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	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen created in the first half of the 20th century one of the most beloved toys of all time, enjoyed the world over by millions of children and quite a few adults as well.
		Christiansen was born in 1891 in Filskov, Denmark, a small village north of the Danish town of Billund.
		Ole’s grandson, Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, later became CEO of the company and maintained that position until October 2004 when he was replaced by the company’s first non-family chief executive.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/christiansen.html (615 words)

	Ole Kirk Christiansen, LLS4 - MSAD50 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ole Kirk Christiansen was born in 1891, in Filskov, a tiny village northwest of the town of Billund, Denmark.
		Ole Kirk Christiansen was a white man. He was not rich.
		In the beginning Ole was bailed out by his brothers and sisters a lot because he was an excellent carpenter but a terrible salesmen.
	www.msad50.org /lls/invent/ochristiansen.html (159 words)

	Why Can't Lego Click?
		One of his early plastic toys was a set of small building bricks that snapped together, first called "automatic binding bricks." Ole Kirk was so intrigued with them that he often carried one in his pocket.
		It was Godtfred Kirk Christiansen (GKC, as he was known) who focused his father's company on the "automatic binding bricks," who imagined a whole system of play built around them.
		Ole Kirk was the innovator; he set the bar for quality, and Lego has never fallen short of it.
	www.fastcompany.com /online/50/lego.html (4531 words)

	Babson College - Godtfred Kirk Christiansen
		Billund's remarkable turnaround is the brainchild of Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, the man who patented a plastic toy known all over the world as the LEGO brick.
		It was also a sad year for Godtfred Kirk Christiansen because his father died.
		GKC doubts that his high product standards and ethical code would be upheld by public shareholders, and he constantly reminds those around him of the motto which hung on the wall of his father's workshop, "Only the best is good enough for our children," a motto which he lived and worked by throughout his life.
	www3.babson.edu /ESHIP/outreach-events/Godtfred-Kirk-Christiansen.cfm (449 words)

	History of Lego (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1934, Ole held a contest among his staff to pick a name.
		The winner (suggested by Ole Kirk himself) was LEGO - which is a contraction of a Danish phrase, "Leg Godt," which means play well.
		The ancestor of the brick you know was pioneered in 1949 by Ole's son, Godtfred Kirk Christiansen.
	geocities.com /lastversion2003/menu/lego/history.html (100 words)

	Daily Celebrations ~ Ole Kirk Christiansen, Life is a Challenge ~ December 4 ~ Ideas to motivate, educate, and inspire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		With the lasting motto "Only the best is good enough," Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891-1958) was a master carpenter in the village of Billund, Denmark.
		To build his company, Christiansen toiled long and hard into the night.
		Voted "toy of the century" by Fortune magazine, the interlocking plastic continues to be a celebration of creative play and the imagination that Albert Einstein said was "more important than knowledge." With Old Kirk's grandson, Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen as CEO, the company continues to help children build imagination throughout the world.
	www.dailycelebrations.com /120401.htm (231 words)

	LEGO.com About Us - LEGO Company - Company and brand history
		Ole Kirk Christiansen passes away and Godtfred Kirk Christiansen becomes head of the company.
		Ole Kirk's plans to expand and a plant is built.
		Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, son of the founder, Ole Kirk Christiansen, is appointed Junior Vice President the day he turns 30.
	www.lego.com /eng/info/default.asp?page=timeline5 (331 words)

	LEGOs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As far as LEGOs go there are a lot of things to talk about such as the LEGOs themselves, the creator(Godtfred Kirk Christiansen), and LEGOLAND the themepark.
		Godtfred Kirk Christiansen was born on July 8, 1920.
		By the time he was 12 years old he was making toys with his father, Ole Kirk Christiansen, in their garage.
	www.ac.wwu.edu /~noardc/cs102 (173 words)

