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Today — July 30, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea1990.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1977.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Understanding the Arts by Helen Gardner, 1932.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Indian Crafts and Indian Lore by Julian Harris Salomon, 1928.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's poultry and cat pulled in a cart by mice is from Grimm's Fairy Tales Retold In One-Syllable Words, 1899.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Just in case, here's hoping today's gaze hounds are looking the other way.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From KPFK Folio, 1965.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Teaching schools of porpoises to tell the time of day."  From St. Nicholas, 1891.
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Old News (permalink)
"Hydra-headed evil flourishes merrily despite all restrictive laws."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1938.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877). 
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The Right Word (permalink)
"But do you think we can be really quite sure they were called by those strange names?"  From Punch, 1910.
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Old News (permalink)
"What in the world is going on?"  From Fort Wayne Bible College's 1968 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Sagacity of rats."  From Chatterbox, 1885.
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Old News (permalink)
"The race between a poem and a fact.  Poet wins by a century & a half."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1939.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the out-of-print The Return of the Dragon by Jane Zaring and illustrated by Polly Broman.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"But really ... was it worth it all?"  From Waterloo Lutheran University's 1970 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 1899.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Peace College's 1982 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Dial (Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.), 1934.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1913 yearbook.
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