Beginning with the October Term 2015, postrelease edits to slip opinions on the U.S. Supreme Court’s website will be highlighted and the date they occur will be noted.  The date of any revision will be listed in a new “Revised” column on the charts of Opinions, In-Chambers Opinions, and Opinions Related to Orders under the “Opinions” tab on the website.  The location of a revision will be highlighted in the opinion.  When a cursor is placed over a highlighted section, a dialog box will open to show both old and new text.  Read more and see the Supreme Court's calendar at http://www.supremecourt.gov/at

2015 Nobel prizes  http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/year/

A postcard or post card is a rectangular piece of thick paper or thin cardboard intended for writing and mailing without an envelope.  Shapes other than rectangular may also be used.  There are novelty exceptions, such as wood postcards, made of thin wood, and copper postcards sold in the Copper Country of the U.S. state of Michigan, and coconut "postcards" from tropical islands.  Stamp collectors distinguish between postcards (which require a stamp) and postal cards (which have the postage pre-printed on them).  While a postcard is usually printed by a private company, individual or organization, a postal card is issued by the relevant postal authority.  The world's oldest postcard was sent in 1840 to the writer Theodore Hook from Fulham in London, England.  The study and collecting of postcards is termed deltiology.  The first American postcard was developed in 1873 by the Morgan Envelope Factory of Springfield, Massachusetts.  These first postcards depicted the Interstate Industrial Exposition that took place in Chicago.  Later in 1873, Post Master John Creswell introduced the first pre-stamped "Postal Cards", often called "penny postcards".  Postcards were made because people were looking for an easier way to send quick notes.  The first postcard to be printed as a souvenir in the United States was created in 1893 to advertise the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.  The Post Office was the only establishment allowed to print postcards, and it held its monopoly until May 19, 1898, when Congress passed the Private Mailing Card Act, which allowed private publishers and printers to produce postcards.  Initially, the United States government prohibited private companies from calling their cards "postcards", so they were known as "souvenir cards".  These cards had to be labeled "Private Mailing Cards".  This prohibition was rescinded on December 24, 1901, from when private companies could use the word "postcard".  Postcards were not allowed to have a divided back and correspondents could only write on the front of the postcard.  This was known as the "undivided back" era of postcards.  From March 1, 1907 the Post Office allowed private citizens to write on the address side of a postcard.  It was on this date that postcards were allowed to have a "divided back". 

On these cards the back is divided into two sections:  the left section is used for the message and the right for the address.  Thus began the Golden Age of American postcards, which peaked in 1910 with the introduction of tariffs on German-printed postcards, and ended by 1915, when World War I ultimately disrupted the printing and import of the fine German-printed cards.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcard  

Thanksgiving cards were once as common as Christmas cards.  They conveyed greetings while making use of the penny postcard.  See free vintage Thanksgiving images and thankfulness quotes at http://savingmorethanme.com/2013/10/vintage-thanksgiving

Access the SSRN eLibrary with over 600,000 papers.  Search by author, title, abstract or keywords.    http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/DisplayAbstractSearch.cfm  SSRN (the Social Science Research Network) was formally incorporated in October, 1994.  It originated in 1992 as FEN (Financial Economics Network), the brainchild of Wayne Marr.  SSRN's objective is to provide worldwide distribution of research to authors and their readers and to facilitate communication among them at the lowest possible cost.  In pursuit of this objective, we encourage authors to upload their papers to SSRN (without charge).  Any paper an author uploads to SSRN is downloadable for free, worldwide.  We allow publishers and other institutions to charge users for downloading papers they have uploaded to SSRN while encouraging them to charge fees that are as low as possible.  Our rule is that the price for such papers on SSRN must be equal to or below the lowest price that such papers are available anywhere on the web to non-subscribers.  The vast majority of papers in the SSRN eLibrary are downloadable at no charge.  In addition, SSRN provides free subscriptions to all of our abstracting eJournals to users in developing countries on request.  SSRN earns revenue to cover its considerable expenses from the more than 400 institutions that outsource the distribution of their research papers to SSRN through SSRN's Research Paper Series, subscription fees for SSRN's subject matter abstracting eJournals, fees received for professional and job announcements, conference fees for SSRN's Conference Management System, and lastly from fees shared with SSRN by publishers who distribute their papers through SSRN on a pay-per-download basis.  http://www.ssrn.com/en/index.cfm/mjensen-20th/

Snowclone is a neologism for a type of cliché and phrasal template originally defined as "a multi-use, customizable, instantly recognizable, time-worn, quoted or misquoted phrase or sentence that can be used in an entirely open array of different variants".  The term snowclone was coined by Glen Whitman on January 15, 2004, in response to a request from Geoffrey Pullum on the Language Log weblog.  Pullum endorsed it as a term of art the next day, and it has since been adopted by other linguists, journalists and authors.  The term alludes to one of Pullum's example template phrases:  If Eskimos have N words for snow, X surely have M words for Y.  As Language Log explains, this is a popular rhetorical trope used by journalists to imply that cultural group X has reason to spend a great deal of time thinking about the specific idea Y, although the basic premise (that Eskimos have a larger number of words for snow) is often disputed by those who study such Eskimo languages.  In 1995, linguist David Crystal referred to this kind of trope as a "catch structure," citing as an example the phrase "to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before" as originally used in Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series (1978).  Adams' phrase references Star Trek ("...to boldly go where no man has gone before!") to humorously point out the use of a split infinitive, a controversial construction.  In the study of folklore, snowclones are a form of what are usually described as a proverbial phrase which have a long history of description and analysis.  There are many kinds of such wordplay, as described in a variety of studies of written and oral sources.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone

Purview vs Purvey:  What's the difference?  As a noun purview is the enacting part of a statute.  As a verb purvey is  (obsolete) to prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision.  http://the-difference-between.com/purvey/purview

Purveyor  noun  1. a person who purveys, provides, or supplies:  2.    Old English Law. an officer who provided or acquired provisions for the sovereign under the prerogative of purveyance.  http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/purveyor

Life list, bucket list—the basic idea has been around ever since the fifth century B.C., when Herodotus’ History sent Greeks eagerly across the Mediterranean to see Luxor and the pyramids.  See 20 places with descriptions and pictures at The 21st Century Life List:  25 Great New Places to See by Jamie Malanowski  http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-21st-century-life-list-180956324/s

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1362  October 13, 2015  On this date in 1792, in Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) was laid.  On this date in 1958, Paddington Bear, a classic character from English children's literature, made his debut.