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6 unusual facts about courier


Berliner Börsen-Courier

The paper incorporated as a supplement the Berliner Wespen, a paper Julius Stettenheim had created for humor and satire.

Journalists included Paul Lindau responsible for theater, Ernst von Wildenbruch for literature, Eugen Richter heading the feuilleton, Alfred Schütze and Paul Bormann for commerce, Benno Jacobsen for theater and Oskar Bie, writing on art.

Crimean Tatars in Bulgaria

The Tatars were assigned special messenger and military missions, and were incorporated into the Ottoman military administration.

Kieta Airport

On 13 February 2012, Papua New Guinea Post-Courier reported that the landowners had announced their intention to reopen the airport.

Kurt Boone

In 1990 he became a foot messenger with Rapid Messenger Service in New York City and started to become known as a fast courier and talented poet, performing poetry at many New York City poetry events.

Robert Shaw Sturgis Whitman

Disgraced, he returned to New York and took work as a messenger boy for a carpet company and a Wall Street bank.


Arnold Amet

The exchange, which had been filmed, was posted on YouTube, and made front page news in the Post-Courier, the country's largest-selling daily newspaper.

Cardinal Courier Media

Beginning in Fall 2007, Cardinal Courier Online became a part of the College Publisher network.

Besides material that had been featured in the print Courier a week before, the site featured exclusive online coverage and reaction to the Virginia Tech tragedy.

Cost externalizing

An example of cost externalizing would be using a global courier service (such as FedEx and UPS) to do all or most of the shipping and logistics work for the company.

Courier chess

Courier Chess (or the Courier Game) is a strategy board game in the chess family.

In the early sixteenth century Lucas van Leyden, in the Netherlands, painted a picture called "The Chess Players" in which a woman appears to be beating a man at Courier Chess.

In 1651 Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia, gave to Ströbeck a playing board with chess on one side and the Courier Game on the other, and a set of silver pieces.

Daniel J. Halstead

With the election of Abraham Lincoln the two papers were consolidated under the name The Syracuse Daily Courier and Union, with Halstead as publisher and sole proprietor.

Evil Overlord List

In Australia, a minor literary scandal erupted in 1997 when it emerged that award-winning author Helen Darville plagiarised this list for her regular column in Brisbane's Courier-Mail newspaper, which led to her being fired.

Farra d'Isonzo

The Romans later had a "statio" – or courier relay point – here, near which they built a bulky bridge on the Isonzo river in a place called Mainizza to improve communications with the eastern territories.

Ford Motor Company Philippines

In the late 1970`s and early 1980`s, the company introduced the Laser, Telstar, Econovan and Courier into the local market.

Frances Bavier

According to a 1981 article by Chip Womick, a staff writer of The Courier Tribune, Bavier enthusiastically promoted Christmas and Easter Seal Societies from her Siler City home, and often wrote inspirational letters to fans who sought autographs.

Galaxy Research

Its polls are published in News Limited tabloid newspapers, including the Herald Sun, Courier-Mail and The Daily Telegraph, in contrast to Newspoll data which are presented in the News Limited broadsheet newspaper The Australian.

George E. Hinman

Hinman graduated from high school in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1888, and became a newspaperman, working at the Berkshire Courier, published in Great Barrington, as reporter and advertising manager and later as local editor.

Helio Aircraft Company

It was renamed the Helio Aircraft Corporation by the time manufacture of this aircraft, the Courier, commenced in the early 1950s at a plant in Pittsburg, Kansas.

Henry D. Cooke

He was detained after the wreck at St. Thomas, where he conceived the idea of a steamship line from New York to San Francisco via the isthmus of Panama, and wrote about his idea to the Philadelphia United States Gazette and the New York Courier and Enquirer.

Hired armed cutter Courier

On 12 May, while off Winterton on the coast of Norfolk, Courier engaged a French 16-gun privateer.

History of organic farming

He published his findings in Farmers of Forty Centuries (1911, Courier Dover Publications, ISBN 0-486-43609-8).

