#2086: History Department

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[Ponytail is standing behind a lectern holding a hand up indicating the presentation screen next to her with a list of time periods. The screen has a string ending in ring, attached to it, to pull it down.]

Ponytail: 2018 was a productive year for the history department - we were able to fully analyze over four months of history.

Ponytail: Unfortunately, over that same period, an entire year of new history was produced.

Ponytail: I'm afraid we're falling behind.

[Presentation:]

Studied

November 1833

April 19-22, 1979

May 21-25, 585 BCE

June-August 1848

May 16, 2001


(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:When we take into account the recent discovery of previously-unstudied history in the 1750s, this year may have been an outright loss.


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