On This Day in Weird, January 24...
1908: Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell founds the Scouting
movement in Britain, later diversified into Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Girl
Scouts, etc. around the world. Ironically, in view of the movement's later
epidemic of child-molestation scandals, Baden-Powell is well known for his
collection of photos depicting nude boys. Two of his several biographers also
suggest a longstanding gay relationship with an adult friend.
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