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A privateer was a privately-owned ship that was given an official government letter of marque to raid enemy shipping during wartime. The term also applies to sailors on such ships. Well-known privateers included Francis Drake and Martin Frobisher, both from England. United States. During the American Revolution, privateers were used by the United States to raid British shipping. During the War of 1812, privateers were again used to raid British shipping. During the American Civil War, the Confederate States issued privateers letters of marque.
Hugo Gaston (; born 26 September 2000) is a French tennis player. The highest ATP singles ranking Gaston achieved was 1335, he achieved it on 27 November 2017. In December 2017, Gaston won the Orange Bowl International Tennis Championship.
Smilja Mučibabić (14 October 1912 – 12 August 2006) was a reputable and effective Bosnian biologist. She was among the most distinguished biologists in the former Yugoslavia in 20th century. She was born in Mostar and died in Sarajevo. She was: Biography. Smilja Mučibabić was born in Mostar, 14 September 1912, where she acquired elementary and high school education. From 1930 until 1934 she studied biology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. Mostar was then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Before the World War II she was professor in Veliko Gradište, and then in Sremski Karlovci. As a member of a group of pro-communist activists, she was arrested and taken to the German camp Jankomir near Zagreb, and later to the prison on the Savska cesta where she was detained until the end of the war 1945. In the first after the war days, Smilja Mučibabić returned to Krapina and worked in a high school until the end of the school 1945/1946 . She was transferred to the Teacher School in Mostar. The following year, as an experienced professional,she was appointed director of this gymnasium. Her successful management of the Gymnasium and her care for the improvement of teaching was noted, and she got numerous awards and prizes. In autumn 1949 she became professor Higher Pedagogical School in Sarajevo. She worked there until the founding of the Department of Biology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo (1954). Then she was sent to the Zoological Institute of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Beograd. For two years she worked for the opening and launching of the newly established Chair for biology in Sarajevo. She got a British Council scholarship to the University of Cambridge. for two years, She worked on a PhD doctoral dissertation in the protozoological ecology. Smilja Mučibabić was exceptionally allowed to defending doctoral thesis after two years.
A shill may also be called a 'plant' or a stooge. They are people, usually paid, who promote something. They pretend to be independent. Shills publicly help or give credibility to a person or organization with which they have a private relationship. Shills operate in media, journalism, marketing, confidence games, or other businesses. A shill may also discredit opponents or critics of their client by character assassination or other means. Usually, "shill" refers to someone who purposely gives onlookers, or "marks", the impression of an enthusiastic customer. They pretend independence of the seller, marketer or "con artist", for whom they are secretly working.  The shill works for "the man" who does the tricks to extract money from the onlookers. The tricks can be as basic as a street three-shell game, or as complex as a massive stock exchange fraud. All it takes is someone who looks like a fellow player to show big appreciation of the seller's product. The shill and his client ("the man") rely on crowd psychology to encourage other onlookers or audience members to do business with the seller or accept the ideas they are promoting. With a big audience, such as a magician's show or a political rally, people are often placed in the audience. Then the shill is called a plant or stooge. What the shill does is similar or identical to what advertising and public relations do. However, it is more obvious that the latter have a vested interest because everyone knows they are being paid for their work. Another place for shilling is auctions.
Samy Sayed Mekkay Saied Morsy (; born 10 September 1991) is a professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for club Ipswich Town, whom he captains. Born in England, he plays for the Egypt national team. Honours. Port Vale Chesterfield Wigan Athletic Ipswich Town Individual
Croton-on-Hudson is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 8,327 at the 2020 census. It is in the town of Cortlandt as part of New York City's northern suburbs. The village was incorporated in 1898. Croton-on-Hudson is the original home of the Hudson Institute, a key Cold War think tank where the justification for nuclear war was developed.
The 1980 Kalamazoo tornado was a natural disaster in Michigan in the United States on May 13, 1980. Synopsis. Tuesday, May 13, 1980 began with temperatures in the upper 50s with fog. By 3:00 p.m., A warm front lifted north of the city, and thunderstorms began developing later that afternoon. By 3:30 p.m., A thunderstorm rapidly intensified, so the National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning.  The first tornado began around 3:40 p.m. and dissipated at 3:50 p.m. The first tornado did not cause any deaths but injured 25 people. Shortly after the first tornado dissipated, a supercell thunderstorm caused a new tornado to form as it was moving into Kalamazoo. The first images were captured by two news reporters in the city, where shortly thereafter caused its first fatality. As the tornado moved into downtown, an employee at a local electronics store captured it. The tornado could be seen moving southeast, damaging homes and uprooting trees as it moved into downtown. As the employee ran to the basement, the tornado killed three more people, two at Gilmore's Apartment Store and a motorcyclist struck by a falling tree. The tornado killed one more person in Constock Township before dissipating. This tornado was responsible for 5 deaths and 79 injuries, and $50,000,000 worth of property damage. It also left 1,200 without homes.
