ancient history

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Handing the ball to an ace like Yamamoto and asking for nine innings is ancient history.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

These communities are already experiencing climate impacts firsthand, and their knowledge is more directly relevant to present challenges than lessons drawn from ancient history.

From Science Daily • Feb. 10, 2026

To many of the skaters today, the 1990s might as well be ancient history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

Bostock felt like ancient history on Tuesday morning, when the court heard oral argument in Little v.

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2026

I wasn’t that great on ancient history, but I was pretty sure the Roman Empire never made it as far as Long Island.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan