h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The BSA were based on the Boy Scouts founded in 1907 by Lord Robert Baden Powell. My Scout troop in the UK was founded in 1908.

Thanks for pointing this fact out. Being an Australian Scout I found that when I chatted on IRC about Scouts, you would think the Americans invented the Scouting Movement. If anything BSA would the furthest away from what BP created. Americans are just so unhappy that they didn't create Scouts and form the largest Youth Organisation in the World

Heh heh.... Golly, all the American Boy Scouts that I know, know who started the movemant just fine!

True.

I'm a leader in my BSA troop, and everybody knows Scouting started in England. There's a story about it somewheres ... aha: http://www.scouting.org/factsheets/02-503.html

It says:
William D. Boyce, a Chicago publisher, incorporated the Boy Scouts of America in 1910 after meeting with Baden-Powell. Boyce was inspired to meet with the British founder by an unknown Scout who led him out of a dense London fog and refused to take a tip for doing a Good Turn.

Anyways, since then the United States has had it's own Scouting movement with it's only history, heritage and values, different from those overseas.
Nerd42

a typo - it's OWN not it's ONLY lol