It looks odd to have a Halloween cover for November 3rd, till you realize that it probably hit the newsstand two weeks before that.
It was a weekly… a monthly magazine often comes out well before the beginning of the prior month, so it has a lot of time to be displayed before looking old.
December issues are on the stands now, with articles about Thanksgiving.
All I came up with from an bunch of sites is brother and sister in costumes, ca 1900.
What’s interesting, though, is how many similar pairings I saw while searching… A boy as a clown, or Pierrot, with a girl, probaby his sister, in some sort of Tyrolean or sometimes other European costume.
Alice Liddell, (later Alice Pleasance, 1852-1934) in a photograph from 1870, at age 18.
When Alice was a child, her family lived next door to Charles Dodson, who wrote Alice’s Adventures Underground, mostly for the amusement of her and her siblings, which was published a few years later as “Alice in Wonderland”, under Dodson’s pen name, Lewis Carroll.
There’s a lot of argument in literary circles as to whether that Alice was the embodiment of Alice Liddell, or at least inspired by her. It seems fairly obvious, especially as Carroll’s original hand drawn illustrations even look like her… but he always denied it. He did give her the original manuscript of Alice’s Adventures Underground.
And of course, you couldn’t hurt yourself swinging a frying pan (presumably a cast iron one… Zombies would laugh at a Teflon pan..) on the end of a chain. Even if a bicycle chain is an odd choice
That is one tall skinny elephant!
She looks like a model for Elephant Vogue.
Okay, yes…. I did search it.
She’s F_MU1 (what the heck kind of name is that?) an African “super tusker” well known as the “Queen of Elephants.” Her tusks weigh over 100 lbs apiece.
She was photographed at 60 years old, in Tsavo East National Park, Kenya, by wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas in partnership with the Tsavo Trust and the Kenya Wildlife Service.
I know they’re supposed to be creepy ghouls, and all that… but there’s something endearing about these cute (well, I think so) little goblins in their turn of the 20th century Halloween costumes.
They kind of remind me of “Where The Wild Things Are”… a wonderful book by Maurice Sendak they tell me is for children, but I love it anyway.
BTW… All of a sudden several things have “updated” … which is usually in a downward direction… on my tablet and phone…. I should say in the Google apps.
One is Google Lens, which I use to search for unsafe info. It’s been taken over by annoyingly chatty AI.
Another is the colors available in the app I use to do these solutions.
It’s actually a photo editing app, but until last week had only 5 colors to use, mostly bright, plus black and white.
They must have finally figured out that most people don’t need bright red or green to correct a photo, so they replaced that with a softer palette of about15 more useful colors… Useful if you’re trying to fix the eyes or a tree in a photo, and need unobtrusive shades.
But I need that bright red! I’m still experimenting with which among these subdued hues will show up against a bright puzzle background, like a Cleo puzzle.
I do appreciate humans being on the list…. even if it puts us at number 30. Well…. number 30 redux.
We still need humans, IMHO, if only to correct AI slop like this.
Check out the numbering… great job.
At least number 18 and the other …. I guess it’s an 18 ….are the same. The finches are numbers 27 and 28, while we humans have to share one number with… Havens??
“Havens have open solving nusalies.” Say what?
 I even googled that last “word” to make sure it wasn’t a gap in my vocabulary… but Google scolded me, saying it wasn’t a word.
Btw… One kind of finch, the woodpecker finch, apparently does use tools… though saying “to catch prey” is a bit of a stretch. They break
off bits of sticks to get grubs out of holes.
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Boop!
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It looks odd to have a Halloween cover for November 3rd, till you realize that it probably hit the newsstand two weeks before that.
It was a weekly… a monthly magazine often comes out well before the beginning of the prior month, so it has a lot of time to be displayed before looking old.
December issues are on the stands now, with articles about Thanksgiving.
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Bridge may be icy.
It appears to be beautifully impractical for most weather conditions.
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All I came up with from an bunch of sites is brother and sister in costumes, ca 1900.
