Carrier pigeon
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DNJ Turkeys of the Year...in school history. They overslept a workout. Some high school coaches If 15 calls, 11 voice mails, nine e-mails and a couple of carrier pigeons aren't enough to get in touch with you, then please realize it's going to be tough to give you... In this article: MTSU, MTSU, Western Kentucky, Sun Belt Conference, Titans, Rich Rodriguez, Raiders, and Jay Cutler |
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eWEEK Technology News | 2 days ago
Techies Give Thanks for 15 Trailblazers
...in laying the path for the technologies we use today. Without these people, we'd probably still be living in the dark ages, relying on pmail (carrier pigeon-mail) instead of email. So enjoy this holiday list, which includes a short history...
In this article: Alan Turing, Isaac Newton, Calculus, Mathematics, Physics, Speed of light, Quantum mechanics, and All rights reserved
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Wired: Politics | 5 days ago
<cite>Wired</cite> Backs Internet for Nobel Peace Prize
If you're going to nominate The Internet for a Nobel Peace Prize you should also nominate newspapers, the postal service, telegrams, carrier pigeons, telephones, and the Pony Express, none of which actually deserve it as it's the people who...
In this article: Wired, Democracy, Shirin Ebadi, Twitter, U.S., and Zeitgeist
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Engadget | 7 days ago
Engadget's Holiday Gift Guide: GPS devices
...may be a good start for the budding adventurer, but the true argonaut in the family -- you know, the one that'll have to receive this via carrier pigeon atop Volcan Concepcion in the middle of Lago de Nicaragua -- only the best will do. The...
In this article: Iphone, TomTom, Engadget, Navteq, Garmin, Puerto Rico, United States, Beneficiary, and Magellan
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Engadget Mobile | November 17, 2009
Motorola Droid camera autofocus fixed in secrecy? (Update: it's a date-related self-correction)
...shouldn't have any access rights to it. Neutral Holy cow. Then go live on a militia compound and communicate by string-and-tin can or by carrier pigeon. Oh, wait, the pigeon could be shot down and tortured for information. And someone...
In this article: Ubuntu, Unix, E mail, Iphone, and Oliver Stone
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Wired: Wired Science | November 16, 2009
Birth of New Species Witnessed by Scientists
...from the pittiful numbers that early settlers reduced them to - near extinction! But not all animals can survive these "bottlenecks. " Carrier pigeons, on the other hand, didn't. Cheetahs, alas, suffer from an unusually low and homogeneous...
In this article: Charles Darwin, Peter and Rosemary Grant, Dog, Galapagos Islands, Big Bang, Coyote, Wolf, God, and Twitter
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Sydney Morning Herald - Entertainment | November 16, 2009
Rove quits
...on the phone, if you need to email, if you need to tweet ... I don't even know if people phone anybody any more, if you want to send off a carrier pigeon and let people know, anyone who might otherwise be watching tonight and isn't, let them...
In this article: Rove McManus, The 7pm Project, Logie awards, Roving Enterprises, The Sydney Morning Herald, Tasma Walton, Network Ten, and Belinda Emmett
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Guardian | November 15, 2009
Sexblogger's tale: How my life changed forever Zoe Margolis
...[UPDATE: or via this BBC documentary], welcome: you'll find 5+ years of archives in the sidebar to your left. Thought of introducing a carrier pigeon service as well? You obviously don't court publicity. Being outed must have been the...
In this article: Sunday Times, Twitter, Google Earth, and Facebook
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Scotland on Sunday | November 07, 2009
Left behind in broadband race
...send or download large files can take ages. If it wasn't for the fact that one of my clients is an animal rights group, I'd buy some carrier pigeons. Political pressure is required to force BT and other telecoms companies to get rid of the...
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The Register | November 04, 2009
Whitehall plans 'White Noise' phone network collapse
...can respond in real time," Smith said. Data and mobile communications will remain intact throughout the exercise. "We'd be reduced to carrier pigeons and semaphore if we didn't have some form of communications," Smith explained. He added...
In this article: House of Lords, EU, and UK
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Barking Carnival | October 26, 2009
jones Top Ten - Week Eight - 2009
...victory is pretty much assured. The Commodore offense is bad even by SEC standards. Boise State played Hawaii late. My trusty carrier pigeon, Williford, informs me that they were successful. Really successful - 54-9. That's more...
In this article: Texas, Texas Tech, Mississippi State, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Missouri, SEC, Michigan State, and Iowa Hawkeyes
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A Carrier pigeon is a Homing Pigeon (specifically a domesticated Rock Pigeon, Columba livia) that has been used to carry messages. Using pigeons to carry messages is generally called "pigeon post." Most homing/racing type varieties can be used to carry messages. There is no specific breed actually called "Carrier pigeon," so a Carrier pigeon is any variety that is used to carry messages. Carrier pigeons that were the basic Racing Homer were used to carry messages in World War I and World War II and are nowadays used for pigeon racing. Thirty-two pigeons were presented with the Dickin Medal.
Carrier pigeons should not be confused with English Carriers, which were once used many years ago to carry messages but are now bred primarily for their "carriage" and other show qualities.
The Egyptians and the Persians first used carrier pigeons 3,000 years ago. They also were used to proclaim the winner of the Olympics.
Tipu Sultan used carrier pigeons. They returned to the Jamia Masjid mosque in Srirangapatna, which was his headquarters. The pigeon holes may be seen in the mosque's minarets to this day.
Carrier pigeons played a vital part in World War II communication for D-Day as radios could not be used for fear of vital information being intercepted by the enemy.
The humorous IP over Avian Carriers (RFC 1149) is an Internet protocol for the transmission of messages via homing pigeon. Originally intended as an April Fools' Day RFC entry, this protocol has in fact been implemented and used, once, to transmit a message in Bergen, Norway on April 28, 2001. ==References==
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