* The Tin Woodman from L. Frank Baum's Oz books ( at least before he became entirely metal ).

There was some precedent in the treatment of L. Frank Baum's Oz books ( and the many sequels by others ) by librarians in the United States in the 1930s.

Frank L. Baum published “ Mother Goose in Prose ” in 1897, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900, and American Fairy Tales in 1901.

In L. Frank Baum's Oz series, the Nomes ( so spelled ), especially their king, are the chief adversaries of the Oz people.

In the sequel, The Empire Strikes Back, Luke receives extensive Jedi training from the elderly ( and only surviving ) Jedi Master Yoda ( Frank Oz ), even as he learns that Vader is in fact his father, former Jedi Anakin Skywalker.

Lyman Frank Baum ( May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919 ) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Frank Baum's grave in one of the films, whose younger brother Harold Rosson photographed The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ).

After little success probing the unrealized children's film market, Baum came clean about who wrote The Last Egyptian and made a film of it ( portions of which are included in Decasia ), but the Oz name had, for the time being, become box office poison and even a name change to Dramatic Feature Films and transfer of ownership to Frank Joslyn Baum did not help.

Children's author and playwright L. Frank Baum referred to a seat in this passage of his novel Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz ; “ At once a little girl rose from her seat and walked to the door of the car, carrying a wicker suit-case in one hand and a round bird-cage covered up with newspapers in the other, while a parasol was tucked under her arm .”

In 1960, Cornell University astronomer Frank Drake performed the first modern SETI experiment, named " Project Ozma ", after the Queen of Oz in L. Frank Baum's fantasy books.

* August 15 – MGM's classic musical film The Wizard of Oz, based on L. Frank Baum's famous novel, and starring Judy Garland as Dorothy, premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

** MGM's classic musical film The Wizard of Oz, based on L. Frank Baum's famous novel, and starring Judy Garland as Dorothy, is released in theaters everywhere.

* May 6 – L. Frank Baum, American author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker ( The Wizard of Oz ) ( b. 1856 )

* May 15 – L. Frank Baum, American author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker ( The Wizard of Oz ) ( d. 1919 )

Muppet performers over the course of the show include Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Dave Goelz, Fran Brill, Eren Ozker, Steve Whitmire, Louise Gold, Kathryn Mullen, Karen Prell, Brian Muehl, Bob Payne, and John Lovelady.

A hallmark of these sketches was the improvisation between Jim Henson, who performed the Chef's head and voice, and Frank Oz, who was his hands.

It left a remembered vision that inspired the Emerald City of L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz and Walt Disney's theme parks.

Before the definition of the genre of fantasy, many works that would now be classified as fantasy were termed " fairy tales ", including Tolkien's The Hobbit, George Orwell's Animal Farm, and L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Frank Oz, puppeteer for The Muppets was born in Hereford and lived there for the first five years of his life.

The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum, is a children's novel, the seventh set in the Land of Oz.

* The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a 1900 book by L. Frank Baum and W. W. Denslow

* The Wizard of Oz ( 1902 stage play ), a musical by L. Frank Baum, Paul Tietjens and others

The garage had been rented by a man calling himself Frank Rogers, who gave his address as 1859 West North Avenue – which happened to be the address of the Circus Café, operated by Claude Maddox, a former St. Louis gangster with ties to the Capone organization, the Purple Gang, and a St. Louis gang called Egan's Rats.

The field was operated by the United States Army Air Force during World War II and was named for Lt. Frank Murchison Moore, a Texan.

Camp Frank H. Betz, located in Berrien Springs, MI ( USA ) is operated by the Calumet Council.

Camp Frank H. Betz, located in Berrien Springs, MI ( USA ) is operated by the Calumet Council.

Since 1939 the Zamboni family has also operated Iceland, an ice skating rink with improvements patented by Frank Zamboni.

File: Frank Melville Memorial Park ; Bates House. JPG |< center > The park includes The Bates House, operated as a house museum

Owned for 30 years by Jeff and Linda Frank, as of Spring 2011 the theater is operated by Friends of the Drexel Inc, as a 501 c ( 3 ) non-profit foundation.

The Thorp Hotel had been operated as the " Tanum House " first by J. F. Duncan and then by Frank and Callie Mattox.

As far as we can determine, neither Frank nor any member of his family actually ever lived in the namesake town, but his brother, Samuel G. Wilkeson, invested substantially in coal companies that operated there ...

According to Frank N. von Hippel, despite the 1979 Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania, the NRC has often been too timid in ensuring that America ’ s 104 commercial reactors are operated safely:

Veteran performers Frank Oz and Dave Goelz operated various puppets in the film, as did Karen Prell, Ron Mueck and Rob Mills who had all worked with Henson on Fraggle Rock.

To solve the problem, NHL president Frank Calder assigned the contracts of the Blueshirt players to a ' temporary ' Toronto franchise to be operated by the Toronto Arena Company, who also owned the Montreal Arena.

ZCMI operated under its original name as a part of May's Portland, Oregon-based Meier & Frank division until April 2002, when the stores adopted the Meier & Frank name.

The company is owned and operated by Frank Mosca, Stephen Franciosa Jr., and John Morena.

Another crucial turning point was the nationwide sit-in in 1977 of government buildings operated by HEW ( the U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare ), conceived by Frank Bowe and organized by the American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities, that led to the release of regulations pursuant to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

He was originally operated by Jim Henson and Frank Oz simultaneously, and is now puppeteered by Bill Barretta.

Formerly, the station operated from an unspecified location in Orange County, from Downtown Los Angeles ( at the Frank Stanton Studios ), and on the PCC campus.

The Hole in the Wall Gang operated out of The Gold Rush, Ltd. Other gang members included Peanuts Pancsko, Butch Pancsko and Pops Pancsko, Frank DeLegge, Michael LaJoy, Joseph D ' Argento, Gerald Tomasczek, Peter Basile of Wilmette, Illinois, Carl Urbanotti of Chicago, Illinois, Ernest Lehnigg of Addison, Illinois, Samuel Cusumano, Joseph Cusumano, Ernesto " Ernie " Davino, 34, Las Vegas, " Crazy Larry " Neumann, Wayne Matecki, Salvatore " Sonny " Romano, Leonardo " Leo " Guardino, 47, Las Vegas, Frank Cullotta, 43, Las Vegas, and former Las Vegas detective, Joseph Blasko, 45, Las Vegas, who acted as a lookout and who later worked as a bartender at the Crazy Horse Too, a gentleman's club, and died of a heart attack in 2002.

Frank Nelson Doubleday ( January 8, 1862 – January 30, 1934 ), known to friends and family as “ Effendi ”, founded the eponymous Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897, which later operated under other names.

This farm was operated by his son Charles F. For the years 1900 – 1950, and the old homestead is now part of the large modern home owned by his grandson, Frank C. Donaldson.

From 1900, the horse tramway was operated by private contractors, George and Frank Honeyman, on behalf of the SAR.

The portion of U. S. Route 41 through Bartow County is named in his honor ( Joe Frank Harris Parkway ), as well as the Joe Frank Harris Commons that houses The Village Summit Dining Commons ( operated by UGA FOOD SERVICES ) at the University of Georgia, the main entrance to the Georgia Ports Authority in Brunswick, Georgia ( Joe Frank Harris Blvd.