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    Rocket mail is the delivery of mail by rocket or missile. The rocket lands by deploying an internal parachute upon arrival. It has been attempted by various...
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  • RocketMail was one of the first major free webmail services. The service was originally a product of Four11 Corporation. For a brief time, RocketMail...
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    however, including the United States Postal Service's experiment with rocket mail. Receipt services were made available in order to grant the sender a...
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    Webmail (redirect from Web mail)
    advertising, as well as a licensed version that did not. Hotmail and Four11's RocketMail both launched in 1996 as free services and immediately became very popular...
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  • company's RocketMail webmail service, which launched in 1997. Yahoo! announced the acquisition on October 8, 1997, close to the time that Yahoo! Mail was launched...
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    a fallback Rocket Festival – Traditional festival of Laos and Thailand Rocket mail – Mail delivery by rockets or missiles English rocket, first attested...
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    inhabited, the island was the scene of unsuccessful experiments with rocket mail, since commemorated in two films. Scarp has an area of 1,045 hectares...
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    rocket that would transport cargo from source to destination, landing in all kinds of environments. Prompt Global Strike Rocket mail—delivery of mail...
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  • and rocket engineer. Born in Hasselfelde, he first came to public notice in 1931, when he began to work on the problem of transporting mail by rocket. In...
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    Queensland Air Mail Society, launched a rocket from Canonbar carrying 1000 'commemorative covers’, in what was styled the "First Australian rocket flight S...
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    resort of St Radegund. In 1931, the rocket designer Friedrich Schmiedl began a rocket mail service here, launching rockets to St Radegund. Schöckl Transmitter...
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    Airmail (redirect from Air mail)
    Airmail (or air mail) is a mail transport service branded and sold on the basis of at least one leg of its journey being by air. Airmail items typically...
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  • Outlook.com (redirect from Hot mail)
    first webmail services on the Internet along with Four11's RocketMail (later Yahoo! Mail). It was commercially launched on July 4, 1996, symbolizing...
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    pioneering Indian aerospace engineer who developed techniques in delivering mail by rocket. Unlike Friedrich Schmiedl, whom the Austrian Authorities banned from...
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    Lalmonirhat Santahar 23 Rocket Mail Khulna Parbatipur 24 Parbatipur Khulna 25 Nakshikantha Mail Khulna Dhaka 26 Dhaka Khulna 27 Ghaghat Mail Parbatipur Chilahati...
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    attempts the first rocket mail service in Austria 1933 - Sergei Korolev and Mikhail Tikhonravov launch the first liquid-fueled rocket in the Soviet Union...
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    within 24 hours of being dropped off. List of philatelic topics Airmail Rocket mail Pasilalinic-sympathetic compass "Camels – the Carriers and Couriers of...
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  • Friedrich Schmiedl (category Rocket scientists)
    1902 – 11 September 1994) was an Austrian rocket designer; known particularly for his development of rocket mail. Schmiedl was born in Schwertberg in Upper...
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    railroad (also mentioned as a geographic study above). Rocket mail is the delivery of mail by rocket or missile and is a specialised collecting area of aerophilately...
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    connected to various projects. Examples include rocket mail, dating from as early as the 1928, and mail actually carried on space flights, a practice that...
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  • island of Scarp by rocket mail. Another fictionalised account of the experiment formed the basis of a 2001 film, also called The Rocket Post, which was filmed...
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    (ICBM) tests, fatality or injury to test animals, uncrewed space flights, rocket-powered aircraft projects of World War II, or conspiracy theories about...
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    piano. The stranded ship was also used as a venue for an experiment in 'rocket mail' in August 1935. The ship was subsequently stripped of its fittings,...
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    of balloon mail, dirigible mail, zeppelin mail, missile mail, and rocket mail are active subspecialties. Astrophilately, the study of mail in space, is...
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  • Estonia/Germany – Schmidt camera Friedrich Schmiedl (1902–1994), Austria – rocket mail Otto Schmitt (1913–1998), U.S. – Schmitt trigger (electronics) Christian...
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    a postal service to the island of Scarp by rocket mail formed the basis of a 2001 film called The Rocket Post, which was filmed on Taransay. Scottish...
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  • Registered mail Regummed stamp Reissue Reprint Remainder Reperforation Reply card Reply coupon Revenue cancellation Revenue stamp Rocket mail Rotary press...
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    The First Air Mail Marker is a plaque in West Potomac Park, Washington, D.C. It is located on east shore of the Potomac River beside Ohio Drive. The marker...
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  • chess master Stephen Smith (aerospace engineer) (1891–1951), pioneer of rocket mail in India Steven Smith (teamaker) (1949–2015), American tea entrepreneur...
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  • 1964 numerous rocket experiments were carried out in the area of Cuxhaven, Germany. In April 1933 Gerhard Zucker launched a mail rocket, which was to...
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