May 4: Gilwell Park

   Gilwell Park is a campsite and activity centre for Scouting groups, as
   well as a training and conference centre for Scout Leaders.  The
   44 hectare (109 acre) site is located in Sewardstonebury, Epping
   Forest close to Chingford, London.  In the late Middle Ages, it started
   as a farm, growing to a wealthy estate that fell into disrepair
   towards 1900.  It was given in 1919 by Scout Commissioner William De
   Bois Maclaren to The Scout Association of the United Kingdom to
   provide camping facilities to London Scouts, and training facilities
   for Scouters.  As Scout Leaders from all countries of the world have
   come to Gilwell Park for their Wood Badge training, it is one of the
   great landmarks of the world Scouting movement.  The site contains
   campfields for a small patrol up to a 1200 people camp, indoor
   accommodations, historical sites, monuments of Scouting, and
   activities suitable for all sections of the Scouting Movement.  It can
   accommodate events for up to 10,000 people.  Accommodation of Gilwell
   Park can also be hired for non-Scout activities such as school group
   camping, wedding receptions and conferences.

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   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilwell_Park


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Today's selected anniversaries:

1471:
   Wars of the Roses: Yorkist Edward IV defeated a Lancastrian army in
   the Battle of Tewkesbury.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tewkesbury)

1855:
   William Walker and a group of mercenaries sailed from San Francisco to
   conquer Nicaragua.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_(soldier))

1919:
   The May Fourth Movement began in China with large-scale student
   demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, Peking against the Paris Peace
   Conference and Japan's Twenty-One Demands.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Fourth_Movement)

1970:
   The Ohio National Guard shot at students in Kent State University
   protesting the American invasion of Cambodia.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings)

1979:
   Margaret Thatcher became the first female Prime Minister of the United
   Kingdom.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher)


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Wikiquote of the day:

   The life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more
   or less, of those who are connected with us, do depend upon our
   knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and
   complicated than chess.  It is a game which has been played for untold
   ages, every man and woman of us being one of the two players in a game
   of his or her own.  The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the
   phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the
   laws of Nature.  The player on the other side is hidden from us.  We
   know that his play is always fair, just, and patient.  But also we
   know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the
   smallest allowance for ignorance.  -- T.  H.  Huxley
   (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Huxley)