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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SPDUKE_100823_046.JPG: The guys cleaning the lotus pond said that some of the leaves get damaged when kids try to walk on them. Others when people throw rocks and such. Some die of natural causes.
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6. SPDUKE_100823_408.JPG: Doris Duke (1912-1993): Doris Duke, the only child of James B. Duke, founder of Duke University, was the granddaughter of Washington Duke and niece of Benjamin N. Duke. She served as a member of the Board of Trustees of The Duke Endowment from 1933 to 1993. Miss Duke followed in her family's tradition of large scale philanthropy. Throughout her life, the vast majority of her giving was anonymous. Her will established the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, which directs support to Miss Duke's many interests, including the arts, the environment, medical research, and the welfare of children. In 1958, Doris Duke personally designed and created eleven thematic gardens representing diverse cultures and regions of the world in her own Duke Gardens located on her estate in Hillsborough, New Jersey, which are open to the public. It is fitting that her love of gardens is honored by The Duke Endowment, established by James B. Duke, through her gift to name The Doris Duke Center for Sarah P. Duke Gardens.
Wikipedia Description: Sarah P. Duke Gardens
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The Sarah P. Duke Gardens consist of approximately 55 acres (223,000 m�) of landscaped and wooded areas at Duke University. There are five miles (8 km) of all�es, walks, and pathways throughout the gardens. The gardens are divided into four parts, the Historic Core, the H.L Blomquist Garden of Native Plants, the Culberson Asiatic Arboretum and the Page White Garden. The gardens are a memorial to Sarah P. Duke, wife of Benjamin N. Duke, one of Duke University's benefactors.

History:

In the early 1920s, Duke University's planners intended to turn the area where the Sarah P. Duke Gardens are currently located into a lake. Funds for this project ran short and the idea was subsequently abandoned. The gardens then officially began in the 1930s, when Dr. Frederick M. Hanes, a faculty member at the Duke Medical School, persuaded Sarah P. Duke to give $20,000 to finance the planting of flowers in the debris-filled ravine. By 1935, over 100 flower beds consisting of 40,000 irises, 25,000 daffodils, 10,000 small bulbs and assorted annuals graced the lawns. Unfortunately, the heavy rains of that summer and the flooding stream completely washed away the original gardens. By the time Sarah. P. Duke died in 1936, the gardens were completely destroyed. Dr. Hanes was able to convince Sarah Duke's daughter, Mary Duke Biddle, to finance a new garden on higher ground as a memorial to her mother. Ellen Biddle Shipman, a pioneer in American landscape design, was chosen to create the new gardens. They are considered by many to be her greatest work.

Trivia:

The 36th line of latitude goes directly through the Duke Gardens; there is a plaque designating a spot through which the meridian runs.
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