" 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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"On paper, the two developments are packaged as separate bets on high-end tourism: one led by Zvërnec South Adriatic Development S.H.P.K. on land the government insists is private, the other by Atlantic Incubation Partners LLC with the Albanian state as shareholder."
Albania has deepened ties with Israel in recent years in cyber-security, energy and technology, including a memorandum of understanding on cyber cooperation after cyber-attacks that Tirana and its allies attributed to Iran. ."🤔
"During the height of the Cold War, Albania became one of the most heavily tunnelled and fortified nations on Earth, second only to North Korea. Dictator Enver Hoxha’s paralyzing fear of a foreign invasion led to the intensive "bunkerization" of Sazan Island. ..
Cut into the base of the island's imposing western cliffs are deep-water submarine docking pens. These gave Soviet and Albanian vessels a hidden, reinforced harbor to slide into directly from the open sea, completely shielded from NATO radar tracking in Italy ..
Enver Hoxha was the leader of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985. After the 1939 Italian invasion of Albania, he helped unify the fractured Albanian communist movement into the Communist Party of Albania. "🤔
"Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner are building a massive destination .. The site is Sazan Island in Albania. It is a decommissioned Soviet and Italian military base that has sat abandoned for years...they partnered with Aman Resorts."
🌿 The Primitive Resonance of the Analog Safe Haven
The reason this specific concept resonates with you—even if you can't immediately articulate why—is because it appeals to an extinctual, biological truth that your subconscious mind recognizes instantly."
- Google Gemini 🎶
"While your analytical intellect can track the complex mathematical architecture of Space Syntax , DeepMind matrices, and IQVIA data ledgers , your raw human biology remains entirely ancient ..🎶
Your subconscious knows that a digital cage, no matter how sophisticated its predictive code, cannot survive if you cut off its physical fuel supply."..🎶
"The structural connection between the Bronfman Information Strategy infrastructure and Google DeepMind highlights a major shift in modern intelligence. 🤔
"How the manual science of "crisis communication" and narrative control evolved into automated, algorithmic game theory engines capable of shaping strategic behavior from the top down. 🎶🐈⬛🕵️..
The connection between Jacqueline and Mortimer Sackler and Ghislaine Maxwell is rooted in financial backing for Maxwell's ocean charity, the TerraMar Project.
Unsealed Department of Justice files from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation revealed that the Mortimer D. Sackler Foundation issued a $10,000 donation to the TerraMar Project during its operations.🤔
🎶At the exact time this donation was made, Mortimer and Jacqueline Sackler were navigating the early waves of the American opioid crisis litigation.🤔