Poldy Bird (16 December 1941 – 1 June 2018) was an Argentinian writer and poet. She made poems and collaborations in several newspapers of Argentina and the world. She was born in Paraná, in the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina. She was raised in Buenos Aires. Among her most famous texts are "Cuentos para Verónica" (in honor of her first daughter), "Cuentos para leer sin rimel", "Nuevos cuentos para Verónica" and "Cuentos con niebla". Bird died at her home in Buenos Aires on 1 June 2018 at the age of 76.
Jill Ker Conway OA (9 October 1934 – 1 June 2018) was an Australian-American author. She was born in Hillston, New South Wales. Conway was known for her autobiographies, in particular her first memoir, "The Road from Coorain". She was also Smith College's first female president, from 1975 to 1985, and served as a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2004 she was designated a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project. In 2013, she received a 2012 National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama. Conway died on 1 June 2018 at her home in Boston, Massachusetts at the age of 83.
Hilmar Hoffmann (25 August 1925 – 1 June 2018) was a German cultural and movie historian. He was born in Bremen, Germany. Between 1970 and 1990 he was a City Councillor in Frankfurt am Main, and initiated the promotion of free groups in urban culture. From 1993 to 2001 he was president of the Goethe-Institut (Munich). He taught movie theory and cultural politics at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Hoffmann died in Frankfurt, Germany on 1 June 2018 of a stroke at the age of 92.
Andrée Lachapelle OC, CQ (November 13, 1931 – November 21, 2019) was a Canadian actress. She was born in Montreal, Quebec. She was known for her roles in "Léolo", "Cap Tourmente", "Route 132", "The Last Escape" and "Don't Let the Angels Fall". In 1985, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1997, she was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec. On November 21, 2019, Lachapelle, who had cancer, died by assisted suicide at a Montreal hospital. She was 88 years old.
is a national university specialized in the social sciences in Tokyo, Japan. The university has campuses in Kunitachi, Kodaira, and Kanda. Hitotsubashi is one of the top universities in Japan. It is very strong in economics and commerce related subjects. The university has strong international relationships. It has academic exchange agreements with 83 universities and research institutions, including University of Chicago, the University of Oxford and the University of California. Faculties and graduate schools. Hitotsubashi University has about 4,500 undergraduate students and 2,100 postgraduate students. There are about 630 faculty members. Graduate programs. Parentheses show how many students enter in a year. Entrance exams. Hitotsubashi University is a very hard school to enter. So there are many textbooks for their entrance exams. One Japanese publisher has made a 15-year collection of their English tests. Another publisher made a 50-year collection of their Mathematics exam.
is a Japanese economist and professor at University of Tokyo. Career. Kitao was born on 1972 , in Saitama, Japan. She graduated from Waseda University in 1996. She worked for Goldman Sachs for several years. She earned a M.P.A./I.D. (Master in Public Administration/International Development) from Harvard Kennedy School in 2001. She received a Ph.D. from New York University in 2007. Kitao was an assistant professor at University of Southern California (2007-2009). Next, she was an associate professor at City University of New York (2011-2015). She is now a professor at University of Tokyo. She won the Nakahara Prize for young Japanese economists in 2016. She is the first woman to win the prize.
Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt (15 June 1928 – 2 June 2018) was an Austrian ethologist. He was the founder of the field of human ethology. In authoring the book which bears that title, he applied ethology to humans by studying them in a perspective more common to volumes studying animal behavior. He was born in Vienna. In 1970 he became Professor for Zoology at the University of Munich. From 1975 to 2018, he was the head of the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology, Department of Human Ethology in Andechs, Germany. He was the co-founder and first president of the International Society for Human Ethology. From 1992 until his death, he was Honorary Director of the Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Urban Ethology in Vienna. For many years he dived with Hans Hass on his diving boat "Xarifa". Eibl-Eibesfeldt died on 2 June 2018 in Vienna at the age of 89.
