The Top 100 Birthdays of the Day: Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (1857)

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Powell was a British army officer and founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, later the Girl Scouts. He was a hero of the South African War and author of Aids to Scouting, a military textbook. Upon learning that his book was being used to train boys in woodcraft, he wrote Scouting for Boys and established the Boy Scout movement in 1908. In 1910, with his sister and wife, he founded the Girl Guides. What disguise did Powell use while gathering information in war?

Date Published Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

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#1930 | 22/02/2012 15:07:01

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