An Eagle Scout is a Scout with the highest rank attainable in the Boy Scouts of America. Since its introduction in 1911, the Eagle Scout rank has been earned by over one and a half million Scouts. Requirements include earning a number of merit badges and demonstration of Scout Spirit, service and leadership. Eagle Scouts are presented with a medal and badge that visibly recognizes the accomplishments of the Scout. Additional recognition can be earned through Eagle Palms, awarded for completing additional tenure, leadership and merit badge requirements.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1228: Frederick of Isenberg was executed for the murder of his cousin Engelbert of Berg, the Archbishop of Cologne. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_of_Isenberg)

1889: Nellie Bly, reporter for the New York World, departed on her successful attempt to travel Around the World in Eighty Days. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly)

1940: Coventry Cathedral and much of the city centre of Coventry, England was destroyed in heavy Luftwaffe bombing. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Cathedral)

1971: Mariner 9 reached Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_9)

1990: Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming their border at the Oder-Neisse line. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oder-Neisse_line)

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Peace has been said to be indivisible; so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this One World that can no longer be split into isolated fragments. -- Jawaharlal Nehru (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru)