September, 2013

 

The Riderless Horse in American Presidents' Funerals

While having roots in antiquity, the custom of a riderless horse participating in a funeral procession has changed dramatically since the time of an ancient legend of mourners leading a horse to a burial site, where it was slaughtered and eaten as part of a ritual.  Horses were occasionally sacrificed so that their souls could accompany their masters into the afterlife, were buried in tombs from time to time for the same purpose, and were dispatched on similar journeys to another world well into the 14th century.  Read more

  (CBS News) Gas prices continue to slide, with the price of regular unleaded gas averaging $3.45 a gallon according to AAA.  That's down six cents from last week and 36 cents from last year. 

The price drop can be attributed to a number of factors, among them, the price of crude, in addition to U.S. supply-and-demand, Tom Kloza explained from "CBS This Morning."

Kloza, chief oil analyst for GasBuddy.com, a website that reports fuel prices across the U.S. and Canada, said:  "We're getting these efforts from the President and (Iranian President Hassan Rouhani) that could put some more Iranian crude on the market, there's more Iraqui crude on the market."For more, click here

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