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Provided by the compucert indurate \IN-dur-it; -dyur-\, adjective:
1. Physically or morally hardened; unfeeling; stubborn.
2. To make hard; to harden.
3. To harden against; to make hardy; to habituate.
4. To make hardened; to make callous or stubborn.
5. To establish; to fix firmly.
6. To grow hard; to harden.
7. To become established or fixed.
Urban Word of the Day
August 21, 2007: feenhttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=feen&defid=1207005
- When you think about something 24/7 and you cant get it off your mind, like craving drugs.
Trivia
What was the first soda sold in the U.S.?
- Ginger ale. Created and first sold by druggist James Vernor in his Detroit drugstore in 1866, it was called Vernor’s ginger ale.
Today in History
- Lincoln-Douglas debates: began in Illinois Senate race; slavery and states' rights were the main issues (1858)
- Mona Lisa: quizzical Leonardo da Vinci painting was stolen from the Louvre by Italian waiter Vincenzo Peruggia (1911)
- Leon Trotsky: Soviet revolutionary died of wounds inflicted by a Stalinist assassin with an ice axe (1940)
- Hawaii: island group became 50th US state (1959)
Today's Birthdays
- Kim Cattrall (51), Carrie-Anne Moss (37), Alicia Witt (32), Hayden Panettiere (18): actresses
- Wilt Chamberlain (1936-1999): basketball star who holds record for most points (100) in one game
- Liam Howlett (36): musician, The Prodigy
- Alizée (23): French pop singer
- Kenny Rogers (69): Singer
- Serj Tankian (40): Singer of System of a Down
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