Life of the Party is a 2018 American comedy movie directed by Ben Falcone and written by Falcone and Melissa McCarthy. It is the third movie directed by Falcone and co-written by the pair, following "Tammy" (2014) and "The Boss" (2016).  The movie, starring McCarthy, Molly Gordon, Gillian Jacobs, Maya Rudolph, Julie Bowen, Matt Walsh, Debby Ryan, Adria Arjona, Jessie Ennis, Stephen Root, and Jacki Weaver. It is about a newly divorced mother who returns to college to complete her degree, and ends up bonding with her daughter's friends. It is produced by On the Day Productions and New Line Cinema. The movie was released on May 11, 2018, by Warner Bros. Pictures. It has made $49 million worldwide and received mixed reviews from critics.
Gillian MacLaren Jacobs (; born October 19, 1982) is an American actress. She is known for playing Britta Perry on the NBC/Yahoo! Screen comedy series "Community", Mickey Dobbs on the Netflix series "Love", and "The Powerpuff Girls". She also starred in the HBO television show "Girls". She appeared in many movies such as "Gardens of the Night" (2008), "The Lookalike" (2014), "Life Partners" (2014), "Hot Tub Time Machine 2" (2015), "Don't Think Twice" (2016), "Brother Nature" (2016), "Life of the Party" (2018) and "Ibiza" (2018).
Keeping Up with the Joneses is a 2016 American action comedy movie directed by Greg Mottola and written by Michael LeSieur. It stars Zach Galifianakis, Jon Hamm, Isla Fisher and Gal Gadot.  The movie is about a suburban couple (Galifianakis and Fisher) who begin to suspect their new neighbors (Hamm and Gadot) are secret agents. The movie was released on October 21, 2016 by 20th Century Fox, received got negative reviews and was a box office bomb, grossing $29 million against its $40 million budget.
Masterminds is a 2016 American comedy movie which is based on the October 1997 Loomis Fargo Robbery in North Carolina. It is directed by Jared Hess and written by Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer and Emily Spivey. It stars Zach Galifianakis, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones and Jason Sudeikis. It premiered in Los Angeles on September 26, 2016 and was theatrically released in the United States on September 30, 2016, by Relativity Media. The movie received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $30 million.
Adria Arjona Torres (born April 25, 1992) is an American-Guatemalan actress. She is best known for her role as Emily in the HBO television series "True Detective" (2015) and as Dani Silva in two episodes of the CBS television series "Person of Interest" (2014, 2015). In 2018, she starred as Amanda in "Life of the Party". She also voices Ramirez in the video game "Fortnite".
The Boss is a 2016 American comedy movie directed by Ben Falcone and written by Falcone, Melissa McCarthy and Steve Mallory. The movie stars McCarthy, Kristen Bell, Ella Anderson, Tyler Labine, Kathy Bates, Annie Mumolo, Timothy Simons, and Peter Dinklage. The movie is about a wealthy woman who, after being arrested and losing her fortune, uses her assistant's daughter's Dandelion Girls cookie sales to return to the top. The movie was released on April 8, 2016, by Universal Pictures. It made $78 million worldwide.
Benjamin Scott Falcone (born August 25, 1973) is an American actor, comedian and movie director. He is married to actress Melissa McCarthy, with whom he has two children.  Falcone appeared in small roles of McCarthy's movies "Bridesmaids", "Identity Thief", "The Heat", and Life of the Party and co-starred in "What to Expect When You're Expecting" and "Enough Said".  Falcone made his directorial debut in 2014 with "Tammy". He would go on to direct "The Boss" and "Life of the Party", all of which starred McCarthy.
Bridesmaids is a 2011 American comedy movie directed by Paul Feig, written by Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig, and produced by Judd Apatow, Barry Mendel, and Clayton Townsend.  The plot is about Annie (Wiig), who suffers a series of misfortunes after being asked to serve as maid of honor for her best friend, Lillian, played by Maya Rudolph. Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Ellie Kemper, and Wendi McLendon-Covey co-star as Lillian's bridesmaids, with Chris O'Dowd, Rebel Wilson, Matt Lucas, Michael Hitchcock, Jon Hamm, and Jill Clayburgh, in her final movie role, in supporting roles. Upon its opening release in the United States and Canada on May 13, 2011, "Bridesmaids" was both critically and commercially successful. The movie made $26 million in its opening weekend, eventually made over $288 million worldwide. After the movie was made, many other women-only comedies were made due to the success. The movie was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. On January 24, 2012, the movie was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Melissa McCarthy and Best Original Screenplay for Wiig and Mumolo.