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Footnotes / references. [1] Fisher-Price, Inc. is an American company that produces educational toys for infants, toddlers and preschoolers, headquartered in East Aurora, New York. It was founded in 1930 during the Great Depression by Herman Fisher, Irving Price, Helen Schelle and Margaret Evans Price. Fisher-Price has been a wholly owned ...
Go Fish. Four cards of the same face value are known as a "book", and the aim of the game is to collect these. Go Fish or Fish is a card game usually played by two to five players, [2] although it can be played with up to 10 players. It can be played in about 5 to 15 minutes.
Rescue Heroes are a line of action figures targeted towards preschool-age children, released by Fisher-Price.The line was first introduced in 1997, depicting various rescue personnel, such as firefighters, police officers, and construction workers, which included interchangeable tool packs that attached to the back of figures and featured various electronic or mechanical gimmicks.
Lavinia Fisher (c. 1793 – February 18, 1820) was an American criminal who, according to urban legends, was the first female serial killer in the United States of America. [1] She was married to John Fisher, and both were convicted of highway robbery —a capital offense at the time—not murder .
The Game of Authors is one of the earliest versions of the family of Go Fish games, in which players call on each other to give up a named card. [ 3 ] The play is based on a specialized deck of playing cards. Later decks included additional authors, but the authors represented in most decks are: Louisa May Alcott. James Fenimore Cooper.
Little People is a toy brand for children ages 6–36 months and to ages 3 and up, originally produced by Fisher-Price, Inc. in the 1960s as the Play Family People. The current product line consists of playsets, mini-sets and accessories, books, CDs, and DVDs focusing on various configurations of 5 characters named Eddie, Tessa, Mia, Koby, and ...
Planet Heroes was a line of toys from Fisher-Price depicting various heroic characters each identified with a specific planet. These characters represented their planets in design and features, such as Mercury and Pluto are very small, while Jupiter is a larger toy. The toys representing the planets have numbers on them corresponding with the ...
Herman Guy Fisher (November 2, 1898 – September 26, 1975), [1] was born in Unionville Pennsylvania. He is best known as a co-founder of the toy brand Fisher-Price . Fisher graduated from the Pennsylvania State University where he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity in 1921 with a BA in Commerce and Finance.