The episode title Distant Past was taken from the title of a bit of underscoring in Stephen Sondheim's film score for Alain Resnais's Stavisky.
Distant Early Warning Line | The Man Without a Past | Out of the Past | Distant Lover | The Songs of Distant Earth | A Little Past Little Rock | The Songs of Distant Earth (album) | The Past of Mary Holmes | The Distant Future | temperature record of the past 1000 years | Past life regression | Origin: Spirits of the Past | One Foot in the Past | Ghosts of Girlfriends Past | First-past-the-post voting | A Distant Star | A Distant Soil | A Distant Neighborhood | Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You | Trinity (Past, Present and Future) | The Past Was Faster | The Past Didn't Go Anywhere | The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords | The Far-Distant Oxus | The Distant and Mechanised Glow of Eastern European Dance Parties | The batobus ''Rivoli'', on its way past the Pont de Sully | Quarantine the Past: The Best of Pavement | Quarantine the Past | Past-Time Rail | Past Lives – The Best of the RCA Years |
In 1932, quarrying opened a fissure which contained remains of bison, Irish elk and deer, washed down from the surface in the distant past.
He lets the history of the Goths commence with the emigration of Berig with three ships from Scandza to Gothiscandza (25, 94), in a distant past.
In his 2005 book on the Melungeons, Walking Toward The Sunset: The Melungeons Of Appalachia, Wayne Winkler notes that McCullogh "espouses views that seem dated to many Americans today, but were widely held in the not-to-distant past ... since then, the idea of 'racial purity' has been largely - but not completely - discredited".
The scope of their influence is bordered by Alioth in the distant past as well as Kang the Conqueror, the Delubric Consortium, and Revelation at different eras throughout the timescape.