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Today — March 23, 2026

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Fright, terrifying sight.  From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Readers Book III, 1881.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1919.
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Old News (permalink)
At first glance, we thought the headline implied that the rest of the world was smaller than England's sense of itself.  But of course it's referring to the protoplanet Vesta.  From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1947.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Furs as beachwear.  From Punch, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Times, 1996.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Pelted with mushrooms.  From Heidelberg University's 1924 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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Waynesburg College's 1959 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ghost Stories, 1931.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's wood magic is fom the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Old Stories For Young Readers by Laura A. Large, 1916.
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
"Monday is Tuesday?"  From Indiana University's 1976 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1939.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1932 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elmhurst College's 1917 yearbook.
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