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In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Indiana Standard again led the way with scientific and technological discoveries. Indiana Standard discovered PTA, a chemical for polyester fiber production. In 1968, following that discovery, Indiana Standard acquired the Avisun Corporation and Patchogue-Plymouth, forming the Amoco Fabrics and Fibers Company.

By 1894, the company had grown to four stores, with the opening of a store in Portland, Oregon, joining existing ones in San Francisco, Oakland, and Seattle.[3] The Portland store changed locations a few times[4] but, notably, remained in the Woodlark Building from 1930[5] to 1974,[4] and the company continued to operate a Portland store until 2013.[6] Clay Sherman, grandson of co-founder Leander Sherman, became president of the company in 1949.[7] The company was sold to Bernard Schwartz, of San Francisco, in 1957.

Jacob Rothschild, son of Victor Rothschild and nephew of Dorothy (‘Dolly’) de Rothschild, is a member of the English branch of the banking family. He left the family business in 1980 in order to set up his own company and is presently chairman of Yad Hanadiv, the family foundation in Israel.

At home, Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
16 April 1977

‘Dolly’ de Rothschild was an English philanthropist who, with her husband, James (‘Jimmy’) de Rothschild, heir to the French branch of the banking family, was a longtime supporter of Israel. She facilitated her husband's gift of funds to build the Knesset, funded the artwork to be housed there and presented a new Supreme Court building.

A private person who did not like to be photographed, the present portrait was highly prized by her cousin, Lord Victor de Rothschild.

Victor Rothschild was a biologist and senior member of the Rothschild family in England. He served as an adviser on intelligence and science to both Conservative and Labour Governments.

‘We were talking about fairly serious matters’, Schwartz recalled, resulting in ‘serious expressions on his face. At one point, I changed the subject to his family—daughter, son, and wife—in order to get a warmer expression.’

Lady Rothschild was a British wartime intelligence officer and magistrate. She attended Newnham College in Cambridge where she was a much admired actress. During the Second World War, she was recruited by MI5 and assisted Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, in anti-sabotage operations (she was awarded an MBE for throwing a bomb off a bridge). In 1946 she married Rothschild and had four children including Amschel Rothschild (now deceased).

The V&A is increasing its dedication to photography with the first phase of its £3 million Photography Centre opening on Friday, doubling the floor space previously devoted to the discipline. […] 150 cameras in cases flank the entrance to the centre’s doors proper. Once these are opened, you are presented with the full length of gallery 100, renamed the Bern and Ronny Schwartz Gallery in recognition of the generosity of the Bern Schwartz Family Foundation, the first major supporter of the museum’s Photography Centre.

..Duchess Kate of Cambridge, whose pictures of her adorable royal children are shared around the world, stepped up as a new patron of London's famed Victoria and Albert Museum to open a photography center Wednesday, looking like a photographer's dream as usual

Mountbatten was a close friend of Schwartz and his wife, Ronny, and invited the couple to photograph him at home a number of times.

James Sherwood, who has died aged 86, was a rambunctious business opportunist who parlayed a fortune made in the unglamorous world of shipping containers into life with the rich and famous by reviving the Orient Express and building up a chain of exclusive hotels. An American, he chose to run his business empire from London, where he constructed a headquarters building overlooking the Thames and mixed in Mayfair society.

Although he was reckoned personally to be worth £60m by 2004, his eclectic Sea Containers business empire, shaped by whim as much as by strategy, was collapsing under its debts when he was forced to step down in 2006. But his hotel interests blossomed and amounted to over 40 high-class establishments all over the world by the time he died.

He was an early beneficiary of the privatisation of British Rail, acquiring Sealink ferries and the prime East Coast mainline franchise. He showed his political colours by having the assets of the National Union of Seamen sequestered in a 1988 ferry dispute, though he protested that he did not want to destroy the union. At the handover to his company GNER, he insisted: “We have to break the communist approach to running a railway.” Said one commentator: “He has the habit of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.”

..After studying economics at Yale, he spent four years in the US Navy Reserve as a cargo specialist. This led to a job with the United States Lines’ luxury transatlantic liners. Posted to Europe, Sherwood devised a plan to capitalise on unused cargo space. He shipped luxury goods, normally expensively airfreighted, in containers, at high rates, and soon found himself regarded as a container expert. He recalled: “It was all entirely bogus but that is how it began.”

