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A successful airwave speculator in the ’80s, in 1990 Paula Gloria became the first (and only) female entrepreneur to successfully build and operate a U.S. cellular telephone company, which was sold in 1992 to Telephone & Data Systems for $21 million. In 1996 she created The Concordia Foundation while living on the Island of Cyprus

John Chodes on NY Governor Horatio Seymour during the Civil War Please note 6:30 SHARP start time Horatio Seymour was governor of New York during the Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln hated Seymour and invaded New York twice with huge armies, to kill Governor Seymour and occupy our state, just as if it was part

Monthly Meeting May 9, 2011 CJ Maloney will discuss his new book – Back to the Land: Arthurdale, FDR’s New Deal, and the Costs of Economic Planning C.J. Maloney lives and works in New York City. He blogs for Liberty & Power on the History News Network and Daily Kos websites.

Monthly Meeting  July 11, 2011 What is ‘transgender’? Who are the individuals who could be said to constitute the ‘transgender community’? And what are the legal issues that transgendered and gender-variant people face in this society? Pauline Park, who led the campaign for the transgender rights law enacted by the New York City Council in

Humans evolved physically and socially to live in extended kinship bands where all emotional and organic needs were met by the tribe.  We now live in societies of our own choosing, often among strangers, but we still have problems that can’t be dealt with by an individual or even a single family.  The welfare state