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Camouflage trees (also known as fake trees, false trees, and observation trees) were observation posts invented in 1915 by French painter Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scevola while leading the French army's Section de Camouflage. They were used by the armed forces of France, the United Kingdom, and Germany in trench warfare during World War I.
Alfred Degrâce (1888–1967), who served as a soldier with the Canadian Forestry Corps during the First World War. The Forestry Corps was created during the First World War when it was discovered that huge quantities of wood were needed for use on the Western Front. Duckboards, shoring timbers, crates—anything that needed wood had to be ...
Researchers from four universities are working with Aboriginal communities and using photogrammetry to record 3D images of carvings on the huge trees, [10] in the first systematic survey of carved boab trees in Australia. [7] In October 2022, the team published the results of their survey of such trees in the Tanami Desert. [11]
Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc (8 February 1880 – 4 March 1916) [1] was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of German Expressionism.He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it.
The Verdun trees are oak and horse chestnut trees planted in the United Kingdom in the aftermath of the First World War.Acorns and chestnuts were collected from trees on the battlefield at Verdun and sent to England to be distributed and planted as war memorials.
These trees are known as "Charter Oak scions," and they were often planted in parks, town greens, cemeteries, and near post offices and town halls. [15] Many of them are marked with plaques and monuments, [16] but others are anonymous. [15] The total number of Charter Oak scions is unknown, but was probably near 100. [15] [16]
Coronation Park is a park and veteran's memorial in Toronto, Ontario, built to mark the coronation of King George VI in 1937. Most trees are planted to honour the Canadian men and women who participated in the First World War and earlier wars, while others commemorate subsequent coronations of Canadian monarchs.
The Mark Twain Tree was a giant sequoia tree located in the Big Stump Forest of Kings Canyon National Park. It was named after the American writer and humorist Mark Twain . It had a diameter of 16 feet (4.9 meters) when it was felled in 1891 for the American Museum of Natural History as an exhibition tree .