FACTOID # 142: Americans consume the sixth-most spirits, the eighth-most beer and the 18th-most wine. They’re also likely to view heavy drinkers as undesirable neighbors.
 
 Home   Encyclopedia   Statistics   Countries A-Z   Flags   Maps   Education   Forum   FAQ   About 
 
WHAT'S NEW
RECENT ARTICLES
More Recent Articles »
 

SEARCH ALL

FACTS & STATISTICS    Advanced view

Search encyclopedia, statistics and forums:

 

 

(* = Graphable)

 

 


Encyclopedia > The Courier

The 'Courier & Advertiser' is a broadsheet newspaper published by DC Thomson in Dundee in six daily editions: the Early edition, and regional editions for Fife, NE Fife, Perth, Angus and Dundee. Broadsheet is a size and format for newspapers, and a descriptive term applied to papers which use that format rather than the smaller tabloid format. ... Dundees location in Scotland Dundee (Dùn Dèagh in Gaelic) is Scotlands fourth largest city, population 154,674 (2001), situated on the North bank of the Firth of Tay. ... Fife (Fìobh in Gaelic) is a unitary council region of Scotland situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth. ... Location within the British Isles. ... Angus (Aonghas in Gaelic) is one of the historic counties and also one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland and a Lieutenancy Area. ...


Established in 1801 as the Dundee Courier & Argus, the entire front page of The Courier used to contain classified advertisements - a traditional newspaper format for many years. The paper was quite unique in maintaining this format until the 1980s, when it adopted a conventional 'headline news' format.


External links

  • The Courier

  Results from FactBites:
 
Courier Mail Server (277 words)
Courier should also compile on Solaris and AIX, with some help from Sun's or IBM's freeware add-on tools for their respective operating systems.
Courier uses maildirs as its native mail storage format, but it can also deliver mail to legacy mailbox files as well.
Certain portions of Courier - the mail filtering engine, the webmail server and IMAP server - are also available are separate, smaller, packages that can be used with other mail servers.
courier - definition of courier in Encyclopedia (180 words)
A courier is a person or company that delivers packages and mail, often between offices and generally in a shorter timescale than surface mail.
Term courier can also be used for courier robots that transport object in a building (home, industry, and others).
The first documented use of an organized courier service for the diffusion of written documents is in Egypt, where Pharaohs used couriers for the diffusion of their decrees in the territory of the State (2400 BC).
  More results at FactBites »


 

COMMENTARY     


Share your thoughts, questions and commentary here
Your name
Your comments
Please enter the 5-letter protection code

Want to know more?
Search encyclopedia, statistics and forums:

 


Lesson Plans | Student Area | Student FAQ | Reviews | Press Releases |  Feeds | Contact
The Wikipedia article included on this page is licensed under the GFDL.
Images may be subject to relevant owners' copyright.
All other elements are (c) copyright NationMaster.com 2003-5. All Rights Reserved.
Usage implies agreement with terms.