Sentence examples for some distant history from inspiring English sources

This is not some distant history.

To Mr. Burris's thinking, as to many here, Stone Mountain's image has been distorted by the activities of a few locals, an annual pilgrimage by outsiders and some distant history (the Klan had been largely inactive for decades before its rebirth at a 1915 rally on the mountain).

It isn't some distant history -- and yet our free and modern Europe is such a far cry from those days.

Some pieces of even quite distant history are surprisingly available.

He does relate some (distant) family history, and tell some vivid stories of growing up in Hannibal.

At the time, some found it helpful to look for explanations in Iceland's distant history.

Much of this stems from a not so distant history, when Inuit were sent to government-run residential schools, though some living in the western Arctic were sent as early as the 1860s.

The cryptic communiqués taking responsibility are distant history.

These are attempts to inspire emotional connections with distant history.

Westchester's older street names clearly reflect its distant history.

Although Yarun dates from Phoenician times, that distant history must remain buried in its ancient rocks.