tautology  noun 

the saying of the same thing twice in different words, generally considered to be a fault of style (they arrived one after the other in succession).

a phrase or expression in which the same thing is said twice in different words.
Logic a statement that is true by necessity or by virtue of its logical form.
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Tautology means, “needless repetition of an idea in a different word, phrase, or sentence; redundancy; pleonasm.”  Tautologous expressions are often used in legal documents for clarification of meaning; such as, “will and testament” and “breaking and entering”.  This practice may have been a result of expressing English documents with a mixture of Anglo-Saxon and French or Latin terms.  When early writers weren’t sure if both designations had the same meaning or that others might not have a clear understanding of the French or Latin, they apparently included terms from both the Anglo-Saxon and the “foreign” words side by side, just to be sure others understood what was meant; this is according to David Crystal in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language.   http://www.wordexplorations.com/pleonasm.html

Junius Brutus Booth (1796-1852) was an English stage actor.  He was the father of John Wilkes Booth (actor and the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln), Edwin Booth (the foremost tragedian of the mid-to-late 19th century), and Junius Brutus Booth, Jr., an actor and theatre manager.  Booth was named after Marcus Junius Brutus, one of the lead assassins in William Shakespeare's tragedy Julius Caesar.  In 1835, Booth wrote a letter to President Andrew Jackson, demanding he pardon two pirates. In the letter, he threatened to kill the President. Though there would also be an actual attempt of assassination on the President early that year, the letter was believed to be a hoax, until a handwriting analysis of a letter written some days after the threat concluded that the letter was, in fact, written by Booth.  Booth apologized to Jackson for his threat.  Decades later, Booth’s son, John Wilkes Booth, assassinated president Abraham Lincoln.   Junius Brutus Booth was inducted, posthumously, into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junius_Brutus_Booth

Rube Goldberg (1883-1970) was a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, sculptor and author.  
Reuben Lucius Goldberg (Rube Goldberg) was born in San Francisco on July 4, 1883.  After graduating from the University of California Berkeley with a degree in engineering, Rube went on to work as an engineer for the City of San Francisco Water and Sewers Department.   After six months Rube shifted gears and left the Sewers Department to become an office boy in the sports department of a San Francisco newspaper.  While there he began to submit drawings and cartoons to the editor until he was finally published.  Rube soon moved from San Francisco to New York to work for the Evening Mail drawing daily cartoons.  This led to syndication and a national presence – and the rest is history.  A founding member of the National Cartoonist Society, a political cartoonist and a Pulitzer Prize winner, Rube was a beloved national figure as well as an often-quoted radio and television personality during his sixty year professional career.   Best known for his “inventions”, Rube’s early years as an engineer informed his most acclaimed work.  A Rube Goldberg contraption – an elaborate set of arms, wheels, gears, handles, cups and rods, put in motion by balls, canary cages, pails, boots, bathtubs, paddles and live animals – takes a simple task and makes it extraordinarily complicated.  He had solutions for How To Get The Cotton Out Of An Aspirin Bottle, imagined a Self-Operating Napkin, and created a Simple Alarm Clock – to name just a few of his hilariously depicted drawings.   http://www.rubegoldberg.com/about

