Solel Boneh Company – 745 Artisan Works Coy. ,R.E British Corps of Engineers, 1942-1946, World War II, enamel, mistakenly attributed to the Jewish brigade, on the left wreath R.E.. – Royal Engineers, on the right wreath the same term in Hebrew

Richard McClintock, a Latin scholar from Hampden-Sydney College, is credited with discovering the source behind the ubiquitous filler text. In seeing a sample of lorem ipsum, his interest was piqued by consectetur—a genuine, albeit rare, Latin word. Consulting a Latin dictionary led McClintock to a passage from De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum On the Extremes of Good and Evil, a first-century B.C. text from the Roman.