	Ole Kirk Christiansen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ole Kirk Christiansen (April 7, 1891–March 11, 1958) was a Danish master carpenter and toymaker, responsible for both founding the Lego Group and inventing the world-famous Lego bricks.
		He has a son, who headed LEGO after him: Godfred Kirk Christiansen.
		His grandson Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen is the current head of Lego.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ole_Kirk_Christiansen (99 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He manufactures wooden toys with the help of his son, Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, who starts working in the business from the age of 12.
		Ole Kirk hangs his motto on the wall of the workshop: 'Only the best is good enough'.
		In 1958 Ole Kirk Christiansen dies and Godtfred Kirk Christiansen becomes head of the company, and decides to discontinue production of wooden toys and concentrate exclusively on plastics.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~wendik/lego.htm (1392 words)

	Apple - Games - LEGO Star Wars - Sidebar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The company was founded in Denmark by Ole Kirk Christiansen, a carpenter who opened a woodworking shop in 1916.
		Christiansen’s son, Godtfred, became junior managing director of the company in 1954.
		He also modified the bricks’ design to their present one in 1958, the same year Ole Kirk passed away.
	www.apple.com /de/games/articles/2005/legostarwars/index2.html (812 words)

	Theriault's :: The Antique Dolls and Toys of the LEGO Collections To Be Offered at Theriault's This May (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		ANNAPOLIS, Md., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- For decades now the Christiansen family of Denmark, founders of the LEGO Group -- a forerunner in nurturing creativity in children, and the child within all of us -- have quietly maintained one of the world's largest museums of antique dolls and toys.
		The Christiansen family did not need to found this collection; it was a labor of love, a desire to create a mirror to the past so that the youth today might find a way to reflect on the joy of what it was to be a child, in say, 1885.
		A separate museum and archives, which is not being sold, and will be maintained in Billund, has housed LEGO objects from the early years when the firm was a small cottage industry under original founder Ole Kirk Christiansen.
	sev.prnewswire.com /retail/20060116/NYM02216012006-1.html (762 words)

	LEGO.com About Us - LEGO Company - The LEGO Group
		The LEGO Group was founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Christiansen.
		The Company has passed from father to son and is now owned by Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, a grandchild of the founder.
		It has come a long way over the past 70 years - from a small carpenter’s workshop to a modern, global enterprise that is now, in terms of sales, the world’s sixth-largest manufacturer of toys.
	www.lego.com /eng/info/default.asp?page=group (142 words)

	Ole Kirk Christiansen
		Did you know that Ole Kirk Christiansen,(which is the person who invented the Legos) was a master carpenter?
		Ole Kirk Christiansen made step ladders and other wooden toys.
		I also feel proud of Ole Kirk because I'm betting that he was a very kind man. Oh yes, and one more thing, did you learn a lot about the Legos and Ole Kirk Christiansen?
	www.jefferson.k12.wi.us /sul/library/OleKirkChristiansens.htm (185 words)

	brandchannel.com \| LEGO brand \| brands \| brand \| branding news
		Founded by Ole Kirk Christiansen, the intent was to stimulate creativity and encourage learning in the act of play.
		Christiansen started making wooden toys but following the advent of plastic, branched out and eventually settled on the famous bricks — marketed at first as Automatic Binding Bricks.
		In fact, the Lego brand has lasted longer than the family name, as Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, grandson of the founder, lost his C for a K in a birth certificate typo.
	www.brandchannel.com /features_profile.asp?pr_id=5 (1802 words)

	Billund, Denmark
		However, the inventor of the bricks, Ole Kirk Christiansen, did not know that; he composed the name from two Danish words "leg godt" (play well).
		Like many Danes, Ole Kirk Christiansen found himself unemployed in the 1930s.
		A cabinet-maker by trade, he had the idea of producing wooden toys which would arouse the imagination of children.
	www.planetware.com /denmark/billund-dk-jut-bil.htm (179 words)

