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Why does that sound as though it should be a city in the middle of England?


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Speaking of Birnam wood going to high Dunsinane, I suspect that it would be hard to find
an earlier description of military use of camouflage.


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He's vice-president of the Northern California DX Foundation.

http://www.ncdxf.org/Biography/K6RIM.htm


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Speaking of Birnam wood going to high Dunsinane, I suspect that it would be hard to find
an earlier description of military use of camouflage.


The wooden horse of Troy?

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Deear Bingley: It seems to me that the Wooden Horse of Troy was closer to being a decoy.
I also have long thought it rather improbable that the Greeks had woodworking technology
to have been able to create such a structure.


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