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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
helenczerski@fediscience.org ("Helen Czerski") wrote:
It is such a delight to discover that the origin of Reuters (the huge news agency) is that in 1850 Paul Julius Reuters started a service using pigeons to carry news & stock market prices between Brussels & Aachen, until telegraph could take over. Pigeons went by train each day & then flew back.