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

_______________________________ 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

_____________________________ 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

___________________________ 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