	Why LEGO Dacta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The founder of LEGO was Ole Kirk Christiansen.
		Ole Kirk Christiansen set up his LEGO and toy business in 1932.
		Twenty-six years later the great founder of LEGO died and his son, Godfred Kirk Christiansen took over the company.
	www.soduscsd.org /LegoDacta/why_lego_dacta.htm (430 words)

	Official Lego history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		More than 50 years ago, a carpenter named Ole Kirk Christiansen and his 12-year old son, Godtfred, started making toys in the little town of Billund, Denmark.
		Ole and Godtfred were very proud of their workmanship, and adopted the LEGO motto that "only the best is good enough."
		The international LEGO group is now worldwide, and is run by Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, Old Kirk Christiansen's grandson.
	www.canlearn.com /legohist.htm (520 words)

	Nordic Culture > LEGOLAND Park and LEGO toys in Billund, Denmark - Scandinavica.com
		When Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen began making wooden toys for children in 1932, he could scarcely have foreseen that one day more than 400.000.000 children and adults would play with his LEGO bricks.
		Yet, despite its international dimension, LEGO is still a Danish company proud of a tradition that has passed on through three generations of Christiansens, from founder Ole Kirk to grandson and current president Kjeld Kirk.
		Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen decided on the name LEGO in 1934, combining the two Danish words "Leg Godt", which means "Play Well"
	www.scandinavica.com /culture/travel/lego.htm (1530 words)

	Recess
		That's just a tiny part of the history and the legacy of LEGOs, which have been a staple of the toy box for nearly three quarters of a century.
		LEGOs appeared in 1932, when the Danish master carpenter and joiner, Ole Kirk Christiansen, established his business in the village of Billund, Denmark.
		His shop turned out stepladders and other practical things in addition to wooden toys, but the name LEGO was for the bricks he made that we are all now so familiar with.
	www.recess.ufl.edu /transcripts/2003/0605.shtml (384 words)

	Lego History - Invention of LEGO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1932 Ole Kirk Christiansen, master carpenter and joiner in the village of Billund, Denmark, sets up business.
		This book is about an idea, a set of values, and a long-term commitment to empowering children to use their creativity and build their imagination.
		"Only the best is good enough," was Ole Kirk Christiansen’s motto and the legacy he left the company he started, LEGO.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventions/story045.htm (1099 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Lego
		Basically it is a toybrand mostly for human boys in all ages, but Lego are also known for selling dolls'n'stuff for girls.
		Lego started out making quite unique toys carved out of wood by Ole Kirk Christiansen.
		generation where leader of board is the grandson of Ole Kirk Christiansen, namely Keld Kirk Christiansen - which has kept it out of the stockmarket ever since its beginning in the early 1900's.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A397938 (411 words)

	wcco.com - Police Make $200,000 Legos Bust
		Records of the Lego collector's Web site, Bricklink.Com, show that Swanberg has sold nearly $600,000 worth of Legos since 2002, said Dolyniuk.
		Lego's Danish founder Ole Kirk Christiansen named the famous bricks in 1934 by fusing two Danish words, "leg" and "godt" meaning "play well."
		Children across the world spend 5 billion hours every year playing with Lego bricks, available in 90 different colors, according to the company's Web site.
	wcco.com /watercooler/watercooler_story_329143900.html (367 words)

	Time for Kids \| Magazines \| Legoland
		The California park is the first Legoland in the U.S. The original Legoland opened in 1968 in Denmark.
		Danish toymaker Ole Kirk Christiansen invented the bright bricks 50 years ago.
		Since then, more than 189 billion have been made.
	www.timeforkids.com /TFK/magazines/story/0,6277,57357,00.html (870 words)

	Lego looking to disassemble itself from theme parks - Los Angeles Business from bizjournals: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Los Angeles Times says that a deal with Blackstone is pending.
		Billund, Denmark's, Lego is owned by Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, grandson of the company's founder, Ole Kirk Christiansen.
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	losangeles.bizjournals.com /losangeles/stories/2005/05/30/daily15.html (467 words)

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