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[gwydion]

* ‘Let’s say I married John Boehner...’:

* Echoes of Confederacy seen in tea party:

* The first African in America was a free man: http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-first-african-in-america-was-a-free-man-56074307864

* "Textbook publishers ignoring Texas school board's inane interventions:" http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/10/textbook-publishers-ignoring-texas-school-boards-inane-interventions/

* "Meeting Set On Iraq Veteran's SpongeBob Gravestone:" http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meeting-set-on-iraq-veteran-s-spongebob-gravestone

* "Skull of Homo erectus throws story of human evolution into disarray:" http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/17/skull-homo-erectus-human-evolution

A haul of fossils found in Georgia suggests that half a dozen species of early human ancestor were actually all Homo erectus.

* "World's only surviving Bronze Age metropolis in Pakistan faces ruin:" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/archaeology/10357899/Worlds-only-surviving-Bronze-Age-metropolis-in-Pakistan-faces-ruin.html

* "English 'beat French to frogs legs':" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-24522240

* "Pre-Viking Age monuments uncovered in Sweden:" http://phys.org/news/2013-10-pre-viking-age-monuments-uncovered-sweden.html

* "Prosperous Vikings whitewashed their walls:" http://sciencenordic.com/prosperous-vikings-whitewashed-their-walls

* "New twist in mystery of lead coffin found near Richard III’s grave:" http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/New-twist-mystery-lead-coffin-near-Richard-III/story-19946113-detail/story.html#axzz2iBI92tnN

* "300-year-old body was perfectly preserved until its coffin was opened:" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2460931/The-Chinese-mummy-aged-300-years-day-Experts-baffled-perfectly-preserved-body-turned-BLACK-just-hours-coffin-opened.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

* "The Enchanting Sea Monsters on Medieval Maps:" http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/artscience/2013/10/the-enchanting-sea-monsters-on-medieval-maps/

* "Lost Kings: DNA Fails to Illuminate Royal Mystery:" http://www.livescience.com/40367-french-king-dna-mystery.html

Facial reconstruction is not replicable and therefore not proof and it sounds like they botched the forensics, so I'm siding with Cassiman.

* "Frenchmen and landlubbers: the battlers of Trafalgar:" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/10375148/Frenchmen-and-landlubbers-the-battlers-of-Trafalgar.html

* "The Selective Amnesia of Postwar Europe:" http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/10/the-selective-amnesia-of-postwar-europe/280789/

* "Konyale Madden, RIP:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/10/konyale-madden-rip.html

* Help support a gay friendly game moving into beta: http://moacube.com/games/solstice/

* A Nightmare on Wall Street:

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* Suppressing the Vote:

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* Game of Thrones Dance:

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