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Ancient history

noun

A history of the ancient world.

Knowledge of some recent fact or event that has become so commonly known that it has lost its original pertinence.

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"Ancient history" Quotes from Famous Books

... the stars, had they been blotted out of existence before the Christian era, we of to-day should still receive their light and seem to see them just as we do. When we look up to the sky, we study ancient history; we do not see the stars as they ARE, but as they WERE years, centuries, even ...

— A History of Science, Volume 3(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams

... the lower house. If the amendment passed it would go to the states for ratification, and their votes were certain to follow that of Congress. The Navy had fought a last-ditch battle to no avail. The balloting was going to be pretty much of a sure thing—the wet water Navy would soon become ancient history. ...

— Navy Day • Harry Harrison

... trying to reach you for a coupla weeks! We got somebody else instead of you, and they been talkin' to us, and they say that they're 3020 instead of 2180, but we've got to contact you! They don't know anything about that germ that's gonna mutate and bump us off! It's ancient history to them. We got to reach you! Come ...

— The Machine That Saved The World • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... has quickened his pace. Last year is ancient history. Lizzie has been succeeded by Miss Elizabeth, who needs a maid, a chauffeur, a footman, and a house-party to maintain her spirits. Harry and his drag have taken the place of ...

— 'Charge It' - Keeping Up With Harry • Irving Bacheller

... ruins. Alas, it was a disgraceful failure. Not only was the back of the modern tyrannical cottage laid up against the tyrannical castle of history, but the ancient and modern were dovetailed into one another, trying to bewilder you as to where ancient history and legend ended, and modern anecdote began. We looked into the great hall with its deep fire-place at the side, and upwards where another stately apartment had once been, a lofty presence room over the great hall, but the week's wash of the ...

— The Letters of "Norah" on her Tour Through Ireland • Margaret Dixon McDougall

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