Word: birkenhead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That summer Empire-Builder Baden-Powell, with one career behind him, had an idea for another. In a camp at Brown-sea Island he gathered 21 young Britons together, began teaching them the rudiments of scouting. The following winter the Boy Scouts were inaugurated in Birkenhead, two years later the Girl Guides were started with the help of his sister, and he resigned from the Army...
...ideas he taught spread fast. Within six months after Birkenhead there were 80,000 scouts in Britain. The movement spread abroad as well. In 1910 the Boy Scouts of America were organized in a combination of such existing groups as Ernest Thompson Seton's Indians and Daniel Carter Beard's Sons of Daniel Boone. At the Third World Jamboree in 1929 Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Chief of the Boy Scouts of the World, met with 50,000 scouts from 73 countries. That year raised to the peerage for his work, Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell had built...
While London's lot created the biggest headlines, the Luftwaffe by night expanded and intensified its bombing pattern all over Great Britain. Liverpool and Birkenhead, the great shipping and shipbuilding centres of the west, received their first heavy bombings last week. So did Manchester, the Midlands textile centre. So did Derby, where Rolls-Royce engines are made for Britain's Spitfire and Hurricane fighters. Other motor and aircraft factories at Birmingham and Coventry, attacked before, were attacked again & again. While the Germans hammered these targets, they continued pounding at seaports: Cardiff, Bristol, Portsmouth, Harwich, Dungeness, Hull. Only British...
...utensil centre; cutlery, precision instruments, cannon, armor plate, ammunition and ship machinery from Sheffield; locomotives, buttons, wedding rings, machine guns, brass bedsteads, safety pins, tires, automobiles from Birmingham; everything in pottery and porcelain from the six towns comprising Stoke-on-Trent; ocean-going hulls from yards at Barrow, Birkenhead and Liverpool...
Born "dead" and resuscitated by brandy massage 35 years ago in a "cottagy" house in the seaport town of Birkenhead, was Lady Eleanor Smith. Her father was the Earl of Birkenhead, a tall, olive-skinned aristocrat who started life as plain F. E. Smith. Her paternal great-grandmother was a gypsy named Bathsheba. As between her title and her gypsy blood, Lady Eleanor much prefers to have inherited the gypsy blood. The reason will be readily seen in her autobiography, Life's a Circus: Hotblooded Bathsheba is the perfect alibi for Lady Eleanor's Bohemian adventures, particularly...