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Today — September 14, 2026

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror, 1915.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 1921.
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Old News (permalink)
"Regrets are unanswered dreams."  From The Omen, 2000.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"And everyone was happy.  Except Bessie."  From Follow Me by Thorn et al., 1970.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Clothing for Moderns by Mabel Deane Erwin, 1949.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 1889.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Practice Book For Me Level 2 by Thorn, McCreary-Juhasz, Smith, Munroe & Richmond, 1966.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal the photo of DeWolf Hopper upon which the etching was based.
From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1989.

Click to reveal the photo of DeWolf Hopper upon which the etching was based.  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1989
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Something square, the house in which I live."  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1916.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Companion Book for Rides and Slides by Mabel O'Donnell, 1936.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State Agricultural College's 1913 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's upside down Niagara Falls is from [The Film Daily's] Yearbook of Motion Pictures, 1936.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Mary Miles Minter in "The Little Clown."  From Wid's Daily, 1921.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest College's 1911 yearbook.
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
We tracked down a temporal anomaly to the train station in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee's Dollywood park.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of South Carolina at Spartanburg's 1979 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"And there I found the man, or god or deman he may be for aught I know.  They call him pagan, Aben Habuz, but at my plea he conjured wisdom from the stars; gave life to symbols of an unknown tongue.  Oh, sage philosopher with gleaming eye, I would I knew the crystal wines you drink—what magic provender you feed upon!"  From Lebanon Valley College's 1930 yearbook.
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