"On All-hallows eve, when the hour is late, pull a root from the garden and read your fate."  Date uncertain.

Are you one of the 7% of the population who can instantly detect a human profile hidden within the sea life?  From the Southern California Academy of Sciences Bulletin, 1976.

From Africa, Viajes y Trabajos de la Asociaeion Euskara La Exploradora, 1887.

From Birds'-Nesting by Ernest Ingersoll, 1883.

Here's a precursor to the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, from Grip, 1883.

Here's Sputnik on an amateur radio card from Russia.

From the North Carolina Christian Advocate, 1912.

Percé Rock became isolated in 1844, and it shows in its face.

"The building which makes a face" by Jack Frost, 1935, for the Harvard Lampoon.

From King Time by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, 1908.  (We actually once spent a week in this tower.  The door to the clock mechanism is kept locked, which was our biggest disappointment.  There is access to the battlements, however.  The clock face itself isn't nearly as grumpy as it's depicted here.)

A colossus of Rhodes from Polk's Indianapolis City Directory, 1888.

"A design for a set of national mugs, to be presented upon their depature to the many distinguished foreigners now honouring England with their presence."  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1871.

How to find the Maid in the Moon, from 1896.  This discovery was also featured in an astronomy book, which we noted previously [here].  Recall also our proof that the Mona Lisa's facial features correspond to the lunar landscape.  

Does O envy Q's tail?  Wonder no more.  From Juvenile Instructor, 1917.

This is not a pipe.  From Fun magazine, 1864.

From Luttrell of Arran by Charles James Lever and illustrated by "Phiz," 1873.

From Moving Pictures by Frederick Talbot, 1914.

From The Public and Its School by William McAndrew, 1916.