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Provided by the compucert verdant \VUR-dnt\, adjective:
- Green with vegetation; covered with green growth.
- Green.
- Lacking experience or sophistication; naive.
Verdant comes from French verdoyant, present participle of verdoyer, "to be verdant, to grow green," from Old French verdoier, verdeier, from verd, vert, "green," from Latin viridis, "green," from virere, "to be green."
Facebrag - To use Facebook as a platform to brag. Normally about a job, internship, trip, purchase or anything else that nobody really needs to know but you'd like to tell everyone because you're awesome.
Sample Facebook Status: Jane Stephens is headed to London with her new iPhone for her 2nd JOB INTERVIEW!!!!! :))))
"Hey, did you see Jane's newest Facebrag? Eesh."
TriviaWhat famous 19th-century writer penned a short story about a successful search for Captain Kidd’s buried treasure?
- Edgar Allan Poe. The story, written in 1843, is “The Gold Bug.”
- Sir Thomas More: author of Utopia was beheaded for refusing to recognize Henry VIII as head of the new Church of England; More was canonized 400 years later (1535)
- Major League Baseball All-Star Game: was first played, in Chicago, as part of the 1933 World's Fair; AL over NL, 4-2 (1933)
- Anne Frank: 13-year-old diarist took refuge from the Nazis, along with her family, in the Secret Annex; they were discovered two years later and most were slaughtered (1942)
- Nancy Reagan (88): former First Lady
- Dalai Lama (74): spiritual and political leader of Tibet
- Sylvester Stallone (63): macho actor, Rocky and Rambo; also, entertainers William Schallert (87), Merv Griffin (1925-2007), Della Reese (78), Ned Beatty (72), Burt Ward (64), Fred Dryer (63), Geoffrey Rush (58), Grant Goodeve (57), Allyce Beasley (55), Tamera and Tia Mowry (both 31) and Gregory Smith (26)
- George W. Bush (63): 43rd POTUS
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