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Today — June 26, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Stellar Key to the Summer Land by Andrew Jackson Davis, 1867.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Archive1929.
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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 Red Herring, Aug. 1992.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1938.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"A very wise old doctor."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.  See This Book is a Cactus.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We spotted a mirror-reversed cube in this scan of Scott's Poems.  God may not role dice, but apparently the Lady of the Lake does.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Shall I ever look like him?"  From Chatterbox, 1913.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'Really?' she asked, emotionally."  From Purple Parrot, 1934.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Beloit College's 1889 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Birds plant trees!"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1938.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1984 yearbook.
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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 Southern Methodist University's 1928 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Alligator versus snake.  Which do you wager will win?  From St. Nicholas, 1892.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1932 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Madness of the present age.  World must look like madhouse to angels."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1908 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"If they don't get you one way, another will do just as well."  From The Gateway, 1970.
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