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.
Britainâs Baden-Powell, who started the Scouts in 1907, held talks with German ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop and Hitler Youth chief of staff Hartmann Lauterbacher on November 19, 1937.auterbacher, then 28, was in Britain to foster closer relations with the Boy Scout movement and Ribbentrop invited Baden-Powell to tea with the Hitler Youth leader, newly declassified MI5 Security Service files revealed. (Raw Story: Scouts founder held talks with Nazis). Posted by Jason Louv.