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Today — April 14, 2026

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Laughing mask?"  From Motion Picture News, 1916.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Television, 1930.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea2003.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Western Comrade, 1913.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Direct object.  From Junior English in Action 3 by J. C. Tressler and illustrated by A. B. Savrann, 1937.
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Old News (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1966.  
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Pack of Foxhounds by Viscount Galway, 1920.  (Our restoration, as per usual.)
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Old News (permalink)
"Easy to get into Danish mad house.  Woman who took wrong train and became hysterical."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Sawdust into sugar!"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1945.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Two gentlemen and a fellow with a fur coat."  From Purple Parrot, 1925.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Akron's 1971 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Eggs that were hatched after having been swallowed by an snake."  From Chatterbox, 1903.  
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1900 yearbook.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Female Normal School (Farmville)'s 1914 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life Science by Benedict, Knox & Stone, 1941.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice in Orchestralia by Ernest La Prade, 1925.
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Old News (permalink)
"Toe dabbling day.  Jello anyone?"  From Chatham College's 1993 yearbook.
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