Lego
Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891–1958) was a carpenter in Denmark. In 1932, due to the Great Depression in Denmark, his main carpentry business struggled so he began to make toys from wood. In 1934 he named his company ‘Lego‘, deriving the name from the Danish phrase LEg GOdt which means ‘play well’.
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