CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
"Here continueth to rot the first of Hopkins' secret societies. The mass of slime and corruption ... more distinguished in death than in life." From Johns Hopkins University's 1900 yearbook.
Should you whistle past the eerie graveyards in old yearbooks? Or do they harbor occult secrets? All is explained in How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook. From UNC Chapel Hill's 1963 yearbook.
Grave field with standing stones, burial mounds, stone circles and other monuments at Stenehed, Svarteborg, near Hällevadsholm. Wash drawing from the beginning of the 19th century. Courtesy of Swedish National Heritage.