Pigeon post is the use of homing pigeons to carry messages. Pigeons are effective as messengers due to their natural homing abilities. The pigeons are...
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Pigeon Post is an English children's adventure novel by Arthur Ransome, published by Jonathan Cape in 1936. It was the sixth of twelve books Ransome completed...
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distances. Because of this skill, homing pigeons were used to carry messages, a practice referred to as "pigeon post". Until the introduction of telephones...
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Pigeon racing is the sport of releasing specialized, trained homing pigeons, which then return to their homes over a carefully measured distance. The...
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Pigeon Street is a British cutout animated children's television series, written by Michael Cole, originally shown on the BBC in 1981 as part of its 'See-Saw'...
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Homing pigeons have long played an important role in war. Due to their homing ability, speed, and altitude, they were often used as military messengers...
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The Pigeon Post House is located at 112 Newton Road, Newton, Auckland, New Zealand, on the corner of Newton Road and Upper Queen Street. From 1897 into...
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Pigeon keeping or pigeon fancying is the art and science of breeding domestic pigeons. People have practiced pigeon keeping for at least 5,000 years and...
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Pigeon photography is an aerial photography technique invented in 1907 by the German apothecary Julius Neubronner, who also used pigeons to deliver medications...
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possible the name has stuck because of the simple word association with pigeon post. Pigeon hole mail boxes are used by postal offices in the United Kingdom...
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IP over Avian Carriers (redirect from Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol)
proposal to carry Internet Protocol (IP) traffic by birds such as homing pigeons. IP over Avian Carriers was initially described in RFC 1149 issued by the...
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the "war" in Swallows and Amazons or finding an underground spring in Pigeon Post. Roger is the youngest, originally the ship's boy, but later promoted...
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domestic pigeon (Columba livia domestica or Columba livia forma domestica) is a pigeon subspecies that was derived from the rock dove or rock pigeon. The...
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holidays although some are set in Easter or winter. For example, in Pigeon Post, he wrote: "Term time was gone as if it had been wiped out. Real life...
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Paris on 7 October. The balloons also carried homing pigeons out of Paris to be used for pigeon post. This was the only means by which communications from...
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official report for using microphotography to preserve documents. A pigeon post was in operation during the Siege of Paris (1870-1871). René Dagron photographed...
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the message. Thus flag semaphore is a method of telegraphy, whereas pigeon post is not. Ancient signalling systems, although sometimes quite extensive...
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where the character mistakenly identifies a butterfly as a pigeon. The image was originally posted on Tumblr. The meme originates from Yutaro Katori, a human...
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Accessed 2008-06-04.) Centenary of Pigeon Post Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine (from the New Zealand Post website. Accessed 2008-06-04.)...
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Mail (redirect from Recorded post)
by which couriers travelled. By 3000 BC, Egypt was using homing pigeons for pigeon post, taking advantage of a singular quality of this bird, which when...
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by writing a column for the Morning Post in 1866. His coverage of the Siege of Paris sent by balloon and pigeon post ensured his fame. He borrowed £200...
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by carrier pigeon. Parisian photographer René Dagron used microfilm to permit each pigeon to carry a high volume of messages, as pigeons can carry little...
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Many films have featured mid- and post-credits scenes. Such scenes often include comedic gags, plot revelations, outtakes, and/or hints about sequels....
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Frolic". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved February 15, 2016. "By Pigeon Post". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved February 15, 2016. "Ziegfeld...
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Pigeon Forge is a mountain resort city in Sevier County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 6,343 at the 2020 census. Situated 5 miles (8.0 km)...
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The passenger pigeon or wild pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) is an extinct species of pigeon that was endemic to North America. Its common name is derived...
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The common wood pigeon (Columba palumbus), also known simply as the wood pigeon, is a large species in the dove and pigeon family (Columbidae), native...
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Pryce-Jones Surface mail U.S. Parcel Post stamps of 1912–13 Pigeon post Drone delivery Jones, Chester Lloyd, "The Parcel Post in Foreign Countries", The Journal...
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appeared as the local police sergeant, then retired from the force and ran the post office before becoming a publican. Fowlds married, and later divorced, Wendy...
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Flying Pigeon (simplified Chinese: 飞鸽; traditional Chinese: 飛鴿; pinyin: fēigē) is a Chinese publicly owned bicycle company based in Tianjin. Since 1950...
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