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Today — July 3, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Joyous Travelers by Maud Lindsay & Emilie Poulsson and illustrated by W. M. Berger, 1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror1917.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Treats and Treasures by McInnes et al., 1964.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Everyday Things by Arthur Train, Jr. and illustrated by Chichi Lasley, 1941.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1961.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lilliput Lyrics by William Brighty Rands and illustrated by Charles Robinson (1899).
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Microcosm, 1973.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Hypnotic catalepsy, from The Master Course in Hypnotism by Harry Arons, 1948.
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Old News (permalink)
"Courage—not wall of security—wins victory."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1951.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 1906.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Augustana College's 1954 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Killed by flies and ignorance."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Jean fought down her fear."  From Improvement Era, 1956.
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Loyola University's 1933 yearbook.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1921 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Six rainbows at once.  From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1925 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Long Ago by John Waddell, 1933.
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