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Part One: Robert Baden-Powell: Founder Of The Boy Scouts

Behind the Bastards

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The Importance of Tim Geale's Biography

Tim Geale, who you're going to hear from a lot in this because he's Baden Powell's biggest, probably best biographer. Regular listeners will recognize him because he also wrote a biography we used of Henry Morton Stanley,. This is a guy who's quote unquote discovered a shitload of Africa murdered just a tremendous number of people and basically was responsible for conquering the Congo for King Leopold via like a series of fake treaties. One of the worst people who's ever lived.

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