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Today — September 18, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cues for You by Mildred Graves Ryan, 1930.
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The Right Word (permalink)
"The excited neighbors, hearing her singing rude songs, came flocking about her."  From The Essentials of the English Sentence by Elias H. MacEwan, 1900.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, illustrated by Louis Rhead, 1916.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Madame Pharaoh went into a trance and told him things he was sure were hidden from all the world: things —ma foi!—that were ab-so-lute-ly true!"  From The Saturday Evening Post, 1917.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 1936.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to confirm that the shape in the clouds is, in fact, the comic strip Henry, 26 years before his debut.
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.

Click to confirm that the shape in the clouds is, in fact, the comic strip Henry, 26 years before his debut.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat in History, Legend and Art by Anne Marks, 1909.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Timescope, Teacher's Guidebook by Alec Allinson, 1974.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest College's 1911 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"The magic hidden underfoot."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1935.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From West By South by Stothers & Armitage and illustrated by C. W. Jeffreys, 1938.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio Northern University's 1918 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Galileo, from Eye and Vision, Annotated Teacher's Edition by Ginn & Co., 1981.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1930 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Our Ouja called up a spirit."  From Fate Magazine, 1973.  See The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Purdue's 1899 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A castle on the Rhine, Ehrenfeld."  From Chatterbox, 1892. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1948.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Andrew's College Review1948.
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