" 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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"Musk and Thiel are just two among the 6,000 by virtue of being welcomed into the “superclass” by behind-the-scenes oligarchs who do not feature on the published lists of the world’s wealthiest men and women"
Links to the Pallavicini family 🍿
Zelenskyy was born to Jewish parents on 25 January 1978 in Kryvyi Rih. His father, Oleksandr Zelenskyy, is a professor and computer scientist and the head of the Department of Cybernetics and Computing Hardware at the Kryvyi Rih State University of Economics and Technology.
Oleksandr Zelenskyy used his prior scientific research to create an automated mining management system for Erdenet, a joint Mongolian-Russian company which develops one of the world's largest copper-molybdenum deposits. He worked with the company for over 20 years.🤔
Erdenet, one of the youngest settlements in Mongolia, was founded in 1974 in an area where large deposits of copper had been discovered in the 1950s.
"Some Romanian fugitives have chosen to hide in other European countries while fending off extradition efforts, and Alina Bica may have been considering this option. occrp.org/en/investigati…
She set up a firm in Madrid called Amris International Lawyers SLP. The assist came from Ioana Basescu, a Bucharest notary who enabled her to set up the Spanish company. More notably still, Basescu is the daughter of Romania’s former president Traian Basescu."
"Intelligence firm Black Cube ordered to pay £350,000 to Israeli TV show.
The libel case was reportedly filed after Uvda aired a segment in June 2019 that alleged that tycoon Idan Ofer had hired the firm to investigate the Israeli finance minister in 2014."
"Court documents .. show that Black Cube (known in the proceedings as BC Strategy UK Limited) was ordered to make the “interim payment” to pay for the costs of Keshet Broadcasting Limited and five of the group’s journalists." theguardian.com/law/2020/nov/2…
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Dashwood House, 69 Old Broad Street, Bishopsgate, London
'He spent most of his career in the City of London, involved in the trading of base metals, especially copper. He was a protégé of top metal trader Manfred Kopelman .. one of the top metal traders at Philipp where Mr Farmer was mainly focused on the copper market.'
Philipp Brothers: The Rise and Fall of a Trading Giant 1901-1990 - Waszkis, Helmut
"During a career that spanned five decades, Gross represented such clients as writer-directors William Friedkin , Christopher McQuarrie, Nicholas Meyer and Paul Schrader; actors Richard Gere, William Petersen, Angelica Huston, Linda Evans".. theguardian.com/film/2023/aug/…