Le Corbusier is a controversial figure. Some of his urban planning ideas have been criticized for their indifference to pre-existing cultural sites, societal expression and equality, & his ties with fascism, antisemitism and the dictator Benito Mussolini
"In January 1937, the University of Lausanne (UNIL) awarded Benito Mussolini an honorary doctorate. A group of Vaud politicians on Tuesday called for the academic title to be revoked."
- Swissinfo, March 2022
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89col…
The EPFL-Pavilions buildings:
>archives from the Montreux Jazz Festival
>a space for museum experimentations
> DataSquare: the HUMAN BRAIN PROJECT and the VENICE TIME MACHINE
"Driverless Vehicles, the Venice Time Machine, the Human Brain Project and MOOCs at EPFL
They traveled from the Human Brain Project to the Rolex center, where the MOOCs lab is located.."
- US Embassy in Switzerland and Liechtenstein
THR : "it’s hard to imagine [Cedars-Sinai] was founded as a 12-bed facility in a Victorian house near downtown in 1902. Then called Kaspare Cohn Hospital, it was run by the Hebrew Benevolent Society...
Later renamed Cedars of Lebanon, an Old Testament reference to the timber used for Solomon’s Temple, it expanded into a grand Art Deco building on Fountain Avenue in Hollywood [1930] & tapped the wallets of film moguls Jack Warner and Joseph Schenck, as well as Will Rogers...
"In 2010 the Mappins decided to hold a birthday celebration in honour of Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev at the Camelot Castle, to “express our tremendous appreciation for what the President of Kazakhstan has done for our family”"..🤔
(exactly what this had been was not revealed). Bizarrely, the local Salvation Army were somehow recruited to sing Happy Birthday to the notoriously corrupt autocrat."..🤔
Mappin discovered Scientology while trying unsuccessfully to become a Hollywood star in the 1990s (the only part he succeeded in landing was in a softcore porn movie, alongside the unfortunately named Julie Strain)...
May 12, 2000
"The Vatican named Bishop Edward M. Egan yesterday to be the ninth archbishop of New York, succeeding the late Cardinal John O'Connor as head of the nation's most prominent Roman Catholic diocese...🤔
As bishop of Bridgeport, Conn., and as a Vatican jurist, Egan proved himself part intellectual, part populist, and a man comfortable with the press.".. web.archive.org/web/2017082820…
Egan, 68, has split his time between the United States and Rome. He served for almost four years under O'Connor in the mid-1980s before moving on to Bridgeport, where he is credited with bringing in new priests and shoring up church finances.".. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O%27…
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), marketed as IHG Hotels & Resorts, is a British multinational hospitality company headquartered in Windsor, England.
The name Hackremco was a temporary company name used during the corporate restructuring that led to the formation of the modern InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) PLC in 2005
Robert E. Grady was noted early in his career by Newsweek as “one of three thirty-somethings to watch” (along with Condoleezza Rice and Robert Zoellick) and the “polished No. 2” at the Office of Management and Budget in George H. W. Bush administration..