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Today — July 28, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The White Cat by Madame D'Aulnoy and illustrated by E. MacKinstry, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Starting Points in Reading A, Skills Practce Book, 1982.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1914.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Film Daily, 1944.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucer Digest, no. 133.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Black and White Budget, 1901.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
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Old News (permalink)
"Dead man remains unburied because neighbours declare him alive even after nine days."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1936.
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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 Child-Library Readers Book Four by William H. Elson & Edna R. Kelly and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1924.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The devil marries a sheet ghost while others walk their pets.  From Cincinnati Bible Seminary's 1950 yearbook.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phrenological Journal, 1875.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1924 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"The backward upsidedown halo."  From 73 Magazine, 1965.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1965 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Golden Links in the Chain That Connects Mother, Home and Heaven by Mrs. J. P. Newman, 1890.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State University's 1980 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Masks, Heads, and Faces by Ellen Russell Emerson, 1891.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1913 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Horse dons a tiara.  Rings entangled in a mane.  For the first time a horse has been seen in a London street adorned with jewels like a fashionable woman."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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