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Today — May 12, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Early Experiences by Roy Richards, 1972.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1923.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1918.
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Old News (permalink)
"The ants that ate a gorilla."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The flesh was cold."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1901.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Perhaps she didn't hit that last note.  From Winthrop University's 1916 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"[Bi]cycles possessed by the devil."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1919 yearbook.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Every shadow of the night can suddenly come alive and kill her."  From Dark Shadows episode 823.
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Old News (permalink)
"Invisible beings in this and other worlds."  From The Seer, 1931.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 1909, via UpNorthMemories.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1922 yearbook.
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The Right Word (permalink)
"I then pine most for thee when stars are in the quiet skies."  From The Essentials of the English Sentence by Elias H. MacEwan, 1900.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1921 yearbook.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Centaurs Gatherum, 1996.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1899 yearbook.
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