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Today — May 29, 2026

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
Neons Gone Mad remixes and offers lyrics and vocals to Sigfus of Denmark's "Fathomless Depths."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Archive, 1934.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Meadow Folk's Story Hour by Prudence Gruelle and illustrated by Nell Hatt, 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 Amrita, 1963.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Eddie: "I'd face death for you."
Bess: "Why did you run from that dog?"
Eddie: "It wasn't dead."
From Purdue University's 1927 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1926.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1919 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Watch proceedings enviously from the windows."  From College of Industrial Arts' 1917 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Cookies are for friends."  From The Instructor, 1968.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1899 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Do you live in a haunted house?  A house haunted by the ghost of your departed beauty?"  From Shadowland, 1922.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Peace College's 1982 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A squirrel leaps upon a sleeping cat.  From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington College's 1935 yearbook.
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The Right Word (permalink)
The uncertainty of "uncertainty" spelled with a P.  From North China Herald, 1933.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Primer by James Hiram Fassett and illustrated by G. A. Harker, 1912.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Alexandra Readers First Reader by McIntyre & Saul, 1908.
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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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