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Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut (c. 1639 – 25 February 1710) was a French soldier and explorer who is the first European known to have visited the area where the city of Duluth, Minnesota, United States, is now located and the head of Lake Superior in Minnesota.
Duluth's unofficial sister city, Duluth, Georgia, got its name in 1871 shortly after Knott's speech gained national attention. Prominent Georgia newspaperman and politician Evan Howell had been called upon to make remarks at the dedication of a new railroad line into Howell's Crossing, a village named for his grandfather.
The first named symbol is the state's motto, L'Étoile du Nord – French for "Star of the North". It was selected in 1861, shortly after Minnesota achieved statehood, by the first governor, Henry Sibley, as a reflection of Minnesota's location in the Northern United States. That same year, the original state seal was adopted.
Pioche, named after François Louis Alfred Pioche, a financier who purchased the town in 1869. Primeaux; Reno (named after Major General Jesse Lee Reno, a Union officer killed in the American Civil War. Reno's family name was a modified version of the French surname "Renault")
A German Scout neckerchief and woggle. One story relating to the origin of the word 'woggle' is that it was named to rhyme with the word boon doggle used in America. However the term woggle pre-dates the first known reference to this in 1925. [1] There are a few other references to the word woggle before its adoption by the Scout movement.
In 1907, Baden-Powell issued copper fleur-de-lis badges to participants of his experimental camp on Brownsea Island in 1907 [1] and he included a simple fleur-de-lis design Scout badge in his book, Scouting for Boys. [2] Soon after, a five-pointed star was added to each of the outer lobes of the fleur-de-lis.
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In 1911, 57 merit badges were issued by the Boy Scouts of America. Many of them exist to this day and are listed below in green. [1] Many of the others have been discontinued or reintroduced with different names. Of the discontinued original merit badges, four were offered in 2010 as part of the Boy Scouts of America centennial. These merit ...