..His British aspirations were advanced with the launch of Harry’s Bar in Mayfair, which was jointly owned with the impeccably establishment figure of Mark Birley [owner of Annabel's Nightclub]....

His assorted properties included the 80-acre Hinton Manor in Oxfordshire and an Italian vineyard. His interest in modern art was exercised as a trustee of the Guggenheim Foundation and his support for the arts in Venice included a plan for a glass bridge over the Arsenale canal. He was made an honorary citizen of Venice in 1995.

Richard Caring and Robin Birley are not friends.
Perma-tanned Caring – the rag trade tycoon turned restaurateur – is nicknamed ‘the coat hanger king’ and lives in a vast Hampstead house dubbed ‘the Versailles of London’.
Birley, by contrast, is the languid, aristocratic son of glamorous socialite Lady Annabel Goldsmith and Mark Birley, the club owner and founder of Annabel’s. He is never seen without his whippets...

Their spat has been caused by Robin Birley’s triumphal return to his old turf with a new club, 5 Hertford Street – on which he has lavished £30 million. As his sister, Jemima Khan, tweeted: ‘After bankruptcy, litigation, bullying & 5yrs of hard slog, it’s a real lesson in tenacity and perseverance.’..

At the age of 12 Birley was mauled by a tiger at Howletts zoo in Kent, leaving him horribly disfigured. In 1986 his brother Rupert, 30, disappeared while swimming off a beach in Togo, West Africa.
He was disowned by his father and fell out with his sister, India-Jane, when in 2006 he was caught using £200,000 of money from Annabel’s to pay a former policeman for information (which turned out to be false) about a man with whom his married sister had an affair and child.
The following year he suffered the ignominy of his father, just before he died, selling the clubs empire to which Robin was heir – as well as Annabel’s it included Mark’s Club, Harry’s Bar and George, the smartest venues in town – to Caring for about £100 million.
Caring, 60, seemed to have developed an insatiable appetite for buying up social London with a swoop that included Le Caprice, The Ivy, J Sheekey, Scott’s and Daphne’s.

...But it is in the beautiful courtyard for the smokers, all candlelit and filled with peonies, where the social melting pot of the absolute elite itself converges. Here, we are in a pre-Austerity England time warp. It is glamorous and grotesque.
A billionairess leans over in barely-there lace Stella McCartney and asks Taki Theodoracopulos, the playboy Greek shipping heir, for a light. ‘You can have whatever you like,’ he leers before rising to greet fashionista Debbie von Bismarck, wife of a German count. Does she know that Beatrice and Eugenie York, whom she so disastrously styled for the Royal Wedding, are already downstairs at the bar of the nightclub? Awkward.

The transmission Report on Rai 3 (Italy), has investigated Yonghong Li and the origin of the Chinese money [Source]and has raised suspicions of money laundering, all linked to the figure of Silvio Berlusconi. The service opens with the reconstruction of the pre-closing events and continues with the images of the journalists in the Chinese office of Li, which deals with phosphorus mines: “we note an abandoned room with garbage bags full of worms.” Later Report shows a scheme of the money with which Milan was taken and explains that most of them derive from tax havens.

At the top of the list also two Neapolitan financiers who took care of the relationship with Elliott. Gianluca D’Avanzo and Salvatore Cerchione, a manager based in London and whose names were made for the possible CDA of AC Milan. Their partner is Giuseppe Cipriani, a friend of Nicole Minetti, in politics with Berlusconi...

But what are the anomalies of this affair? Mr. Li chooses as advisor
Rothschild Bank, vice president in London, former Eni, Paolo Scaroni, who is loyal to Berlusconi.
The Neapolitan financiers who put up the financial vehicle for the bridge loan with the Elliott fund € 303 million. They are old acquaintances of Galliani. Galliani yet, with us he did not speak, you heard him...

The transmission of Rai Tre then underlines how all the people in the business are tied to Berlusconi. “The only one who can tell us who is really Mr. Li, where the money comes from, is you, president Berlusconi. Who is more worthy to tell us who you entrusted AC Milan? Is the sarcastic question with which the service ended.

