SILVER FROGS

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• Black Lives Should Have Always Mattered. A Discussion and Review of the Book "Stamped From The Beginning"

• From the beginning of recorded time persons who have considered themselves as a Superior race have held other races as inferior intellectually, morally and spiritually. This is no different than the "Black Lives Matter" issue. This book more clearly defines how our parents and forefathers have influenced their children and fellow citizens on others that they consider as a lessor class of people. The history written in this book, such as turning black people's skin white or considering shipping blacks to an island or a separate isolated area is eye opening.

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• Section Code: F21SSFHCE053A

• Dates: 5/3/2021 - 5/3/2021      Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

• Sessions: 1   Days: M

• Instructor: James Brittain

• Capacity Remaining: -18

• Building: Online Class   Room:

• Fee: $0.00

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• Clarence Saunders - The Invention of the Modern Self-Service Grocery Store: The Story of Piggly Wiggly

• Clarence Saunders was an American grocer who first developed the modern retail sales model of self service. His ideas have had a massive influence on the development of the modern supermarket. He patented the concept of the self service grocery store and founded the Piggly Wiggly chain and franchise company.

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• Section Code: F21SSFHCE046A

• Dates: 3/17/2021 - 3/17/2021      Times: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

• Sessions: 1   Days: W

• Instructor: James Godfrey

• Capacity Remaining: -25

• Building: Online Class   Room:

• Fee: $0.00

• Even War Has Rules

• This lecture is the current Introduction to International Humanitarian Low (IHL) course from the American Red Cross. "Even War Has Rules" is a basic level course that covers the origins of the Red Cross Movement and the Geneva Conventions and their supplemental protocols. IHL is also known as the Law of Armed Conflict and includes the fundamental principles of how humanity is part of all armed conflicts.

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• Section Code: F21SSFHCE029A

• Instructor: Lewis Woodard

• Dates: 3/15/2021 - 3/15/2021

• Times: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

• Sessions: 1

  Days: M

• Building: Online Class

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• Capacity Remaining: 23

• God Bless the USA!

• Regardless of your political preferences, we are all citizens of this great country. However, it seems that people have lost their way when it comes to showing respect to the flag, national anthem and pledge of allegiance. Join me as we take a look at crazy ways Americans (unintentionally, I'm sure! ) disrespect the flag, anthem and pledge. As a lover of trivial, I'll quiz you on fun flag, anthem and pledge facts, and we'll brush up on the whys and hows of respecting these symbols of our freedom. Get ready to laugh and learn 'cause we will be having a lot of fun with a very important topic.

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• Section Code: F21SSFHCE050A

• Instructor: Susan Turner

• Dates: 4/14/2021 - 4/14/2021

• Times: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

• Sessions: 1

  Days: W

• Building: Online Class

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• Capacity Remaining: 10

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• God is on the Side of the Big Battalion: Religion and the Civil War Soldier

• This is a course about the religious life of Civil War soldiers. Both Northerners and Southerners believed that God was on their side and each side came into the war with a firm belief that they would win. But when what everyone thought would be a short war turned into a long and bloody conflict, attitudes changed. Religion became important not only for larger principles but on a day-to-day basis to men who knew their lives could end in the next battle. As the fighting turned against the Confederacy in the last year, the southern soldier had to wonder if God had abandoned his cause. We will also discuss the main denominations, which at that time were Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians, and their roles in the soldiers’ lives.

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• Section Code: F21SSFHCE014A

• Dates: 4/20/2021 - 4/20/2021      Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

• Sessions: 1   Days: Tu

• Instructor: Anne Bailey

• Capacity Remaining: -11

• Building: Online Class   Room:

• Fee: $0.00

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• How the Other Half Lived: Women in the Civil War

• Too often discussion of the Civil War focuses only on the men and their battles. It’s easy to forget that the families left behind at home were kept together by the women-wives and mothers. Women all across the Confederacy suffered through hardships and deprivations, and in Texas that was compounded by the presence of hostile Comanches, Kiowas, and Apaches. Who were these Confederate women and why do they matter? The story of the challenges and hardships of women across the South during the war is compelling, and their struggle to survive should be remembered just as much as the stories of the men who fought the battles. We will look at Confederate women-rich and poor, young and old-and how they survived four years of war.

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• Section Code: F21SSFHCE049A

• Dates: 4/6/2021 - 4/6/2021      Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

• Sessions: 1   Days: Tu

• Instructor: Anne Bailey

• Capacity Remaining: -12

• Building: Online Class   Room:

• Fee: $0.00

• Political Psychology: A Brief Introduction

• What shapes political behavior more: the situations in which individuals find themselves or their internal psychological makeup? The discipline of political psychology takes the psychological viewpoint and looks at how heredity, environment, emotions, and reason combine to drive our political choices. Topics include voter behavior, the moral philosophy behind partisanship, the conflict between rational thought and emotional behavior, personality differences between liberals and conservatives, and bio-politics and brain function.

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• Section Code: F21SSFHCE008B

• Instructor: Zelda Gilbert

• Dates: 4/6/2021 - 4/6/2021

• Times: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

• Sessions: 1

  Days: Tu

• Building: Online Class

  Room:

• Capacity Remaining: 5

• The 1920 - 1925 Fort Worth Panthers: A Minor League Dynasty

• Between 1920 and 1925 the Fort Worth Panthers won six consecutive Texas League pennants and five of six Dixie Series titles. Led by manager Jake Atz and featuring pitching aces Joe Pate and Paul Wachtel and slugger Clarence "Big Boy" Kraft, the Panthers dominated minor league baseball in the South during the early 20's. They are considered by some to be one of the two greatest teams in minor league history.

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• Section Code: F21SSFHCE051A

• Instructor: Jim Stripling

• Dates: 4/26/2021 - 4/26/2021

• Times: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

• Sessions: 1

  Days: M

• Building: Online Class

  Room:

• Capacity Remaining: 8

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• The Germans' WWII Unbreakable Enigma Code

• Prior to and throughout World War II, the German political and military commands encoded all messages sent over their radio networks to prevent the Allies from collecting this invaluable intelligence. They were so positive in the security of their Enigma system that they trusted it until the end of the war. Unknown to the Germans, the Allies had begun intercepting and decoding most of their highest level communications in the early 1930's and continued breaking the code throughout the war. The movie, The Imitation Game, is about Alan Turning, one of the principle code breakers and the work carried out by the British at Bletchley Park. The allies' ability to read the German's daily mail was a very closely guarded secret. This remarkable feat has been credited with shortening WW II by at least two years and saving millions of lives. The phenomenal accomplishments of Turing and the other Bletchley Park cryptanalyst were not publicly acknowledged until the early 1970's and many died without ever being recognized for this miraculous feat. This lecture will review the Enigma machine's history, its operation, and the allies' successful effort to break the code, even as it changed daily throughout the war.

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• Section Code: F21SSFHCE010A

• Dates: 3/15/2021 - 3/15/2021      Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

• Sessions: 1   Days: M

• Instructor: Randy Smith

• Capacity Remaining: -12

• Building: Online Class   Room:

• Fee: $0.00

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• The Lady Be Good: The Story of a Lost Bomber and the Efforts to Find the Crew

• The Lady Be Good. A US B-24 bomber lost in 1943 and not found until 1958. The bomber disappeared on its first mission to Tom Naples and was never heard from again. This is the story of the aircraft, the crew, the mission and the efforts to find the crew. The story does not end after the discovery of the aircraft. The saga continued for several years. This is the chronicle of the heroic efforts of the crew and the aftermath.

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• Section Code: F21SSFHCE056A

• Dates: 5/5/2021 - 5/5/2021      Times: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

• Sessions: 1   Days: W

• Instructor: James Godfrey

• Capacity Remaining: -8

• Building: Online Class   Room:

• Fee: $0.00

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• The Long, Active Life of Winston Churchill

• We all know that Winston Churchill was Prime Minister of Britain during World War II. You may not know that he was a national hero in the 1890s; First Lord of the Admiralty and later Minister of Munitions in World War I; also fought in the trenches, Colonial Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer in the 1920s; and warned of Hitler in the1930s. He participated in every major event in British history for over 50 years. This class will examine his extraordinary life.

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• Section Code: F21SSFHCE043A

• Dates: 4/12/2021 - 4/12/2021      Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

• Sessions: 1   Days: M

• Instructor: Richard Fahy

• Capacity Remaining: -3

• Building: Online Class   Room:

• Fee: $0.00

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• The Long, Active Life of Winston Churchill

• We all know that Winston Churchill was Prime Minister of Britain during World War II. You may not know that he was a national hero in the 1890s; First Lord of the Admiralty and later Minister of Munitions in World War I; also fought in the trenches, Colonial Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer in the 1920s; and warned of Hitler in the1930s. He participated in every major event in British history for over 50 years. This class will examine his extraordinary life.

