The ten narrowest houses in New York City by Sara Polsky 

The narrowest at 9.5 feet wide is the former home of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Margaret Mead, and Cary Grant.  See pictures and descriptions at:  http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2012/02/27/the_10_narrowest_residential_buildings_in_new_york_city.php

English as a strange language

Your house can burn up as it burns down, you fill in a form by filling it out, and an alarm goes off by going on.  There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.  Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
Fun with English pronunciation
Close:  They were too close to the door to close it.
Dove:  The dove dove into the bushes.
Entrance:  The entrance to a mall fails to entrance me.
Evening:  I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt.
Invalid:  The insurance for the invalid was invalid.
Number:  After a number of Novocain injections, my jaw got number.
Object:  I did not object to the object.
Polish:  We polish the Polish furniture.
Wind:  The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
Read more at:  http://www.badpets.net/Humor/Misc/EnglishSpelling.html

The names of book sizes are based on the old system, still widely used, of considering the size of a page as a fraction of the large sheet of paper on which it was printed.  This system is illustrated in Table I.  In printing books, an even number (as 4, 8, 16, 32, 64) of pages is printed on each side of a single large sheet, which is then folded so that the pages are in proper sequence and the outside edges are cut so that the book will open.  Except for the largest size, the folio, the name of the size indicates the fractional part of the sheet one page occupies (as octavo "eighth").  In this system, since the fractional name alone cannot denote an exact size, the name of the sheet size precedes the fractional name.  Thus royal octavo is understood to designate a page one-eighth the size of a royal sheet, medium octavo a page one-eighth the size of a medium sheet, and crown octavo a page one-eighth the size of a crown sheet.  But paper is cut into many sheet sizes and even the terms crown, medium, and royal do not always designate sheets of the same dimensions.  Three of the more common sheet sizes have been selected:  royal 20 x 25 inches, medium 18 x 23 inches, and crown 15 x 19 inches.  Actual page sizes run a little smaller than calculations, since the sheets, when folded to page size, are trimmed at top, outside and bottom, the inside edge becoming part of the binding.  British sheet size sometimes differs slightly from American.  Table II illustrates the size names as they are used by the American Library Association, with only the octavo sizes including the name of a sheet size. The dimensional limits given in the table remain standard for this system.  Table III gives equivalent terms and symbols for the size names.  Find the three tables at:  http://www.trussel.com/books/booksize.htm  Note:  Look below the tables to find further information; for instance about elephant folio and double elephant folio.

Miniature representations of the earth, moon, and planets are terrestrial globes, terrain models and armillary spheres.  Some sources credit Greek philosopher Anaximander of Miletus (611-547 B. C.) with inventing the armillary sphere, others credit Greek astronomer Hipparchus (190 - 120 BC), and some credit the Chinese.  Armillary spheres first appeared in China during the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.).  One early Chinese armillary sphere can be traced to Zhang Heng, an astronomer in the Eastern Han Dynasty (25 A.D.-220 A.D.).  The exact origin of armillary spheres cannot be confirmed.  However, during the Middle Ages armillary spheres became widespread and increased in sophistication.  The earliest surviving globes were produced in Germany, some were made by German map-maker Martin Behaim of Nuremberg in 1492.  See picture of armillary sphere and find links to articles at:  http://inventors.about.com/od/astartinventions/a/armillarysphere.htm

The European Commission, the 27-nation European Union’s executive body in Brussels, is considering a U.S. request to drop a ban on import into Europe of American wines bearing the label “chateau” or “clos,” a similar term used mainly on wines from Burgundy in eastern France. Preservation of “chateau” on wine bottles is another chapter in France’s long struggle between tradition and globalization.  Throughout the country, peasants and craftsmen are fighting to maintain the value of expensive prestige accumulated over centuries — just the right cheese, or a perfect dress — against an onslaught of cheaper imitations sloshing in on the latest freighter from abroad.  With borders disappearing and trade increasingly ignoring origins, their voices are getting weaker every year.  The economic stakes are high.  In France alone, a country of 65 million inhabitants, people consumed an average of more than 12 gallons of wine a head in 2011; the industry employed about 50,000 workers, no small consideration in a stalled economy with 10 percent unemployment.  Exports brought in almost $9 billion, helping offset a badly negative trade balance.  Among the 27 European Union countries, exports to the United States alone totaled more than $2.2 billion last year.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/an-american-chateau-french-winemakers-say-no/2012/09/23/a4b08432-03ee-11e2-8102-ebee9c66e190_story.html

Google test:  uncodified ohio sb 7 produced 35 results for researcher #one.  Researcher #two got 3210 results for the same search on September 21, 2012 and 3230 results on September 25.  Apparently the searching habits of researcher #2 lead Google to conclude they want or expect more results. 

Lourdes University in Sylvania, Ohio is one of 40 locations in the country that will host “Manifold Greatness:  The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible.”  The traveling exhibit is an effort organized by the Folger Shakespeare Library and American Library Association.  It is based on an exhibition of the same name developed by the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, with assistance from the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas, to mark the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible.  A grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities helped fund the exhibit.  The Toledo Area Librarians Association was one of the entities that wrote a letter of support for Lourdes University obtaining the exhibit.  “Manifold Greatness” will be displayed from October 7 through the 31 at the Duns Scotus Library.  Find hours, and times of lectures and presentations at http://www.lourdes.edu/manifold.aspx

The Toledo-Lucas County Public Library has partnered along with The Toledo Museum of Art for this exhibit.  T-LCPL will have an exhibit of Bibles on display Oct 1-Nov 24.