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...that Eagle Scout is also the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of the Philippines, not only the Boy Scouts of America?
...that King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden attended the 1981 National Jamboree at Fort A. P. Hill, Virginia, USA?
...that Owasippe Scout Reservation is the oldest continuously operating Boy Scout camp in America?
...Scouting in Germany consists of more than 130 different associations and federations with about 250,000 Scouts and Guides?
...that "Knight Scout" is the Danish equivalent of BSA's Eagle Scout rank?

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...that Dr. László Nagy was the Chief Executive of the World Organization of the Scout Movement from 1968-1985 and that he was a Swiss citizen of Hungarian origin?
...that Mury was a clandestine Girl Scouts group organized by young Polish women; political prisoners in the concentration camp in Ravensbrück?
...that the Mafeking Cadet Corps, volunteer boy cadets in the Siege of Mafeking, are sometimes seen as the forerunners of the Scouts, and were depicted on one of the only British stamps not to depict the monarch?
...that Yang Huimin was a Girl Guide during the battle of Shanghai who supplied a Republic of China flag and brought supplies to besieged defenders of the Sihang Warehouse? Her actions proved inspiring to the defenders, who flew the flag the next daybreak in front of thousands of watching eyes across the bank of the Suzhou Creek.
...that the history of Gilwell Park can be traced all the way back to 1407 and that there is a 1000+ year old Buddha there?

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...that Bhumibol Adulyadej, the longest reigning king in Thai history, was awarded the Bronze Wolf in 2006?
...that Olave Baden-Powell is one of only two people who were awarded a gold-colored Silver Fish award?
...that the Internationale Musische Werkstatt (International Creative Workshop, IMWe) is run by the Verband Christlicher Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder (VCP)?
...that Piet J. Kroonenberg took part in the events of A Bridge Too Far?
...that Edgar Cunningham was one of the first African-American Eagle Scout?

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...The Valley Forge Pilgrimage is the oldest annual Scouting event in the United States. It was first held on February 22, 1913 (George Washington's 181st birthday), and has been held every year since.
...that during the camping season, the Wiltz International Scout Centre situated in Wiltz in north-western Luxembourg hosts 80,000 Scouts a year from all over the world?
...Our Chalet is an 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 only U.S. President who was an Eagle Scout?

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...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?
...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 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 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.

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... 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?
...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?
...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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...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?
... 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?
...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).

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...that Hergé's first published comic strip was Totor, Patrol Leader of the Cockchafers?
...that Camp Helendade partly burned in the California wildfires of October 2007?
...Scouting has been an active movement in displaced persons camps since World War I?
... that following the defense of Katowice on 4 September 1939, dozens of defenders, including a number of Polish Boy and Girl Scouts, were summarily executed?
... that when the Boy Scouts of America tried changing their name in 1977 to Scouting/USA, they were accused of chauvinism for not considering the effects on the Girl Scouts?

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... that Tennessee lawyer Bolton Smith was known for his work integrating African Americans into the Boy Scouts?
... that William Verbeck, who served as Adjutant General of the New York National Guard, was born to Dutch missionaries in Nagasaki, Japan?
.. that Black Cap Mountain can be seen from both Bangor, Maine, and the sea?
... that the campfire ash ceremony is a worldwide Scouting service said to date back to Robert Baden-Powell in 1907?
... that Ellie Morrison is the first woman to serve as the national commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America since its incorporation in 1910?

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... that the majority of local councils of the Boy Scouts of America have gone through thousands of name changes, merges, splits and re-creations since the establishment of the organization in 1910?
...that Resica Falls Scout Reservation contains a museum displaying 19th-century tannery village relics and local Native American artifacts going back to 500 BC?
...that Scouts' Day is a special day observed by members of the World Organization of the Scout Movement throughout the year when all Scouts re-affirm the Scout Promise?
...that the Unami Lodge was the founding chapter of the Boy Scouts of America's Order of the Arrow?
... that Bermuda's L.F. Wade International Airport manager James G. Howes (pictured) was lampooned using signal flags to direct air traffic from atop the control tower in a Boy Scout uniform?
...in 2017 the BSA Cub Scouts program (ages 5-11) in the USA went coed, and in 2018 Scouts BSA Troops (ages 11-17) admitted girls to their formerly all-boy units.^[1]