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Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise
Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise was an American band from Detroit, Michigan. The group was a collaboration between Robert Bradley, a blind street singer, and three rock musicians. History It formed in 1994 when former members of the band Second Self met the blind street performer Robert Bradley. Bradley was born in Alabama, and gained musical experience by singing as a child at The Alabama School for the Blind. He had spent several years in Detroit by 1994, performing occasionally on the street, and playing on Saturdays in Detroit's Eastern Market, when guitarist Michael Nehra, bassist Andrew Nehra, and drummer Jeff Fowlkes overheard Bradley through an open window while rehearsing for a new project. After listening to Bradley sing for an hour, they invited him up to Nehra's studio, The White Room, to record several acoustic songs, then asked him to become their vocalist. On September 17, 1996, RBBS released their 11-track debut. The result was marked as "an effective colla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republic Bashkir Boarding School
The Republic Bashkort Boarding School (RBBS) is an educational institution for gifted students aged 12–16, located in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia. History The school was founded in 1992 as Republic Bashkort-Turkish Lycee. First graduation took place in 1996. Single-gender education. Only boys are admitted to the school, though at some point three experimental girl classes were formed. They graduated in 2006 and 2007 and experiment was closed, because female department of school was not provided with separate building needed to maintain high-quality education standards, although Local Education Authority has promised to do so before. Nowadays, RBBS continues to be boys only school. Curriculum The school implements content and language integrated learning Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) is an approach for learning content through an additional language (foreign or second), thus teaching both the subject and the language. CLIL origin The term CLIL was created in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |