Cracker may refer to:

Cracker (food), a type of biscuit, usually salted or savory

Cracker (mountain), a mountain peak in Glacier National Park, Montana

* Cracker (benchmark), its benchmark summit

Christmas cracker, traditional British Christmas toy or decoration which gives a loud 'crack' when opened

Atlanta Crackers, an American baseball team from Atlanta, Georgia

Cracker (pejorative), a slang, sometimes abusive term for a Southern white person

* Florida cracker, a Florida native descended from early pioneer settlers

* Georgia cracker, a Georgia native descended from early pioneer settlers

''Hamadryas'' (butterfly), a genus of brush-footed butterflies commonly called the Crackers, Calicoes, or Clicks

Equipment for cracking (chemistry), which breaks down complex organic molecules into simpler molecules

Sacramental bread in the form of a wafer

Cracker, a short length of twisted twine or string attached to the end of a whip to produce a cracking sound

Firecracker, a small explosive device primarily designed to produce a loud noise

A person who performs safe-cracking

Atlanta Black Crackers, a professional baseball team which played in the Negro League

Operation Crackers, a British Commando raid during the Second World War

In computing[link]

A hacker (computer security), one who finds and exploits weaknesses in a computer or network

A person who uses software cracking to modify a program, usually to remove protection which limits its use

A person who uses password cracking to recover passwords from data stored in or transmitted by a computer system

In entertainment[link]

Cracker (band), a rock music band

* ''Cracker'' (album), their first album

Cracker (comics), a British children's comic

''Cracker'' (UK TV series), a television crime drama series

''Cracker'' (U.S. TV series), the U.S. remake of the British television series

''Crackers'' (1984 film), an American film starring Sean Penn

''Crackers'' (1998 film), an Australian film

''Crackers'' (2011 film), a Bollywood film

The Crackers, a 1968 pseudonym of the band The Merseybeats

Sonic Crackers, an April 1994 prototype version of what would become Knuckles' Chaotix

Crackers (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends)

Crackers International, an EP released by Erasure in 1988, in between the albums ''The Innocents'' and ''Wild!''

Crackers (Captain Underpants), comic book character

''Crackers – The Christmas Party Album'', an album by the British glam rock band Slade

See also[link]

Crack (disambiguation)

Cracking (disambiguation)

Crackerjack (disambiguation)

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name	David Lowery
background	solo_singer
birth date	September 10, 1960
Birth place	San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
instrument	VocalsGuitar
genre	Alternative rock
years active	1983–present
label	Savoy/429
associated acts	Camper Van Beethoven, Cracker
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David Lowery (born September 10, 1960) is an American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter; he is the founder of alternative rock band, Camper Van Beethoven, and co-founder of the more traditional rock band, Cracker. Lowery released his first solo record, ''The Palace Guards'', on February 2, 2011 via the 429 Records label.

Lowery was born in San Antonio, Texas, the son of a career Air Force father. His family moved around a great deal during his youth before finally settling in Redlands, California, where he attended high school. Lowery formed Camper Van Beethoven in Santa Cruz, California. The band is best known for their cover of the Status Quo song "Pictures of Matchstick Men" from the ''Key Lime Pie'' LP and their original composition "Take the Skinheads Bowling" from the band's 1985 debut LP, ''Telephone Free Landslide Victory'', later featured in the Michael Moore movie ''Bowling for Columbine''.

In the early 1990s, Lowery formed Cracker with guitarist and long-time friend Johnny Hickman, and bassist Davey Faragher. Cracker rejected the indie-rock sound of Camper Van Beethoven in favor of a more traditional, roots rock sound. Cracker's biggest hits were "Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)" from its eponymous LP released in 1992, and "Low" from 1993's ''Kerosene Hat''. Cracker continues to perform today, although Lowery has also re-formed Camper Van Beethoven, which released a cover of the entire Fleetwood Mac album ''Tusk'' in 2002 and a new album of original music, ''New Roman Times'' in 2004. Cracker was still touring throughout the USA during the summer of 2009, Camper Van Beethoven followed with several California shows in September, and early 2010 saw a double bill with both bands together.

Lowery has also done work as a producer at Sound of Music Studios in Richmond, Virginia, working on records by Sparklehorse, Counting Crows, Lauren Hoffman, September 67, Wormburner, L.P.(iamlp.com), Tea Leaf Green, and others. David, along with Ian Solla-Yates of WNRN started RadioVA with Sound of Music in May 2010, an interview program hosted by David that has featured The Hold Steady, Drive-By Truckers, Minus the Bear and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.

On September 13, 2010, David married Velena Vego. Vego has been the manager for both Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven since 2004. She is also the Talent Buyer of the 40 Watt Club in Athens, GA and Buckhead Theatre in Atlanta, GA. Additionally, he is now a lecturer in the University of Georgia's music business program.

References[link]

External links [link]

David Lowery's "300 Songs" Blog

RadioVA

David Lowery's personal blog and music collection at MOG.com

David Lowery collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive

Cracker collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive

PopGurls Interview: David Lowery

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name	Johnny Hickman
background	solo_singer
birth date	September 10, 1956Redlands, CA, U.S.
instrument	VocalsGuitar
genre	Alternative rock
years active	1978 - present
label	Campstove Records
associated acts	Cracker
website	JohnnyHickman.com
notable instruments	1978 Les Paul Guitar }}

Johnny Hickman (born September 10, 1956) is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist in the rock band Cracker.

Hickman is a native of Redlands in San Bernardino County in California's Inland Empire. Prior to his tenure in Cracker, Hickman had stints in various California bands including The Unforgiven and The Dangers. In the early 1990s, he co-founded Cracker with childhood friend, David Lowery. His often imitated signature sound, influenced by punk rock, surf guitar and "Bakersfield Country" sound, is played on a 1978 Les Paul guitar.

In addition to his role with Cracker, Hickman engages in solo work and various side projects such as the Hickman-Dalton Gang (a collaboration with Jim Dalton of Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers, formerly with The Railbenders), All Thumbs Trio (with Chuck Garvey and Gibb Droll) and Crazysloth, an Arizona-based band. He has one full film score to his credit (River Red (1998)), and several of the songs that he has co-written with David Lowery have been used in films.

In 2005, Hickman released his first solo album, ''Palmhenge''.

Filmography[link]

1994 ''The Cowboy Way'' - writer: "Blue Danube Blues"

1995 ''White Man's Burden'' - writer: "How Can I Live Without You"

1996 ''The Cable Guy'' - writer: "Get Outta My Head"

1998 ''Origin of the Species'' - writer: "I Hate My Generation"

1998 ''River Red'' - composer

References[link]

External links[link]

Johnny Hickman's official site

Johnny Hickman's "Road" Blog

Cracker's official site

River Red (1998)

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Fineday or Kamiokisihkwew (born ca. 1852 – unknown; but after 1935) was a Cree war chief of the River People band of Plains Cree. He participated in the North-West Rebellion of 1885 (notably the battle of Cut Knife). Described by a contemporary as "brave in all things," he was a skilled warrior, hunter, trapper and (in later life) a powerful shaman.

Fineday's memories of the North West rebellion were published by the Canadian North-West Historical Society in 1926.

David G. Mandelbaum, in the introduction to his extensive study of the Plains Cree cites Fineday as his principal informant.

References [link]

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Johann van Beethoven (14 November 1740 – 18 December 1792) was a German musician, teacher, and singer who sang in the chapel of the Archbishop of Cologne, whose court was at Bonn. He is best known as the father of the celebrated composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827). Bonn was the place of his birth and death.

Life [link]

Johann van Beethoven was the son of Ludwig (Lodewijk) van Beethoven (1712 in Mechelen – 1773 in Bonn) and Maria Josepha Ball (married 1733). His father was probably born in or near the Brabantian town of Mechelen (now in Flanders, Belgium), and had served as a musician in several communities in Flanders before moving to Bonn in 1733. There he served as a musician at the court of Prince-Archbishop-Elector of Cologne Clemens August of Bavaria, rising to the post of Kapellmeister in 1761. Johann also showed musical talent, and joined the court, primarily as a singer, in 1764. In addition to singing (his range, while usually described as that of a tenor, may have extended into alto and even higher registers), he played the violin and zither, and played and taught keyboard instruments of the day, including the harpsichord and the clavichord.

He probably met his future wife, Maria Magdalena Keverich (1746–1787), on a trip to Ehrenbreitstein. She was the daughter of the head chef to the Archbishop of Trier, whose court was there, and she had family connections in the court orchestra at Bonn. Already widowed at the age of nineteen, she and Johann were married on 12 November 1767 in the Catholic St. Remigius church, Bonn. Their first child, Ludwig Maria, was born in early April 1769, and died several days later. On about 16 December 1770 their second son was born; he was baptised Ludwig, after his grandfather, the next day. They had two more children that survived to adulthood, Karl (1774–1815) and Johann (1776–1848).

Johann realized Ludwig's talent and became his first teacher. It is said that Johann was a violent father when it came to his son's playing. Whenever Ludwig played poorly, Johann would exclaim that it was an embarrassment to the family. Johann was an alcoholic, a situation that worsened when Maria died in 1787, after which time the family was increasingly dependent on young Ludwig for support. In 1789 the 18-year-old Ludwig obtained an order resulting in one half of Johann's pay being turned over to him for support of the family.

Johann died in 1792, not long after Ludwig moved to Vienna to study with Joseph Haydn. His employer the Elector wrote sardonically to a friend, "The revenues from the liquor excise [tax] have suffered a loss in the death of Beethoven."

Flemish ancestry [link]

Despite his surname, Johann van Beethoven was only one half Flemish; his father Lodewijk was the last van Beethoven to be fully Flemish. Most of van Beethoven's most recent family came from what is now Germany, mostly the Rhineland Palatine area. Johann's son Ludwig is considered to be German, and people occasionally spell his name as ''von Beethoven'', which is incorrect.

The Nazis were especially interested in Beethoven's background: "After making sure that Beethoven had no suspicious racial or national tinge of the non-Germanic in his background (clear evidence of his Flemish ancestry was denied in a series of articles), the masters of the Nazi propaganda and cultural machinery promoted his works as the essence of Germanic and Aryan strength".

Descendants [link]

Johann's famous son Ludwig van Beethoven never married. Johann's second son Karl did have children, but none of his living descendants bears the name van Beethoven (the last to bear that name, Karl Julius Maria van Beethoven, died in 1917).

Notes [link]

References[link]

MacArdle, Donald W. (1949) The Family van Beethoven. ''The Musical Quarterly'' 35:528-550.

External links [link]

Descendants of Michael van BEETHOVEN (1684-1749)

Ludwig Van Beethoven: Family Tree

"The 'Van' of Beethoven" by Herbert Antcliffe in ''The Musical Times'', Vol. 77, No. 1117 (Mar., 1936), pp. 254–255 - Article explains how "A certain Ludwig (Lodewijk) van Beethoven was born at Mechelen as the son of Michiel and the grandson of Cornelius and of Catherina Leempoels..."

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