What’s interesting, though, is how many similar pairings I saw while searching… A boy as a clown, or Pierrot, with a girl, probaby his sister, in some sort of Tyrolean or sometimes other European costume.
…
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Alice Liddell, (later Alice Pleasance, 1852-1934) in a photograph from 1870, at age 18.
When Alice was a child, her family lived next door to Charles Dodson, who wrote Alice’s Adventures Underground, mostly for the amusement of her and her siblings, which was published a few years later as “Alice in Wonderland”, under Dodson’s pen name, Lewis Carroll.
There’s a lot of argument in literary circles as to whether that Alice was the embodiment of Alice Liddell, or at least inspired by her. It seems fairly obvious, especially as Carroll’s original hand drawn illustrations even look like her… but he always denied it. He did give her the original manuscript of Alice’s Adventures Underground.
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Uh…. Yeah…. (Backing away)….
And of course, you couldn’t hurt yourself swinging a frying pan (presumably a cast iron one… Zombies would laugh at a Teflon pan..) on the end of a chain. Even if a bicycle chain is an odd choice
,,.
That is one tall skinny elephant!
She looks like a model for Elephant Vogue.
Okay, yes…. I did search it.
She’s F_MU1 (what the heck kind of name is that?) an African “super tusker” well known as the “Queen of Elephants.” Her tusks weigh over 100 lbs apiece.
She was photographed at 60 years old, in Tsavo East National Park, Kenya, by wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas in partnership with the Tsavo Trust and the Kenya Wildlife Service.
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I know they’re supposed to be creepy ghouls, and all that… but there’s something endearing about these cute (well, I think so) little goblins in their turn of the 20th century Halloween costumes.
They kind of remind me of “Where The Wild Things Are”… a wonderful book by Maurice Sendak they tell me is for children, but I love it anyway.
That’s the first thing that came to my mind, too!
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El Capitan.
find 4 tiny ghosts
I got 3.
Pretty sure I’ve got them…..
BTW… All of a sudden several things have “updated” … which is usually in a downward direction… on my tablet and phone…. I should say in the Google apps.
One is Google Lens, which I use to search for unsafe info. It’s been taken over by annoyingly chatty AI.
Another is the colors available in the app I use to do these solutions.
It’s actually a photo editing app, but until last week had only 5 colors to use, mostly bright, plus black and white.
They must have finally figured out that most people don’t need bright red or green to correct a photo, so they replaced that with a softer palette of about15 more useful colors… Useful if you’re trying to fix the eyes or a tree in a photo, and need unobtrusive shades.
But I need that bright red! I’m still experimenting with which among these subdued hues will show up against a bright puzzle background, like a Cleo puzzle.
Bear with me, please!
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Those benches look comfortable… And very hard to get up from.
I mean, not when I was 20, or 40. But nowadays I might have to flag down help.
Turning your legs to the free side should work.
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I do appreciate humans being on the list…. even if it puts us at number 30. Well…. number 30 redux.
We still need humans, IMHO, if only to correct AI slop like this.
Check out the numbering… great job.
At least number 18 and the other …. I guess it’s an 18 ….are the same. The finches are numbers 27 and 28, while we humans have to share one number with… Havens??
“Havens have open solving nusalies.” Say what?

I even googled that last “word” to make sure it wasn’t a gap in my vocabulary… but Google scolded me, saying it wasn’t a word.
Btw… One kind of finch, the woodpecker finch, apparently does use tools… though saying “to catch prey” is a bit of a stretch. They break
off bits of sticks to get grubs out of holes.
,,..
I’ve never heard of the Sels-Floto circus… But it’s a beautiful poster. Of course, I do wonder a bit about a circus promising 100 dancing girls…
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“Hubba hubba!” … LOL.
This is the funniest of the three… except for “skulldoggery”.
that was a contribution from Ernie, Stel’s hubby
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Love the weather reporter.
Nikki Osborne is an Australian comedian. This is a great example of her humor.
Here’s another one from ‘Bush Barbie’.
Language is a bit graphical if you’re at work, or a bit sensitive so such things.