" 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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"Despite the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) decision to terminate 22 mRNA vaccine development investments under BARDA, mRNA technology continues to be explored globally for various infectious diseases and other applications..
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Vaccine (mRNA-1345): Moderna is developing an RSV vaccine for older adults & high-risk individuals aged 18–59, currently in Phase 3 clinical trials. It encodes the prefusion F protein and uses lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) for delivery."..
Influenza Vaccine (mRNA-1010): A seasonal flu vaccine in Phase 3 trials, aiming to improve efficacy over traditional flu vaccines, which have 40–60% effectiveness.".. goodrx.com/health-topic/v…
Could Jeffrey Epstein's 'Little Sophia' project be connected to the recent announcement by Randi Weingarten about "a partnership with the World Economic Forum to create a curriculum.."?
After all , Isabel Maxwell has been listed as a Technology Pioneer of the WEF.
2019
"In June 1994, only two months after South Africa’s first post-apartheid election, Margaret Hodge gave an interview to the New Statesman. Hodge had just been elected as the Member of the British Parliament for the safe Labour seat of Barking." opensecrets.org.za/unaccountable-…
We can now reveal that her family’s company ran a highly profitable joint-venture partnership in South Africa for the majority of the 1970s and 1980s: precisely the period in which the anti-apartheid movement had called for extensive economic sanctions and disinvestment"..
"Ex–wife of super rich equity boss was fighting her celebrity antiques dealer fiance for their £2.7m 18th century London home when she fell to her death from tower block"..
Rachel O'Hare, 49, was suing her ex–lover Owen Pacey, 60, for ownership of the five–storey Georgian mansion, in the trendy area of Spitalfields, before she died.
.., she claims she paid for the property and it was rightfully hers."
"Restaurateur Alice Waters discusses her "Edible Schoolyard" garden with Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School November 7, 2005 in Berkeley, California. "👇
The next day (7 May 2022) I did another 🧵, mentioning James Alefantis's connection to Alice Waters's Edible Schoolyard project as @FringeViews brought up the topic. 🍿
@FringeViews So.. London calling 🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧 .. Here's James Alefantis with activist and former wife of Mick Jagger, Bianca Jagger.
Joe Rogan:
"Whatever that compromise organization was, whatever that thing was that they were running,.. I'm sure they're running another version of it right now."
2018 , Guido Fawkes
"Tax hypocrite Margaret Hodge took a kicking from Lorna Smith of British Virgin Islands Finance .. , who accused the Labour grandee of “colonialism” for attempting to force them to introduce public ownership registers." order-order.com/2018/05/01/bri…