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Today — September 27, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Goosebumps used to be scientifically charted, back when Hollywood was better.  From Universal Weekly, 1935.
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Ethos, 1939.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1936.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Useful Science for High School by Weed, Rexford & Carroll, 1935.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Can Read Mr. Whiskers by Gerard, McInnes & McLean, 1962.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Romance by Andrew Lang, 1902.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lamaism by L. Austine Waddell, 1934.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Do they resent imagined neglect?"  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1937.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Virginia Pearson emerging from a cream bath."  From Motion Picture News, 1916.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Doubt turns to hope."  From Purdue University's 1968 yearbook.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1916 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior Home Problems by Kinyon & Hopkins and illustrated by Clara Fitts, 1928.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Due West's 1920 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1922.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Indiana University's 1973 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dickon Bend-the-Bow and Other Wonder Tales by Everett McNeil and illustrated by Rob Wagner, 1903.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Illinois Woman's College's 1917 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1923.
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