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.
This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 April 2017. Sir Edmund Percival Ed Hillary KG ONZ KBE (20 July 1919 â 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.