Article: 50 YEARS OF LEGO; 400BN bricks and counting.(Features)

Article: THE BUILDING OF THE BLOCKS
Chicago Sun-Times;  March 24, 1996 ;     163 words ......ensures pieces fit together snugly but can be pulled apart by a child. Where the name came from: In 1934, Danish carpenter Ole Christiansen needed a name for his new toy business. He combined two Danish words, "leg godt" (play well), and the name...

Article: Danish Inventor Develops Clock Signal Generation Technique
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 26, 2007 ;     167 words ...ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 26 -- Ole Christiansen of Alleroed, Denmark, has developed a technique to regenerate a data signal for both synchronous and asynchronous modes of transmitting...

Article: WIPO: Inventors in Denmark Develop Releasable Fully Automatic Hydraulic Coupling
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 22, 2008 ;     184 words ...GENEVA, Sept. 22 - Ole Dalgaard of Vejle, Denmark, and Ole Christiansen of Hedensted, Denmark, have developed a raeleasable fully automatic hydraulic coupling. According to an abstract posted by the...

Article: BENCHMARK - LEGO: Facts and Figures.(toy company)(Chronology)(Brief article)
Marketing Week;  April 27, 2006 ;     154 words ...* In 1934, Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Kristiansen starts using the brand name Lego for his wooden toy range. He derives Lego from the Danish words leg godt , meaning...

Article: Lego anniversary.(LEGO A/S)(Brief article)
History Today;  April 1, 2008 ;     78 words ......featuring in the Google logo. The brick design was patented on January 28th, 1958. The concept was started in the 1930s by carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen who began working on wooden toys. His son, Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, became manager at Lego in 1940 after...

Article: Fascinating facts
Lincolnshire Echo;  August 12, 2008 ;     150 words ...The name Lego comes from a Danish phrase meaning Play Well. Lego originated in the workshops of Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen at the start of the 20th century. Christiansen started his career making furniture before he started producing...

Article: Crew Development Corporation: Nalunaq Gold Mine A/S Incorporated.
Canadian Corporate News;  December 13, 2002 ;     439 words ......Finn Mortensen was appointed the managing director of Nalunaq Gold Mine A/S, while the Board of Directors include Messrs. Ole Christiansen, Vagn Andersen, Jon S. Petersen, Jan Vestrum and Wolf Seidler (Chairman). The Greenlandic Bureau of Mines and Petroleum...

Article: Designs for life: Lego
The Scotsman;  May 10, 2003 ;     242 words ...The Denmark-based toy company and worldwide brand, Lego, began in 1932 in humble style, when carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen founded a workshop to make stepladders, ironing boards and wooden toys. Two years later, he named the firm Lego...

Article: DENNIS MCCANN; Death's Door, a bad dad and even more
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  May 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......summer when the family is driving to Door County maybe you should share with them the story of the old schooner captain Ole Christiansen, a "tough Norwegian taskmaster," as he has been described, who once employed "maybe a better word is enslaved," as one...

Article: Recurrence is more likely if first child is a boy.
OBGYN & Reproduction Week;  July 21, 2003 ;     700+ words ......first child are more likely to suffer subsequent miscarriages than women whose first baby is a girl, a study has found. Dr. Ole Christiansen, a consultant registrar at the Rigshospitalet Fertility Clinic in Copenhagen, Denmark, told the annual conference of the...

Article: Miscarriage more likely for mothers of boys.(News)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  July 2, 2003 ;     311 words ......January 2002. But 73% of women whose first child was a girl had successfully given birth again in the same time period. Dr Ole Christiansen, from the Righospitalet Fertility Clinic in Copenhagen, who led the research, said, ``Our study shows that the majority...

Article: GIRARDELLI POISED IN THIRD PLACE
The Boston Globe;  January 31, 1989 ;     608 words ......Alpine Championships, which are being held in the United States for the first time in 40 years. Two young Scandinavians, Ole Christiansen Furuseth from Norway and Sweden's Jonas Nilsson, proved that "flatlanders" can master technical events, as both turned...

Article: Obituaries, Jan. 1, 2004
St. Joseph News-Press;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......2003, at the Golden Valley Memorial Hospital, Clinton, Mo. She was born March 21, 1911, in Fairfax, Mo., the daughter of Ole Christiansen and Lucy (Robertson) Christiansen. On November 23, 1945, in Troy, Kan., she married William Thomas Bonner, who preceded...

Article: Pieces fit together for legends of Lego.
Fraser Coast Chronicle (Hervey Bay, Australia);  October 4, 2008 ;     162 words ......something to put next to my plane, Brandon said. To get better I've got to keep practising. BLOCK PARTY * Lego was founded by Ole Christiansen in 1934 * The world's children spend about five billion hours every year playing with Lego * There are 52 Lego bricks for...