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Definition: Davy Crockett |
Davy CrockettNoun1. American frontiersman and Tennessee politician who died at the siege of the Alamo (1786-1836). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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In 1834, his book was published titled: A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett. In 1835 he was again defeated for re-election: Saying, "You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas," he did just that, joining the Texas Revolution.
He took part in the Battle of the Alamo (February 23 - March 6, 1836) and for many years was believed to have gone down fighting there. Evidence has come to light since 1955 that makes it likely Crockett was one of the half dozen or so men taken prisoner after that battle and summarily executed by General (later President of Mexico) Antonio de Santa Anna.
One of his sayings, which were published in almanacs between 1835 and 1856 (along with those of Daniel Boone and Kit Carson) was, "Be always sure you are right, then go ahead." In 1954 his legend was again popularized by Walt Disney, who made four movies and a television series about him (starring Fess Parker); the Ballad of Davy Crockett and coonskin caps like the one he wore in those films were all the rage for young boys for a time. After that fad had waned, John Wayne starred as Crockett in the 1960 feature film The Alamo (the first film he also directed).
In the movies Crockett has also been played by Charles K. French (1909), Dustin Farnum (1916), Cullen Landis (1926), Jack Perrin (1937), Lane Chandler (1937), Robert Barrat (1939), George Montgomery (1950), Trevor Bardette (1953), Arthur Hunnicutt (1955), James Griffith (1956), Brian Keith (1987), Johnny Cash (1988), Tim Dunigan (1988 & 1989), David Zucker (1991), John Schneider (1995), Scott Wickware (2000), Justin Howard (2002) and Billy Bob Thornton (2003).
Davy Crockett was also the name given to a small nuclear weapon that was deployed by the U.S. during the Cold War. See: Davy Crockett (nuclear device)
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Synonyms: Davy CrockettSynonyms: Crockett (n), David Crockett (n). (additional references) |
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Lyrics | Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland (We Didn't Start The Fire; performing artist: Billy Joel) | |
Clever | Be always sure your are right, then go ahead. (references; author: Davy Crockett) Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have. (references; author: Davy Crockett) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1956) King of the Wild Frontier Davy Crockett (1954) Indian Scout Davy Crockett (1950) The Son of Davy Crockett (1941) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Davy Crockett Ward of Bog Trotters Band and his wife, Galax, Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Davy Crockett | Be always sure your are right, then go ahead. |
| Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-k-o-r-t-t-v-y" | |
-4 letters: cavorted. | |
-5 letters: cattery, cavetto, coacted, cockade, cordate, cracked, croaked, crocked, crocket, detract, keycard, overact, rackety, redcoat, rotated, toccate, tracked, troaked, trocked. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 61 76 79 43 72 6F 63 6B 65 74 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100001 01110110 01111001 00100000 01000011 01110010 01101111 01100011 01101011 01100101 01110100 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D a v y   C r o c k e t t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0061 0076 0079 0043 0072 006F 0063 006B 0065 0074 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3867889123784816977718686 |
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