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2k-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past

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244 points benbreen | 1 comments | 15 Jan 25 21:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.378s | source
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teddyh ◴[16 Jan 25 19:52 UTC] No.42730031[source]▶
It is always fascinating when Americans re-discover that old things actually exist.

But, as they say, an American thinks that 100 years is a long time while a European thinks that 100 miles is a long way.

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1. dang ◴[16 Jan 25 19:53 UTC] No.42730044[source]▶
Please don't post nationalistic flamebait to HN. That's a pretty insulting variant of it.

(I love the adage you quote, though. When I first heard it it said "Canadian" and "Englishman", which probably says something about how far back it goes.)