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He was known thereafter as Henry "Box" Brown. [1] [2] Among his many human-mail stunts in the 1890s, [3] Austrian tailor Herman Zeitung mailed himself in a box from New York to the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, arriving on July 28, 1893. [4] Four days earlier, another Austrian, Ignatz Lefkovitz, did the same. [5]
[13] [14] Actor Humphrey Bogart, a strong player (Class A to Expert) also played games of correspondence chess against American G.I.s through mail, at one point having his mail intercepted by the FBI due to fears the algebraic notation used in chess games was actually an encrypted message. [15]
Day 2: B intends to reject the offer by putting a letter in the mail to A rejecting the offer. Day 3: B changes his mind and sends a fax to A accepting the offer. In this situation, whichever communication A receives first will govern. Example 3: Day 1: A makes an offer to sell a parcel of land to B. Day 2: B mails her acceptance.
John Speed's Genealogies recorded in the Sacred Scriptures (1611), bound into first King James Bible in quarto size (1612). The title of the first edition of the translation, in Early Modern English, was "THE HOLY BIBLE, Conteyning the Old Teſtament, AND THE NEW: Newly Tranſlated out of the Originall tongues: & with the former Tranſlations diligently compared and reuiſed, by his Maiesties ...
The exclusive use of the King James Version is recorded in a statement made by the Tennessee Association of Baptists in 1817, stating "We believe that any person, either in a public or private capacity who would adhere to, or propagate any alteration of the New Testament contrary to that already translated by order of King James the 1st, that is now in common in use, ought not to be encouraged ...
Unlike the New King James Version, the 21st Century King James Version does not alter the language significantly from the King James Version. [3] The author has eliminated "obsolete words". [3] The changes in words are based on the second edition of the Webster's New International Dictionary. [3] There were no changes related to gender or theology.
The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels. [1] A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid-19th century, national postal systems have generally been established as a government monopoly , with a fee on the article prepaid.
The KJV of 1769 contains translation variations which also occur in the Book of Mormon. A few examples are 2 Nephi 19:1, 2 Nephi 21:3, and 2 Nephi 16:2. The Book of Mormon references "dragons" and "satyrs" in 2 Nephi 23:21-22, matching the KJV of the Bible.