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Today — November 7, 2026

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Archive, 1980.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror, 1905.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Children's Own Readers 3 by Pennell, Cusack & Macleod, 1900.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1847.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers Book Five, 1931.
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Old News (permalink)
"We're really a weird mob!"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1961.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
See-through dress.  From Indiana State Normal School's 1916 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I die, that the theatre may live!"  From Harper's Magazine, 1960. 
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Old News (permalink)
"Rattled for life."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Fairhaven 's 1994 yearbook.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Same!  "After the first half hour's struggle with dirt, my enthusiasm was terribly weak."  From Lighted Pathway, 1955.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Big snob - old grouch dance."  From Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1959 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Trampolines by Thorn & Irwin, 1978.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1925 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Histoires et Contes Amusants by Joseph Edgar Poirier, 1950.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"It doesn't matter if you say you have a curse and you might kill me."  From Canada's answer to Dark Shadows, Strange Paradise episode 114.
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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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