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2 unusual facts about Baum


Frank Baum

L. Frank Baum (1856–1919), American author of children's books, notably The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Frank Joslyn Baum (1883–1958), American lawyer, soldier, writer, and film producer; son of the author L. Frank Baum


American Fairy Tales

Baum adapted "The Box of Robbers" and "The Magic Bon Bons" as chapters 1 and 3 of his lost film series, Violet's Dreams, both with Violet MacMillan in the role of child protagonist.

In addition to American Fairy Tales, Baum's Dot and Tot of Merryland and The Master Key appeared in 1901.

Bauer Type Foundry

Beta (1954, Baum + Bauer), an alternate set of lower-case letters for Alpha.

Bill Giant

He was part of the popular songwriting team Giant, Baum and Kaye, writing songs with Bernie Baum and Florence Kaye.

Business and Professional Ethics Journal

The journal was established in 1981 by Robert Baum, Norman E. Bowie, and Deborah Johnson.

Caroline Baum

On graduating, Baum worked as a writer and researcher for Time-Life Books on a 29-volume series of cook books called The Good Cook, before moving to the BBC, where she worked with Michael Parkinson and later worked for London Weekend Television on The South Bank Show).

David Remnick

In May 2009, Remnick was featured in a long-form Twitter account of Dan Baum’s career as a New Yorker staff writer.

Dennis Coombs

Dennis Coombs was elected mayor of Longmont, Colorado on November 2, 2011, succeeding one-term incumbent, Bryan Baum.

Dwight James Baum

West Side YMCA, on 63rd Street between Central Park and Columbus Avenue, New York City, 1930 (Baum's only high-rise)

Baum was distantly related to author and designer L. Frank Baum.

Father Goose's Year Book

(On the question of tolerance versus bias in Baum's canon, see also Daughters of Destiny, Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea, Sky Island, and The Woggle-Bug Book.

The book was illustrated by Walter J. Enright; he was the husband of Maginel Wright Enright, the artist who illustrated Baum's The Twinkle Tales (1906), Policeman Bluejay (1907), and L. Frank Baum's Juvenile Speaker (1910).

Friedrich Baum

Baum served under Major General Friedrich Adolf Riedesel commanding the Dragoon Regiment Prinz Ludwig in support of General John Burgoyne's 1777 campaign to attack the Lake Champlain-Hudson River corridor, which ended in Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga on October 15, 1777.

Seeing he was badly outnumbered, Baum had requested reinforcements from Burgoyne, who sent Lieutenant Colonel Heinrich von Breymann and a corps of light infantrymen and Brunswick grenadiers to support him.

Green Exchange

With the support of 1st Ward Alderman Manuel Flores for a jobs-focused use for the plant, the building was sold to Baum Development, LLC, a commercial developer who agreed to pursue a use for the building that would create jobs.

Hazard mitigation in the Outer Banks

There are several bridges along highway NC 12 which include the Wright Memorial Bridge, the Virginia Dare Memorial Bridge, the Washington Baum Bridge, and the Bonner Bridge.

Jagdschloss Baum

Jagdschloss Baum was built between 1760 and 1761 by Count Wilhelm zu Schaumburg Lippe and is considered a prime example of late Baroque Classicism.

The former Jagdschloss Baum (Baum Hunting Lodge) is a small Schloss near Bückeburg along the road to Lahde in the Schaumburg Forest.

John Baum

John Baum, alias of John Connor in the television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Leonard E. Baum

Later, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Baum made important innovations in mathematical models for currency trading, working with Monemetrics, a predecessor of hedge fund management company Renaissance Technologies.

Leonard Esau Baum was an American mathematician, known for the Baum–Welch algorithm.

Madeleine Boschan

: Eine Frau, ein Baum, eine Kuh, Museum für Konkrete Kunst Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt, Germany

Maginel Wright Enright

(Her husband also worked on the Baum canon: Walter Enright illustrated Baum's Father Goose's Year Book in 1907.)

