Saturday, February 26, 2022

mulct \MULKT\, noun:

1. A fine or penalty.

transitive verb:

1. To punish for an offense or misdemeanor by imposing a fine or demanding a forfeiture.
2. To obtain by fraud or deception.
3. To defraud; to swindle.

Mulct comes from Latin multa, "a fine."
 
dead cat bounce

• Investor slang; a brief recovery in the price of a falling stock. Term is derived from the idea that "even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height."

History

• Bank of England: issued the first one-pound note after the government forbade paying out from the diminished gold reserves (1797)
• Grand Canyon: the enormous gorge was established as a national park (1919); Grand Teton National Park was established on the same date in 1926
• World Trade Center: bomb in basement killed 6, injured more than 1,000 and caused serious structural damage (1993)

Birthdays

• Nicolas Joseph Cugnot 1725 - Inventor
• Victor Hugo 1802 - Author
• Honore Daumier 1808
• Levi Strauss 1829
• William "Buffalo Bill" Cody 1846 - Frontiersman, showman
• John Harvey Kellogg 1852
• Herbert Henry Dow 1866
• William Frawley 1887
• Jean Vercors 1902
• Madeleine Carroll 1906
• Jackie Gleason 1916
• Mason Adams 1919
• Tony Randall 1920
• Betty Hutton 1921
• Margaret Leighton 1922
• Fats Domino 1928 - Musician
• Johnny Cash 1932 - Musician
• Bill Duke 1943
• Paul Cotton (Poco) 1943
• Mitch Ryder 1945 - Singer
• Bob "The Bear" Hite 1945 - Musician (Canned Heat)
• Sandie Shaw (Sandra Goodrich) 1947 - Singer
• Priscilla Lopez 1948
• Jonathan Cain 1950 - Musician (Babys, Journey)
• Michael Bolton 1953 - Singer
• Greg Germann 1958 - Actor ("Ally McBeal")
• John McDaniel 1961
• John Jon 1961 - Musician (Bronski Beat)
• Jennifer Grant 1966
• Suzi Simpson 1968 - playmate from Athens, Greece (Jan, 1992)
• Erykah Badu 1971 - Singer
• Rico Wade (Society of Soul) 1972
• Marshall Faulk 1972 - Football player
  Oliver Wakeman 1972 - Keyboardist, son of Rick (YES)
• Mark DeRosa 1975 - Baseball player