diff --git a/Doc/includes/mp_distributing.py b/Doc/includes/mp_distributing.py
index ef1e862..9a88825 100644
--- a/Doc/includes/mp_distributing.py
+++ b/Doc/includes/mp_distributing.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
     return _logger
 
 _logger = logging.getLogger('distributing')
-_logger.propogate = 0
+_logger.propagate = 0
 
 _formatter = logging.Formatter(util.DEFAULT_LOGGING_FORMAT)
 _handler = logging.StreamHandler()
diff --git a/Doc/library/__future__.rst b/Doc/library/__future__.rst
index d6f82a3..b09246e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/__future__.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/__future__.rst
@@ -58,3 +58,7 @@
 
 No feature description will ever be deleted from :mod:`__future__`.
 
+.. seealso::
+
+   :ref:`future`
+      How the compiler treats future imports.
diff --git a/Doc/library/json.rst b/Doc/library/json.rst
index e2d189c..3275b4a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/json.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/json.rst
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@
    If the contents of *fp* are encoded with an ASCII based encoding other than
    UTF-8 (e.g. latin-1), then an appropriate *encoding* name must be specified.
    Encodings that are not ASCII based (such as UCS-2) are not allowed, and
-   should be wrapped with ``codecs.getreader(fp)(encoding)``, or simply decoded
+   should be wrapped with ``codecs.getreader(encoding)(fp)``, or simply decoded
    to a :class:`unicode` object and passed to :func:`loads`.
 
    *object_hook* is an optional function that will be called with the result of
diff --git a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst
index 8ec7d86..8cf95dc 100644
--- a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst
@@ -352,8 +352,9 @@
 
    .. note::
 
-      The file-like object is read-only and provides the following methods:
-      :meth:`read`, :meth:`readline`, :meth:`readlines`, :meth:`seek`, :meth:`tell`.
+      The file-like object is read-only.  It provides the methods
+      :meth:`read`, :meth:`readline`, :meth:`readlines`, :meth:`seek`, :meth:`tell`,
+      and :meth:`close`, and also supports iteration over its lines.
 
 
 .. method:: TarFile.add(name, arcname=None, recursive=True, exclude=None)
diff --git a/Doc/library/turtle.rst b/Doc/library/turtle.rst
index 51490c4..64e8ac6 100644
--- a/Doc/library/turtle.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/turtle.rst
@@ -1220,9 +1220,9 @@
 
 .. function:: screensize(canvwidth=None, canvheight=None, bg=None)
 
-   :param canvwidth: positive integer, new width of canvas in pixels :param
-   canvheight: positive integer, new height of canvas in pixels :param bg:
-   colorstring or color-tuple, new background color
+   :param canvwidth: positive integer, new width of canvas in pixels
+   :param canvheight: positive integer, new height of canvas in pixels
+   :param bg: colorstring or color-tuple, new background color
 
    If no arguments are given, return current (canvaswidth, canvasheight).  Else
    resize the canvas the turtles are drawing on.  Do not alter the drawing
diff --git a/Doc/library/unittest.rst b/Doc/library/unittest.rst
index f40dba0..b7fb279 100644
--- a/Doc/library/unittest.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/unittest.rst
@@ -608,7 +608,7 @@
                assert_(expr[, msg])
                failUnless(expr[, msg])
 
-      Signal a test failure if *expr* is false; the explanation for the error
+      Signal a test failure if *expr* is false; the explanation for the failure
       will be *msg* if given, otherwise it will be :const:`None`.
 
       .. deprecated:: 3.1
diff --git a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
index 4be9875..dc8d2cf 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
@@ -897,6 +897,11 @@
 a future statement, it will be in effect in the interactive session started
 after the script is executed.
 
+.. seealso::
+
+   :pep:`236` - Back to the __future__
+      The original proposal for the __future__ mechanism.
+
 
 .. _global: