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Rockwell c. 1921

Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was an American painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of the country's culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over nearly five decades. Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter, the Four Freedoms series, Saying Grace, and The Problem We All Live With. He is also noted for his 64-year relationship with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), during which he produced covers for their publication Boys' Life (now Scout Life), calendars, and other illustrations. These works include popular images that reflect the Scout Oath and Scout Law such as The Scoutmaster, A Scout Is Reverent, and A Guiding Hand.

Rockwell was a prolific artist, producing more than 4,000 original works in his lifetime. Most of his surviving works are in public collections. Rockwell was also commissioned to illustrate more than 40 books, including Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn and to paint portraits of Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, as well as those of foreign figures, including Gamal Abdel Nasser and Jawaharlal Nehru. His portrait subjects also included Judy Garland. One of his last portraits was of Colonel Sanders in 1973. His annual contributions for the Boy Scouts calendars between 1925 and 1976 were only slightly overshadowed by his most popular of calendar works: the "Four Seasons" illustrations for Brown & Bigelow that were published for 17 years beginning in 1947 and reproduced in various styles and sizes since 1964. He created artwork for advertisements for Coca-Cola, Jell-O, General Motors, Scott Tissue, and other companies. Illustrations for booklets, catalogs, posters (particularly movie promotions), sheet music, stamps, playing cards, and murals (including "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "God Bless the Hills", which was completed in 1936 for the Nassau Inn in Princeton, New Jersey) rounded out Rockwell's oeuvre as an illustrator. (Full article...)

1st-9th

• 1907 – Robert Baden-Powell holds the first Scouting encampment at Brownsea Island. The camp started on August 1, 1907, date that is today usually perceived as the start of Scouting.
• 1971 – 13th World Scout Jamboree begins, in Fujinomiya City on Asagiri-kogen, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, with breathtaking views of Mount Fuji.

1st-11th

• 1995 – 18th World Scout Jamboree Dronten, Flevoland, Netherlands.

3rd

• 2005 – Sixteenth National Jamboree ends.

6th

• 1900 – William "Green Bar Bill" Hillcourt, the father of American Scouting, is born in Denmark.

7th

• 1920 – 1st World Scout Jamboree ends (began Jul 30th).

18th-28th

• 1955 – 8th World Scout Jamboree begins in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. This was the first major international gathering of Scouts outside of Europe and the first World Jamboree broadcast on television. Olave Baden-Powell visited.

21st

• 1912 – Arthur Rose Eldred becomes the first Eagle Scout in the history of BSA.

World Organization of the Scout Movement:

• Africa Scout Region
• Arab Scout Region
• Asia-Pacific Scout Region
• Eurasian Scout Region
• European Scout Region
• Interamerican Scout Region

World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts:

• Africa Region
• Arab Region
• Asia Pacific Region
• Europe Region
• Western Hemisphere Region