Lego bricks and other items are manufactured by the Lego Group, which is based in Billund, Denmark. It was in this city in 1932 that a carpenter by the name of Ole Kirk Christiansen began making wooden toys. Two years later, his company began being called "Lego," which came from leg godt, the Danish phrase meaning "play well." The company started making plastic toys in 1947, and interlocking bricks in 1949. Called "Automatic Binding Bricks," they were based on Kiddicraft Self-Locking Bricks. On January 28, 1958, Christiansen's son, Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, submitted an application for a patent for a "Toy Building Brick."
Fixing
the cormorant disaster on the Columbia: ‘How could this have
come out any worse?’
A colony of seabirds was shooed away from the mouth of the
Columbia River, only to relocate to a bridge. That's when the
problems really began.
A
new study finds a critical vitamin for salmon in rivers
From dams to drought, salmon face a lot of threats in the West.
Add thiamine deficiency to the list. Thiamine, also known as
vitamin B1, is critical for salmon health. Juvenile fish can die
without enough of the nutrient.
Learning
to Plan for the Next 500 Years
A first-of-its-kind program at Vancouver Island University
trains students to steward Indigenous Protected and Conserved
Areas.
Proposal
would require oil handlers, transporters to prove ability to
pay for spills
The Washington Department of Ecology is proposing rules
regarding financial responsibility requirements for oil handling
facilities and vessels ranging from $500,000 to $1 billion based
on vessel type and size; financial responsibility for oil
handling facilities – including refineries, terminals, and
pipelines – would range from $5 million to $300 million.
Ports
take steps to reduce emissions with $12M infrastructure
grant
Seattle and Tacoma now have a $12-million-dollar federal
infrastructure grant to focus on short-haul trucking whose
emissions pollute nearby neighborhoods, warm the climate and
pollute the immediate environment of the drivers while they’re
on the job.
New
fossils suggest kelp forests have swayed in the seas for at
least 32 million years
A study published in PNAS
presents new evidence that the first kelps were much older than
we once suspected, dating back 32 million years — well before
the arrival of many of their present-day animal inhabitants.
Green
hydrogen plans take shape for former Alcoa site at Cherry
Point
The closed Alcoa aluminum smelter near Ferndale could be
redeveloped as a green hydrogen factory if the prospective new
owner can navigate a series of hurdles.
If you like to watch: Divers capture dramatic battle between seal and octopus
Maxime Veilleux and Matteo Endrizzi were finishing their sunset dive off
Nanoose Bay on Sunday and heading to the shore when something unusual
caught their eyes.
How an Indigenous rights battle in WA changed tribal law, from fishing to culverts
Fifty years ago, a landmark federal court case brought against
Washington state reaffirmed the treaty rights of Native Americans to
fish in traditional waters and shorelines. From culvert rehab to dam
removal, 1974's "Boldt Decision" has expanded far beyond fishing to
legally empower tribes' ability to protect natural resources.
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