On the day in late December that St. Louis crossed the threshold to its 200th homicide, a horrific slaying still managed to horrify even the most jaded observers. Three young women were gunned down in a car in the Fairgrounds neighborhood around 3 a.m., apparently after an intruder broke into their home.
Mort is a character in the Madagascar series. Mort has light brown and beige fur, big yellow eyes, a round head, a little black nose, long whiskers, mouse-like ears, buck teeth, and a long, squirrel-like, bushy tail. Mort usually serves as a foil for King Julien.
La petite mort (French pronunciation: [la pÉtit mÉÊ], the little death) is an expression which means the brief loss or weakening of consciousness and in modern usage refers specifically to the sensation of orgasm as likened to death. The first attested use of the expression in English was in 1572 with the meaning of fainting fit.