Q. What is fraktur?
A. The term "fraktur" refers to mechanically printed type called "fraktur" meaning "broken letters." European artists would take a mechanically printed piece and added decoration--often elaborate swirls and scrolls. American fraktur has come to mean Pennsylvania German hand drawn documents.
http://www.schwenkfelder.com/Museum_Fraktur.htm

Business history: Toledo’s Libbey is 120
The largest and oldest continually operating glass factory in the United States, Libbey's huge plant on Ash Street makes as many as 120 million pieces of glassware a year, from tumblers to vases to stemware to shot glasses. The glass factory owes at least part of its long history to its location. Mr. Libbey chose Toledo, Ohio because it had a wealth of natural resources, including abundant and cheap natural gas, on site or nearby. The high-quality sand that the factory still uses comes from a quarry in Rockwood, Michigan, about 30 miles north of the plant; the limestone comes from 20 miles south in Woodville. Only the soda ash comes from far away: Wyoming.
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080518/BUSINESS03/380959507
Edward Drummond Libbey (1854-1925) opened the Libbey Glass Company in Toledo in 1888. “Libbey’s success depended heavily on the inventions of Michael Owens. Libbey later founded the Owens Bottle Machine Company with exclusive rights to manufacture bottles, and the Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Company, serving as president of both firms. He organized the Toledo Art Museum in 1901, serving as its president form 1901 to 1925, funding building construction, and bequeathing to the museum his collection of Dutch and English art.”
In Toledo Magazine July 2008

English, evolving with other languages and dialects, may one day come to be known as Panglish.
http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/16-07/st_essay

magna carta (MAG-nuh KAHR-tuh)
noun: A document or a law recognizing basic rights and privileges.
From Latin magna carta (great charter). After Magna Carta, a charter of political and civil liberties that King John of England was forced to sign on June 15, 1215. It was revised several times over the years, and it became an important symbol, establishing for future generations that there were limits to the royal powers.
"A magna carta for industry development recognizing that 'small and medium enterprises are the dominant constituent of the industry' is an absolute necessity."Integrated Approach Needed For Construction Industry; The Island (Colombo, Sri Lanka); Jun 18, 2008.
A.Word.A.Day

Quote: Treat every day as new and every meal as a ceremony.

Nearly $350,000 worth of goods missing from Pennsylvania library--Unique Management Services Inc., a collection agency using seminarians hired
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_region/20080713_Overdue_help_for_the_other_lending_crisis.html

An edition of Shakespeare’s first folio stolen ten years ago has been recovered after a British man took it into an American library to be authenticated.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4316464.ece

High Cost of Driving Ignites Online Classes Boom
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/education/11colleges.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin