Boy Rescued after Tongue Gets Stuck on a Pole photo of the character Ralphie, played by actor Peter Billingsley, firing his Red Ryder air rifle from the classic movie A Christmas Story is seen in the back yard of the house used in the filming of the movie in Cleveland, Monday, Nov. 13, 2006.
Lord Baden Powell (1857-1941) was a British general and founder of the modern Scouting movement. He studied at Charterhouse school and served in the British army from 1876 -1910. He became a national hero during the Boer war of 1899-1900 when, with a small garrison, he commanded the defence of Mafeking. It was during the Boer war that Baden Powell wrote down a guide to Scouting.
A British anthropologist and primatologist, Jane Goodall is the world's leading authority on chimpanzees. Goodall is famous for her work among the chimpanzees of Gombe and for her efforts to raise awareness about the plight of both wild and captive chimpanzees. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute as well as the Roots & Shoots education and activism program for young people. She is the author of numerous books including My Life with the Chimpanzees, In the Shadow of Man, and Reason for Hope. Goodall is a former prot g of famed paleontologist Louis Leakey. Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall was born 3 April 1934 in London, England.