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B-P's footprint is a casting, usually in bronze or brass, of the right foot of Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout and Guide Movements, who is known as "B-P." The idea is that people may put their foot into this casting, so that they can say that they have "walked in the footsteps of B-P."〔Miss Kari Aas, who also designed the WAGGGS emblem that was adopted at the World Conference in 1930, attended the Scouting 1928 World Conference as one of the Norwegian delegates, and much of the information herein was gleaned from her report.〕 ==History== The 1928 Scouting World Conference was officially opened on May 4 in Budapest. The next day, the delegates went on a excursion to Lake Balaton and other places returning to Budapest in the afternoon. That evening, Baden-Powell, his wife Olave and Lord Hampton arrived. On May 6, there was a rally at the Hárshegy Training Park attended by 9,647 out of the 25,000 scouts then in Hungary and up to 20,000 of the public. In the June 1928 issue of ''The Scouter'' B-P wrote, about the Rally at Hárshegy: From this cast two bronze copies were made, one was for the Hárshegy Training Park and the other was a gift to Baden-Powell, which he passed to the British Scout Headquarters. When the communists took over and banned Scouting in 1948, the training ground was confiscated and houses were built on the land; neither the original concrete footprint, nor the "Hungarian original bronze" has been seen since.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「B-P's footprint」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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