Martin Baum

Baum completed construction about 1820, the building, once lived in by Nicholas Longworth (the first) and David Sinton is now the Taft Museum.

Oz Before the Rainbow

The book also discusses Baum's 1908 Fairylogue and Radio-Plays, a presentation narrated by Baum, involving live action, slides and silent film, which included stories from Baum's original book and from its first two sequels, The Marvelous Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz.

Peter Baum

In 2012, Baum led the nation in scoring in 2012, with the highest point total at 97 since Matt Danowski in 2008.

Queen Lurline

Lurline is therefore a fundamental ingredient in the backstory or foundation myth of Oz; and as such she recurs in various subsequent Oz books — as in Edward Einhorn's Paradox in Oz — and is at least mentioned in others — from Baum's Glinda of Oz to Dave Hardenbrook's The Unknown Witches of Oz.

Queen Zixi of Ix

Although no part of the book's story takes place in the Land of Oz, by the time the movie was made, it had become clear that the Oz franchise was Baum's most popular creation.

The events of the book alternate between Noland and Ix, two neighboring regions to the Land of Oz, and Baum himself commented this was the best book he had written.

Ralph Fletcher Seymour

For a time around the turn of the twentieth century, Seymour was associated with L. Frank Baum, and worked on Baum's books By the Candelabra's Glare (1898), Father Goose: His Book (1899), and American Fairy Tales (1901).

Robert Wauchope

-- *Robert Wauchope (writer), co-writer of Invisible Inzi of Oz, with his sister, Virginia Wauchope (later Bass), allegedly channeled from L. Frank Baum via Ouija board.

Shlomo Baum

Shlomo Baum (1929 – January 17, 1999) was an Israeli military commando fighter.

Sky Island

Baum attempted to launch two other juvenile novel series in the same 1911–12 period, The Flying Girl and The Daring Twins, neither of which was a long-term success.

Steven J. Baum P.C.

Baum came to national attention around Halloween 2011, when Joseph Nocera, a columnist at The New York Times, published photographs taken at the firm's Halloween party the previous year that had been sent to him by an employee.

The American Clock

The cast included Miller's younger sister, Joan Copeland, who won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for her portrayal of Rose Baum.

The Flying Girl

Many critics who have written about Baum and Oz have noted that Baum's is a technology-friendly fantasy realm, which sets it apart from the more traditional fantasies that preceded it.

It is certainly true that Baum pokes gentle fun at the feminist and suffragette movement in his books — the most obvious example being General Jinjur and her Army of Revolt in The Marvelous Land of Oz.

The Oratory Preparatory School

The school accepts children of all faiths but maintains close ties with the Catholic church; Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster and Cardinal Baum both sit on the Board of Governors.

The Sea Fairies

As an underwater fantasy, Baum's The Sea Fairies can be classed with earlier books with similar themes, like Charles Kingsley's The Water-Babies (1863), and successors too, like E. Nesbit's Wet Magic (1913).

In 1905, however, a musical setting of Tennyson's poem for female chorus and orchestra, composed by Amy Beach, was in performance; the title may have stuck in the back of Baum's mind.

Tik-Tok of Oz

The music was composed by Louis F. Gottschalk, Baum's favorite composer, who would also be the dedicatee of the Tik-Tok novel a year later.

Tin Man

Tin Woodman, a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum

Vincent Lafforgue

Lafforgue was awarded the 2000 EMS Prize for his contribution to the K-theory of operator algebras: the proof of the Baum–Connes conjecture for discrete co-compact subgroups of SL(3,\mathbb{R}),SL(3,\mathbb{C}), SL(3,\mathbb{Q} p) and some other locally compact group (and of more general objects).

Walter Spies

Vicki Baum accredits Walter Spies with providing her the factual historical information and details on Balinese culture for her historical fiction novel "Love and Death in Bali" - dealing with the Dutch intervention in Bali (1906), and first published in German in 1937.


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