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<h2 id="mp-tfl-h2" class="mp-h2">From today's featured list <div class="thumbinner mp-thumb" style="background: transparent; border: none; padding: 0; max-width: 117px;"> A Good Scout by Norman Rockwell Between 1925 and 1990, Boy Scout calendars featured a painting by illustrators Norman Rockwell (from 1925 to 1976) and Joseph Cesatari (from 1977 to 1990). Rockwell only failed to complete a painting for two years, 1928 and 1930; Cesatari completed a painting for every year. The illustrations show scouts of different kinds engaging in mostly outdoor activities. The idea for the calendar series was devised by an unknown staff member at Brown & Bigelow in 1923. Later that year, James E. West, Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), agreed to Brown & Bigelow's proposal for a 1925 calendar with repurposed art. The chosen painting, A Good Scout (pictured), was originally titled A Red Cross Man in the Making and depicts a scout bandaging the foot of a spaniel puppy under the eye of its mother. Between 1925 and 1976, Rockwell created 49 paintings for the BSA's Brown & Bigelow calendar. After Rockwell's retirement in 1976, the BSA asked Cesatari to take over the calendar series. (Full list...) Recently featured: <h2 id="mp-tfp-h2" class="mp-h2">Today's featured picture <h2 id="mp-other" class="mp-h2">Other areas of Wikipedia <h2 id="mp-sister" class="mp-h2">Wikipedia's sister projects <templatestyles src="Wikipedia's sister projects/styles.css" /> Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other projects:
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