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BeijingPalmer

The Simpsons is a show that started in the 1980s based on the creators own childhood in the 1950s that continues into the 2020s; fortunately future cultural historians will be able to refer to it simply as taking place in the 'late Washington dynasty'

On This Day in Simpsons History

Lisa Simpson’s wedding, which took place 15 years in the future at the time it aired, now takes place 16 years in the past. #TheSimpsons

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Rosanna Landis Weaver

I am so depressed that future historians will probably refer to a large part of my life as "The Trumpian era"

BeijingPalmer

this is actually something I try to keep in mind all the time when doing Chinese history; it's very normal to quote a source from, say, 1520 when referring to something in 1550, but that was a generation and a half apart!

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Ben Fleuss

Assyriologists will casually refer to a Neo-Assyrian source to elucidate something in the Old Babylonian period, over a thousand years earlier

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Brandon Bishop

"Middle to Upper Paleolithic Revolution: 50,000 to 30,000 years BP."

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David Hull 胡大衛

"People in the Qing Dynasty believed..."

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Dieterjosef

When was the Odyssey written down again? Seems to me the same with Roman history where we mostly have sources from people who read about something instead of being there.

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Ben Taylor

I was thinking about this sort of thing the other day. If you figure I will live to 100 (give or take, for easy maths) there's only ten of my lifetimes back to the Norman conquest and twenty back to Jesus.

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Ben Taylor

If you say recorded history started around 2000BC, I will live for about 2.5% (1/40th) of all of recorded history.

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Kath

People usually date recorded history to somewhere between 4000BC & 6000BC.

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Kath

But honestly 2000BCE isn't that far off either.

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timothystamm101

It depends on what level of complexity needs to present in the tabulation system before you consider it writing.

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Kath

Yes and slso how accessible to how many people, & how long people continue to be able to interpret it across how large an area or polity. Although given how much of the past just disappears, writing could remain accessible for several generations & it would look like a short time to us today. 1/

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Kath

Thinking about how many thousands of years pharoanic Egypt lasted is a bit mind-boggling, for example. 2/2

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Rohan (रोहन)

Those are the oldest writing that has been preserved. Paper, goat skins and unfired clay don’t exactly preserve very well over such long timeframes.

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Rohan (रोहन)

If anything there seems to be evidence that Göbekli Tepe, the earliest known agricultural city (12,500 years old), had some type of proto-writing.

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Kath

Interesting! Thank you

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Kath

Interesting! Thank you

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Prufrock451

I shook hands with Barack Obama, who shook hands with Bill Clinton, who shook hands with JFK, who shook hands with Oliver Wendell Holmes, who shook hands with John Quincy Adams, who shook hands with George Washington

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Silly B Man

Shush you’re impinging on the talk I’m going to give at my son’s bar mitzvah later this year

Andrew A. Gill

It's also worth mentioning that he probably doesn't remember all that much about the 50s, since he was born in `54. He was a 14 year old in the Summer of Love!

Sanho Tree

Time is flat.

Sanho Tree

In college, I was a TA for David Du Bois (stepson of W.E.B.). In the mid-1990s, I worked for Harry Belafonte who was politicized as a young man by Paul Robeson and W.E.B Du Bois. It never ceases to blow my mind that I have two connections to someone born in 1868.

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BeijingPalmer

Wait you worked for Belafonte? What a cool thing

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Bartholomew Collins

did you get to smoke a cigar with him???

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Michael Stahlke

Holy shit.

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BeijingPalmer

My teacher’s teacher invented the bat mitzvah in 1922 for his daughter

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jrosew

I was taught by Virginia Woolf’s nephew!

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Dan Waterfield

My grandfather recalled the zeppelins going over London, and the headlines about the titanic. He also recalled family members arriving having fled post ww1 pogroms in Eastern Europe/ Russia etc

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embracebecoming

Your teacher studied under Kaplin?

Isak Glaser

Homer (Groening) was born in 1919

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Accidental IT Specialist

*Me doing the search anyway, even though ... got me. I was born in 1926 so it took me a while.