Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-13
Could You Pass the Eighth Grade in 1895?
Old School Exams turns real school examinations from 1845–1912 into interactive tests, then issues a museum-made report card.
Why it surfacedThe collection spans everything from Boston’s 1845 public-school examination to New York’s first Regents paper and a Kansas eighth-grade test from 1895. It preserves each paper’s provenance and answers, grades against disclosed period keys where available, and carefully notes that none of the original exams supplied a pass mark.
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Thirty Patents for the Grave
August 13’s newborn domains include 30 safety-coffin patents, lost notices for false teeth and a box of hair, short films playing in 100 Tokyo taxis, and a Queensland river view arranged gauge by gauge downstream.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-13 Domain Arrivals issue.