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Sessions: 2Class Date(s): 05-06-2024 to 05-13-2024Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 11:00 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: David WoodruffTerm: 2024-2Location: Oasis RochesterThe Battle Against Blunders. No general ever sets out to be a failure. So, it’s a bit of a surprise to find so many of them who ended up that way. Especially because you normally have to work your way up through the ranks to get to the position where you can be a poor general. But one truth of military history is that it is one thing to take orders and... read more -
Sessions: 2Class Date(s): 05-06-2024 to 05-13-2024Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 11:00 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: David WoodruffTerm: 2024-2Location: ZoomThe Battle Against Blunders. No general ever sets out to be a failure. So, it’s a bit of a surprise to find so many of them who ended up that way. Especially because you normally have to work your way up through the ranks to get to the position where you can be a poor general. But one truth of military history is that it is one thing to take orders and... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 05-20-2024 to 05-20-2024Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 10:00 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Pat MartinezTerm: 2024-2Location: Oasis RochesterThe Internet provides us with powerful tools to shop, message with friends, send emails and video chat with family. However, it also creates some threats to our privacy. Learn about using passwords, good security habits, virus protection, firewalls and much more. Knowing how to protect yourself online can go a long way towards making the use of the... read more -
Sessions: 2Class Date(s): 06-03-2024 to 06-10-2024Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 11:00 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: David WoodruffTerm: 2024-2Location: ZoomThird Republic vs. Third Reich. Ever since the age of Napoleon, the French military had been one of the best in all of Europe. That is, until 1940, when it joined with countries like Italy in the league of military jokes. France’s defeat was so rapid that the entire campaign was over in six weeks. And the leader of the French Republic even telephoned... read more -
Sessions: 2Class Date(s): 06-03-2024 to 06-10-2024Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 11:00 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: David WoodruffTerm: 2024-2Location: Oasis RochesterThird Republic vs. Third Reich. Ever since the age of Napoleon, the French military had been one of the best in all of Europe. That is, until 1940, when it joined with countries like Italy in the league of military jokes. France’s defeat was so rapid that the entire campaign was over in six weeks. And the leader of the French Republic even telephoned... read more
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Sessions: 2Class Date(s): 06-17-2024 to 06-24-2024Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 11:00 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: David WoodruffTerm: 2024-2Location: Oasis RochesterWar Crimes Before the Hague. If you rob a bank and get caught in almost every country, you go to jail—if they don’t shoot you. But what if the government of one country sets out to rob all the banks of an entire continent—and commit thousands of other crimes as well? Before WWII, they sent you to Elba. But German and Japanese leaders raised the... read more -
Sessions: 2Class Date(s): 06-17-2024 to 06-24-2024Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 11:00 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: David WoodruffTerm: 2024-2Location: ZoomWar Crimes Before the Hague. If you rob a bank and get caught in almost every country, you go to jail—if they don’t shoot you. But what if the government of one country sets out to rob all the banks of an entire continent—and commit thousands of other crimes as well? Before WWII, they sent you to Elba. But German and Japanese leaders raised the stakes... read more
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Sessions: 2Class Date(s): 07-01-2024 to 07-08-2024Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 11:00 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: David WoodruffTerm: 2024-2Location: Oasis RochesterNine Days Queen. In the history of England, every text will tell you about Henry VIII’s son Edward VI, who was followed up by Queen Mary. Who gave her throne to Elizabeth I. But England had another queen, their first. A woman the English tried to sweep under the rug. She signed her name: Jane the Queen. But she only lasted nine days. Her story may be the... read more -
Sessions: 2Class Date(s): 07-01-2024 to 07-08-2024Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 11:00 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: David WoodruffTerm: 2024-2Location: ZoomNine Days Queen. In the history of England, every text will tell you about Henry VIII’s son Edward VI, who was followed up by Queen Mary. Who gave her throne to Elizabeth I. But England had another queen, their first. A woman the English tried to sweep under the rug. She signed her name: Jane the Queen. But she only lasted nine days. Her story may be the... read more
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Sessions: 2Class Date(s): 04-01-2024 to 04-08-2024Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 11:00 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: David WoodruffTerm: 2024-`Location: Oasis RochesterAviation Mystery. All we know for sure is that on July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart disappeared. But for close to 90 years, we’ve been trying to uncover what happened to the aviator who tried to fly around the earth near the equator. And like Magellan, who attempted to do the same on the water… ending his journey halfway across the Pacific… we’ve been... read more -
Sessions: 2Class Date(s): 04-01-2024 to 04-08-2024Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 11:00 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: David WoodruffTerm: 2024-1Location: ZoomAmerica’s Real Assassination Conspiracy. Lee has surrendered, and the Confederacy is doomed. The Civil War is over. But when the nation could be rejoicing, it’s plunged into grief by the assassination of President Lincoln. But in less than 24 hours, everyone would learn it was not the act of a lone madman, but a conspiracy designed to cut off both the... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 05-21-2024 to 05-21-2024Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 1:00 PM → 3:00 PMInstructor: Susan Carmen-Duffy, Owner, Create Art 4 GoodTerm: 2024-2Location: Central CreativesDo you love color and visual texture? Are you someone who saves cards, canceled postage stamps, fabric scraps, and wrapping paper? Gather your lovely items and bring them to this workshop! We will create in the wonderful world of collage. Collage derives its name from the French verb coller, to glue. The work of art is made by gluing things to the... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 06-04-2024 to 06-04-2024Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 1:00 PM → 3:00 PMInstructor: Susan Carmen-Duffy, Owner, Create Art 4 GoodTerm: 2024-2Location: Central CreativesExplore drawing with colored pencils! All skill levels are welcome. Participants will learn and discover techniques of colored pencil art including initial sketching, layering, blending and building colors, and interpreting colors. We will work on texture and details. A selection of reference photos will be provided for the class, or if you would like, you... read more -
Sessions: 3Class Date(s): 07-09-2024 to 07-23-2024Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 1:00 PM → 2:30 AMInstructor: Otto Bruno, author 'Barney Miller and the Files of the Ol' One-Two’Term: 2024-2Location: Oasis RochesterFlip Wilson was an up and coming stand up comedian in the 1960s. His popular appearances with Ed Sullivan, Johnny Carson, and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In earned him a chance at his own variety series in the fall of 1970. By the end of the first season it was the #2 show on television. Wilson was a charismatic comedian and performer who welcomed all the... read more -
Sessions: 4Class Date(s): 06-05-2024 to 06-26-2024Day(s) of the week: WednesdayTime: 1:00 PM → 4:00 PMInstructor: Otto Bruno, author 'Barney Miller and the Files of the Ol' One-Two’Term: 2024-2Location: Oasis RochesterHe was suave, sophisticated, and handsome. Women wanted to be with him and men wanted to be him. In fact, Grant once said to a reporter, "Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant." A revealing quote that hints at the artifice of Hollywood creations. Yet the one definite truth is that Cary Grant was a great comedic actor. He possessed... read more -
Sessions: 4Class Date(s): 07-10-2024 to 07-31-2024Day(s) of the week: WednesdayTime: 1:00 PM → 4:00 PMInstructor: Otto Bruno, author 'Barney Miller and the Files of the Ol' One-Two’Term: 2024-2Location: Oasis RochesterFord is unquestionably the greatest director of Western films in Hollywood history and yet his four Oscars for Best Director were all for non-Western films. Nevertheless, Ford identified most with that aspect of his career once famously introducing himself as, "John Ford. I make Westerns." In this course, we'll examine four of his most famous and popular... read more
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