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Today — October 4, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Adventure of Peter Cottontail by Thornton Burgess and illustrated by Harrison Cady, 1914.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Witch Bowl."  From Hobbies Weekly, 1950.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phonic Primer, 1918.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Long Ago by John Waddell, 1933.
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Living Together in Town and Country by Cutright, Charters & Clark, 1953.
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Old News (permalink)
"Her hair smelled faintly, sweetly of ... meteorites."  Via Delve Report, 2000.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Why of Fashion by Karlyne Anspach, 1967.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1921 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A double-bodied man juggles unrecognizable beasts.  From the Church of S. Pierre-en-Haute, 11th-12th century.  In The Burlington Magazine, 1903.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1935 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Science Indoors and Out by Hensley & Patterson and illustrated by John Jones, 1931.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1917 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Little Jack Horner, from Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington College's 1934 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Mrs. Hall approached slowly towing the icebergs."  From The Climbing Courvatels by Edward W. Townsend and illustrated by J. V. McFall, 1909.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1923 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Billy Bunny and His Friends by David Cory, 1917.
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