ancient history
Noun
Meaning
knowledge of some recent fact or event that has become so commonly known that it has lost its original pertinence
a history of the ancient world
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It was also, they added, Very Now, which was important in a town in which an hour ago was Ancient History.
To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense, it contains only enduring and essential truth, the I and you, the here and there, the now and then, being omitted.
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
I couldn't miss Percy's fifteenth birthday,” Poseidon said. "Why, if this were Sparta, Percy would be a man today!” "That's true,” Paul said. "I used to teach ancient history.” Poseidon's eyes twinkled. "That's me. Ancient history.
that's me. ancient history." [Poseidon to Paul].
Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, that's 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.