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What is a time capsule?

What is a time capsule? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A sealed container, buried at some location, that contains records of contemporary life - to be rediscovered in the distant future.
  2. (figuratively) Something reflecting an historical setting by its nature, existing out of time due to isolation or some specific external influence.
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Once he was even called to locate a plastic time capsule buried in front of a high school nearly 30 years earlier.
It will carry a time capsule containing messages and personal items that will stay on the moon after the crash.
It's a time capsule of baronial Scottish splendour circa 1880-minus the midges.
Last November the pupils took part in a ceremony to bury a time capsule at the site of the new school.
Very soon, a vast time capsule will be buried containing all manner of goods and items intended to wholly embody 20th century life.
A time capsule full of treasures has opened a window into what life was like 113 years ago in Swindon.

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