A daisy is a mix of two flowers called a disk floret and a white ray floret. The ray florets are at the periphery and the disk florets are at the center. It is the arrangement of these florets that gives it an appearance of a single flower. This arrangement on daisy is a type of inflorescence known as a capitulum.
Robert M. Gates, the president of the Boy Scouts of America and former secretary of defense, called on Thursday to end the Scoutsâ ban on gay adult leaders, warning the groupâs executives that âwe must deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it to be.â.
According to Wikipedia, there have been a total of 83,486,083 Boy Scouts since it's inception in 1911. Of that number, 1,835,410 have earned their Eagle. That's about 2% of the total number of Boy Scouts, ever. However, getting an Eagle has become a more popular pastime these days, as many boys like being able to point to an Eagle on their college and scholarship applications. In 2005, therere were 49,895 Eagles awarded -- about 5% of the 2005 Boy Scout enrollment.