Baden-Powell House is a Scouting hostel and conference centre in South
Kensington, London. Built as a tribute to Lord Baden-Powell, the founder
of Scouting, it is owned by The Scout Association. The house was
designed in 1956 in the modern architectural style by Ralph Tubbs, whose
works included the Dome of Discovery, the highlight of the 1951 Festival
of Britain. Olave Baden-Powell laid the foundation stone in 1959, and
the building was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1961. A granite statue
of Baden-Powell, sculpted by Don Potter, was unveiled at the opening.
The building has been refurbished several times, and now provides
lodging for Scouts, Girl Guides and the general public. A collection of
Baden-Powell memorabilia formerly displayed at the site, including
several first editions of his books and many of his drawings and
letters, has been moved to the headquarters for Scouting in the UK at
Gilwell Park.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-Powell_House>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1879:
At a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute, engineer and
inventor Sandford Fleming proposed the idea of standard time zones based
on a single universal world time.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Time>
1960:
The official groundbreaking for the Walk of Fame took place in
Hollywood, California.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame>
2010:
A freak storm in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan
triggered a series of avalanches that buried over 3.5 km (2.2 mi) of
road, killed 171 people and trapped more than 2,500 travellers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Salang_avalanches>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pipe:
1. (music) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with
holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the
tube. […]
2. A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in
plumbing and numerous other applications. […]
3. (Australia, colloquial, now historical) An anonymous satire or essay,
insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which
was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus
spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pipe>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Some would deny any legitimate use of the word God because it has
been misused so much. Certainly it is the most burdened of all human
words. Precisely for that reason it is the b imperishable and
unavoidable. And how much weight has all erroneous talk about God's
nature and works (although there never has been nor can be any such talk
that is not erroneous) compared with the one truth that all men who have
addressed God really meant him? For whoever pronounces the word God and
really means Thou, addresses, no matter what his delusion, the true Thou
of his life that cannot be restricted by any other and to whom he stands
in a relationship that includes all others.
--Martin Buber
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Buber>