"Thump! and the fall was over."  From State Teacher's College, Farmville, Virginia's 1932 yearbook.

From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.

Because timelessness is defined as zero succession and infinite simultaneity, clock towers without clock hands are paragons of timelessness.  This handless clock tower near Mansfield, England was documented by Stephen McKay.

The endpapers from The Shadow Witch by Gertrude Crownfield, 1922.

"Can pills cure anxiety?"  From Awake magazine, 1958.

It's troubling when a portrait painter ends up working directly on your face.  This happened to us with a silhouette snipping artist -- those scissors haunt us to this day.  From Le Chariviari, 1884.

This is presented as a joke, but mirrors actually abhor being disturbed.  For proof, see our video about a haunted mirror we acquired at an antiques shop, and our video in which we're trapped within a shattered hall of mirrors.

From the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's 1981 yearbook.

From L'Impartial de l'Est, 1904.

Looking backward.  From the 1950 yearbook of New Jersey State Teachers College.

All poetry worth reading begins the same way, with a battle between two bears.  From Barnard's 1907 yearbook.

From Jugend, 1897.

Looks like the news was broken as far back as 1911.  From Kittens and Cats by Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1911.

From our review of Drunk: The Definitive Drinker's Dictionary.  Can you guess which entry this illustration is from?

Why was U96's "homage" (such a kinder word than "blatant ripoff") of Visage's "Fade to Grey" entitled "I Wanna Be a Kennedy"?  The overlap between "grey" and "Kennedy" is, of course, Grey Gardens, the cult documentary about fading Kennedy in-laws.

I make this little mistake every single day.  From The New Movie Magazine, 1935.