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Did you know ...

• the Brownsea Island Scout camp held by Robert Baden-Powell in 1907 was the official start of the Scout movement and will be celebrated as part of the Scouting centenary in 2007?
• the Boy Rangers of America was an early scouting program in the United States for boys ages 8 through 12, a precursor to the Cub Scouting program of the Boy Scouts of America?
• the Mafeking Cadet Corps, volunteer boy cadets in the Siege of Mafeking, are sometimes seen as the forerunners of the Scouts, and were depicted on one of the only British stamps not to depict the monarch?
• the Pepper Pot tower in Brighton, England, has been used as a public toilet, printworks, Scout headquarters, wartime observation tower and artist's studio, but its original function is unknown?
• the Valley Forge Pilgrimage, held every year since 1913, is the oldest annual Scouting event in the United States?
• the Scouting song Ging Gang Goolie was deliberately written in gibberish so that Scouts from different countries could easily learn it without struggling with a language barrier?
• the Scouting movement's "one good turn" was inaugurated on behalf of British newspaper magnate Cyril Arthur Pearson, who founded several newspapers before going blind with glaucoma and then devoted his life in support of the blind?
• Humshaugh in Northumberland, England, is acknowledged as the site of the first official Scout camp?
• Anne Hyde Choate was the second president of the Girl Scouts of the USA and also an international Scouting leader in WAGGGS for fifty years?
• Ye Htoon was the final director-general of the Burmese Scout Movement before the military junta disbanded it in 1964?
• in 1912 Arthur Rose Eldred became the first Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America and his descendants are still involved in Scouting?
• in addition to 8,000 Scouts, the 1st World Scout Jamboree of 1920 also hosted, amongst other animals, an alligator, a crocodile, an elephant, and a lioness cub?
• Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, had a peerage conferred upon him at the 3rd World Scout Jamboree?