Is this thruthiness?

[Paul Johnson]

Paul Johnson

http://bangalore-bosun.blogspot.com/2004/12/henri-camou.html

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>       Henri Camou
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> Henri Camou was a skilled draughtsman living in early 19th century
> Perigueux, until he lost his favourite pencil, the Austrian-made Flage
> II Spezial. Having searched high and low for many hours he finally
> realised that the pencil was right in front of him all the time,
> standing in a pot containing 15 other identical Flage II Spezial
> pencils. It was at this moment that Camou realised the potential
> military application of making something hard to see by blending it
> into its surroundings. He called this new concept "Camou-Flage", and
> despite dying in steam some three years later, he has never looked back.
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> A little known fact is that Henri Camou sold his first patented
> Camou-Flage kit to the military garrison at Malevo,
> Vitriolia-Villilieilleivia. The kit was credited with being a decisive
> factor in the Malevo garrison's victory over the marauding Labbkotes
> in 1846, the victory ever since being celebrated with an annual dance
> in honour of Henri Camou. Such was Camou's popularity that in 1919 the
> town changed its name to Cammodance in honour of the dance in his
> honour. (The Vitriolia-Villilieilleivian spelling of Henri Camou is
> Henree Cammo).
>
> Thanks to Oskar Pedagoguey and Lemuel Submishun for researching this
> fascinating piece of history <http://davedobbler.blogspot.com>.


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