ancient history
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Bostock felt like ancient history on Tuesday morning, when the court heard oral argument in Little v.
From Slate • Jan. 14, 2026
He graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in ancient history with the intent of going to law school.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2025
One explanation is that by the time that research is submitted, accepted and presented, it can be several months old, which the frontier labs now consider ancient history.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025
World War One seemed like ancient history in my childhood imagination, even though I was born only 40 years after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025
In olden days they had, of course, been often obliged to fight to maintain themselves in a hard world; but in Bilbo’s time that was very ancient history.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
