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Today — February 9, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror1915.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Sea lambs emerge from the foam.  From Wee Wisdom, 1924.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Elson-Runkel Primer, 1914.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Design Your Home for Living by Mabel Barbara Trilling, 1953.
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
A Pawnee prayer from the Hako ceremony.  From The Book of Indian Crafts and Indian Lore by Julian Harris Salomon, 1928.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's mongoose and crocodile are from St. Nicholas, 1895.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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Old News (permalink)
"Spoilers of the sky.  How shall we deal with them?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1932.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Sympathetic trees.  From The House That Jack Built by Randolph Caldecott, 1878.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1937.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1914 yearbook.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Grocery shopping is not fun."  From B.A.R., 1979.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A robot uprising from Tuft University's 1940 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ancient Egypt by Richard Carrington.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology's 1968 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Towers of Visigoth and of the Inquisition, Carcassonne."  From Harper's, 1879.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From College of the Holy Cross' 1910 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lady Green Satin and Her Maid Rosette, translated by Baroness E. Martineau des Chesnez and illustrated by Winifred Bromhall, 1923.
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