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William Kidd
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Scottish sailor who was tried and executed for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 5
Top works
- A series of excursions by road and rail for twenty miles around Dundee
- Travels and Researches of Eminent English Missionaries
- The book of British song-birds ; and Aviary companion
- Le Silence de La Mer, Vercors
- Trial of Captain Kidd
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1983-11-26
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 89
- Total plays
- 2,761
William Kidd is a composer (and conductor) for tv-shows (most notably: "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman"), but has also worked on several movie scores already and is responsible for a significant amount of the score heared at Universal's Islands of Adventure theme park in Orland, FL. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/William+Kidd">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 62,963x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 44,835x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,556x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,947x
- Preparation of Graphitic Oxide
· 1958 · cited 28,681x
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Key facts
- Born
- c. 1645, Dundee , Angus , Kingdom of Scotland
- Died
- 23 May 1701 (1701-05-23) (aged 56), Wapping , Middlesex , Kingdom of England
- Cause of death
- Execution by hanging
- Type
- Privateer
- Allegiance
- Kingdom of England , Province of New York
- Commands
- Blessed William , Adventure Galley
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Dundee
- Place of death
- Wapping
- Occupation
- pirate
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Conflict
- Nine Years' War
- Military rank
- captain
- Image
- William Kidd.jpg
- Work location
- New York City
- Convicted of
- murder
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- date of death
- 1701-05-23
- Commons category
- William Kidd
- date of birth
- 1645-01-01
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- manner of death
- capital punishment
- cause of death
- hanging to death
- P8168
- Warreella
Sources (2)
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