Nancy reminds Timothy how .... we came and made you and Uncle Jim walk the plank last summer i.e. after the events in PP ( PM2).

The Roman historian Pliny describes how Decimus Brutus broke Marc Antony’s siege of Mutina by sending messages to the consuls via pigeon. (43 BC). The Romans also used pigeons to relay chariot race results to owners and book makers

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Carrier pigeons still serve; Even in modern war they do messenger duty”. The New York Times. April 12, 1936. p.SM26. Allatt, Captain H.T.W. (1886). "The Use of Pigeons as Messengers in War and the Military Pigeon Systems of Europe". RUSI Journal. 30 (133): 107–148 [111]. doi: 10.1080/03071848609416366 . Retrieved 24 November 2012. Homing pigeons are however not cheap to maintain. They require a good diet and rooming space. These racing pigeons live on a special diet of shark liver oil mixed with potash dissolved in water. On a yoga mat, begin in Downward-Facing Dog Pose. To do this, start on all fours and place your hands in front of you on the mat (palms down). Press into your hands and feet, straighten your legs, and raise your hips up towards the sky. Your body will be in an upside-down V position.

The humorousIP over Avian Carriers(RFC 1149) is anInternetprotocol for the transmission of messages via homing pigeon. Originally intended as anApril Fools’ Day RFCentry, this protocol was implemented and used, once, to transmit a message inBergen,Norway, on April 28, 2001. [38] Meir Shalev, A Pigeon and a Boy(English translation by Evan Fallenberg), a historical novel about the use of pigeons by the Israel Defense Forces(and the Haganah before Israel was founded in 1948) in the defence of Israel when it was first founded, and in the defence of the Jewish community before Israeli independence Treiber, CD; etal. (2012). “Clusters of iron-rich cells in the upper beak of pigeons are macrophages not magnetosensitive neurons”. Nature. 484(7394): 367–70.Bibcode: 2012Natur.484..367T.doi:10.1038/nature11046.PMID22495303.S2CID205228624.Because of this skill, domesticated pigeons were used to carry messages as messenger pigeons. They are usually referred to as " pigeon post" if used in post service, or " war pigeon" during wars. Until the introduction of telephones, homing pigeons were used commercially to deliver communication.

The matches the kids use come in a box with a picture of Noah's Ark on it, unlike the box they find near their mine left by Squashy Hat, which has a red triangle and eye and foreign (Portuguese) wording on it ( PP26). The pigeon post that was in operation while Paris was besieged during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871 is probably the most famous. Barely six weeks after the outbreak of hostilities, the Emperor Napoleon III and the French Army of Châlons surrendered at Sedan on 2 September 1870. There were two immediate consequences: the fall of the Second Empire and the swift Prussian advance on Paris. As had been expected, the normal channels of communication into and out of Paris were interrupted during the four-and-a-half months of the siege, and, indeed, it was not until the middle of February 1871 that the Prussians relaxed their control of the postal and telegraph services. With the encirclement of the city on 18 September, the last overhead telegraph wires were cut on the morning of 19 September, and the secret telegraph cable in the bed of the Seine was located and cut on 27 September. a b Wallraff, H.G. (2004). "Avian olfactory navigation: its empirical foundation and conceptual state". Animal Behaviour. 67 (2): 189–204. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.06.007. S2CID 53181732. In the 1800s there was an official pigeon postal service throughout France and by 1870 there was a pigeon postal service between London and ParisArtworks were inspired by the buildings history as a post office and represented using various mediums, including mixed media painting, stamp collages , ceramics, wood and digital prints created by local and international artists. A light-mediated mechanism that involves the eyes and is lateralized has been examined somewhat, but developments have implicated the trigeminal nerve in magnetoreception. [25] [26] Research by Floriano Papi (Italy, early 1970s) and more recent work, largely by Hans Wallraff, suggest that pigeons also orient themselves using the spatial distribution of atmospheric odors, [23] known as olfactory navigation. Mora, C. V.; Davison, M.; Wild, J. M.; Walker, M. M. (2004). "Magnetoreception and its trigeminal mediation in the homing pigeon". Nature. 432 (7016): 508–511. Bibcode: 2004Natur.432..508M. doi: 10.1038/nature03077. PMID 15565156. S2CID 2485429.