The InterCity 125 (originally Inter-City 125,[1] or High Speed Train) is a diesel-powered passenger train built by British Rail Engineering Limited between 1975 and 1982...The prototype train of seven coaches and two locomotives was completed in August 1972 and in the autumn was running trials on the main line. The following year, high-speed testing was undertaken on the "racing stretch" of the East Coast Main Line between York and Darlington.

On 1 January 1948, the railways were nationalised and operated by British Railways. In the early 1960s, steam was replaced by Diesel-electric traction, including the Deltics and sections of the line were upgraded so that trains could run at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour (160 km/h). With the demand for higher speed, British Rail introduced InterCity 125 high-speed trains between 1976 and 1981. In 1973, the prototype of the HST, the Class 41, achieved a top speed of 143 mph (230 km/h) in a test run. In the 1980s, the line was electrified and InterCity 225 trains were introduced.

Mappin & Webb is a jewellery company headquartered in the United Kingdom. Mappin & Webb traces its origins to a silver workshop founded in 1775. It now has retail stores in the UK. It has held Royal Warrants to British monarchs since 1897. The company's master craftsman Mark Appleby is the current Crown Jeweller of the United Kingdom.

After a brief spell in the Asprey Garrard group, the company now forms part of the retail group Watches of Switzerland, formerly Aurum Holdings. The company floated on the LSE in 2019. [6] [7] Mappin and Webb continues to produce silverware and jewellery collections, and is a retailer of luxury timepieces in its boutiques, including timepieces from Swiss watch houses Rolex, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Patek Philippe and Omega.

The Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom, originally the Crown Jewels of England, are a collection of royal ceremonial objects kept in the Tower of London, which include the regalia and vestments worn at their coronations by British kings and queens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Jeweller

The Crown Jeweller is a member of the Royal Household appointed by the British monarch. He or she is responsible for the maintenance and, when they leave the Tower of London, security of the regalia and plate that make up the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom.

Performative lecture: “Performing the Pizzagate Neon” by Warren Neidich, with the participation of performers Giovanni Mancuso, Satch Hoyt, Cecilia Vendrasco, Nabila Santos, Claudia Graziadei. Duration: 45 minutes. Followed by a talk with Antonia Alampi, exhibition curator.

Found out that Clarissa Bronfman attended a NYSPCC event... looking into it. Maybe someone here recognizes guests at that event with any NXIVM connections (names listed below)

https://qmap.pub/read/3422 New York Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Children

http://www.avenuemagazine.com/beauties- ... -luncheon/

April 20, 2017 https://www.nyspcc.org/wp-content/uploa ... Beasts.pdf

Pic: Karl Wellner & Clarissa Bronfman

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/sto ... -penthouse

Curled up barefoot on the 1960s Brazilian sofa in the leather-swathed library, Clarissa has a laid-back demeanor that belies her formidable role in New York cultural life as a vice-chairman of Carnegie Hall, a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, and cochairman of the Guggenheim Museum’s Latin American Committee. (She also practices photography and creates a sought-after line of jewelry.) The six-bedroom apartment, she explains, was conceived as an easygoing environment for raising four children (now ages 15 to 20) and as a flexible backdrop for the global art collection she’s assembled with her husband, a scion of the family behind Seagram distillers and the former CEO and chairman of the Warner Music Group, who is now a venture capitalist with a special interest in profitably reducing carbon emissions.

Joyce Brooks attends Martin and Jean Shafiroff Host Holiday Cocktails in Honor of the Victims of the California 2018 Wildfires (American Red Cross and Humane Society Relief Efforts) at a Private Residence on November 27, 2018 in New York City.

Brooks attends a lot of the Shafiroff events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Shafiroff

Jean Shafiroff is an American philanthropist, author, advocate, and socialite..Shafiroff worked as a physical therapist at St. Luke's Hospital in New York City. Later she worked in public finance and in private partnerships on Wall Street, including a post in the corporate finance department of investment bank L.F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin

Shafiroff has been a trustee of the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services (JBFCS)..In October 2014, Shafiroff was elected to the Board of Directors of the NYC Mission Society..and in 2020 chaired the Viennese Opera Ball in New York..

