Veracity
Veracity may refer to: * ''Veracity'' (album), a 2008 album by Evacuate Chicago * Veracity (ethics), an ethical principle * ''Veracity'' (novel), a 2010 novel by Laura Bynum * Veracity, an automobile from the early 1900s built by the Smith Automobile Company The Smith Automobile Company of Topeka, Kansas was an early United States automobile manufacturing company which produced the Veracity, Smith, and Great Smith lines of automobiles from 1902 to 1911. They were the first automobiles made west of the ...

Veracity (novel)
''Veracity'' is a 2010 speculative fiction novel written by American author Laura Bynum. Plot summary ''Veracity'' takes place in 2045. Harper Abigail Adams, a psychic, works for a totalitarian government called The Confederation of the Willing. In 2012, when she was six years old, a fake vaccine, distributed during what the soon-to-be Confederation claimed to be a pandemic, killed half the country's population. The regime that arose in the wake of the attack controlled the remaining population with a brutal police force called the Blue Coats, government-sanctioned drugs and prostitution, and language restriction. Citizens are required to have a prosthetic device, called a "slate," installed in their necks. The slate monitors citizens' geographic location and activities, as well as the words they speak. The Confederation maintains a list of "red-listed" words, including "America" and "revolution." Speaking one of them triggers an electric shock by the device and summons the polic ...
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Veracity (album)
''Veracity'' is the only studio album released by Evacuate Chicago, the serious persona of comedy metal band Psychostick. The album features Psychostick's brand of metal/hardcore without their usual humor, and instead a much more serious tone. On September 17, 2009, Preiss announced on the band's MySpace that the album would be released January 12, 2010 through Rock Ridge Music Rock Ridge Music is an independent record label and artist management company based in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 2004, it has signed, managed, and/or promoted artists including Reel Big Fish, Sister Hazel, Rachel Platten, Matthew Perryman .... It was later changed to January 26. History The album has been in the works since 2004, and was originally planned to be called ''The Damage Has Been Done.'' The band recorded a demo of "Deny" in 2004 that was available for play on the band's various websites. Drummer Alex Preiss told Songfacts that it was the first song he ever wrote. In an interview ...
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Veracity (ethics)
Honesty or truthfulness is a facet of moral character that connotes positive and virtue, virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, straightforwardness, including straightforwardness of conduct, along with the absence of lying, cheating, theft, etc. Honesty also involves being trustworthy, Loyalty, loyal, wikt:fair#Adjective, fair, and Sincerity, sincere. Honesty is valued in many ethnic and religious cultures. "Honesty is the best policy" is a proverb of Edwin Sandys (died 1629), while the quote "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom" is attributed to Thomas Jefferson, as used in a letter to Nathaniel Macon. April 30 is national Honesty Day in the United States. William Shakespeare famously described honesty as an attribute people leave behind when he wrote that "no legacy is so rich as honesty" in act 3, scene 5 of "All's Well that Ends Well."William ShakespeareAll's Well That Ends WellMIT Shakespeare. Others have noted, however, that "too much honesty m ...
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