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Today — March 27, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1909.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cues for You by Mildred Graves Ryan, 1930.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Basic Studies in Science: All Around Us by Wilbur Beauchamp, 1940.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Red Herring, Oct. 1993.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1925.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to see the (spotted, not striped) hyena this drawing is based upon. From Who's Who In the Zoo, 1937.

From Who's Who In the Zoo, 1937
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Old News (permalink)
"Hypnotized cigar."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1936.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mermaid's Gift by Julia Brown and illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright, 1912.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1969 yearbook. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Alimentive type: "Well I enjoy myself anyway."  From How To Analyze People On Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"When she drove a nail it held things together."  From The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware by Annie Fellows Johnston and illustrated by Etheldred B. Barry, 1908.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1976 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy by Grillot De Givry, 1931.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Chicago Normal School of Physical Education's 1928 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawings by John Leech, 1909.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Peace College's 1982 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"The voice from the skies.  15,000 people hear a flying man speak."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1919.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1924 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1973.
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