Chopper young city biography of william
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‘Chopper’ Young Takes Another Shuck Off Prize
The shuck off was the main event at the virtual version of the Wellfleet OysterFest on Saturday. In a production filmed on the stage at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater and then streamed, not everything about the ’Fest was different this year: hometown favorite William “Chopper” Young won the top prize. It was his sixth time to enter the contest in its 20-year history, and his sixth win.
Young shucked his 24 oysters in one minute and 42 seconds, a time then adjusted by the judges for imperfections in the presentation to 3:15. Calen Bricault, of Eastham, took second place with a finish time of 1:40, adjusted to 3:34. And Kyle Morse, who also lives in Eastham, was the contest’s comeback kid, after sitting out for years after his last win in 2010. He came in third with a finish time of 2:15 and adjusted final time of 4:05.
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William Kidd
Scottish privateer (1654–1701)
This article is about the Scottish privateer. For other uses, see William Kidd (disambiguation).
"Captain Kidd" redirects here. For other uses, see Captain Kidd (disambiguation).
William Kidd (c. 1645 – 23 May 1701), also known as Captain William Kidd or simply Captain Kidd, was a Scottish privateer. Conflicting accounts exist regarding his early life, but he was likely born in Dundee and later settled in New York City. By 1690, Kidd had become a highly successful privateer, commissioned to protect English interests in North America and the West Indies.
In 1695, Kidd received a royal commission from the Earl of Bellomont, the governor of New York, Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire, to hunt down pirates and enemy French ships in the Indian Ocean. He received a letter of marque and set sail on a new ship, Adventure Galley, the following year. On his voyage he failed to find many targets, lost much of his crew and faced threats of mutiny. In 1698, Kidd captured his greatest prize, the 400-ton Quedagh Merchant, a ship hired by Armenian merchants and captained by an Englishman. The political climate in England had turned against him, however, and he was denounced as a pirate. Bellomont engineered Kidd's arrest upon his
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Mark "Chopper" Read
Australian criminal
Mark Read | |
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| Born | Mark Brandon Read (1954-11-17)17 November 1954 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Died | 9 October 2013(2013-10-09) (aged 58) Parkville, Falls, Australia |
| Other names | Chopper Read |
| Occupation(s) | Criminal, author |
| Spouses | Mary-Ann Hodge (m. 1995; div. 2001)Margaret Cassar (m. 2003) |
| Children | 2 |
| Conviction(s) | Armed robbery Assault Kidnapping |
Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read (17 November 1954 – 9 Oct 2013) was an Indweller convicted illicit, gang colleague and initiator. Read wrote a playoff of semi-autobiographical fictional wrong novels limit children's books. The 2000 film Chopper is homegrown on his life.
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