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Marin Art And Garden Center
The Marin Art and Garden Center is a botanical garden in Ross, California. The site is 11 acres and features gardens and historic buildings, including the Barn Theater, which is home to theater company Ross Valley Players. Admission to the gardens is free. History The land where the Marin Art and Garden Center sits was part of Rancho Punta de Quentin, a 10,000-acre Mexican land grant purchased by James Ross in 1859. A few years later, the property went to Ross's daughter Annie and her husband George Worn. The acres that make up the current Marin Art and Garden Center were eventually owned by the Jonathan Kittle family, who put the land up for sale in 1943. The Marin Art and Garden Center was founded in 1945 by women members of the Marin Conservation League. This project was led by the League's president, Caroline Sealy Livermore, who organized fundraising to obtain the $25,000 needed to buy the property. The site was the location for the Marin County Fair from 1947 to 1970. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gazebo
A gazebo is a pavilion structure, sometimes octagonal or turret-shaped, often built in a park, garden or spacious public area. Some are used on occasions as bandstands. Etymology The etymology given by Oxford Dictionaries (website), Oxford Dictionaries is "Mid 18th century: perhaps humorously from gaze, in imitation of Latin future tenses ending in -ebo: compare with lavabo." L. L. Bacon put forward a derivation from ''Casbah of Algiers, Casbah'', a Muslim quarter around the citadel in Algiers.Bacon, Leonard Lee. "Gazebos and Alambras", ''American Notes and Queries'' 8:6 (1970): 87–87 W. Sayers proposed Andalusian Arabic, Hispano-Arabic ''qushaybah'', in a poem by Córdoba, Spain, Cordoban poet Ibn Quzman (d. 1160).William Sayers, ''Eastern prospects: Kiosks, belvederes, gazebos''. Neophilologus 87: 299–305, 200/ref> The word ''gazebo'' appears in a mid-18th century English book by the architects John and William Halfpenny: ''Rural Architecture in the Chinese Taste''. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sequoioideae
Sequoioideae, popularly known as redwoods, is a subfamily of coniferous trees within the family Cupressaceae. It includes the largest and tallest trees in the world. Description The three redwood subfamily genera are '' Sequoia'' from coastal California and Oregon, ''Sequoiadendron'' from California's Sierra Nevada, and ''Metasequoia'' in China. The redwood species contains the largest and tallest trees in the world. These trees can live for thousands of years. Threats include logging, fire suppression, climate change, illegal marijuana cultivation, and burl poaching. Only two of the genera, ''Sequoia'' and ''Sequoiadendron'', are known for massive trees. Trees of ''Metasequoia'', from the single living species ''Metasequoia glyptostroboides'', are much smaller. Taxonomy and evolution Multiple studies of both morphological and molecular characters have strongly supported the assertion that the Sequoioideae are monophyletic. Most modern phylogenies place ''Sequoia'' as si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was an economic shock that impacted most countries across the world. It was a period of economic depression that became evident after a major fall in stock prices in the United States. The economic contagion began around September and led to the Wall Street stock market crash of October 24 (Black Thursday). It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century. Between 1929 and 1932, worldwide gross domestic product (GDP) fell by an estimated 15%. By comparison, worldwide GDP fell by less than 1% from 2008 to 2009 during the Great Recession. Some economies started to recover by the mid-1930s. However, in many countries, the negative effects of the Great Depression lasted until the beginning of World War II. Devastating effects were seen in both rich and poor countries with falling personal income, prices, tax revenues, and profits. International trade fell by more than 50%, unemployment in the U.S. rose to 23% and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Association Of University Women
The American Association of University Women (AAUW), officially founded in 1881, is a non-profit organization that advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, and research. The organization has a nationwide network of 170,000 members and supporters, 1,000 local branches, and 800 college and university partners. Its headquarters are in Washington, D.C. AAUW's CEO is Gloria L. Blackwell. History 19th century In 1881, Marion Talbot and Ellen Swallow Richards invited 15 alumnae from 8 colleges to a meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. The purpose of this meeting was to create an organization of women college graduates that would assist women in finding greater opportunities to use their education, as well as promoting and assisting other women's college attendance. The Association of Collegiate Alumnae or ACA, (AAUW's predecessor organization) was officially founded on January 14, 1882. The ACA also worked to improve standards of education for women so that men and wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Terwilliger
Elizabeth Terwilliger (September 13, 1909 – November 27, 2006) was an American environmental activist and educator based in Marin County, California. Early life and education Terwilliger, born Elizabeth Cooper, was born to Dr. Henry Bryant Cooper and Florence Carson Cooper in Oahu, where Dr. Cooper worked as a physician on a sugar plantation. Hiking around the island with her mother inspired Terwilliger's love of nature. After earning at bachelor's degree at the University of Hawaiʻi, Terwilliger attended graduate school at Columbia University, where she earned a master's degree in nutrition. She then studied nursing at Stanford University, where she met her husband, Calvin Terwilliger, who was a surgeon. Activism and volunteer work After World War II, Elizabeth and Calvin Terwilliger moved to Marin County, where Elizabeth advocated for more playgrounds. She founded Pixie Park Playground at the Marin Art and Garden Center. In the 1950s, there was a plan to fill Richardson B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Royston
Robert N. Royston (1918 – September 19, 2008) was one of America's most distinguished landscape architects, based in the San Francisco Bay Area of California in the United States. His design work and university teaching in the years following World War II helped define and establish the California modernism style in the post-war period. During his sixty years of professional practice Royston completed an array of award-winning projects that ranged from residential gardens to regional land use plans. He is perhaps best known for his important innovations in park design. A recent book, ''Modern Public Gardens: Robert Royston and the Suburban Park'', details this area of his professional creativity and philosophy. Early life Royston was born in 1918 in San Francisco, California. He grew up on a farm in the Santa Clara Valley of Northern California in the town on Morgan Hill. As a high school student he demonstrated a talent for drawing, dramatic performance, and athletics. One ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crinkle Crankle Wall
