" Stanford faculty may “purchase a leasehold interest.” Buyers sign a “ground lease” with the university, and then faculty members pay rent to Stanford ..
This unique structure dates to the university’s founding by Leland and Jane Stanford.."
Olmsted is often referred to as the “father of landscape architecture in America,” and is best known for New York’s Central Park, which he co-designed with architect and landscape designer Calvert Vaux ..
Olmsted knew William Henry Vanderbilt, George Vanderbilt’s father, when they both lived on Staten Island, and the designer had already worked on several Vanderbilt family projects when George Vanderbilt approached him in 1888 to advise on the first 2,000 acres of his NC property
"Plans for both Biltmore House and its surrounding landscape changed in 1889 when Vanderbilt and architect Richard Morris Hunt toured France together and the scale of Vanderbilt’s new estate expanded..
Thank goodness that Biltmore page was archived: archive.is/9406k
Prior to becoming a landscape architect, Olmsted was first a seaman, farmer, then a journalist and founder of The Nation magazine, which still exists today. .
Portrait of Frederick Law Olmsted by John Singer Sargent
During the Civil War, he served as Executive Secretary of the U.S. Sanitary Commission (a precursor to the Red Cross). 👀
Frederick Law Olmsted was a freemason of course - The George Washington National Memorial gwmemorial.org/pages/architec…
The landscaping of the Memorial grounds was done by the renowned Olmstead Brothers firm. Founded by Frederick Law Olmsted—who designed the grounds of the
United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., New York City’s Central Park, the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina, and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago .. architecture.org/learn/resource…
The grounds of the Memorial were specifically designed by an Olmsted employee named Carl Rust Parker, one of the most renowned American landscape architects and a member of the Masonic Fraternity. tclf.org/pioneer/carl-r…
The Memorial’s form was inspired by the lighthouse of Alexandria, Egypt, one of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World, and its design reflects the classical architecture of Greece and Rome.
Shelburne Farms is an education center for sustainability, created in 1886 by Dr. William Seward Webb and Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt Webb as a model agricultural estate, using money inherited from railroad magnate William Henry Vanderbilt. They commissioned Frederick Law Olmsted
Lola Van Wagenen is on the board of directors of Shelburne Farms
her first husband was Robert Redford (1958-1985)
1975 to 1977, Van Wagenen developed The Sun Fund
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In 1978, she organized SunDay in New York with the UN
Slave Gardens : encyclopedia.com/humanities/app…
Frederick Law Olmsted explained that slaves on a South Carolina plantation were "at liberty to sell whatever they choose from the products of their own garden"
Revisiting Olmsted's legacy may prove interesting..considering ...
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During the Second World War, the Special Operations Executive (SOE)—Winston Churchill's secret "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare"—maintained deep, highly covert connections to London's vast manufacturing and industrial sectors, including Park Royal. ..
Rather than standard military bases, the SOE embedded its clandestine workshops directly into regular commercial zones, leveraging London's industrial heartlands to disguise their operations.
Vessels traveling between the Strait of Otranto and the Kerch Strait are directly linked as part of a continuous shipping route. This critical maritime corridor connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov ..
For shipping logistics, a vessel moving between these two points must navigate a specific chain of interconnected waterways:
1. The Strait of Otranto: The starting/ending point that connects the Adriatic Sea to the Ionian Sea
2. The Mediterranean-Black Sea Transit: Ships must travel through the Aegean Sea and then navigate through the Turkish Straits (the Dardanelles and the Bosporus), which are tightly regulated chokepoints.
GG : " Located right inside the Alpha Centre at 7-11 Minerva Road, this event caterer lists Kosher cuisine as one of its multicultural menu specialities ..
Raj Food Ltd. - Located just down the street at 56B Minerva Road, this large-scale public sector food supplier primarily manufactures Halal meals, but partners with Hermolis (a major UK kosher brand) to distribute Kosher meals to hospitals and schools .". belmontsynagogue.org.uk/uploads/2/9/7/…
The main hubs for dedicated Kosher supermarkets, bakeries, and manufacturers in North and West London sit slightly further north in areas like Golders Green, Hendon , and Stamford Hill .. "..
" A Byline Times review of X and Telegram posts by the Brotherhood of Academists, a Russian ultranationalist youth movement which operates under the leadership of the US-sanctioned Tsargrad Society [Konstantin Malofeev]" 🤔
GG : "No direct operational link exists between the Brotherhood of Academists and Brunswick Capital (the 1990s investment bank). However, they are connected through the broader history of post-Soviet finance and the career trajectory of Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev."🤔
"The sight of Princess Beatrice dancing on tables at a birthday party in Rome last week, and then appearing with Princess Eugenie at the wedding of Peter Phillips, suggests that it’s business as usual for the York daughters...
This is despite last week’s National Audit Office report, which revealed that Queen Elizabeth II & now the King have long been covering a subsidised rent for Beatrice’s 4-bedroomed apartment at St James’s Palace and Eugenie’s three-bedroom Ivy Cottage.. archive.is/l34C3
The pair have their own successful and lucrative careers. Beatrice handles client relations for Afiniti, a multinational data and software firm specialising in AI-driven customer experience solutions,
Colin was traumatised with grief after the murder of his six-year-old twin sons, Daniel and Nicholas, ex-wife Sheila, and her parents Nevill and June Bamber. They were all shot dead at White House Farm, the Bambers’ quiet country home in Essex." islingtontribune.co.uk/article/loss-a…
Colin Caffell, incidentally, is convinced of Bamber’s guilt.
In the book Colin describes how, in a distraught state, he seeks solace in the paranormal, taking advice from the late entertainer Michael Bentine whose son Stuart died in a plane crash aged 21 in 1971."..