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15 unusual facts about Scouting


Antti Malin

Malin is a long-time active scout, and has served as a board member in both local and national scouting organizations.

Bloxham railway station

In 1931 1st Bloxham Scouts produced a film “On the Track” including scenes showing a GWR express seen from the windows of the signal box.

Charles Luney

Missing Scout camp because his father could not afford the ten shillings made him value money and realise that it only came from effort.

Czech bluegrass

Tramping in this sense is a Czech-specific blend of ideas taken from Scouting, the German wandervogels, and Americanist romanticism.

Estádio Caio Martins

In 1938 15-year-old Scout Martins, along with many other passengers, was seriously injured in a train accident, but refused the offer of a stretcher, saying that others needed it more than he.

Hayat Saif

A career bureaucrat, he retired in 2000 and since then is engaged in the corporate private sector and divides his time in World Scouting and literary and artistic pursuits.

Heinz Dörmer

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

If You Go Down in the Woods Today

A Boy Scout troupe led by their scoutmaster (Sykes) is on a field trip to a seemingly-peaceful English woodland.

Jules-Paul Tardivel

Perennial topics included conspiracy theories (typically aimed at Freemasons, socialists, communists, freethinkers, or any combination thereof), conservative Roman Catholic dogma, the domination of Quebec by English Canada, and the subversive effects of the Boy Scout movement.

Maria Rosseels

In 1945 she became secretary at De Pijl, a publisher linked to the Flemish Catholic Scouts.

Michael Craze

He got into acting by chance as, at the age of twelve, he discovered through Boy Scout Gang Shows that he had a perfect boy soprano voice.

Mount Barker, Western Australia

Mount Barker has a hospital and medical centre, police station, TAFE College, a Community college catering for K-12 schooling, childcare facilities plus Scouts and Girl Guides.

North Central Railway College

Extracurricular activities include participation in NCC, and Scouting.

Olson Nature Preserve

Over the years they allowed their land to be used by scouts and other people who liked the outdoors.

St Margaret's Church, Burnage

Also dating from 1950 is a window in the baptistery depicting Scouts, Guides, Cubs and Brownies.


Anne Hyde Choate

She was also interested in historic preservation which she combined with Scouting when she successfully worked to preserve Juliette Low's birthplace in Savannah, Georgia.

Are You Tougher Than a Boy Scout?

It goes on to state that the Boy Scouts of America will continue to work on marketing plans with National Geographic for "leveraging the show with Scouting audiences and audiences outside of scouting".

Arvīds

Arvīds Brēdermanis (1900–1970), a Latvian official and founder of the Latvian Scouting movement

Brownsea Island Scout camp

The young people traveled from the World Scout Jamboree in Hylands Park, Essex to Brownsea Island to be at this landmark of Scouting on 1 August 2007 for the Sunrise Ceremony.

Cöln-class cruiser

The I Scouting Group and II Scouting Group, along with the Second Torpedo-Boat Flotilla were to attack a heavily guarded British convoy to Norway, with the rest of the High Seas Fleet steaming in support.

Computer-aided scouting

The NCAA has adapted a rating system produced by Jeff Sagarin that uses computer-aided scouting to a science to better understand the strength and weaknesses of a team as a rating.

Corporate Magic

Other major projects include the Oklahoma Centennial Spectacular, Coca-Cola's Centennial, the Boy Scouts of America’s 100th Anniversary Jamboree, international product launches for Mazda, Land Rover and Jaguar, annual corporate gatherings and awards programs for Prudential Financial, Xango and Rite Aid, and several projects for the Dallas Cowboys.

Deep Empire

Scouting missions during the first four days reveal nothing, save for a peculiar race of mutants living in a near-immaculate Best Western hotel on a southern island.

Delaware 87ers

The team was established with a close help from its NBA affiliate Utah Jazz, who indicated to the general manager job David Fredman - who was an assistant coach and director of scouting for the Jazz for 28 years, and also the assistant general manager for the Denver Nuggets - and as a coach Brad Jones, a regional scout who was the nephew of long time Jazz coach Jerry Sloan.

Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs israélites de France

The Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs israélites de France (EEIF, Jewish Guides and Scouts of France) is a Jewish Scouting and Guiding organization in France.

Falfield

The village also includes St George's Church, The Huntsman Inn, a village hall, a small shop, a car dealership and several farms as well as 1st Falfield Scout Association who are celebrating their 40th anniversary in 2013 and include a branch of the Girl Guides.

Frank Skaff

He died in Towson, Maryland in 1988 at the age of 77 while on a scouting trip for the Tigers.

Frankston South, Victoria

Frankston South was the site of the first ever Australian Scout Jamboree, in 1935, which was attended by the founder of the Scouting movement, Sir Robert Baden-Powell.

Girl Scouts of Japan

In 2000, Her Highness Princess Sayako attended a variety of events in the Tokyo metropolitan area and in regional Japan, including the ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Girl Scouts of Tokyo, and the opening ceremony for the Togakushi Girl Scouts Center to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Girl Scouting movement in Japan.

Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carrier

The expected role of the Graf Zeppelin class was that of a seagoing scouting platform and her initial planned air group reflected that emphasis: 20 Fieseler Fi 167 biplanes for scouting and torpedo attack, 10 Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters, and 13 Junkers Ju 87 dive bombers.

Harold Cheeseman

Harold Ambrose Robinson Cheeseman was the founder of the Scouting movement in the Malaysian state of Penang, at the Penang Free School on March 27, 1915, and in the state of Johor at the English College Johore Bahru in 1928.

International Boy Scouts, Troop 1

On December 12, 1911, Clarence Griffin and the Scouts, mostly British and all students of Saint Joseph College, the primary and secondary school for foreign boys located on the "Bluff" in Yokohama, gathered at the Gaiety Theater on the Bluff to demonstrate Scouting skills and to officially celebrate the beginning of the troop.

Jock Sutherland

While on a scouting trip for the Steelers in April 1948, Sutherland was found in his car in Bandana, Kentucky, where he was experiencing confusion and was then taken to a hospital in Cairo, Illinois, where he was initially diagnosed with "nervous exhaustion".

Jorge Alvial

Alvial has been credited for scouting top players as Humberto Suazo, Franco Di Santo, Rogelio Funes Mori and Ramiro Funes Mori, Mark González, Jhon Pírez (Chelsea FC Youth), Brek Shea(F.C. Dallas), Diego Fagundez (N.E.Revolution), Cristian Cuevas(Chelsea FC), Neymar at 14yrs old, Pastore at 16yrs old, Higuain at 17 rys, Falcao at 17yrs old.

Ken Norton, Jr.

Attending the player evaluations of the by-invitation-only 2009 NFL Scouting Combine were all four of Norton's Trojan senior class linebacker protégés: Brian Cushing, Kaluka Maiava, Clay Matthews III, and Rey Maualuga.

Lakshmi Mazumdar

Lakshmi Mazumdar of Delhi was the National Commissioner of the Indian Scouting organization Bharat Scouts and Guides from November 1964 to April 1983, and supervised the construction of the Sangam World Girl Guide/Girl Scout Center, which was inaugurated on October 16, 1966 by the World Chief Guide, Lady Olave Baden-Powell.

Life and Labor Commune

After a scouting expedition in the spring of 1930, the location of Kuznetsk along the Tom River was chosen.

Lone Scouts

A Lone Scout must meet the membership requirements of the Scouting organization to which they belong and have an adult Scout leader or counselor who may be a parent, guardian, minister, teacher, or another adult.

Maquis de Vabre

The Jewish scouting organisation Éclaireurs israëlites de France, created by Robert Gamzon, joined the Protestant scouting organisation Éclaireurs unionistes to form this mountain maquis who participated in the liberation of Castres under the banner of the French forces of the interior, taking 4,500 German prisoners.