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• Section Code: F21SSFHCE043B

• Dates: 4/19/2021 - 4/19/2021      Times: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

• Sessions: 1   Days: M

• Instructor: Richard Fahy

• Capacity Remaining: -1

• Building: Online Class   Room:

• Fee: $0.00

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• The Old Chisholm Trail: From Cow Path to Tourist Stop

• Controversy over the name and route of the Chisholm Trail has persisted over time; and the popularity of late nineteenth-century Wild West shows, dime novels, and twentieth-century radio, movie, and television western drama has propelled the bygone era of the cattle trail into myth. The rise of automobile tourism, potential economic impact of tourists, and the appearance of numerous "historical" markers based on little more than hearsay contributed to the Chisholm Trail legend. Primary documents and sources that may have been unavailable to previous historians will be used to offer a new look at the Old Chisholm Trail.

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• Section Code: F21SSFHCE034A

• Dates: 5/5/2021 - 5/5/2021      Times: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

• Sessions: 1   Days: W

• Instructor: Wayne Ludwig

• Capacity Remaining: -9

• Building: Online Class   Room:

• Fee: $0.00

• The USS PANAY Incident

• The sinking of the USS PANAY on 12 December 1937 by Japanese forces while it was moored in China’s Yangtze River took place nearly four years before the attack on Pearl Harbor. We will review the situation in Asia leading up to the attack, the river as a battleground during the events of 12 December, the American and Japanese responses afterward, and the road that led to the Pacific War.

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• Section Code: F21SSFHCE055A

• Instructor: Kent Knudson

• Dates: 4/22/2021 - 4/22/2021

• Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

• Sessions: 1

  Days: Th

• Building: Online Class

  Room:

• Capacity Remaining: 5

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• The Women that Flew for Hitler, Hanna Reitch and Melitta von Stoffenberg

• The story of two extraordinary women who were test pilots for Hitler and the 3rd Reich. The lecture presents their biography and their connections with Adolf Hitler and other top Nazi officials as well as their outstanding accomplishments as test pilots for the Luftwaffe. This lecture explores the remarkable triumphs and the sad tragedies of both Hanna and Melitta.

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• Section Code: F21SSFHCE028A

• Dates: 4/7/2021 - 4/7/2021      Times: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

• Sessions: 1   Days: W

• Instructor: James Godfrey

• Capacity Remaining: -5

• Building: Online Class   Room:

• Fee: $0.00

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• Washington, DC- How it Came to Be in Its Location and the History of Its Formation

• Because of a compromise with the Southern States the in 1790 the Residence Act set aside an area not exceeding ten miles square to establish a Permanent seat of Government of the United States in the South. And, with no "conflict of interest" due to land ownership by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson the area on the Potomac River was chosen for the city and the "Presidential Palace" renamed the "White House". Pierre L'Enfant dreamed up the concept of the city and Andrew Ellicott surveyed the layout of the city. This compromise created support for Alexander Hamilton's Federal Bank to take on the State's individual debts including much of the paper money the States had issued. But, according to one critic "the area bears no more proportion to the country about Philadelphia than a (scrawny) Crane does to a (fat) stalled-fed Ox" This class is to study and discuss the history of our "Paris" of the USA.

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• Section Code: F21SSFHCE052A

• Dates: 4/19/2021 - 4/19/2021      Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

• Sessions: 1   Days: M

• Instructor: James Brittain

• Capacity Remaining: -18

• Building: Online Class   Room:

• Fee: $0.00

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• When the Afrika Corp Came to Texas

• This is the story of the prisoner of war camps operated in Texas during WWII. Texas had a very large number of prisoners both German and Japanese and camps spread out throughout Texas. Most of the germans were from Rommel's Afrika Corp.

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• Section Code: F21SSFHCE057A

• Dates: 4/21/2021 - 4/21/2021      Times: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

• Sessions: 1   Days: W

• Instructor: James Godfrey

• Capacity Remaining: -10

• Building: Online Class   Room:

• Fee: $0.00