I don't know where else to put this, so I made a thread!
Anyway, this came up on my YouTube recommendations and the first comment on the video really stuck me.
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It's crazy to me that in 2019 I can see a man who witnessed a presidential assassination that occurred 155 years ago. It's mind-blowing.
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To me Lincoln isn't quite ancient history, but still something from another world, a primitive time, yet the civil war vets died off in the 1950's, a time that doesn't seem so long ago. This man in the video witnessed the assassination, an event so famous and so impossibly far away in my mind.
Or, in another vein, William the Conqueror has ~5 million decedents simply because of how populations work vs time.
Then there is the typical discussion about how the Ancient Romans viewed the Pyramids as Ancient as we view the Romans, given Julius Caesar lived about halfway between when the Pyramids were built and our time.
Some random musings for my work procrastination break.