Postal orders of the United Kingdom Royal Mail decided to introduce a series of gift postal orders. These have been retained. Since then, the Royal Mail has introduced a series of postal orders which can be used for purchases at Argos stores, however these have since been withdrawn. The 1946 play "The Winslow Boy" by Terence Rattigan, and the two subsequent films based on it, features the story of a schoolboy trying to clear his name over the theft of a five shilling postal order. The story was loosely based on the real life George Archer-Shee case. Postal orders are now becoming increasingly popular as a
Naval Cadet Corps (Russia) Naval Cadet Corps (Russia) The Naval Cadet Corps (), occasionally translated as the Marine Cadet Corps or the Sea Cadet Corps, is an educational establishment for educating Naval officers for commissioning in the Russian Navy in Saint Petersburg. It is the oldest existing institution of higher learning in Russia. The first maritime educational school was established by Peter the Great in Moscow as the "School of Navigation and Mathematical Sciences" in 1701. The school was moved to St Petersburg in 1713 as the" Naval Guard Academy". The school was renamed the "Naval Cadet Corps" on 17 February 1732 and was