Michael 'Mogie' Maher

Maher advocates volunteer work, and supports both the Order of Malta and the scouting movement, being a former County Secretary for Scouting Ireland.

Michael J. H. Walsh

He attained the King's Scout Award with the added distinction of Gold Cords, indicating it as the highest award available in Scouting at the time.

Michał Grażyński

Michał Grażyński (May 12, 1890, in Gdów – December 10, 1965, in London, United Kingdom) was a Polish military leader, social and political activist, doctor of philosophy and law, voivode of the Silesian Voivodeship, Scouting activist and president of Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego.

Pat Sperduto

Sperduto was hired by the Tennessee Titans in September 2001, and served on the coaching and scouting staffs until June 2008.

PPÖ

Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs (Boy Scouts and Girl Guides of Austria, PPÖ), is the largest Scouting and Guiding organization in Austria

Raymond Schlemmer

In late 1937, French Scouting sent Scoutmaster Schlemmer to the Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese areas of Indochina to oversee the setting up of the Fédération Indochinoise des Associations du Scoutisme (FIAS, Indochinese Federation of Scouting Associations) in all three regions.

Scouting and Guiding in Armenia

and continued until 1922 when Scouting was officially banned and the Young Pioneers became the official state youth organization in Armenia.

The first Armenian Scouting groups were organized in 1910 in orphanages in Van, present day Turkey.

Scouting and Guiding in Australia

Other Scouting organizations formed in 1909 were: Imperial Boy Scouts (IBS), Church Scout Patrols program of the Anglican Church Lads' Brigade, Australian League of Boy Scouts Queensland, Girl Peace Scouts and YMCA Scouts.

Scouting in Uzbekistan

On October 5, 2004, the Internet Access and Training Program (IATP) brought together 20 Scouts from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan for a two-hour online discussion of their activities from the IATP access sites in Jizzakh, Tashkent, and Urgench, Uzbekistan, as well as in five cities in Kazakhstan, aimed to bring together representatives of the Scouting movements from these countries to promote friendship and cooperation.

Scouting Ireland

The earliest known Scouting event in Ireland took place in the Phoenix Park in 1908 with members of the Dublin City Boy Scouts (later Scouting Ireland S.A.I.) taking part.

SMS Stuttgart

She then lost contact with the rest of the IV Scouting Group, so she fell in with the I Battle Squadron.

Taylor County, Texas

1849 Capt. Randolph Marcy, U. S. Army engineer passes through scouting out West Texas to California routes.

The Scout Association of Saint Kitts and Nevis

Traditionally, Founder's Day is observed with a combination of three events, a march through the streets of Basseterre, church service and luncheon.

Thérèse Bermingham

Scouting and Guiding in Ireland is well represented in the wider Scouting movement-in addition to Bermingham, the Chairman of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts is another Irish woman, Elspeth Henderson.

Tor-Kristian Karlsen

In addition to his scouting engagement, Karlsen have been working freelance for TV 2 (Norway), BBC Radio, FIFA Magazine, SportBild, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, The Independent, The Times and Four Four Two as an football expert and analyzer.

Wid Matthews

Seven years later, he moved with Redbird GM Branch Rickey to the Brooklyn Dodgers, where he served as the Dodgers' director of Midwest scouting through the 1949 season.

William de Bois Maclaren

He is most recognized as the first major benefactor of Scouting by donating Gilwell Park in 1919.

Yawgoog Scout Reservation

Camp Sandy Beach campsites are named after famous Americans in history and include the following: Abe Lincoln, Audubon, Backwoods, Davy Crockett, Donald H. Cady, George Washington, Jim Bridger, Jim Bowie, James West, John Glenn, Kit Carson, Lewis & Clark, Neil Armstrong, Norman Rockwell, Richard Byrd, Silver Buffalo, and Teddy Roosevelt.