See Rube Goldberg machines at:  http://www.rubegoldberg.com/

Modern fiber art takes its context from the textile arts, which have been practiced globally for millennia.  Traditionally, fiber is taken from plants or animals, for example cotton from cotton seed pods, linen from flax stems, wool from sheep hair, or silk from the spun cocoons of silkworms.  In addition to these traditional materials, synthetic materials such as plastic acrylic are now used.  In order for the fiber to be made into cloth or clothing, it must be spun (or twisted) into a strand known as yarn.  When the yarn is ready and dyed for use it can be made into cloth in a number of ways.  Knitting and crochet are common methods of twisting and shaping the yarn into garments or fabric.  The most common use of yarn to make cloth is weaving.  In weaving, the yarn is wrapped on a frame called a loom and pulled taut vertically.  This is known as the warp.  Then another strand of yarn is worked back and forth wrapping over and under the warp.  This wrapped yarn is called the weft.  Most art and commercial textiles are made by this process.  For centuries weaving has been the way to produce clothes.  In some cultures, weaving forms demonstrate social status.  The more intricate the weaving, the higher the status.  Certain symbols and colors also allowed identification of class and position.  For example, in the ancient Incan civilization, black and white designs indicated a military status.  In Europe between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries woven pieces called "tapestries" took the place of paintings on walls.  The Unicorn in Captivity is part of a series consisting of seven tapestry panels known as The Hunt of the Unicorn by Franco Flemish from this time period.  Much of the art at the time in history was used to tell common folktales that also had a religious theme.  At the same time period in the Middle East, fiber artists did not make tapestry or wall hanging weavings, but instead created beautifully crafted rugs.  The woven rugs did not depict scenes in a story, but instead used symbols and complex designs.  An example of this type of art are the giant rugs known as the Ardabil carpets. Another fiber art technique is quilting in which layers of fabric are sewn together.  Recently, quilted fiber art wall hangings have become popular with art collectors.  Other fiber art techniques are knitting, rug hooking, felting, braiding or plaiting, macrame, lace making, flocking (texture) and more.  See example of yarn bombing in Montreal at:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_art

Q.  Is there a difference between catnip and catmint?  A.  Different varieties of the same plant, nepeta.  Catnip has that strong pungent odor that attracts some cats, and sparse purple flowers.  The leaves can be made into tea, it is a calming, soothing drink that is supposed to have some medicinal qualities.  (Peter Rabbit’s mother made him drink catnip tea after he fell in the watering can, remember?)  It can get pretty big.  Catmint is sold as a perennial for the garden, and the foliage is sweet smelling.  It has a lot of pretty purple flowers, and is usually cut back after flowering to make it bloom a second time.  It usually only gets about 18" tall but spreads quite wide.  Sold as Blue Wonder, Walkers Low, Caitlin’s Giant, and more.  http://www.birmingham-gardeners.co.uk/gardener/is-there-a-difference-between-catnip-and-catmint 

The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), produced by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), deems invalid the long-accepted understanding of bereavement as a highly individual and unpredictable experience.  The updated manual advises psychiatrists and general practitioners that two weeks is an appropriate interval for grief.  After that, depression supposedly can be diagnosed.   Of particular concern is the response of primary-care physicians, who prescribe 80% of all antidepressants, but often treat many patients per hour.  The DSM’s latest revision will increase the number of prescriptions by including, among the diagnosed, those experiencing the kind of transient depression that can also typify grief.  Because the DSM’s influence extends far beyond the United States, the introduction of this change has caused an international uproar.  For example, the British medical journal The Lancet called the proposal “dangerously simplistic” and “flawed,” and warned of the flood of misdiagnoses that would ensue.  Compounding the problem, the DSM’s authority is not limited to health-care institutions.  American schools, courts, and jails consult it daily, in order to determine whether psychiatric treatment is necessary and reimbursable.  Earlier editions of the manual were careful not to include grief in diagnoses of depression, because the two conditions – both of which may include insomnia, loss of appetite, listlessness, and intense mood swings – are easy to confuse.  And, as New York University Professor Jerome Wakefield points out, “similar normal feelings of sadness” can also follow other losses, including “marital dissolution, romantic betrayal, job loss, financial trouble, natural disaster, and a terrible medical diagnosis.”  Wakefield also vigorously refutes the APA’s claims that the change was based on scientific evidence.  Indeed, after conducting a detailed review of published studies, he and Columbia University Professor Michael B. First concluded that “DSM-5 should be narrowing the category of clinical depression, not broadening it.”  Despite such fervent opposition, however, the APA approved the change, deleting the so-called Bereavement Exclusion and adding a footnote giving the attending physician the option to diagnose depression after two weeks.   Christopher Lane  http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/side-effects/201306/the-distortion-grief