Thanks to Corwin Watts, who, after watching the Neons Gone Mad game walkthrough, imagined a neon cat surfing down an erupting volcano.  We tried it — and it all went off with a bang.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to shift to the title page. From The Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes.

From The Outline of Everything by Hector B. Toogood, 1923.

Because our teacher woudln't answer why we can hear the seashore in a seashell, we had to figure it out for ourselves (see our diagram here).  From Together, 1957.

From Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario handbook.

We'll be including the mysterious "Element 'X'" in a future edition of One-Letter Words: A Dictionary.  From Iowa State Teachers College's 1955 yearbook.

Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.

From Kent State's 1930 yearbook.

From Purdue's 1902 yearbook.

In earlier ages, people knew how to swear like Shakespeare.  From Lighted Pathway, 1984.  Useful: The Dictionary of Ugly Words.

From Cleveland State's 1970 yearbook.

Taking an ax to the grandfather clock.  From Purple Parrot, 1952.

From Rockford College's 1923 yearbook.

From Colliers, 1916.

From our review of Hades Speaks! A Guide To the Underworld By the Greek God of the Dead, by Vicky Alvear Shecter and illustrated by J. E. Larson, in which we hail the illustrations for bringing the underworld to life (as it were).

From Susquehanna University's 1932 yearbook.

"The wonderful gothic bed said to belong to Foulque Nerra, Count of Anjou, who died in 1129, but probably made 200 years later."  From The Witchery of Sleep by Willard Moyer, 1903.

Who needs a flat earth when we could be living on a pyramid‽  From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.

From Fame and Fortune Weekly, 1905.