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"WORLD SCOUT MOVEMENT"
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Lakehurst
crash disaster (May 6, 1937)
Burned cover bearing a
stamp of the 5th World Jamboree picked up from the crashed airship
Zeppelin LZ129 "Hindenburg"
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This exhibit is part of
Panayotis D. Cangelaris scouts on stamps collection. He
started
collecting these stamps in the early '60s, just as he became member of
the
Hellenic Boy-Scout
Movement.
This collection was first presented to the
public in 1970 at the Scouts on Stamps Exhibition,
which he initiated, proposed to the then leadership of the Greek
Boy-Scouts Association and materialized in fifteen
frames. His
participation to national, international and world philatelic
exhibitions (competitive or not) followed thereafter, where he
exhibited parts of this
collection with three distinct exhibits: This one (since
2002) in
five frames at the thematic philately class, The Czech Scout Post
1918
(since 2006) and The
Mafeking Blues 1900
(since
2010) in one frame each at the traditional philately class (one frame).
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Boy-Scout
Movement
Scouting is
about
participating with friends, as a team, in the adventure and
opportunities of life.
Scouts are
encouraged to participate in outdoor activities and both the
traditional Scouting skills (such as camping, survival in the nature
and cooking) as
well as a wide range of adventures (anything from abseiling to
yachting) are part of their programme. That
helps them find out about the world in which they live, know better
their own abilities and the importance of keeping fit, as well as to
explore their values and personal attitudes and develop their creative
talents in order to achieve such leadership qualities as initiative,
courage, and
resourcefulness, necessary for their success in life.
In
1907, British Lieut.
General R.S. Baden-Powell was encouraged to re-write his book “Aids
to
Scouting” (published in 1899 for NCO’s and Men), so
that it would appeal to boys.
But
before doing so he planned out the idea and then
tested it with the help of some twenty boys of all sorts in a camp at
Brownsea Island, where they lived together for a fortnight. A
year later
(1908) he wrote “Scouting
for
Boys” intending it
to be useful to the then existing boys'
organisations. Finaly,
those boys who read the book (it came out in fortnightly
parts) decided to take up the game for themselves, thus resulting in
World Scout Movement's birth.
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© 1998 to date: by Panayotis D. Cangelaris
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