A boys' camping event at the site of the Brownsea Island Scout camp from
1 to 8 August 1907 is regarded as the origin of the worldwide Scouting
movement. Held on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, southern England, it
was organised by Robert Baden-Powell (pictured) to test his ideas for
the book Scouting for Boys. Boys from different social backgrounds
participated in activities themed around camping, observation,
woodcraft, chivalry, lifesaving and patriotism. Up to the early 1930s,
camping by Boy Scouts continued on Brownsea Island. In 1962, the island
became a nature conservation area owned by the National Trust. The
following year, Olave Baden-Powell reopened the island to the public,
and in 1964 a formal 50-acre (200,000 m2) Scout campsite was
established there. In 1973, a Jamboree was held on the island for 600
Scouts from seven nations. The worldwide centenary of Scouting was
celebrated at the camp on 1 August 2007, the 100th anniversary of the
start of the first encampment.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownsea_Island_Scout_camp>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1714:
George Louis, Elector of Hanover, became King George I of
Great Britain, marking the beginning of the Georgian era of British
history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_I_of_Great_Britain>
1798:
French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of the Nile, between a
British fleet commanded by Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson and a French
fleet under Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, began at
Aboukir Bay off the Egyptian coast.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Nile>
1984:
Commercial peat cutters discovered the preserved bog body of a
man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, North West England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindow_Man>
2007:
Bridge 9340, carrying Interstate 35W across the Mississippi
River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, suffered a catastrophic failure and
collapsed (aftermath pictured), killing 13 people and injuring 145
others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
scouthouse:
(Scouting, US) A building where members of the Scout Movement hold their
meetings.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scouthouse>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-
sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet,
whereby selecting and combining as he pleases, each man reads his own
peculiar lesson according to his own peculiar mind and mood.
--Herman Melville
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Herman_Melville>