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Re: A quick LEGO History
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Sun, 24 Dec 2006 17:41:11 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
   In lugnet.general, David Eaton wrote: SNIPPAGE
   Aside-- the wikipedia timeline seems to have it wrong. I’ve changed the timeline over there at least once, and some things seem to have been changed again, some incorrectly. It currently says:

“1932 - Ole Kirk Christiansen, opens his shop in the village of Billund, Denmark.”

“1965 - Lego Samsonite is discontinued.”

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legotimeline

Funny, I just stumbled onto that timeline before seeing this thread today. I was actually looking for an answer to a timeline-related question:

What dates did TLG start calling itself TLC and then back again?

-Hendo




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  Re: A quick LEGO History
 
In lugnet.general, David Eaton wrote: <SNIPPAGE> (...) Dave, I see that Wikipedia is using the Official LEGO Timeline dates. Well there's a problem with doing that.... about 20-30% of the time those dates are wrong! I wonder what KKK (who is THEE (...) (18 years ago, 24-Dec-06, to lugnet.general)

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