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unusual facts about Scout movement



Bentley, Hampshire

The founder of the Scout Movement, Robert Baden-Powell, lived in Bentley at Pax Hill.

Icelandic National Day

Riders on Icelandic horses often precede the brass band and flagbearers from the Icelandic scout movement traditionally follow the brass band.

Rupert Soames

Soames was born in Croydon and is a grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, the son of Lord and Lady Soames, a nephew of the former Defence Secretary Duncan Sandys and Diana Churchill; the journalist Randolph Churchill and the actress and dancer Sarah Churchill and a great-nephew of the founders of the Scout movement, Robert Baden-Powell and Olave Baden-Powell.


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Azizah Y. al-Hibri

Al-Hibri is the grandchild of Sheik Toufik El Hibri who established the first scout movement in the Arab world.

Cercetașii României

Others joined in broadening awareness of the scout movement (Gheorghe Munteanu-Murgoci, Alexandru Borza, Vladimir Ghidionescu, Constantin Costa-Foru, Nicolae Iorga, Ion G. Duca and Colonel G. Berindei) who became familiar with the Scout movements in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, and Germany.

Ellsworth Hunt Augustus

His service to the Scout movement included participating in the 11th World Scout Jamboree at Marathon, Greece, and 19th World Conference on the Isle of Rhodes.

Heinz Dörmer

In 1932, he was promoted to youth leader and worked in the scout movement at a national level.

Hibri

Toufik El Hibri, one of the primary founders of the Scout movement in Lebanon

Hubert Martin

Hubert S. Martin (died 1931), first director of the International Bureau of the Scout movement

Jaroslav Foglar

At its high tide, there were many thousand of such independent clubs, which were basically kind of Wandervogel concurrence towards the organized Scout movement.

During the 1920s, Foglar was strongly influenced by German independent Wandervogel movement as well as Scout movement led by Antonín Benjamin Svojsík under Czech name Junák.

Firstly, as an author, Foglar was strongly influenced by German Wandervogel romantism more than the ideas of British scout movement (which emerged in Bohemian Lands during the WWI).

JSW

J. S. Wilson (1888-1969), prominent figure in the Scout movement worldwide, and contemporary of Lord Baden-Powell

Riaumont

Its states an attribute of a twofold origin: Benedictine (the monks are Benedictine Oblates) and the scout movement.

Robert Lockhart

General Sir Rob Lockhart, British general, Commander in Chief of the Indian Army and scout movement notable

Scouting and Guiding in Kenya

The Africa Region of the World Organization of the Scout Movement has its main office in Nairobi, Kenya.

Scouting in Nagorno-Karabakh

Some time later, the Scout movement revived with the cooperation of "Raffi" union of Tehran and the youth organization "Hayk's Generation".

Tanzania Scouts Association

Charles Ambrose, Farhad Shivji and Shafik Fazal from the Aga Khan Scouts - 1st Dar-es-Salaam Group, were among the first ten Scouts to be awarded the President's Scout badge by the then President Ali Hassan Mwinyi in August 1992 at Magila Village in Tanga region, the site where Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout movement, enrolled the first Tanganyika Scouts in 1938.

Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union

Komsomol persistently fought with the remnants of the Scout movement.