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The Andrew Dickson White House, commonly referred to as the "A.D. White House," is a Second Empire house on the campus of Cornell University,... designed by William Henry Miller and Charles Babcock. It currently houses the Cornell University Society for the Humanities. The house was commissioned in 1871 by Andrew Dickson White, its namesake, and co-founder and first president of the university. The house is richly decorated with stone carvings according to White's tastes, intended to remind students of men's accomplishments and inspire them to higher purpose and an appreciation of beauty. White left the house to the university for the perpetual use of later presidents. Presidents still use the study on the southeast side of the building as a private office/retreat. In 1953, the house was renovated for use as the University Art Museum, and its carriage house converted into what is now the Big Red Barn, a graduate student lounge. It served in this role until 1973, and was considered for demolition. Henry Guerlac, Director of the university's Society for the Humanities, led the cause to prevent its destruction and have it placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
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Deke House, the Delta Kappa Epsilon or "Deke" House on the campus of Cornell University, was built in 1893 and was listed on the National Register of... Historic Places in 1991. It was designed by William Henry Miller to serve as a fraternity house. Two trees which Theodore Roosevelt planted in front of the house are on the National Register of Historic Trees. It is located at 13 South Avenue in Ithaca. The original 1893 building was designed to house only 16 students. Two sides of the exterior were clad with marble from the St. Lawrence Marble Company of Gouverneur NY. It was built on land leased to the fraternity by Cornell University. It has been occupied continuously by the fraternity since September 1894. By 1900, the chapter's membership had expanded far beyond the capacity of the small 12 x 15 foot dining room, and the fraternity retained Miller to design an addition. Miller enclosed the loggia on the west side of the building to add 500 feet. , In 1910, the fraternity hired the architectural firm of Gibb and Waltz of Ithaca NY to design a new addition on the east side of the house.
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East Roberts Hall was a building on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. It no longer exists. It was listed on the U.S. National... Register of Historic Places in 1984. It is still listed on the National Register. It is listed erroneously as the building is no longer there. Roberts Hall and Stone Hall are two other former Cornell University buildings that were and are similarly listed.
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Roberts Hall is a building on the Ag Quad of Cornell University, and is the second building of that name. The original Roberts Hall was built in... 1906, and was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The 1906-built Roberts Hall was demolished before the construction of the new building and Kennedy Hall. The current building holds many of the administrative offices of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Cornell's landscape architecture program. The 1906 building is still listed on the National Register, apparently erroneously as the building is no longer there. East Robert Hall and Stone Hall are two other former Cornell University buildings that were and are similarly listed. In 1973, Franzen and Associates, the architectural firm that was designing Cornell's statutory college buildings at that time, conducted a study indicating that Roberts, East Roberts, Stone, Caldwell and Comstock Halls were unsafe and should be condemned. Franzen concluded that it would cost $14 million to renovate the five buildings and that it would be cheaper to tear them down and replace them with new buildings, presumably designed by Franzen.
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Mia Korf is an American actress. She is probably best known for originating the role of Blair Daimler Buchanan on One Life to Live. Mia Korf is the... daughter of an architect/artist mother and a university professor father. Her mother is of Japanese ancestry and her father is of [European]] ancestry. Korf grew up in Ithaca, NY, and attended Cornell University, where she lived in Risley Residential College for the Creative and Performing Arts. She began her career in television in 1990 playing Dr. Kim Rosenthal on the NBC series The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd and on the soap opera "Loving". The following year she was cast as the original Blair Daimler Buchanan on the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live. In early 1993, she left the series to appear in the Broadway stage play Face Value. Korf's successor in the role of Blair was Kassie DePaiva, a full Caucasian woman; fans would later refer to Korf as "the Asian Blair.
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Timothy Robert "Tim" DeKay is an American character actor. His first on screen acting job was as corporate giant Larry Deon on seaQuest 2032. He was... a cast member of Party of Five from 1997–1999, Carnivàle from 2003-05 and Tell Me You Love Me in 2007. He has also guest-starred on a number of top-rated television series, including Seinfeld, Friends, CSI, My Name Is Earl, NCIS, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Scrubs, and Chuck. DeKay is currently starring in the USA Network series White Collar, which chronicles the partnership between a con artist and an FBI agent . DeKay was born in Ithaca, New York and grew up and attended school in nearby Lansing. He was a school athlete, playing both varsity basketball and baseball. He attended Le Moyne College to study Business and Philosophy. After a short time in baseball, he decided to pursue a career in theater.. DeKay's Character makes a reference to this in the White Collar episode "Stealing Home", where he talks about playing for the Minnesota Twins of the MLB.
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Pamela Sargent is an American feminist, science fiction author, and editor. She has an MA in classical philosophy and has won a Nebula Award. She... wrote a series concerning the terraforming of Venus that is sometimes compared to Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, but predates it. She also edited various anthologies to celebrate the contributions of women in the history of science fiction. She is noted for writing alternate history stories. Sargent has attempted work with a wide variety of themes in general, if not always successfully. She also collaborated with George Zebrowski and on numerous Star Trek novels. Pamela Sargent was born in Ithaca, New York and raised as an atheist. She attended the State University of New York at Binghamton, attaining a master's degree in philosophy. She currently lives in Albany, New York. In 2012, Pamela Sargent was the winner of the Pilgrim Award for life time contributions to SF/F studies.
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Jordin Kare is a physicist and aerospace engineer known for his research on laser propulsion. In particular, he was responsible for Mockingbird, a... conceptual design for an extremely small reusable launch vehicle, and was involved in the Clementine lunar mapping mission. Kare is also known as developer of the Sailbeam interstellar propulsion concept and, in the science fiction fan community, as a composer, performer and recording artist of filk music. Jordin grew up in the Philadelphia, PA area and attended Harriton High School in Rosemont, PA. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978 and Ph.D. in Astrophysics from University of California, Berkeley in 1984. Kare is the brother of Susan Kare, designer of the fonts and icons of the original Apple Macintosh user interface. Kare worked for many years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In 1996, he left LLNL and, after working briefly for a small space-related startup company, became an independent consultant specializing in advanced space system design in 1997, and started his own company.
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Nir Joseph Shaviv is an Israeli‐American physics professor, carrying out research in the fields of astrophysics and climate science. He is... currently an associate professor at the Racah Institute of Physics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also the head of the national coordinating council of faculty unions in Israel. He is most well known for his solar and cosmic rays hypothesis of climate change. In 2002, Shaviv hypothesised that passages through the Milky Way's spiral arms appear to have been the cause behind the major ice-ages over the past billion years. In his later work, co-authored by Jan Veizer, a low upper limit was placed on the climatic effect of CO2. His most known contribution to the field of astrophysics was to demonstrate that the Eddington luminosity is not a strict limit, namely, that astrophysical objects can be brighter than the Eddington luminosity without blowing themselves apart. This is achieved through the development of a porous atmosphere that allows the radiation to escape while exerting little force on the gas.
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Blake C. Shields is an American television actor. Shields was born in Ithaca, New York. He is the second child and has one older brother and two... younger sisters. He spent most of his childhood globetrotting the world with his family of six until finally settling down in Israel. After returning to the United States as a precocious and cultured youngster, he devoted much of his time and passion to the Idaho Shakespeare Festival and the theater group Washington Street Players. He went on to star in major theater productions such as “A Midsummer Night's Dream” and “Hamlet”. In 2000, Shields filmed his first widely released feature film in Boys and Girls opposite Freddie Prinze, Jr. He also starred in New Port South, a film written by James Hughes. He was a series regular on Carnivàle, and Sleeper Cell. Additional credits include JAG,The Closer, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and Cold Case Files. Shields currently lives in Los Angeles. Most recently, Blake played the villain Flint in NBC's Heroes. He was also cast as a serial killer in an episode of Criminal Minds .
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