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4 unusual facts about Friese


Friese

Werner Friese (born 1946), a retired East German football player

Friese-Greene

William Friese-Greene (1855–1921), a British portrait photographer and prolific inventor.

Claude Friese-Greene (1898–1943), a British-born cinema technician and filmmaker

Lebam, Washington

23 of the current 160 residents carry the last name Friese, which means they make up 14% of the current population.


Abraham David Christian

Another important monograph on his work was published by Kehrer in 2003, in conjunction with his museum exhibition, The Language of Man, at the Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen and Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal in 2004, with essays by Thomas Deecke, Peter Friese, Hans-Jürgen Heinrichs and Richard Milazzo.

Claude Friese-Greene

The series, presented by Dan Cruickshank included The Open Road Claude Friese-Greene's film of his 1920s road trip from Land's End to John o' Groats.

Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial

On the friese and the exterior walls of the chapel and museum are twenty-three carved shields representing the branch and service insignia that served in this region of France, and the museum and chapel both include stylized versions of the Great Seal of the United States.

William Friese-Greene

In 2006 the BBC ran a series of programmes called The Lost World of Friese-Greene, presented by Dan Cruickshank about Claude Friese-Greene's road trip from Land's End to John o' Groats, The Open Road, which he filmed from 1924 to 1926 using the Biocolour process.

With the financial assistance of the renowned British racing driver Selwyn Francis Edge, Friese-Greene attempted to invalidate Urban's patent in court.


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