Glossary of rhymes
imperfect rhyme, slant rhyme, half rhyme, approximate rhyme, near rhyme, off rhyme, oblique rhyme: These are all general terms referring to rhymes that are close but not exact: lap/shape, glorious/nefarious.
light rhyme: Rhyming of a stressed syllable with a secondary stress: frog/dialog, live/prohibitive.
wrenched rhyme: Rhyming of a stressed syllable with an unstressed syllable. This often occurs in ballads and folk poetry, often on conventional words like lady/a bee.
apocopated rhyme: Rhyming a line end with a penultimate syllable.
See many more kinds of rhyme at: http://www.public.asu.edu/~aarios/formsofverse/furtherreading/page2.html

Today’s Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture
What Fallingwater Means to You
Edgar Kaufmann, jr. On Fallingwater
The Owner and the Architect
See the above listed articles and more in the special Frank Lloyd Wright issue in AIArchitect: http://info.aia.org/aiarchitect/2011/0923/landingpage/index.html

In three federal class actions, Chuck Close and other artists accuse New York-based Sotheby's and Christie's, and Internet auctioneer eBay, of "willful and systematic violation" of their obligation to pay royalties on artworks sold in California or at auction by California residents. The artists say the auctioneers "affirmatively engaged in a pattern of conduct intended to conceal" the sales, and the money due to the artists. Close, of New York, L.A. artist Laddie John Dill and the estate of L.A. sculptor Robert Graham claim the auction houses and eBay violated the California Resale Royalties Act of 1977, which entitles visual artists or their estates to 5 percent of the proceeds from resale of their artwork in California or out of state by a California resident. The law, which defines fine art as "an original painting, sculpture, or drawing, or an original work of art in glass," applies to works by artists who are alive or who have been dead for less than 20 years. The foundation of California painter Sam Francis, who died in 1994, is a plaintiff in the lawsuits against Christie's and eBay. The artists say the defendants sold their artwork at California auctions and on behalf of California sellers, but failed to withhold royalties due.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/10/20/40779.htm

Mercerized cotton is sometimes referred to in the crafts as pearl or pearle cotton. It is cotton yarn or fabric which has been put through a series of processes, primarily to increase luster. The added desirable water handling properties gained are a secondary bonus. In 1851, John Mercer was granted a British Patent for work he had done pertaining to cotton, linen and other vegetable fibrous materials that in effect caused certain changes in the character of the fiber when subjected to caustic soda, sulfuric acid, and/or other chemicals, etc. He went on to list a number of these changes, one of which was that caustic soda caused the fiber to swell, become round and straighten out (but it did not impart any change in luster). At the time Mercer introduced these processes, the British cotton trade showed no interest in any of it and it all sat in obscurity for about forty years. In 1890 Horace Lowe was granted a British patent in which he claimed that by applying Mercer's caustic soda process to cotton yarn or fabric under tension a resultant high luster (a result of the light reflection off the smooth, round surface) was imparted to the fiber. It became an overnight success and revolutionized the cotton industry. http://fiberarts.org/design/articles/mercerized.html

Feedback to A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg
From: Gill Collingwood Subject: Miasma Def: 1. Noxious emissions: smoke, vapors, etc., especially those from decaying organic matter. 2. An oppressive or unpleasant atmosphere. The word miasma reminded me of what is probably the only time a song was rewritten in the light of new scientific knowledge: They Might be Giants rewrote their song Why Does The Sun Really Shine? (The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas) -- it became Why Does The Sun Shine? (The Sun is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma, with new lyrics to match.
From: Kiko Denzer Subject: miasma For a stunning story about the scientific footwork that went into finally disproving the theory that cholera was due to miasma, see The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, by Stephen Johnson, about the Broad St. Cholera epidemic of 1854.

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This Day in History: October 28
The Statue of Liberty marks its 125th anniversary. The idea for the monument is thought to have been first conceived at a 19th century dinner party among French aristocrats, historians say, who sought to pay tribute to American liberty.
And while the French gift is also widely believed to have at least in part catered to domestic politics, for many it quickly became a symbol of hope and promise in America's post- Civil War period.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/28/us/new-york-statue-liberty/
U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act in 1919 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/newsnow/x984140441/Morning-Minutes-Oct-28#axzz1c4jl9GXU