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Today — May 11, 2026

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)

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Precursors (permalink)
Cell phones in 1919.  From the Daily Mirror, 1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From With Taro and Hana in Japan by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto, 1927.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1904.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Yoga by Selvarajan Yesudian & Elisabeth Haich, 1956.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jumble Book by David Cory, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea, 1977.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Book of the Images of the Fixed Stars of Al-Sufi, 15th century.
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Old News (permalink)
"All children love the rainbow."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1926.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Follow Me by Thorn et al., 1970.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Clothing for Moderns by Mabel Deane Erwin, 1949.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1905.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Motto: "Stick to Mother Earth."  From Hampden-Sydney College's 1911 yearbook.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chicago Normal College's 1926 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Disastrous day for black magic."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1941.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1927 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's bottled radio is from 73 Magazine, 1962.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1908 yearbook.
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