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Today — May 31, 2026

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Thanks to the dedication of stop-motion animator Darian G., Grave Mood Rings was shown in a Tucson theatre!  Darian even honored us by wearing his Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia t-shirt.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Elphingell cracking thunderbolts for breakfast."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Abraham Lincoln.  From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book Six, 1936. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Heroes of the Puppet Stage by Madge Anderson, 1923.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Can Read Mr. Whiskers by Gerard, McInnes & McLean, 1962.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's how to prevent a widow from serving herself from an untouched first dish.  From Etiquette by Emily Post, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1935.
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Old News (permalink)
"Dying, acts as if seeing ghost."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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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)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Comic Annual for 1831 by Thomas Hood, 1830.
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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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Old News (permalink)
"A mouse is quite nutritious."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1956.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon College's 1966 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 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1911 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 73 Magazine, 1966.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1927 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
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