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Today — August 10, 2026
	Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Wee Wisdom, 1930. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Language Comes Alive 4 by Charles Rittenhouse, 1959. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink) . . . read more from I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought . . .

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink) "What on earth does that mean?"  From Dark Shadows episode 1243. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 1921. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) The musimon (or tityrus, tytron), a hybrid goat and sheep; it has the feet and body of a goat, the head and beard of a ram, and two horns from each for a total of four—two curved and two straight.  From Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures In Art with Special Reference To Their Use in British Heraldry by John Vinycomb, 1906. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977). Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) Inkblots for Dymphna, patroness of mental disorders.  From Blottentots, and How to Make Them by John Prosper Carmel, 1907. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Chatterbox, 1888. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Old News (permalink) "Cat rears a young rat.  Captive adopted as a child."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From How to Read Heads by James Coates, 1891. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Old News (permalink) "Use both doors."  From The Improvement Era, 1952. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Gustavus Adolphus College's 1950 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Images Moving Through Time (permalink) From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1941. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Images Moving Through Time . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Goshen College's 1980 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) Tobogganing down the frozen cone of Montmorenci Falls.  From Harper's, 1879. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Indiana University's 1896 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) A barber who can take of a beard without shaving.  From St. Nicholas, 1891. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From State Female Normal School (Farmville, Virginia)'s 1907 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .