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2 unusual facts about Frick


Frick, Aargau

In 2006, the only Coelophysoidea (a small flesh-eating dinosaur species) fossil in Switzerland, was found by an amateur paleontologist in Frick.

A number of dinosaur fossils, including a nearly complete Plateosaurus skeleton, were discovered in clay pits in the town.


Calumet, Pennsylvania

During the Bituminous Coal Miners' Strike of 1894, Calumet was the site of a bitter confrontation between the strikers and the H. C. Frick Coke Company, which at that time was part-owner of Calumet Coke Company.

Around 1932 the H. C. Frick Coke Company closed and abandoned the Calumet Mine and sent a number of the miners to the Standard Shaft Mine near Mount Pleasant, and laid off the rest of the coal miners to fend for themselves, with no compensation or means of support.

Charles Darling

Chuck Darling (Charles Frick Darling, born 1933), American basketball player

Childs Frick

He is interred alongside his wife and parents in the Frick family plot at Pittsburgh's Homewood Cemetery.

Computing Tabulating Recording Company

In 1894, J. L. Willard and F. A. Frick of Rochester, New York, formed the Willard and Frick Manufacturing Company as the first card time recorder company in the world.

Ford Frick

Later, during his tenure as National League president, when several members of the St. Louis Cardinals planned to protest Jackie Robinson's breaking of baseball's color barrier, Frick threatened any players involved with suspension.

Frick has an award named after him given to recognized broadcasters in the MLB.

In 1957 during his tenure as commissioner, Frick addressed an organized campaign of ballot stuffing for that year's All-Star Game in which most of the ballots originated from Cincinnati and had stacked the National League team with Reds.

Frederick Mortimer Clapp

He was named adviser to the Frick Collection in 1931, and oversaw the development of the Frick residence into a museum in 1933, hiring the architect, John Russell Pope, and opening the museum in 1935.

Frick and Frack

Frick and Frack were known for skating in Alpine Lederhosen and performing eccentric tricks on ice, including the "cantilever spread-eagle", created by Groebli, and Mauch's "rubber legs", twisting and bending his legs while skating in a spread eagle position.

Frick Fine Arts Building

Miss Frick acquired the entire collection, however, after Lochoff's death, with the help of art critic Bernard Berenson.

Frick Park Market

The song is named after Frick Park Market, a food store in Mac Miller's hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at which the rapper once worked.

Henry Clay Frick

They had four children: Childs Frick (born March 12, 1883), Martha Howard Frick (born August 9, 1885), Helen Clay Frick (born September 3, 1888) and Henry Clay Frick, Jr. (born July 8, 1892).

Henry Clay Frick II

Frick was a trustee and board president of New York's Frick Collection and chairman of his aunt's Helen Clay Frick Foundation.

Lorn Brown

He would go on to be replaced in the Mets booth by Tim McCarver, who would go on to become the highest profile baseball broadcaster of his generation and would also win the Frick award.

Möhlintal

The station is served by the S1 route of the Regio S-Bahn Basel that runs from Mulhouse in France, through Basel and terminates in either Frick or Laufenburg.

Psychotic Youth

Gunnar Frick who played keyboard and was the husband of Swedish actress and comedian Mia Skäringer joined later in the year.

Rembrandt

More recent opinion has shifted even more decisively in favor of the Frick, with Simon Schama in his 1999 book Rembrandt's Eyes, and a Rembrandt Project scholar, Ernst van de Wetering (Melbourne Symposium, 1997) both arguing for attribution to the master.

Richard K. Webel

He designed the landscaping at places as diverse as the Frick Collection and the American wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan; Blair House, the presidential guest quarters across the street from the White House; the Governor's Mansion in Albany; Wellesley College in Massachusetts; Sweet Briar College in Virginia; Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens.

Roxy Bernstein

Bernstein spent three years as a broadcaster with the Florida Marlins (2005–2007), teaming with 2011 Ford C. Frick Award Winner Dave Van Horne, but left the Marlins to return to the Bay Area full-time.

Säckingen Abbey

This estate covered land in the Rhine and Frick valleys, the southern Hotzenwald, land in Zurich, along Lake Walen and the valley of Glarus.

The Nutt House

Frick, a more pleasant version of Leachman's Frau Blucher character from Brooks' Young Frankenstein, appeared in every episode, Mrs. Nutt only in the pilot.

United, Pennsylvania

Robert Ramsay, a long-time superintendent and engineer at Frick's renowned Shaft Mines near Mount Pleasant, was brought in to manage the United Mine & Coke Works and the Calumet Mine & Coke Works.

Wilhelm Frick

Frick also appointed the eugenicist Hans F. K. Günther a professor of social anthropology at the University of Jena, banned several newspapers as well as pacifist drama and film performances like All Quiet on the Western Front based upon the novel by Erich Maria Remarque.


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