One national landmark in the Bronx is the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, overlooking the Harlem River and designed by the renowned architect Stanford White.

Unlike many previous first ladies, when Hoover's wife, Lou Henry Hoover, came to the White House, she had already carved out her own reputation, having graduated from Stanford as the only woman in her class with a degree in geology.

* 1906 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.

* 1853 – Stanford White, American architect ( d. 1906 )

The rest of their picks included UCLA fullback Manuel White, Jr., Louisville linebacker Robert McCune, Stanford linebacker Jared Newberry, and Citadel College fullback Nehemiah Broughton.

* June 25 – Stanford White, American architect ( b. 1853 )

* November 9 – Stanford White, American architect ( d. 1906 )

In 1906, another Nesbit lover, famed architect Stanford White, was murdered by Nesbit's husband, Pittsburgh millionaire Harry K. Thaw.

The racial makeup of Stanford was 7, 932 ( 57. 4 %) White, 651 ( 4. 7 %) African American, 86 ( 0. 6 %) Native American, 3, 777 ( 27. 4 %) Asian, 28 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 263 ( 1. 9 %) from other races, and 1, 072 ( 7. 8 %) from two or more races.

* Berkshire Theatre Festival, originally designed by Stanford White as a casino ( 1888 )

Notable architects that have left their legacy in the town include Frank Lloyd Wright, Stanford White, and John Russell Pope.

In fact, a few old " summer cottages " in town were designed by world-renowned architect Stanford White of McKim, Mead and White fame.

and Borough President, attorney for Harry Thaw's 2nd trial for murder of Stanford White

The waterfront mansion had originally been built for A. C. Sloane, originally named Keewaydin, had been designed by Stanford White and built in 1902.

Along Goundry Street are mansions built for the lumber barons, including 208 Goundry Street, called " Kent Place ", designed by Stanford White.

Noteworthy persons of the town have included Stanford White, architect ; William Jay Gaynor, New York State Supreme Court Justice and Mayor of New York City ; Willie Collier, actor and playwright ; Mick Foley, Professional Wrestler ; Axella Johannesson, musician ; Soledad O ' Brien, television personality ; and John Petrucci, lead guitar player for Dream Theater.

* Evelyn Nesbit, artists ' model and chorus girl, pursued by architect Stanford White and murderer Harry Thaw, whom she married.

* Evelyn Nesbit ( 1884 – 1967 ), chorus girl, noted for her entanglement in the murder of her ex-lover, architect Stanford White, by her first husband, Harry K. Thaw.

) The original Garden was demolished in 1889 and replaced by a new indoor arena designed by Stanford White that opened the following year.

He donated the land on 5th Avenue and 60th Street at a cost of $ 125, 000, and commanded Stanford White, " Build me a club fit for gentlemen.

Younger Brother becomes smitten with coquettish showgirl Evelyn Nesbit, whose wealthy husband, Harry Kendall Thaw, murders architect Stanford White in a jealous rage.

Stanford White ( November 9, 1853 – June 25, 1906 ) was an American architect and partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms.

The Stanford Achievement Test, Form J, was administered by classroom teachers, consisting of a battery of six sub-tests: Paragraph Meaning, Word Meaning, Spelling, Language, Arithmetic Computation, and Arithmetic Reasoning.

William Ernest " Bill " Walsh ( November 30, 1931 – July 30, 2007 ) was the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and the Stanford Cardinal football team, during which time he popularized the West Coast offense.

In 1977, Walsh was hired as the head coach at Stanford where he stayed for two seasons.

The first bowl game was the 1902 Rose Bowl, played between Michigan and Stanford ; Michigan won 49-0.

It was financed and built through " The Big Four " ( who called themselves " The Associates "): Sacramento, California businessmen Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins.

When Stanford was Governor of California, the Legislature passed on April 22, 1863, " An Act to Authorize the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to take and subscribe One Million Dollars to the Capital Stock of the Western Pacific Rail Road Company and the Central Pacific Rail Road Company of California and to provide for the payment of the same and other matters relating thereto " ( which was later amended by Section Five of the " Compromise Act " of April 4, 1864 ).

The first permanent ARPANET link was established on November 21, 1969, between the IMP at UCLA and the IMP at the Stanford Research Institute.

In early 2000 Engelbart produced, with volunteers and sponsors, what was called The Unfinished Revolution – II, also known as the Engelbart Colloquium at Stanford University, to document and publicize his work and ideas to a larger audience ( live, and online ).

This event, produced by SRI International, was held at Memorial Auditorium at Stanford University.

* The preface of Concrete Mathematics includes the following anecdote: " When Knuth taught Concrete Mathematics at Stanford for the first time, he explained the somewhat strange title by saying that it was his attempt to teach a math course that was hard instead of soft.

He grew up on the campus of Stanford University, where his father was a professor, and he attended the International School of Geneva in 1958 – 1959.

Hofstadter was also an invited panelist at the first Singularity Summit, held at Stanford in May 2006.

Dahomey was chosen for some of the filming locations in the movie, The Comedians ( 1967 film ), with an all-star cast that included Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Lillian Gish, James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Brown, Alec Guinness, Raymond St. Jacques, Gloria Foster, Zakes Mokae, Paul Ford, Georg Stanford Brown, Peter Ustinov, Douta Seck and Cicely Tyson.

He also was influential in the founding of the Stanford Center for Research and Development in teaching, which not only contributed important research on teaching but also influenced the teaching of important educational psychologists.

The PDP-10 successor was to have been built by the Super Foonly project at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ( SAIL ) along with a new operating system.

During his time there, he was influenced by the Theosophist ideas of Annie Besant, which were prominent at nearby Stanford University.

Ulric Neisser estimates that using the IQ values of today the average IQ of the US in 1932, according to the first Stanford – Binet Intelligence Scales standardization sample, was 80.

A precursor to GUIs was invented by researchers at the Stanford Research Institute, led by Douglas Engelbart.

He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University.

He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich in Switzerland and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University carrying on as Stanford Professor Emeritus the rest of his life and career.

While at the university, he was the student manager of both the baseball and football teams and was a part of the inaugural Big Game versus rival University of California ( Stanford won ).