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Today — September 28, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Goblin, 1926.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Small Creatures by Couchman, MacBean, Stecher & Wentworth, 1977.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror, 1915.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Companion Book for Day In and Day Out by O'Donnell, Scharschug & Carey, 1941.
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1965.
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
"We have a secret, just we three, the robin and I and the sweet cherry tree; the bird told the tree and the tree told me, and nobody knows it but just us three."  From The Alexandra Readers First Reader by McIntyre & Saul, 1908.
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
We're not sure that anyone's talking about how the original alien crop circles were garden labyrinths.  From Mazes and Labyrinths by William Henry Matthews, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1894.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hamlet's Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend, 1969.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Animal Tales by Laura Rountree Smith, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Spelling Program 6 by Thomas and Braun, 1979.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Beloit College's 1895 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Garden of Eden may be found in cold storage."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.  
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ponokah by Mary Mapes Dodge, 1903.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1917 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Engraved copper plaque: "Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted."  By Wilbert, late 12th century.  From the corona lucis in the Minster-church at Aix-la-Chapelle.  In The Burlington Magazine, 1903.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Don't buy sour grapes."  From the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's 1969 yearbook.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Female Seminary's 1911 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Money worth nothing."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1919.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1932 yearbook.
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