Precious little is known about the life of the father of geometry, but we've identified who killed him.  The caption reads, "It was really an accident, but—I killed Euclid."  From Scribner's, 1922.

Cheshire cheese goes ice skating.  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1887.

The pancake hub of the universe -- it may sound farfetched, yet physics posits a "cosmic pancake scenario" (composed of unrelaxed superclusters aligned along strings in which galaxies and clusters of galaxies are embedded, as per Schaeffer & Silk's "Large-Scale Inhomogeneities and Galaxy Statistics"), and in Buddhism, a cosmic pancake is one of the fundamental elements of the universe (see Chogyam Trungpa's Journey Without Goal, p. 137).  Ironically, once you reach the Pancake Hub of the Universe in Liberal, Kansas, "you're not in Kansas anymore."

Climate science hasn't come very far from 1920, when 90% of thermometer readings were inaccurate.  The more things change, the more they're misinterpreted.  From the Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 1920.

Hermetic Library comments: "I thought this was something about my reading habits; and it seemed meaningful enough at first blush I started to contemplate my life."

For what this means, see (or course) our very own One-Letter Words: A Dictionary (and though the hardcover is out of print, the e-version remains "out there").  Our illustration is from The Galaxy magazine, 1866.

The title of this image is "An Above-Average Home," photographed by Terry Eiler, c. 1972.

"People who live in glass houses should pull down the blinds."  A card for a Fowler & Warmington farcical comedy.

"The sole certainty is that tomorrow will surprise us all."

—Managing Political Change in Singapore

From The Human Side of Birds by Royal Dixon, 1917.

There's a hilarious questionnaire over at Biblioklept:

https://biblioklept.org/about-you/ 

Here's a precursor to Mario going up against a Whomp in Super Mario 64.  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1887.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to shift the sun.

Here's a Yugoslavian precursor to the Crayon rocket.  (Instructables shows how to make one.  You actually use a giant crayon-shaped coin bank.)