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Today — September 11, 2026

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that our One-Letter Words: A Dictionary is featured in the Cambridge Public Library and Kansas City Public Library's list of favorite dictionaries.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Red Herring, Aug. 1992.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1948.
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Postcard Transformations (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal the postcard's original photograph, from 1906, courtesy of UpNorth Memories.

Click to reveal the postcard's original photograph, from 1906, courtesy of UpNorth Memories
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This recalls Tarot's 10 of Swords, but with arrows.  From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Autobiography of Methuselah by John Kendrick Bangs and illustrated by F. G. Cooper, 1909.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1954.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1919.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1902 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic of Spices, written and illustrated by Joseph Dreany, 1961.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goucher College's 1928 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Instructor, 1931.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From National-Louis' 1940 yearbook.
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1913.  
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's School's 1913 yearbook.
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We Are All Snowflakes (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1901 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Think-and-Do Book to Accompany Streets and Roads by Gray & Monroe, 1940.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Andrew's College Review, 1907.
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