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Today — June 22, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We traded our rose-colored glasses for rose-colored binoculars.  From Wee Wisdom, 1958.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror1915.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 1913.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Just a series of question marks."  From Dark Shadows episode 309.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
For those with a fear of flying, any airplane might be dubbed the Question Mark.  From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Nature's Children by Allen Walton Gould, 1900.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life magazine, 1884.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A spirit drawing from The Direct Phenomena of Spiritualism by Edward T. Bennett, 1908.
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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Unicorns (permalink)
A solemn and gorgeous procession of stars, from the delightful and rare The Unicorn with Silver Shoes by Ella Young and illustrated by Robert Lawson.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories Old and New, Book One by F. C. Biehl.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From James Millikin University's 1910 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Comic Annual for 1831 by Thomas Hood, 1830.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1919 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 1879.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Carnegie Institute of Technology's 1920 yearbook.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oklahoma A & M College's 1939 yearbook.
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