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Juliette Gordon Low ( née Gordon; October 31, 1860 – January 17, 1927) was the American founder of Girl Scouts of the USA. Inspired by the work of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of Scout Movement, she joined the Girl Guide movement in England, forming her own group of Girl Guides there in 1911. In 1912, she returned to the United States, and ...
Scouting memorabilia collecting is the hobby and study of preserving and cataloging Boy Scouting and Girl Guiding items for their historic, aesthetic and monetary value. Since collecting depends on the interests of the individual collector, the depth and breadth of each collection varies. Some collectors choose to focus on a specific subtopic ...
Scouting has been active in displaced persons camps [1] [2] (DP camps) and in the lives of refugees since World War I. During and after World War II, until the early 1950s, Scouting and Guiding flourished in these camps. [3] These Scout and Girl Guide groups often provided postal delivery and other basic services in displaced persons camps.
Iran Scout Organization (Persian: سازمان پیشاهنگی ایران, Sazman-e Pishahengi-ye Iran) was founded in 1925 under the rule of Reza Shah Pahlavi.Currently Iran is one of 29 countries where Scouting exists (be it embryonic or widespread) but where there is no National Scout Organization which is a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement at the present time.
Cub Scouts troops place flags on the graves at Fort Bliss Cemetery before Memorial Day on Saturday, May 25, 2024. More than 48,000 military and family members are buried at the cemetery.
Girl Scouts of the USA. The first known troop in Vermont was in Wilder in 1918. The 50th anniversary of Girl Scouting was celebrated at a Senior Girl Scout Roundup held at Button Bay in Vergennes, Vermont in 1962. The U.S. Postal Service set up a temporary post office with a special postal stamp and cancellation for the occasion.
The two Girl Scout councils that manage troops throughout South Florida have both announced on-sale dates. Girl Scout cookies will be on sale Saturday, Jan. 13, to Feb. 25 in Miami-Dade and the Keys.
Soon after the birth of Scouting, postage stamps began to be issued that celebrated Scouting. The number of Scouting themed stamps issued by various countries is enormous. Scouts on Stamps Society International (SOSSI) [33] is an organization that specializes in the collection of Scouting stamps.