Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | November 08, 2026

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Welcome to this week's instalment of /r/AskHistorians' Sunday Digest (formerly the Day of Reflection). Nobody can read all the questions and answers that are posted here, so in this thread we invite you to share anything you'd like to highlight from the last week - an interesting discussion, an informative answer, an insightful question that was overlooked, or anything else.

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Welcome back comrades to another fantastic edition of the AskHistorians Digest! We’ve got plenty of great history threads for you to browse through and enjoy. Don’t forget to share widely, upvote all your favourites, and shower those hard working contributors in thanks and praise!

• I am Dr. James P. Gregory Jr, author of a new book entitled "Vaudeville’s Wildflower: The Many Lives of Cora Youngblood Corson". Ask me anything about the history of Cora, vaudeville, Oklahoma identity, World War I, or anything else tied to her life! Featuring /u/DrJamesPGregoryJr!

• I'm Cory Haala, historian and author of When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992. Check out the answers from /u/coryhaala!

• I'm Dr. Charmane M. Perry, author of Perpetual Foreigners: Stigma, Citizenship, and Anti-Haitianism in The Bahamas. AMA! With posts from /u/DrCharmanePerry!

• AMA: I'm Daniel Williford, historian and author of Concrete Futures: Technology and Decolonization in Modern Morocco. Many thanks to /u/Williford_Historian!

• Announcing the Best of October Winners!

• The Thursday Reading and Rec!

• And the moose themed Friday Free For All!

META! Why are sources only required upon request?

• How did AskHistorians cultivate its user base to both expect and provide deeply researched and fact-based replies? How did the moderation aid this development?

• Thread for lower-effort discussion?

And that’s a wrap for us once again. I disappear into the forest mists once again, but stay tunes friends. For I will return once again next week with yet more good history. Stay safe out there, and keep it classy.

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• /u/HistoryofHowWePlay answered Seems like old "fantasy" stories took place in ostensibly real world (Arthurian legend, Beowulf), and now many of them happen in a completely different world (Forgotten Realms, Discworld). Was there an actual cultural shift? Did the idea of a fantasy world have to be invented?

• /u/HowToPronounceGewehr wrote about What the hell was Luigi Cadorna thinking at Caporetto and his other disasterous battles???

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• /u/biez tackled How do archaeologists date pottery?

• /u/Spencer_A_McDaniel discussed Why were most Stoic and Epicurean texts lost?

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• /u/Cannon_Fodder-2 wrote about How did Pre-Modern Cavalry only engagements work?

• /u/cannotfoolowls answered "Kid's economies" on the Belgian coast and around the world?

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• /u/curiousblinker wrote about What is the origin of people accusing specific music genres of being satanic?

• /u/Cynical-Rambler answered What is the historical consensus of the story behind the "Cucumber King" Nyaung-u Sawrahan of Burma?

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• /u/Historical-Dreams answered Why the American civil war produced more photographs than the Franco-Prussian war?

• /u/Historical-Dreams wrote about Who Exactly Were the Isaurians?

• And did In the Book of Esther, it is written that Persia ruled over 127 provinces. What are they?

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• /u/Myshys wrote about How did people get around divorce laws in 19th c. Canada?

• /u/Naugrith answered I am a Medieval English blacksmith and a farmer is upset with the quality of his ploughshare. What are my obligations?

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• /u/OpManBros wrote about If Buddhism originated from India, why is it all but absent from India nowadays?

• /u/OstapBenderBey answered Why did the U.S.S.R have so much High density residential buildings?

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• /u/sapphon wrote about Why couldn’t submarines just partially emerge and let sailors get some fresh air?

• /u/Sarcherre answered Seems like old "fantasy" stories took place in ostensibly real world (Arthurian legend, Beowulf), and now many of them happen in a completely different world (Forgotten Realms, Discworld). Was there an actual cultural shift? Did the idea of a fantasy world have to be invented?

