NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Godtfred Kirk Christiansen

Godfred Kirk Christiansen (July 8, 1920 - July 13, 1995) is the son of Ole Kirk Christiansen, the founder of LEGO. July 8 is the 189th day of the year (190th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 176 days remaining. ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 3 - Babe Ruth is traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time. ... July 13 is the 194th day (195th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 171 days remaining. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891-1958) was a Danish master carpenter and toymaker, responsible for both founding the LEGO toy company and inventing the world famous LEGO bricks. ...

Categories: 1920 births | 1995 deaths | LEGO | Danish people stubs The Lego Group is a family-owned company, based in Billund, Denmark and best known for the manufacture of Lego-brand toys. ... Lego Group logo The classic red 2x4 Lego brick. ... // History of Lego toys The Lego Group had humble beginnings in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen, a poor carpenter from Billund, Denmark. ... This article lists notable events in the timeline of the Lego Company. ... This is a list of Lego themes, or lines of Lego sets. ... ... Lego Mindstorms is a line of Lego Group products combining programmable bricks with electric motors, sensors, Lego bricks, and Lego Technic pieces (such as gears, axles, beams, and pneumatic parts) to build robots and other automated or interactive systems. ... The Duplo logo. ... Lego pneumatics is a variety of Lego bricks which utilise air pressure and specialised components to perform various actions utilising the principles of pneumatics. ... Lego Baby is a line of blocks by the Lego Group for very young children. ... Space, Castle and Town minifigures. ... Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891-1958) was a Danish master carpenter and toymaker, responsible for both founding the LEGO toy company and inventing the world famous LEGO bricks. ... Chief executive of Lego, Billund, Denmark-based toymaker, since 1979. ... JÃ¸rgen Vig Knudstorp is the current CEO, and has been, since 2004 of the Lego Group. ... The entrance of Legoland Deutschland. ... Legoland Billund, the original Legoland park, opened in 1968 in Billund, Denmark. ... LEGO features a large variety of themed figurines (minifigures), including Space, Castle, and Town. ... Legoland Deutschland is a LEGOLAND park. ... Model of Trafalgar Square within Legoland Windsor. ... AFOL: Adult Fan Of LEGO Categories: Articles to be merged ... Adam and Eve from The Brick Testament website The Brick Testament is a project created by Brendan Powell Smith in which Bible stories are illustrated using still photographs of dioramas constructed entirely out of LEGO bricks. ... BrickFest is a convention for Adult Fans of LEGOÂ® (AFOL). ... A brickfilm is a film made using LEGO bricks, Mega Bloks bricks, or other similar plastic construction toys. ... The FIRST LEGO League (also known by its acronym FLL) is a competition for elementary and middle school students, arranged by the FIRST organization. ... Irregular Webcomic! is a webcomic created by David Morgan-Mar, an Australian physicist. ... L gauge is the unofficial term for toy trains built from LEGOÂ®. There are many different sizes within the nomenclature. ... LDraw is a popular system of free software tools for modeling Lego creations in 3D. The LDraw file format and original program were written by James Jessiman. ... Lego Serious Play in action (Photographs: David Gauntlett) Lego Serious Play, an official product of the Lego Group, is a form of business consultancy fostering creative thinking, in which team members build metaphors of their organisational identities and experiences using Lego bricks. ... LEGO Magazine is the Official Magazine for LEGO, or, more specifically, the LEGO Club. ... // General LUGNETâ„¢, The LEGO Users Group Network, is one of the largest online LEGO-oriented communities. ... MLCAD is a program for building with LEGOs, akin to the computer game LEGO Creator. ...