Irwin Stelzer

who is the U.S. economic and business columnist for the Sunday Times, the Courier-Mail, and a contributing editor of the Weekly Standard.

J Allard

Allard headed up the team at Microsoft that created the two-screen tablet prototype called Courier.

Jojo Cobbinah

As a columnist and book reviewer he is also part of the editorial staff of »The African Courier«, a journal published in English. In 2003, he developed Ghana’s first all expense tour offer for Ghana Airways. His most recent work is »Dr.

Julia Pirotte

Based in Marseille, she worked as a photojournalist for Dimanche Illustré and served as a courier for weapons, false papers and underground publications.

Labh Singh

"The Courier" of Arizona, US, carried a story attributed to UPI stating that 3 "Sikh terrorists" killed 3 police officers who were taking 3 prisoners to a bathroom, while "16 armed court guards cowered in fear".

Lee Feinswog

Feinswog worked as a sportswriter for the Hannibal, Missouri Courier-Post in 1978 and was sports editor for the Raytown, Missouri, weekly group until 1981.

Mark Dawidziak

In 1983, after stints as the arts and entertainment editor at the Bristol Herald-Courier in Bristol, Virginia and the Kingsport Times-Times in Kingsport, Tennessee, he moved to the Akron Beacon Journal in Akron, Ohio as that newspaper's TV critic (later becoming its film critic).

Marta Mirska

Wartime found her working as a courier in the underground Polish Armia Krajowa in the east of Poland.

Max Josef Metzger

When he tried to have this memorandum delivered to the Swedish Archbishop of Uppsala, Erling Eidem, Metzger was denounced by the courier.

Musical Courier

The Musical Courier was a 19th- and 20th-century American music trade publication which began publication in 1880 and became noted as preeminent in its field.

Operation Safehaven

Myers admitted to being a courier and a member of several leading warez groups, including "DrinkOrDie." Katz admitted to being a site operator.

Printer's Devil

Douglas Winter, the editor of The Courier, a failing newspaper, feels there is nothing to live for after a number of employees quit, including the Linotype operator.

Royal Corps of Transport

In 1993 the Royal Logistic Corps (RLC) was formed by the amalgamation of The Royal Corps of Transport, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Royal Pioneer Corps, Army Catering Corps, and Postal and Courier elements of the RE.

Sonya Butt

On 28 May 1944, Sonya was parachuted into the department of the Sarthe in the area of Le Mans to work as a Courier, under the codename "Blanche".

The Beverly Hills Courier

In 2004, the Couriers then-editor, Norma Zager, was awarded Journalist of the Year by the Los Angeles Press Club for her series on a lawsuit brought by Erin Brockovich.

The New Woman

The New Woman, written in 1890–93, first appeared serially in the Warsaw Kurier Codzienny (Daily Courier).

The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat

Fritz is just starting his job as a courier, and he is asked by President Henry Kissinger to deliver a letter to the president of New Africa.

Tommy Flowers

Flowers later described a crucial meeting between Dwight D. Eisenhower and his staff on 5 June, during which a courier entered and handed Eisenhower a note summarizing a Colossus decrypt.

Walter von Gerich

He was arrested in Kristiania 16 June 1917, but after diplomatic pressure from Germany he was set free and escorted by the police to Germany 27 June 1917, due to his role as courier for the German Emperor.

He posed in 1917 as a German baron and diplomatic courier Walter von Rautenfels and was arrested for espionage in Norway and planning of sabotage in favour of the German Empire during World War I, when several suitcases with explosives were discovered, covered as diplomatic luggage.

William Harding Carter

Born in Nashville, Tennessee, he received both public and private schooling as a child and later attended the Kentucky Military Institute in Frankfort, Kentucky later acting as a mounted messenger during the American Civil War.

William Mathews

William A. Mathews, 19th-century Texas colonist, soldier, courier and quartermaster in the Texas Revolution

Yvonne Cormeau

Her role was to work as courier and wireless operator on the Wheelwright Circuit in Gascony.


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