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Today — February 12, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror1917.
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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)
From Wee Wisdom, 1923.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Werner Primer for Beginners in Reading by F. Lilian Taylor, 1895.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Manual of Occultism by Sepharial, 1914.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, illustrated by Frank C. Papé, 1912.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior Language Book B by Donalda Dickie, 1938.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Practice Book For Me Level 2 by Thorn, McCreary-Juhasz, Smith, Munroe & Richmond, 1966.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A shoe bonfire.  From West Virginia Wesleyan College's 1941 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"They fly down."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1938.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Craving Vacancy by Susan Ostrov Weisser.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Sometimes ya jus' gotta take a break!"  From Berea College's 1977 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1946.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Normal peaches."  From Chicago Normal College's 1927 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Cucumbers everywhere."  From The Daily Colonist, 1959.
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From College of the Holy Cross' 1910 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A 25,000-year-old reindeer engraving.  From Ten Years Under the Earth by Norbert Casteret, 1933.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Gloom, 1922.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Carnegie Institute of Technology's 1920 yearbook.
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