Samaritan's Purse in Central Park, Mount Sinai Hospital, NY Tunnels and World VISION.. Hmmmm https://searchvoat.co/v/pizzagate/3748739

Do, people are finally discussing the tunnels in NY. This guy actually does quite a good job looking at that whole region from Pier 90 to Fifth Avenue: https://youtu.be/otmybcNnIHU?t=1470

Did you know that Pier 90 is also known for the VOLTA Art Fair ? https://news.artnet.com/market/volta-ne ... ist-410807

Does Volta ring a bell ? Like Strand on Volta ?

James Alefantis used to own a DC Art Gallery named Strand on Volta! Now owns Transformer gallery. MUST SEE its disturbing! https://searchvoat.co/v/pizzagate/1654738

https://searchvoat.co/v/pizzagate/3761155/23362340

On another note, James Alefantis's father has a building and decorating company in New York (close to Pier 90). They have worked in the past with a wallpaper company which supplied the pornographic wallpaper we've seen in the Soho House. That company has a Royal Warrant from the Queen of England and regularly works with royal families... just sayin...

https://searchvoat.co/v/pizzagate/3716246/23268156

Peter Nygard's NY flagship store was close to Pier 90.

Casita Maria Fiesta 2018 was at the Plaza Hotel in Midtown, Manhattan on Tuesday, October 16, 2018 with cocktails at 7:30 pm followed by dinner and dancing from 8:30 pm until late.

Jacqueline Weld Drake, a tireless bundle of pure energy originally from Venezuela, honored Colombian hotelier and real estate developer Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos, Brazilian Valentino brand ambassador Carlos Souza and CNN correspondent Mary Snow for their contributions to the worlds of art, philanthropy and business.

Brazilian Bossa Nova legend Bebel Gilberto surprised us all with a few songs. After a wonderful dinner with many new friends, the Bob Hardwick Sound band kicked it up and we danced the night away in the Grand Ballroom at The Plaza Hotel.

Valesca Guerrand Hermès, Zani Gugelmann, Carlos Souza, Nicky Hilton Rothschild & Olivia Palermo. Courtesy Gonzalo Marroquin / Casita Maria https://files.catbox.moe/ipz66f.jpg

[Valesca Guerrand Hermès was also at the NYSPCC gala..]

It was all for Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education, the charitable school for children in the South Bronx, Harlem and East Harlem whose model of education and support works every day to keep over 1,000 kids out of trouble and on a path to personal success in our country.

There were many belles of the ball on this night..Socialite author Jean Shafiroff and fashion legend Mary McFadden..Elizabeth Peabody and Giorgio Guidotti.. Princess Astrid of Liechtenstein and Carlos Souza..Jacqueline Weld Drake & Casita Maria Executive Director Haydee Morales.

This exhibition will demonstrate the importance of showcasing private collections to the greater public and explore the way art is bought and consumed. The Vanhaerents Art Collection will work together with Zuecca Project Space to exhibit Walter Vanhaerents’ prized pieces to provide a unique insight in the intimacy of a single collector’s taste and research.

With works by Sam Falls, Katharina Fritsch, Matthew Day Jackson, Bruce Nauman, Ugo Rondinone, Markus Schinwald, Cindy Sherman, Yinka Shonibare, Lucien Smith, Nick van Woert, Joana Vasconcelos, Bill Viola and Andy Warhol.

The artist presented Ocean Without a Shore at the Venice Biennale 2007 https://youtu.be/cg1yxEW-ZFE Bill Viola's ..presented in the atmospheric setting of the church of San Gallo, Venice.

Bill Viola: Tiny Deaths at Tate Modern https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/bil ... ate-modern Tiny Deaths 1993 at Tate Modern coincided with the installation of a work by the artist in St Paul's Cathedral entitled Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water)

The Revd Canon Mark Oakley, Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, interviews artist Bill Viola and his collaborator and wife Kira Perov on their 2014 video installation Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water) which has been placed in St Paul's Cathedral, London.

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Bill Viola also is connected to the Rothschilds.

Sir Evelyn and Lady de Rothschild and Blake Viola, Kira Viola, Bill Viola and Andrei Viola, VIP opening of Bill Viola exhibition Love/Death: The Tristan project. Haunch of Venison, St Olave's College, Tooley St. London