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Today — March 6, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Small Creatures by Couchman, MacBean, Stecher & Wentworth, 1977.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Daily Mirror1916.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1934.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Under the Maple Tree by Zoe Meyer and illustrated by Florence Liley Young, 1927.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Geometry of Biological Time by Arthur Winfree, 1990.
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Old News (permalink)
"She signed a bond with Lucifer in her own blood."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1957.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Alberta's 1948 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Is your Bible a snack bar?"  From Lighted Pathway, 1966.  (Turns out there's a whole book of edible Bible recipes.)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The saxophone of apt quotations.  From Saint Mary's School's 1919 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
If he sats insane long enough, he will be a millionaire.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1914.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Effesseness (pronounced F - S - N - S), Farmington State Normal School's 1930 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1984.
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Old News (permalink)
"Bring out your spooks."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1959.
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pennsylvania College for Women's 1929 yearbook.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A spirit at a seance (hovering right) says, "I don't like death at all."  From Dark Shadows episode 797.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1916 yearbook.
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A Rose is a ... (permalink)
"Roses, roses all the way."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1931.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Foundations for Living by Fern Silver & Mildred Graves Ryan, 1943.
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