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it's called fisher island zip code three three one zero nine once privately owned by william vanderbilt the second the island is located just off the coast of miami and is now a haven for the world's richest only accessible by boat or helicopter the two hundred sixteen acre manmade island has a mix of condos and private homes not to mention a vast array of amenities you come to fish island and you literally can stay here for three months without having to leave the island so we have about eighteen amenities from the renos to seven restaurants to eighteen tennis courts four different surfaces on tennis courts a great golf club we have an amazing spar and as you have seen here we are in the. we have a private school so this is an idea. families who want to come here who want to raise children there are about five hundred residents ranging from royalty to professional athletes to business executives and while only about twenty percent of them reside on the island full time. if the island's exclusivity that attracts people from all over the world. we have about fifty. thousand america. trul
it's called fisher island zip code three three one zero nine once privately owned by william vanderbilt the second the island is located just off the coast of miami and is now a haven for the world's richest only accessible by boat or helicopter the two hundred sixteen acre manmade island has a mix of condos and private homes not to mention a vast array of amenities you come to fish island and you literally can stay here for three months without having to leave the island so we have about...
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so george washington vanderbilt was the youngest son of william henry vanderbilt and the grandson of commodore vanderb t vanderbilt. so this was an incredible family that had been building railroads and shipping industries in new york and across the world. he was really interested in intellectual pursuits. he was a book collector, a print collector, a friend to artists and writers and really a collector of arts and beautiful objec objects. george washington vanderbilt came to the asheville area in the late 1880s. his mother was suffering from malaria and there were many pulmonary doctors in this area so he was accompanying his mother down here for her treatments. he fell in love with the landscapes and the sweeping views and began to assemble an estate. began to acquire land with this vision of creating a house and gardens and then a grand state around it. so you wouldn't think for a house this size and in this scale that a bachelor would have built that. so when george first began building biltmore it was just he himself and his trustee dog, cedric, and they created this grand estat
so george washington vanderbilt was the youngest son of william henry vanderbilt and the grandson of commodore vanderb t vanderbilt. so this was an incredible family that had been building railroads and shipping industries in new york and across the world. he was really interested in intellectual pursuits. he was a book collector, a print collector, a friend to artists and writers and really a collector of arts and beautiful objec objects. george washington vanderbilt came to the asheville area...
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george vanderbilt, who was the owner of the home and builder of the home, he really envision s this is a getaway for family and friends. he was the youngest son of william henry vanderbilt and the grandson, commodore vanderbilt. this was an incredible family that had been building railroads and shipping industries in new york and across the world. he was really interested in intellectual pursuits. he was a book collector, a print collector and a friend to artists and writers. he was a collector of art and beautiful objects. george washington vanderbilt came to the asheville area when his mother was suffering from malaria. he was accompanying his mother down here for treatments. he fell in love with the landscape and the sweeping views and began to assemble an estate. he began to acquire land with a vision of creating a house and gardens and a grand estate around it. you wouldn't think for a house this size and this scale that a bachelor would have built that. when he first began building biltmore, it was just he himself and his trustee dog frederick. it was really for family and four friends. it was his primary home though he traveled quite a bit. he fe
george vanderbilt, who was the owner of the home and builder of the home, he really envision s this is a getaway for family and friends. he was the youngest son of william henry vanderbilt and the grandson, commodore vanderbilt. this was an incredible family that had been building railroads and shipping industries in new york and across the world. he was really interested in intellectual pursuits. he was a book collector, a print collector and a friend to artists and writers. he was a collector...
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>> steve williams at vanderbilt university. to the division of people who are christian zionists, to what degree with you consider christian buy an r rmt i assume they're defending israel no fwhimplt flt. is there many a zionism that would support settlements and yet you would definitely pick zit onnist but would be more supportive of not always supporting the state of policy use. >> yeah, so just to ensure that everyone heard the question, i was asked first about the relationship between christian zionism and anti-semitism. and second about the nature of christian zionists' commitment to israel. are they really for israel in every case or no daylight test they sometimes say. that really is an interesting issue and one i pay a considerable amount of attention in the book. and part of the puzzle here is figuring out what you mean by anti-semitism. on the one hand, i think that christian zionists are almost, by definition, phyllo-hebraic. you cannot be a christian scienti scientist, at least the way i've described, unless there i
>> steve williams at vanderbilt university. to the division of people who are christian zionists, to what degree with you consider christian buy an r rmt i assume they're defending israel no fwhimplt flt. is there many a zionism that would support settlements and yet you would definitely pick zit onnist but would be more supportive of not always supporting the state of policy use. >> yeah, so just to ensure that everyone heard the question, i was asked first about the relationship...