From Chatterbox, 1920.

"Happenings in Dakotas: snake holds milkmaid while he drinks from pail."  From the Duluth Herald, 1905.

From The Jolly Tailor and Other Tales Translated from the Polish by Lucia Merecka Borski and Kate B. Miller and illustrated by Kazimir Klepacki, 1928.

"The pig is in the parlor."  From Modern Screen, 1952.

"I stepped backward in time.  How else explain my visit to that oddly old-fashioned office—which ceased to exist after I left?"  From Fate magazine, 1960.

This happened to us when we purchased the Medusa plaque pictured here.

"Into the black pit and out again."  From Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1908.

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From Washington State's 1910 yearbook.

From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1909 yearbook.

From Medical College of Virginia's 1918 yearbook.

From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1992.

An impstone in The Martlet, 1976.

We spotted this ghost in Saint Francis' 1972 yearbook.

From Film Daily, 1941.

Only when combined will these two potions offer a soporific effect.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.

If you feel that "we are living through a time of unprecedented and troubling change," recall that so did folks in 2004 (see clipping), and verily so did folks in every year of recorded history.  As the archives of old newspapers, magazines, and books make perfectly clear, humanity is always at a crossroads, and it is always the "end of the world."  We might actually find comfort in that, and in the Buddhist conception that past-present-future is all of a piece.  Clipping from Suddenly They Heard Footsteps by Dan Yashinsky, 2004.