S.S. Calgaric In 1933, Lord and Lady Baden-Powell led a contingent of 650 Guides and Scouts on an Argosy of Peace, a cruise to the nations of the Baltic. The cruise carried them from England to the Netherlands, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Norway and home. The cruise took place at what proved to be a turning point in history. By 1933, the Nazis had come to power in ...

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History of Mafikeng The Place of Stones The land around Mafikeng in the Northwest Province of South Africa was inhabited for thousands of years by the Khoisan people. The Khoisan lived closely in tune with nature, in nomadic groups of hunter-gatherers. Stone engravings up to several thousand years old are often found on the rocky outcrops in this region. More recently the area was settled by the ...

Therese of Lisieux and Father Jacques Sevin s.j. Pierre Descouvemont Published in Therese de Lisieux , n. 776, March 1998 Translated by Caterina Esempio Father Jacques Sevin, who founded the French Scout Association at the end of the first world war, was deeply involved with Therese of Lisieux s spirit and tried to transmit it to the scout units he worked as assistant for. We have to teach - he ...