Via Mizner Via Mizner The Via Mizner is a historic site in Palm Beach, Florida. It is located at 337–339 Worth Avenue. On April 1, 1993, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. A “via” is derived from the Latin word meaning “way” or “path” and is defined by the World English Dictionary as a “way, road, channel, course of uncertain origin.” Via Mizner meanders approximately and connects Palm Beach's premier shopping street, Worth Avenue, to Peruvian Avenue, one city block to the north. The Via was created by the eccentric, visionary architect, Addison Mizner in 1923 after
White wagtail it still bears its original name of "Motacilla alba". The Latin genus name originally meant "little mover", but certain medieval writers thought it meant "wag-tail", giving rise to a new Latin word "cilla" for "tail". The specific epithet "alba" is Latin for "white". Within the wagtail genus "Motacilla", the white wagtail's closest genetic relatives appear to be other black-and-white wagtails such as the Japanese wagtail, "Motacilla grandis", and the white-browed wagtail, "Motacilla madaraspatensis" (and possibly the Mekong wagtail, "Motacilla samveasnae", the phylogenetic position of which is mysterious), with which it appears to form a superspecies. However, mtDNA cytochrome "b" and