# trash heap of history

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A notional place where events, people or objects which have been forgotten or have become irrelevant from a historical perspective are placed or recorded.

## Etymology
In a similar form (“that great dust heap called ‘history’”) used by English essayist Augustine Birrell in 1887 (but in use before), popularized by Leon Trotsky in reference to the Mensheviks (1917).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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