htm   (850 words)

  
 Us Postal on Almondnet
Video games, find Postal at Kelkoo, the essential shopping search engine that helps you compare prices and save on a huge range of products available online.
US Postal Rates and US Postal Jobs and US Postal Codes and Postal Tracking US...
Postal Products and United States Postal Service Accessories and Postal Service Vehicles and Postal Products Unlimited...
www.packaging-wholesalers.co.uk /packaging/us_postal.html   (317 words)

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