Portal:Scouting/Did you know... archive/2007
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- Jan 31, 2007 - ...Our Chalet is and international Scout centre of the WAGGGS located just outside Adelboden, Bernese Oberland, Switzerland and that Adelboden also hosts the In addition to World Thinking Day and the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup?
...Pax Lodge is not the same as Pax Hill?
...Gerald Ford is the longest-lived US President and the only US President who was an Eagle Scout?
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- Feb 28, 2007 - ...
...That the 2007 Australian Jamboree is the first official Scouting event in the centenary year of Scouting?
...That because Scouting was so important to US President Gerald Ford, a Distinguished Eagle Scout, that his family asked for an honor guard of over 400 Eagle Scouts at this funeral?
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- Mar 31, 2007 - ...
...that on February 22, 2007, The Scout and Guide Spirit Flame was lit at Robert Baden-Powell's grave side in Kenya. It set off on a journey to reach Brownsea Island, UK on 2007-07-31, the eve of Scouting's Sunrise.
...that at 8am, local time wherever you are, on August 1, 2007, is when all Scouts should celebrate the centenary of Scouting?
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- Apr 30, 2007 - ...
...that the World Crest, also known as the World Membership Badge is a badge or patch worn by Scouts and Scouters around the world to indicate their membership in the World Organization of the Scout Movement. Each national organization may determine where on their Scout uniform this emblem is worn.
...that Ida Copeland served on the International Council of Girl Guides.
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- May 31, 2007 - ...
...that Princess Ileana of Romania found the Romanian Guides Movement and when she married a Habsburg was refused permission to live in Romania. She later moved to Argentina and then the United States. Her ancestral castle was eventually returned to her son Dominic.
... that Olave Baden-Powell was Scoutmaster for the 1st Ewhurst Scout troop and at their first meeting they used the Union Jack that had flown over besieged Mafeking?
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- Jun 30, 2007 - ...
...that in 1980, the British TV programme Jim'll Fix It, arranged for a group of Cubs to eat their lunch on a rollercoater, with hilarious results. It became one of the most requested clips on British TV. In 2007, the same people, now adults, went back and remade the clip!
...that Scouting for Boys was the fourth bestselling book of the 20th century?
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- Jul 31, 2007 - ...
...that Scouts in Hawaii helped re-introduce the endangered Nene into the Haleakala National Park by carrying young birds into the Haleakala Crater in their backpacks?
...that EuroJam 2005 set the world record for the largest single internet order to a supermarket?
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- Aug 31, 2007 - ...
...that during World War II, a message of friendship was smuggled to Rose Kerr from Anni Collan, the Chief Guide of Finland?
...that the 21st World Scout Jamboree caused an increase in the world price of steel?
...that RRS Discovery, the ship of Scott's first expedition to the Antarctic, was later used as a Sea Scout training vessel?
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- Sep 30, 2007 - ...
... that Dr. George J. Fisher, deputy Chief Scout Executive (1919-1943) and National Scout Commissioner (1943-1960) of the Boy Scouts of America was also the founder and first president (1928-1952) of the United States Volleyball Association?
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- Oct 31, 2007 - ...
...that Elisabeth Gehrer is an Austrian politician and is a Scout leader, National Commissioner for Rangers of Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs and teamed Woodbadge trainings (i.e.1976 in Wasserspreng).
...that Raymond Schlemmer was a seminal figure in the early history of Scouting in France, from 1922 to 1952, working not only in France but in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam?
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- Nov 30, 2007 - ...
...that Hergé's first published comic strip was Totor, Patrol Leader of the Cockchafers?
...that Camp Helendade partly burns in the California wildfires of October 2007?
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...Scouting has been an active movement in displaced persons camps since World War I?
