perdition \per-DISH-uhn\, noun:
1. A state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation.2. The future state of the wicked.3. Hell.4. Utter destruction or ruin.5. Obsolete. Loss.
Perdition stems from the Latin perditiōn- meaning destruction. It was the equivalent of perdit, the past participle of perdere meaning to do in, ruin or lose.
skeezy
- A combination of Sketchy (dubious) and sleazy(dirty or vulgar)
That middle-aged man hanging outside the high school parking lot was majorly skeezy
History
- Philadelphia: the City of Brotherly Love was founded (1682)
- Federalist Papers: the first of a series of essays was published, calling for the ratification of the US Constitution; the essays were written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay (1787)
- IRT: New York City's first rapid transit subway opened (1904) [Pictured below: The City’s mayor, George McClellan, opens the world-renowned New York City subway system. He actually drove the first passengers, charging them 5¢ to ride a line that, back then, only covered 9.1 miles of track with 28 stations. How things changed…]
- nylon: chemical company DuPont announced the name of its new synthetic fiber (1938)
- Wall Street crash: trading was halted for a cooling-off period after the Dow fell more than 500 points (1997)
- James Cook 1728
- Nicola Paganini 1782
- Theodore Roosevelt (U.S.) 1858
- Emily Post 1872
- Leif Erickson 1911
- Dylan Thomas 1914
- Teresa Wright 1918
- Nanette Fabray 1920
- Ralph Kiner (MLB) 1922
- Roy Lichtenstein 1923
- Ruby Dee 1924
- Floyd Cramer 1933
- John Cleese 1939
- Lara Parker 1942
- Lee (Melvin) Greenwood 1942
- Carrie Snodgress 1946
- Terry Anderson 1947
- Jack Daniels (Highway 101) 1949
- Garry Tallent (E Street Band) 1949
- Fran Lebowitz 1950
- Jayne Kennedy-Overton 1951
- Roberto Benigni 1952
- Peter Firth 1953
- Robert Picardo 1953
- Simon LeBon (Duran Duran) 1958
- Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots) 1967
- Sean Holland 1968
- Sheeri Rappaport 1977
- Kelly Osbourne 1984
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