The very same day, Baden-Powell had him shot at sundown by firing squad in front of his stronghold where all his men could see him die. Tellingly, ...

North Baldy was renamed Mount Baden-Powell in a grand ceremony, on Memorial Day weekend, 1931. The peak’s namesake, Lieutenant General Robert Stephenson Smythe Baden-Powell, is best known as the ...

‘Lay up all day. Read Mein Kampf. A wonderful book, with good ideas on education, health, propaganda, organisation etc.’ In 2010, declassified MI5 files revealed that Baden-Powell was invited ...

A statue of the founder of the Scout movement Robert Baden-Powell will be given 24-hour protection after its removal has been delayed, even as protesters continue to insist monuments with racist ...

This is unlikely to have any adverse effect." It offers advice on solvent abuse and drugs, not issues for the young people of Baden-Powell's day, but its metaphor for abuse sounds almost as poetic as ...

On this day in 1907, the first ever Scouting event ... Organised by war hero Lieutenant-General Robert Baden-Powell to test his ideas for the book ‘Scouting for Boys’, the event brought ...

Two thousand people came to see him address Scout troops on a miserable day in May 1912 at the Alexandra Barracks in Mt Cook. Baden-Powell addressed accusations his movement fostered militarism.

as well Olave Baden-Powell, who became its first Chief Guide globally. World Thinking Day plays an important role in promoting unity amongst people of different cultures. It has several purposes ...