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Definition: Edmund Hillary |
Edmund HillaryNoun1. New Zealand mountaineer who first attained the summit of Mount Everest with his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay (born in 1919). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Edmund HillarySynonyms: Hillary (n), Sir Edmund Hillary (n), Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (n). (additional references) |
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Sir Edmund Hillary (born July 20, 1919) is a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer, most famous for the first successful climb of Mount Everest. He reached the 29,035-foot summit on May 29, 1953 with Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay.
He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II on July 16, 1953.
He devoted much of his life to helping the Sherpa people of Nepal through the Himalayan Trust which he founded and to which he devoted much of his time and energy. Through his efforts he succeeded in building many schools and hospitals in this remote region of the Himalayas. He has stated that he regarded this as his most important life' work. He is also Honorary President of the American Himalayan Foundation, a US non-profit body that also helps improve the ecology and living conditions in the Himalayas.
To mark the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first successful ascent of Everest, the Nepalese Government conferred honorary citizenship upon Sir Edmund at a special golden jubilee celebration in the capital Kathmandu. Sir Edmund is the first foreign national to receive such an honour from the Nepalese.
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Crosswords: Edmund Hillary |
| English words defined with "Edmund Hillary": Sir Edmund Hillary ♦ Tenzing Norgay. (references) |
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Clever | Well, we knocked the bastard off! (references; author: Edmund Hillary) | |
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 | Sir Edmund Hillary after accompanying first plane to land at the Marble Point ground air strip.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | The first ground landing at Marble Point air strip and in Antartica. Admiral Dufeck, USN, and Sir Edmund Hillary were on this flight.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
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Edmund Hillary | Well, we knocked the bastard off! |
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Expression using "Edmund Hillary": Sir Edmund Hillary. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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sir edmund hillary | 126 |
edmund hillary | 88 |
edmund hillary picture sir | 6 |
biography edmund hillary | 4 |
edmund hillary norgay tenzing | 4 |
edmund hillary sir tent | 3 |
edmund hillary percival sir | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "edmund hillary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | edmunday illaryhay.(various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-h-i-l-l-m-n-r-u-y" | |
-4 letters: anhydride, diurnally, medullary, millenary, numerally, unadmired, underlaid, undrilled. | |
-5 letters: dairymen, dihedral, dreamily, drumhead, hardline, haulmier, hiddenly, humanely, hymenial, inhauler, linearly, luminary, maidenly, mandrill, medially, medianly, medullar, menially, muraenid, neurally, unallied, underlay, unhailed, unhaired, unharmed, unmilled, unreally, unrhymed, unriddle. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 64 6D 75 6E 64 48 69 6C 6C 61 72 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100100 01101101 01110101 01101110 01100100 00100000 01001000 01101001 01101100 01101100 01100001 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E d m u n d   H i l l a r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0064 006D 0075 006E 0064 0048 0069 006C 006C 0061 0072 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)397079878070242757878678491 |
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