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Today — January 13, 2026 (permalink)

From Wee Wisdom, 1957.


From Youth's Companion1924.


From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.


From Book of the Images of the Fixed Stars of Al-Sufi, 15th century.


From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.


From Our Pets by Nida & Nida, 1928.


"No man of sense ever took any pains to appear wise, as no honest man ever used tricks to display his own integrity."  From Brown's Language Lessons by Henry Kiddle, 1889.


From the teacher's manual to Starting Points in Mathematics 5, 1982.


You've heard that "the child is father to the man," and it was true for the Eleplant Man, too.  "'Elephant Boy' has grown up now."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1939.


From The Record Changer, 1951.


"Can anyone give me back six years of my life?"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1946.


From The Wizard, 1936.


From Chatterbox, 1894.


From Duke's 1971 yearbook.


From Chowan University's 1921 yearbook.


From Wild West Weekly, 1909.


From Ohio University's 1916 yearbook.


"A bride of the midnight sun."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.


"The placebo cures regret."  From Rich by Craig Raine, 1984.


From Life, Jan.-Mar. 1924:

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Although Neighbors is, for what it sets out to be, all right, there isn't much to be said for what it sets out to be. [Benchley]
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[Bonus: Magnolia Smidge, recitrice]

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