Above and below, from the Arthur and Fritz Kahn Collection, courtesy of the Leo Baeck Institute Archives.

From the Annual Report of the American Institute of the City of New York, 1862.

From the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology's Bulletin 64, 1918.

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.

"'Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.' —Young.  From A Practical Grammar by Stephen Watkins Clark, 1847.

This is the symbol left in the crib after the Lindbergh baby was famously taken away.  "There has been no genuinely convincing analytic work done on [this symbol] with respect to the Lindberg story" (Jerry Kroth, The Lindbergh Kidnapping, 2011).  [Note that the three black rectangles are actually holes that were punched in the paper and are not technically part of the design.]  The shaded object in the center is, of course, the "black egg" of alchemy, symbolizing the nigredo (a stage of putrefaction; the final step toward the "philosopher's stone" of enlightenment) and expressing "the precarious balance of the hermaphrodite, exalted by a [threatened] equilibrium" (Johannes Fabricius, Alchemy: The Medieval Alchemists and Their Royal Art, 1994).

From Africa, Viajes y Trabajos de la Asociaeion Euskara La Exploradora, 1887.

"I had to make my getaway between two suns.  There was no other horse nor time," said Billy the Kid (The West of Billy the Kid by Frederick Nolan).  Here's what a horse of two suns looks like, from Archiv für Physiologie, 1877.

"Left alone," from Advances in the Study of Mammalian Behavior, 1983.

From Mental Philosophy by Thomas Wirgman, 1838.

Don't ask which came first when it comes to the cycle of infection.  From Diseases of Poultry, 1915.

From Science in Story by Edward B. Foote, 1874.

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."

One of the only differences between a roulette table and a cathedral is where the croupier sits.  We recall that "Religion is a gamble" (Michael Demers, Becoming Adam) and "Gambling is a religion" (Jason Mandryk, Operation World), that "The casino is a church" (Donald Patrick Redheffer, Streams of Thought) and "The church is a gambling house" (Hiley H. Ward, Understanding Reality Religion), that "Faith is a gamble" (Lucian Phoenix-Wolf, The Spiritual Truth Series) and "Gambling requires faith" (Mike Wojniaj, "Listen to Your Heart").  

"If AC are the same, and B is nowhere, unless he is in the other place, wouldn't this style of features make a lovely design for a bronze knocker?"  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1872.

The variegated peoples of earth are here likened to an orbiting floral oracle that carries out the intentions of nature.  From the Book of Heavenly Teachings by R. P. Baugh, 1912.  The text reads (with all capitalizations and commas intact), "The Eye, Is a Member, Of all creation.  In the Sight, Of Context, Is all Knowledge.  Spirit is Neither Black nor White.  Black Flowers.  Brown Flowers.  Red Flowers.  Yellow Flowers.  White Flowers.  Flowers of Nature, In display, Of their varied formulas, In circular movements, That make this beautiful Bouqyet, An oracle, That forces its way, Through the laws of man, To carry out, Nature's Intent, And purposes."