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Native advertising is advertising that wears the uniform of journalism, mimicking the storytelling aesthetic of the host site. Some say it could dilute the power of a brand over time.
Some wonder if there is room in the city for another political and media Web site, even if it is made in the image of successful Politico.
Now investors and deal makers hope that Twitter’s stock sale will help the once-soaring tech sector take flight again.
Peyton Manning efficiently led a multifaceted, diverse offense in the Broncos’ victory as Eli Manning and a one-dimensional Giants offense sputtered and other components of the team failed.
“Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play,” by Anne Washburn at Playwrights Horizons, imagines a postdisaster world where the retelling of a “Simpsons” episode helps create security and culture.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 11, 2013, covering September 16, 2013.
Avenged Sevenfold
Luke Bryan
Big Sean
Juicy J
Robin Thicke
2013Scott Adams, American football player (born 1966)[†]
Scott Alexander Adams was an American professional football player who played guard for a six-season career, in-which he played for the Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, Chicago Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Atlanta Falcons.
2013Ratiba El-Hefny, Egyptian soprano and director (born 1931)[†]
Ratiba Hefny was an Egyptian international Opera singer (soprano) who performed in more than 500 opera performances. She was the dean of the Higher Institute of Arabic Music in Cairo, and became the director of the Cairo Opera House in 1988.
2013Patsy Swayze, American dancer and choreographer (born 1927)[†]
Yvonne Helen "Patsy" Swayze was an American film choreographer, dancer, and dance instructor, and the mother of actors Patrick Swayze and Don Swayze. Her credits include choreography for Urban Cowboy, Liar's Moon and Hope Floats.
2013A gunman kills twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.[†]
The Washington Navy Yard shooting occurred on September 16, 2013, when 34-year-old Aaron Alexis fatally shot 12 people and injured three others in a mass shooting at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), inside the Washington Navy Yard, in southeast Washington, D.C. The attack took place in the Navy Yard's Building 197; it began around 8:16 a.m. EDT and ended when police killed Alexis around 9:25 a.m. It is the deadliest mass shooting in Washington, D.C. history, as well as the second deadliest mass murder on a U.S. military base, behind the 2009 Fort Hood shooting.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]