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About Stanford

Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane, in memory of their only child, Leland Jr.

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It becomes the smallest county once every day and then loses that award. The Duke of Rutland, he was a sixth Duke, the one we're talking about. He was also a Tory MP for or Stanford. He won Stanford with 200 votes versus his liberal opponents at one vote. Oh, no. In 1837. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and I quote, his present wealth and future dukedom meant that his Tory colleagues had to bear with him.

from No Such Thing As Kimchi Pirates, 2024-07-11 at 00:18:30 · read transcript

Other times Stanford came up

  1. He was in America, and he did it on a beach way first met his girlfriend. and he opened this avocado, there's a ring inside, and he said, it just happened that a professional photographer was nearby who happened to be shooting something else, and we got in the way, so we've got this beautiful photo of it, and it is a really beautiful photo of him doing it, and he said he put the ring in cling film because no one wants a ring that's covered in avocado. Maybe no one wants a ring that's presented within an avocado, but they interviewed him, and then they interviewed a guy from Stanford in Lincolnshire called Ben Stevenson, and he wanted to do the same thing.

    No Such Thing As A Trapezium-Shaped Hankie, 2018-05-18 · listen

  2. He was in America and he did it on a beach where he first met his girlfriend and he opened this avocado, there's a ring inside, and he said, it just happened that a professional photographer was nearby who happened to be shooting something else and we got in the way, so we've got this beautiful photo of it and it is a really beautiful photo of him doing it and he said he put the ring in cling film because no one wants a ring that's covered in avocado. Maybe no one wants a ring that's presented within an avocado, but they interviewed him and then they interviewed a guy from Stanford in Lincolnshire called Ben Stevenson and he wanted to do the same thing.

    217: No Such Thing As A Trapezium-Shaped Hankie, 2018-05-18 · listen

  3. It's 76,9773 people and that's a jump from a decade ago when it was 42.5 and that's 56,000 people. It's the second least religious city in the UK. Oh, so there's town or city. Yeah. Isn't it somewhere called Satan, Satanford or something? That's the least religious. That's not a city though. No, it's the city. It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a parish, isn't it?

    Little Fish: Yum Yum, Plum Plum, 2025-11-09 · listen

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