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Today — July 25, 2026

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
What an honor to be on the new album cover from Scott Baker Graham!  In the third row are Grave Mood Rings' vampiric Viscount and Prof. Oddfellow.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From With Taro and Hana in Japan by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto, 1927.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A non-church-goer is shackled and preached to.  From the Daily Mirror, 1904.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1972.
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Old News (permalink)
"This mad world.  What is wrong with it.  The blessing that was turned into a curse."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1932.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Marionette by Carlo Collodi, 1904.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ghost Stories, 1931.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1891.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Trinity University's 1956 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"There I saw a rat hanging by his tail."  From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1939 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Old News (permalink)
"Do you want the earth?"  From The Religio-Philosophical Journal, 1891.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1954 yearbook.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Imagine having a glamour shot of your first pizza of many.  From The Romulus Roman, 1976.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Party building.  From Kansas State University's 1980 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I'm not nervous."  From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 1900.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emerson College's 1926 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
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