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Veritas (P.O.D. album)
Veritas is the eleventh studio album by San Diego nu metal band P.O.D., released May 3, 2024 on Mascot Records, their first since Circles (2018), first without drummer Wuv Bernardo, produced by The Heavy with guests Randy Blythe, Tatiana Shmayluk, and Cove Reber.
Verity (novel)
Verity (2018) is Colleen Hoover's self-published psychological thriller about ghostwriter Lowen Ashleigh, hired by Jeremy Crawford to finish his paralyzed wife Verity's series, who finds her secret autobiography So Be It; a BookTok bestseller adapted into a 2026 film.
Verka Serduchka (Вєрка Сердючка)
Verka Serduchka (Вєрка Сердючка) is a comic drag persona, a surzhyk-speaking train attendant created and performed by Ukrainian entertainer Andriy Danylko since the early 1990s, who placed second at Eurovision 2007 with Dancing Lasha Tumbai and still tours internationally.
Verlibre
Verlibre (верлибр; from French vers libre), also called free verse, is verse without regular meter or rhyme, differing from prose only by its division into lines.
Vermeil in Gold
Vermeil in Gold (Kinsō no Vermeil) is a Japanese fantasy manga by Kouta Amana and Youko Umezu, serialized from 2018, about a failing student who summons a demon familiar.
Vermicelli
Vermicelli, also known as Siwayan, is the name for very thin noodle or pasta strands, covering Italian wheat pasta, Asian rice vermicelli, and starch glass noodles.
Vermiglio (film)
Vermiglio is a 2024 Italian-French-Belgian historical drama directed by Maura Delpero, set in 1944 in a Trentino Alpine village. It won the Venice Silver Lion, was Italy's 2025 Oscar submission, and won the David di Donatello for Best Film.
Vermouth
Vermouth: aromatized fortified wine named for German Wermut (wormwood), first marketed by Carpano in Turin, 1786. Sweet (Italian, 90-130 g/l sugar) and dry (French, under 50 g/l) styles; 16-18% abv; key to Martinis, Manhattans, Negronis.
Verna Felton
Verna Felton (1890–1966), American character actress and Disney voice artist: Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, Queen of Hearts, Aunt Sarah, Flora, Dumbo's Mrs. Jumbo; also Hilda Crocker on December Bride and Pearl Slaghoople on The Flintstones.
Vernacular tradition in African American literature
The vernacular tradition in African American literature is the oral body of spirituals, sermons, folktales, blues, jazz, and hip-hop that scholars treat as the foundation of Black written literature.
Vernatun
Vernatun (Armenian: Վերնատուն, "the garret") was an Armenian literary society, founded by Hovhannes Tumanyan in Tiflis in 1899, that met in his attic apartment until 1908 and preceded the Caucasian Society of Armenian Writers.
Verne Troyer
Verne Troyer (1969–2018), American actor and stuntman, 2 ft 8 in (81 cm), played Mini-Me in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Goldmember; began as a baby stunt double in Baby's Day Out; died by suicide via alcohol intoxication.
Vernee Watson-Johnson
Vernee Watson-Johnson (born Vernee Christell Watson, 1949) is an American character actress and voice artist known for Vernajean on Welcome Back Kotter, Vy Smith on Fresh Prince, and Emmy-winning Stella Henry on General Hospital.
Verner Panton
Verner Panton (1926–1998) was a Danish architect and designer, best known for the Panton Chair, the first cantilevered chair made from a single piece of injection-molded plastic.
Verner von Heidenstam
Verner von Heidenstam (1859–1940) was a Swedish poet and prose writer who led the literary reaction against naturalism in Sweden and received the 1916 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Vernon (최한솔) (rapper)
Vernon (최한솔, Hansol Vernon Chwe, born 1998) is an American-South Korean rapper in SEVENTEEN's hip-hop unit, solo artist behind Black Eye and I'll Be Back, and V8 member with THE 8.
Vernon Chatman
Vernon Chatman (born 1972, Brooklyn) is an Emmy-winning American TV writer, producer, and voice actor; South Park staff writer since 2001 and voice of Towelie; PFFR co-creator of Wonder Showzen, Xavier: Renegade Angel, The Heart, She Holler, and The Shivering Truth; 18 Emmy nominations, 5 wins.
Vernon Kay
Vernon Kay (born 1974, Bolton) is an English TV presenter and radio broadcaster, ex-T4 host, All Star Family Fortunes presenter 2006-2015, and BBC Radio 2 mid-morning host since May 2023, replacing Ken Bruce; married to Tess Daly 2003-2026.
Vernon Lee
Vernon Lee was the pen name of Violet Paget (1856–1935), a British-born writer raised in France and Italy known for essays on aesthetics and supernatural stories.
Vernon Reid
Vernon Reid (born 1958, London) is a guitarist and composer, founder of Living Colour and co-founder of the Black Rock Coalition; two-time Grammy winner, Rolling Stone #66 guitarist, solo albums Mistaken Identity and Hoodoo Telemetry.
Vernon Wells (actor)
Vernon George Wells (born 1945, Rushworth, Victoria) is an Australian character actor famous for villains: Wez in Mad Max 2, Bennett in Commando, Mr. Igoe in Innerspace, and Ransik in Power Rangers Time Force.
Vernor Vinge
Vernor Vinge (1944–2024), American science fiction writer and San Diego State mathematics professor, won three Best Novel Hugos and coined the technological Singularity in his 1993 essay 'The Coming Technological Singularity.'
Veroli Casket
The Veroli Casket is a 10th-century Byzantine ivory and bone casket carved in Constantinople, named after Veroli, Italy, and now held in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Verónica (2017 Spanish film)
Verónica (2017) is a Spanish supernatural horror film by Paco Plaza, starring Sandra Escacena, about a teen's Ouija séance during the 1991 Madrid solar eclipse; inspired by the expediente Vallecas, it won the Goya for Best Sound. Not the Mexican film of the same name.
Veronica Cartwright
Veronica Cartwright, born 1949 in Bristol, England, is a British-born American character actress of The Birds, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Alien, where she played Joan Lambert after reading for Ripley, with an Emmy win and a Saturn Award.
Verónica Castro
Verónica Castro (born 1952, Mexico City) is a Mexican actress, singer, and television host, star of Los ricos también lloran and Rosa Salvaje, UNAM international-relations graduate, mother of Cristian Castro.
Veronica Cooper
Veronica Cooper (Veronica Balfe, screen name Sandra Shaw, later Veronica Cooper Converse, 1913–2000), American actress of 1933 shorts and wife of Gary Cooper from December 15, 1933 until his 1961 death; later married Dr. John Converse.
Veronica De Laurentiis
Veronica De Laurentiis, born 1950 in Rome, is an Italian actress, author, and anti-violence advocate, eldest daughter of Dino De Laurentiis and Silvana Mangano, debut in Waterloo (1970), author of Rivoglio la mia vita (2006), mother of Giada De Laurentiis.
Veronica Electronica
Veronica Electronica is Madonna's remix album companion to Ray of Light (1998), also considered as an album title at the time. Conceived 1998, shelved, released July 25, 2025 on Warner Records with remixes by Sasha, BT, Orbit, Rauhofer, Calderone and the demo Gone, Gone, Gone.
Veronica Franco
Veronica Franco (1546-1591), Venetian cortigiana onesta and poet, author of Terze rime (1575) and Lettere familiari a diversi (1580), member of Domenico Venier's circle, tried by the Inquisition in 1580, later a proto-feminist icon.