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Today — November 14, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Archive, 1925.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Daily Mirror, 1904.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1965.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jumble Book by David Cory, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Bird Friends and Foes by William Atherton DuPuy and illustrated by George Miksch Sutton, 1925.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Art in Home and Clothing by Trilling & Williams, 1936.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1886.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Building blocks tumble down a stairway into the underworld.  From Bonstonofavitch by Thomas Carlisle and illustrated by Kathleen McKie, 1974.
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Old News (permalink)
"Flash Powder and Funerals."  From Cheaper By the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth, 1963.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra's seating arrangement.  From What We Hear In Music by Anne Shaw Faulkner, 1917.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The horrid truth came to her in a flash."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Not drawn to actual size.  From the Journal of the Fortean Research Center, vol. 4, no. 4.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1901 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1948.
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Old News (permalink)
"She faced death daily."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Georgia Southwestern's 1973 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"If it works, you don't need proof."  From The Aberree, 1955.  
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1927 yearbook.
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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 Bowman Gray School of Medicine's 1976 yearbook.
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