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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.
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 ...
The Ma-Ka-Ja-Wan Scout Reservation is located in northern Wisconsin and serves the Scouts of the Northeast Illinois Council based in Vernon Hills, Illinois. Originally a logging camp, the scouts purchased the land and first had campers in 1929. The 1,560 acres (6 km 2) camp serves over 2,300 scouts each summer.
Benjamin Franklin — George Washington The First U.S. Postage Stamps, issued 1847. The first stamp issues were authorized by an act of Congress and approved on March 3, 1847.[ 20] The earliest known use of the Franklin 5¢ is July 7, 1847, while the earliest known use of the Washington 10¢ is July 2, 1847.
1. Raspberry Rally. This little treat occupies a unique spot in Girl Scout cookie history. It arrived in 2023; it was the first cookie available exclusively online, and by 2024, it was gone ...
Civil War stamps. Between 1961 and 1965 the USPS released commemoratives on the 100th anniversary of five important battles. During the Civil War, heroes of the previous national period were featured on the stamps of both sides of the conflict: Washington, Jefferson and Jackson. Following reunification, and during many decades thereafter ...
Josephine Groves Holloway. Holloway in the early 1960s. Josephine Amanda Groves Holloway (March 10, 1898 – December 7, 1988) was an American woman who broke the color barrier for African-American girls to become involved in scouting in the state of Tennessee. In 1933 she began organizing unofficial scout groups, which were recognized in 1942 ...
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.