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Today — February 23, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror1915.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alpine Architektur by Bruno Taut, 1917.
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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 Wee Wisdom, 1925.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1959.
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Old News (permalink)
"Now you too can have a deviation meter."  From 73 Magazine, 1969.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I'm just guessing at possibilities because ... because I don't know what else to do."  From Dark Shadows episode 325.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1935.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century 1891.
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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.
97811 73543
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes by Edna Walter and illustrated by Charles Folkard, 1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 1889.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1914 yearbook.
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From The New Comic Annual for 1831 by Thomas Hood, 1830.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein College's 1986 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From College of the Holy Cross' 1910 yearbook.
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