From Our Abecedarian Blog . . .

Today — July 13, 2026
	Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink) Our Magic Words: A Dictionary was cited three times in a Baum Bugle article about the word "pyrzqxgl." . . . read more from Go Out in a Blaze of Glory . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From the Daily Mirror, 1914. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Book of the Images of the Fixed Stars of Al-Sufi, 15th century. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 1921. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) Today's cat using music to charm a bat out of a hat is from Follow Me by Thorn et al., 1970. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) "The fear of losing one's balance."  From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Junior English Activities Book Three by Hatfield, Lewis, Besig & Borchers (undated, c. 1938). Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) Wolf versus elk: which do you wager for the win?  From Mother Nature's Children by Allen Walton Gould, 1900. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).  Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From KPFK Folio, 1964. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) "Flunked out."  From West Virginia University's 1915 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From The Irish Fairy Book by Alfred Perceval Graves and illustrated by George Denham, 1909. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Old News (permalink) "A cat's wild ride 76 miles on the top of a train."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Ohio State's 1963 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From An American Crusoe by A. Hyatt Verrill, 1914. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Missouri Southern State College's 1979 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Old News (permalink) "They saved L. Ron's brain!"  From BBR #18 (1991). Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From the University of North Dakota's 1942 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) The laughing fairy (not pictured).  From Child-Library Readers Primer by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1923. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) "And sleep if we can."  From North Carolina Wesleyan's 1966 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .