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Trying and failing to be an ex-academic. Owns guinea pigs. Lived in Egypt, UK, and UAE 2-5 years each. Coloradan for now.
Trying and failing to be an ex-academic. Owns guinea pigs. Lived in Egypt, UK, and UAE 2-5 years each. Coloradan for now.
![In 1892, during the Homestead strike, anarchist Alexander Berkman attempted to assassinate Frick. On July 23, Berkman, armed with a revolver and a sharpened steel file, entered Frick's office in downtown Pittsburgh.[8]
Frick, realizing what was happening, attempted to rise from his chair while Berkman pulled a revolver and fired at nearly point-blank range. The bullet hit Frick in the left earlobe, penetrated his neck near the base of the skull, and lodged in his back. The impact knocked Frick down, and Berkman fired again, striking Frick for a second time in the neck and causing him to bleed extensively. Carnegie Steel vice president (later, president) John George Alexander Leishman, who was with Frick, was then able to grab Berkman's arm and prevented a third shot, possibly saving Frick's life.
Frick was seriously wounded but rose and (with the assistance of Leishman) tackled his assailant.[21] All three men crashed to the floor, where Berkman managed to stab Frick four times in the leg with the pointed steel file before finally being subdued by other employees and a carpenter, who had rushed into the office.
Frick was back at work within a week; Berkman was charged and found guilty of attempted murder.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oroezzrbilxzmt3bz7mu2ctc/bafkreigwa7663w3e65mi5xtlfrgklwibywndprmqgnpii3mnt3qhjwmolm)
![Unknown, but probably derived from a corruption of box-standard under influence from bog (“toilet”), possibly via bog-wheel (“Cambridge slang for bicycle”),[1] or from bog (“unsettled swampland”) in reference to a lack of sophistication or polish.[2] Sometimes folk etymologized as separately deriving from bog (“toilet”) + standard after a supposed similarity among chamberpots or toilets[2] (despite box-standard predating it by a century and bog's original use only in reference to latrines and outhouses) or from the unattested acronym BOG, allegedly short for British or German, referring to the supposed dominance of British and German engineering during Victorian times.[](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oroezzrbilxzmt3bz7mu2ctc/bafkreieovghqql66y2pr2abx3ehjuavztd3xttfgpctifmjkecn4auoj7e)
