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Today — November 10, 2026

Old News (permalink)
"Wake up and dream."  From Universal Weekly, 1934.
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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
Here's today's bushel basket of apples counting vegetables.  From Mathways 2 by Bates, Morham, Seim & Drake, 1974.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror, 1916. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travels of Puss-in-Boots, Jr. by David Cory, 1918.
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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)
From Handbook of Nature-Study by Anna Botsford Comstock, 1911.
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Old News (permalink)
"Dear food: where does the money go?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
"The battle-ax of the sun."  From Going-To-The-Sun by Vachel Lindsay, 1923.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1967.
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Old News (permalink)
"Sarcophagus challenges."  From Taylor University's 1992 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Do you happen to want a shepherd, ma'am?"  From Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, 1877.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gift of the River by Enid LaMonte Meadowcroft and illustrated by Katherine Dewey, 1937.
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Starting Points in Reading Revised, B by Patricia Chesterman, 1982.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1911 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"More pride of bearing, and less to be proud of."  From The Diary of a Goose Girl by Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1902.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From David Lipscomb College's 1929 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 1936.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Natural History of Aquatic Insects by L. C. Miall 1895.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Western Comrade, 1913.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Trilby by George du Maurier, 1894.
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