It's been said that "goats are like people" (Edith Buck, Rendezvous with the Rock).  We find our evidence in The Early Herdsmen by Katherine Elizabeth Dopp, 1923.

"Spell-Bound," from Cassell's, 1888.

"Standing stones, Greby grave field, Bohuslän, Sweden."  Watercolour by Olof Hermelin, c. 1880.

"Twelve months later," from Sketches of Hudson Bay Life by H. Bullock Webster, c. 1875.

"Vision of Guy Fawkes at Saint Winifred's Well," from Guy Fawkes by William Harrison Ainsworth, 1857.

Here's the so-called turkey dance of the Utes.  Dancers sit along the circle (A).  Drummers with their drums are seated at B.  The leader begins the dance at C and traces the arrowed path, followed by the dancees.  "The erratic motion is continued indefinitely."  From the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology's Bulletin 75, 1922.

Fifty-five years before the Bowie song, a phonograph plays "Fame."  From Die Muskete, 1920.

You've heard Paris called the "City of Light," but even after the Enlightenment, its streets were impenetrably dark.  "Paris is a city of darkness."  From Popular Mechanics, 1918.

Here's a book on degeneration that's deteriorating.  Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau, 1895.

From Once a Week, 1877.

From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1869.

Here's a precursor to the three-doors paradox known as the "Monty Hall Problem" (which we previously debunked here).  From Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to open the door.

"Yes, it is a new world in Miami.  Some would call it a brave new world with a foot firmly placed in the future.  Others, suspicious of rapid change, would call it a frightening and confusing world in a constant state of flux." —Nuestro, 1985

"Prinsessen lysker trollet" by Theodor Kittelsen, 1900.

From The Pyrenees by Henry George Blackburn, 1867.