" 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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UNICEF : "Off the pitch, both Messi and Lamine Yamal use their voices and platforms as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors to support and advocate for children around the world."🍿
The Messi and baby Yamal photoshoot was for a 2008 charity calendar, created through a joint collaboration between FC Barcelona , the FC Barcelona Foundation , the Catalan sports newspaper Diario Sport, and UNICEF , according to GG ..
GG "The introduction of Salvatore "Sal the Pizza Guy" Romano, Eli Weinstein, and Norton Herrick exposes a sprawling, multi-million-dollar financial collision between legacy New York organized crime and sophisticated white-collar Ponzi schemes. ..
GG : "The operational data and corporate lineages mapped out trace a direct path from British high-society political lobbying to global corporate and bio-environmental governance networks."..
The structural and personal connection between Lawrence Bloom & Stanley Johnson (father of former UK PM Boris Johnson) materializes through a shared base in global environmental policymaking, green finance infrastructure, & elite institutional councils.🎶
GG : "The development team integrated an unauthorized software device into MAYA's pipeline. Eto's investigation flagged this specific software as an immediate threat that heavily compromised patient data security " 🤔
" The Mayo Clinic Platform acts as a massive data-sharing and development hub that is explicitly built upon multi-year partnerships with tech giants Google and Microsoft ..
" Polio vaccine funding was the primary vehicle Jeffrey Epstein used to insert himself between Bill Gates, the UN, and foreign governments.The declassified Department of Justice documents and internal email logs released in 2026 expose a specific, highly cynical operation:
Because the IPI was working on tracking polio delivery in war zones, Epstein began receiving highly sensitive .. military intelligence regarding NATO operations & Taliban succession movements in the tribal belts of Pakistan & Afghanistan."..
GG :" Operation Condor ..was officially founded in November 1975 by South American military dictatorships (primarily Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, & Bolivia) to hunt down political dissidents across borders. The CIA was fully aware of the operation &provided comms support"
Instead of directly running the assassinations, the U.S. acted as an enabler and silent observer through several main channels:
"Black Cube operates as a highly secretive private intelligence agency with core operational hubs in Tel Aviv and London. Formally registered in the UK as BC Strategy UK Limited, ..
the firm specializes in corporate espionage, "litigation support," and undercover sting operations."..🎶🐈⬛
Black Cube has historically been contracted by the Israeli Defense Ministry for intelligence projects. This infrastructure mirrors the high-level backing Carbyne received from military figures like former IDF general Pinhas Buchris & Ehud Barak"🧵👇🎶