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The Pony express

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The pony express operated between Missouri and California from 1860 to1861. Relay of riders galloped the 3000km in about 10 days carrying the mail. Two days after the first telegraph line was completed the pony express ceased. 

pigeon post.

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Earliest messages were torches, bonfires and smoke signals. But these were in adequate for longer messages letter services have existed for centuries. But they were slow. News of the victory at the battle of Waterloo in 1815 first reached London in hours by pigeon post. 

Karbala Gets its Second snowfalls in 100 Years.

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Karbala is a city in central Iraq , located about 100 km , Southwest of Baghdad , and a few Dozen miles east of lake. Karbala is the capital of Karbala Governorate & has an Estimated population of 700,000 people. Snowfall may continue until wednesday given the very cold weather, said Amer Al- Jaberi to media he is the head of the Iraqi Meteorological center. Snowfall is more common in northern Iraq where snow covered the war battered city of Mosul, but in the center and south there is rarely enough precipitation . Iraq has been hit by a succession of extreme weather events in recent years.

Augustus Caesar

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Augustus was the first roman emperor , who was born in 63 BC in Italy and died in 14 AD , Itlay. Augustus original name was Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus , he also called Augustus Caesar. He was the first Roman Emperor who had been finally destroyed by the dictatorship of Julius Caesar, his great-uncle and adoptive father. His autocratic regime is known as the participate because he was the Princeps, the first citizen, at the head of that array of outwardly revived republican institutions that alone made his autocracy palatable. With unlimited patience, skill, and efficiency, he overhauled every aspect of Roman life and brought durable peace and prosperity to the Greece-Roman world. he was Popular with the soldiers of his army and the title Augustus solidified his power in the provinces as Imperator ( emperor), or commander-in-chief . The month of August was named in his honor. In the year 19 BCE, he was given Imperium Maius (supreme power) over every province in the Roman Empire , f

Eleanor Of Castile

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Leonor De Castillla knowns as Eleanor of castile . She was born in 1241 in Burgos ,Castile in spain and died in 1290 at Harby Nottinghamshire. Leonor De Castille was Spanish , daughter of Eleanor was the daughter of King Ferdinand III of Castile and his wife, Joan of Ponthieu..In 1254 Eleanor was married to Lord Edward , In honour of the event, her half brother, Alfonso X of Castile, transferred to Edward his claims to Gascony. When Henry III’s baronial opponents seized power in England in 1264, Eleanor was sent for safety to France; she returned in October 1265, after Edward had crushed the rebels, her devotion to Edward helped bring out his better qualities; after her death, his rule became somewhat arbitrary. The story that Eleanor saved Edwards life at Acre (now in Israel) by sucking poison from a dagger wound is evidently apocryphal. After Edward ascended the throne, Eleanor was criticized for allegedly mistreating the tenants on her lands. Upon her death, Edward erected the fa

King Edward 1

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King Edward  1  Edward 1 was a great king of England , Edward Longsharks was born in June 17, 1239 at Westminster , Middlesex ,England and he died in July 7 1307, Burgh by Sands near Carlisle, Cumberland . He was the elder son of Henry III . He was also Eleanor of Provence and king of England in 1272 till 1307 . In 1254 he was given the duchy of Gascony . the channel Islands . the french Oleron .October 1254 King Edward marry with Eleanor , Half sister of Alfonso X of Leon and Castile ,they both marry in Las Huelgas , Spain. They both traveled to Bordeaux to organize his scattered appanage. He now had his own household and officials , chancery and seal with a treasury at Bristol Castle . In November 1255 Edward I returned to England and attacked Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, , The Prince of Gwyned to whom his Welsh subjects had appealed for support when Edward attempted to introduce English administrative units in his Welsh lands. Edward, receiving no help from either Henry or the marcher