in New York, NY
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in Bronx, NY
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in Long Island City, NY
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in Rego Park, Ne
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Meet & greet other Fair-Goers and former employees. Share your favorite NY Worlds Fair memories. Show & Tell your souvenir collectibles! Walk the Flushing Meadow Corona Park with Historians and people committed to preserve the historic structures & markers of the NY World's Fairs today! Attend lectures and film screenings about the Worlds Fairs! (yes, they occur frequently). Get group discounts to World's Fair Collectibles Shows.We hope, at least to begin, to meet monthly at a hotel restaurant …
Did you know it was native son Washington Irving who first dubbed New York City “Gotham”, a century before a certain superhero and his crime-ridden hometown were even thought of? Yes, Gotham is our city, our hometown, whether by birth or adoption! So let’s see the sites that make Gotham aka New York City so unique in the world. We go to exhibits and concerts at museums and unusual venues in the city, some famous, like the Metropolitan Museum, and others a little more off the beaten track, like t …
Everyone is welcomed. What connects us is the love of the question, and a passion for challenging our most cherished assumptions and principles. Come, gather, commune, eat & drink and meet other local common folk who also possess an inner zeal and curiosity for philosophy, psychology, history, spirituality, religion, anthropology, literature, critical discourse, camaraderie, laughter, insight and more. Lets cultivate an ongoing discourse......
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Meet other people interested in the living tradition of Classical and Historical Fencing. It is the only Western Martial Art! Open to all levels and experiences. In New York, we are affiliated with the Martinez Academy of Arms. The Academy is a unique school that preserves the tradition of fencing as the study of the sword in its realistic application in personal combat. The structure of the school is based on that of the fencing academies of the past. Each student is taught on an individ …
… Rather than engaging in endless debates on current and historical events, each reading group endeavors to ground all comments and questions in the text being read. Books are read in their entirety, usually over 15-30 weeks. Readers come with passages they found difficult from the reading, and the group reads these aloud, endeavoring to work them out as a group. All of this takes place over snacks and wine. Here are some excerpts from two works of Noam Chomsky, chosen not for their ideological …
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… With the new electronic mediums and future austerity measures which could close our libraries or reduce their historical collections, we must become the guardians of the knowledge of freedom. Among ourselves, we must collect up the writings of the Founding Fathers, as well as Progressive and Liberal critics and enemies of freedom. We must vow to share our treasure with other freedom-lovers and encourage the young to study and respect the writings of the Founding Fathers. We must prepare for th …
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