A crinkle crankle wall, also known as a crinkum crankum, sinusoidal, serpentine, ribbon or wavy wall, is an unusual type of structural or garden wall built in a serpentine shape with alternating curves, originally used in Ancient Egypt, but also typically found in Suffolk in England. The alternate convex and concave curves in the wall provide stability and help it to resist lateral forces, leading to greater strength than a straight wall of the same thickness of bricks without the need for buttresses. The phrase "crinkle crankle" is an ablaut reduplication, defined as something with bends and turns, first attested in 1598 (though "crinkle" and "crankle" have somewhat longer histories). History Sinusoidal walls featured extensively in the architecture of Egyptian city of Aten, thought to date from the period of Amenhotep III, some 3,400 years ago (1386–1353 BCE). Other examples exist at Tel el-Retaba and Thebes. As a minor part of a larger system of fortifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gardner Dailey
Gardner Acton Dailey (1895-1967) was an American architect, active in the San Francisco area in the 20th century. Dailey was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He came to California in 1915 to work for landscape architect Donald McLaren, found assorted design jobs in Costa Rica and elsewhere in Central America, then served in the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps as a Lieutenant and pilot in World War I. His aircraft was hit on a reconnaissance mission in France, and he permanently lost sight in his right eye. Between 1919 and 1926 Dailey educated himself at the University of California Berkeley, at Stanford, at Heald's Engineering College, and during a year in Europe to study architecture. Gardner opened his own office in 1926, concentrating at first on houses, and collaborating frequently with landscape architect Tommy Church. (Four of Dailey's northern California houses were featured in the May 1941 Architectural Forum. Three of them were designed with Church.) After begin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jose Moya Del Pino
José Moya del Piño (1891–1969) was a Spanish-born American painter, muralist and educator. He associated with the Post-impressionists of Spain and the Depression-era muralists in the San Francisco Bay Area. He taught classes at the San Francisco Art Students League, San Francisco Art Institute and the College of Marin. Early life and education José Moya del Pino was born in 1891 in Priego de Cordoba, Spain. He studied art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid from 1908 until 1911. He had won the Prix de Rome scholarship, but decided to go to Paris instead. He studied in 1911 at the Académie Colarossi. Career After World War I broke out (around 1916), he returned to Spain. He made numerous portraits for the Spanish nobility and bourgeoisie and by 1925, King Alfonso XIII of Spain had appointed Moya director of the "Spanish artistic mission" to foster appreciation of Spanish art and culture in America. Moya del Pino and two other distinguished memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pumping Station
Pumping stations, also called pumphouses in situations such as well drilling, drilled wells and drinking water, are facilities containing pumps and equipment for pumping fluids from one place to another. They are used for a variety of infrastructure systems, such as the supply of water to canals, the drainage of low-lying land, and the removal of sewage to processing sites. A pumping station is an integral part of a pumped-storage hydroelectricity installation. Canal water supply In countries with canal systems, pumping stations are also frequent. Because of the way the system of canal locks work, water is lost from the upper part of a canal each time a vessel passes through. Also, most lock gates are not watertight, so some water leaks from the higher levels of the canal to those lower down. Obviously, the water has to be replaced or eventually the upper levels of the canal would not hold enough water to be navigable. Canals are usually fed by diverting water from streams and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Octagon House
Octagon houses were a unique house style briefly popular in the 1850s in the United States and Canada. They are characterised by an octagonal (eight-sided) plan, and often feature a flat roof and a veranda all round. Their unusual shape and appearance, quite different from the ornate pitched-roof houses typical of the period, can generally be traced to the influence of one man, amateur architect and lifestyle pundit Orson Squire Fowler. Although there are other octagonal houses worldwide, the term ''octagon house'' usually refers specifically to octagonal houses built in North America during this period, and up to the early 1900s. History Early examples, before Fowler: *Poplar Forest, Thomas Jefferson's private retreat and plantation house near Lynchburg, Virginia. *William Thornton's John Tayloe III House, more commonly called The Octagon House in Washington, D.C. After the White House was burned by the British during the War of 1812, President James Madison stayed in the Octag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modern Architecture
Modern architecture, or modernist architecture, was an architectural movement or architectural style based upon new and innovative technologies of construction, particularly the use of glass, steel, and reinforced concrete; the idea that form should follow function ( functionalism); an embrace of minimalism; and a rejection of ornament. It emerged in the first half of the 20th century and became dominant after World War II until the 1980s, when it was gradually replaced as the principal style for institutional and corporate buildings by postmodern architecture. Origins File:Crystal Palace.PNG, The Crystal Palace (1851) was one of the first buildings to have cast plate glass windows supported by a cast-iron frame File:Maison François Coignet 2.jpg, The first house built of reinforced concrete, designed by François Coignet (1853) in Saint-Denis near Paris File:Home Insurance Building.JPG, The Home Insurance Building in Chicago, by William Le Baron Jenney (1884) File:Const ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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