{"id":33177,"date":"2013-04-14T09:06:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T15:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/14\/history-lingers-on.html"},"modified":"2013-04-15T06:58:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T12:58:27","slug":"history-lingers-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/14\/history-lingers-on.html","title":{"rendered":"History lingers on"},"content":{"rendered":"
History — especially the kind of stuff we read about in, y'know, history books — is far more persistent and messy than we tend to think of it. \u00a0I'm not talking about the historical dialectic, or currents of influence in the fabric of time, but … leftover stuff. \u00a0Like you only discover stuff in your house when you move, including things you were sure had been thrown out decades ago …<\/p>\n

(Note to +<\/span>Cracked.com<\/a><\/span>\u00a0— "recently" probably doesn't include "early 1980s" for most people, but it's still a cool article.)<\/div>\n

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6 Mind-Blowing Things Recently Discovered From WWII<\/a>
\n In an era when even Mt. Everest has cell phone coverage, you wouldn’t think that anything could go undiscovered for long. But you’d be surprised …\n <\/p>\n

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History — especially the kind of stuff we read about in, y'know, history books — is far more persistent and messy than we tend to think of it. \u00a0I'm not talking about the historical dialectic, or currents of influence in the fabric of time, but … leftover stuff. \u00a0Like you only discover stuff in your … Continue reading “History lingers on”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136832,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/24\/when-the-world-began-ad-1450.html","url_meta":{"origin":33177,"position":0},"title":"When the World Began: AD 1450","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 24-Jun-18 2:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The College Board -- which runs the Advanced Placement exams, including AP World History -- is concerned that the latter covers too much stuff. 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