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The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience or Whitney Marine Lab at the University of Florida is a research and teaching facility, that conducts research pertaining to Marine Bioscience. [ 1 ] The Marine lab can be traced back to the benefactor Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney , who donated numerous acres to the University of Florida so that a ...
The González–Álvarez House is located in a residential area south of downtown St. Augustine, on the north side of St. Francis Street between Charlotte and Marine Streets. It is a two-story structure, its first floor built of coquina and its upper level framed in wood with a clapboarded exterior.
Marineland was first conceived by W. Douglas Burden, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, Sherman Pratt, and Ilya Andreyevich Tolstoy (grandson of Leo Tolstoy) as an oceanarium that could be used to film marine life. A site was selected on the Atlantic Ocean south of St. Augustine, eventually known as the town of Marineland.
Anastasia State Park is a 1,600-acre (6.5 km 2) state park in Florida, United States.Its location is on a peninsula on Anastasia Island across Matanzas Bay from downtown St. Augustine along the Atlantic coastal plain.
Whitney was a member of the Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board in the early 1970s, and for her efforts in restoring downtown St. Augustine, Florida, the government of Spain awarded her the Order of Isabel the Catholic. [28] While in St. Augustine, Whitney helped to plan the famed Easter Parade. [29]
Whitney was a major financial partner in the development of Marine Studios, designed as an underwater motion picture studio located on the ocean south of St. Augustine, Florida. The Studios opened on June 23, 1938, with an estimated 30,000 visitors and eventually evolved into a major marine attraction.
Martha Stewart says she cheated on her ex-husband, Andy Stewart, in a new documentary reflecting on her life and career. In the first trailer for Netflix’s “Martha ,” the lifestyle icon ...
Martha Stewart and ex-husband Andrew Stewart had their fair share of ups and downs before calling it quits for good. The pair, who first connected on a blind date, tied the knot in 1961. They went ...