"The Sickle of Leo, from which come the Leonids, gleams like a great question-mark in the sky.  The answer— But God knows what the answer to anything is.  Perhaps it is that the stars are very close indeed."
—Charles Fort, New Lands

He's reading Murder for Pleasure.

From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1972 yearbook.

A bold statement -- the mop wig look allowed to cascade and dominate the ensemble.  From Pfeiffer's 1973 yearbook.

From The Film Daily, 1943.

While researching insights into how to know when it's over, we encountered this surprising tidbit from Alton Brown (I'm Just Here For the Food): "You'll know it's over when you reach in with tongs and can easily crush the bones."

From Unknown, 1939.

You've heard the idiom, "Take to the hills!" but here's when to literally do it.  From Sunlight and Stone by George Carl Justin Magg, 1969.

"A man must trust the gods.  There's nobody else."

—Gene Wolfe, Latro in the Mist

"Something's happening here; what it is ain't exactly clear."  (A quotation from "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield.)  From American University's 1968 yearbook.

A life-hacking tip -- use hints and tips from old computer gaming manuals to structure your daily life.  Here's a selection we gathered from Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance official hint book, 1991.

We thought this was a common greeting, but maybe it's just us, based on how broken-down we look: "In the name of God, what have you been doing to yourself?"  From Collier's, 1915.

Before you look at the caption, can you guess his profession?  From Harper's, 1879.

"How good a synonym are you?"  We're not sure, but we do know some major antonyms.  From Lighted Pathway, 1977.

For fear of a caretaker pulling back the ivy and showing us our own tombstone again, we visit cemeteries only when nobody's around.  From Together, 1957.

Don't miss our video about the three mystic tools we have on hand for any haunted cemetery.

From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn handbook.

From The Wizard of Oz, adapted by Oscar Weigle and illustrated by Robert Patterson.

"Learning how to move."  By Colin Peters.  From Coraddi, 1991.

They believe they're a newlywed couple, after hypnosis ... or perhaps even before hypnosis.  From Practical Lessons in Hypnotism by William Wesley Cook, 1901.