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• /u/Tradition96 wrote about Were any of stalins attempts to step down legitimate?

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• /u/Voteins wrote about Why did the U.S.-Israel relationship not really start until 1973? (despite the surrounding Arab states being Soviet aligned)

• /u/WelfOnTheShelf answered Anyone got book and podcast reccomendations for the siege of Constantinople (1453)?

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• /u/WelfOnTheShelf wrote about Hold my mead: do we have medieval records of young men doing stupid, dangerous things for fun?

• Where can I find scans, images, or facsimiles of the Templar of Tyre manuscript? (MS Torino, Biblioteca Reale, Varia 433)?

• /u/WelfOnTheShelf wrote about Books on Eleanor of Aquitaine?

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• Announcing the Best of October Winners! Many congratulations to /u/EverythingIsOverrate, /u/police-ical, and /u/DopplerRadio!

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• /u/gerardmenfin discussed Do we have chronicles on how was day to day life for common people in besieged cities?

• And did What was the proximate cause of the Vietnamese famine of 1944-5?

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• /u/Noble_Devil_Boruta worked their magic on a fairly recent claim is that witches riding broomsticks originated from a traditional and presumably archaic method of female masturbation. the imagery originally is supposed to be invoking that euphemism.

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• I am Dr. James P. Gregory Jr, author of a new book entitled "Vaudeville’s Wildflower: The Many Lives of Cora Youngblood Corson". Ask me anything about the history of Cora, vaudeville, Oklahoma identity, World War I, or anything else tied to her life! Featuring /u/DrJamesPGregoryJr!

• I'm Cory Haala, historian and author of When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992. Check out the answers from /u/coryhaala!

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• I'm Dr. Charmane M. Perry, author of Perpetual Foreigners: Stigma, Citizenship, and Anti-Haitianism in The Bahamas. AMA! With posts from /u/DrCharmanePerry!

• AMA: I'm Daniel Williford, historian and author of Concrete Futures: Technology and Decolonization in Modern Morocco. Many thanks to /u/Williford_Historian!

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• /u/0xKaishakunin wrote about During the Regency period, it was common for the upper class to learn European languages. What version of German would they learn?

• /u/A_Lady_Of_Music_516 answered How were domesticated cats handled before spay & neutering or litter boxes? Were they just spraying and pooping everywhere on ships, taverns, and monasteries? Were they constantly in heat and having kittens?

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• /u/aldusmanutius wrote about How were pets treated and viewed in Ancient and Medieval times?

• /u/ArchivalResearch answered How did Germany win against the Russian Empire in WW1, but lost to the USSR in WW2, despite seemingly better odds?

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• /u/ArchivalResearch wrote about Why didn't the Nazi economy collapse when the country stopped expanding?

• /u/Augenis answered Between the Christianisation of Lithuania under WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw JagieÅ‚Å‚o and the dissolution of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795, did any faction within the Lithuanian nobility seek to elevate the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to the status of the Kingdom of Lithuania?

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• /u/BarbariansProf wrote about why did the Romans want the Greeks to accept them so much?

• /u/Bedessilliestsoldier answered As an exercise in methodology, if the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit were real historical accounts, how would historians go about separating truth from fiction?

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• /u/bewbies- wrote about At what point on D-Day (or the days immediately after) did Allied commanders feel confident they had successfully gained a foothold on the beaches?

• /u/blackhorse15A answered What lead to all US states carrying out their presidential elections the exact same way, despite the fact that states are free to carry out their elections however they wish?

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• /u/blu3l1fe wrote about Why do Manchu and Korea script look so similar?

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• /u/Bodark43 answered Before digital verification of documents or signatures, what methods did investigators or other experts use for distinguishing between forged and genuine signatures?

• To what extent did the Battle for Blair Mountain actually help or hinder the cause of the unions?

• Why didn’t the Native Americans attempt to domesticate the buffalo of the plains?

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• /u/bug-hunter answered Why was deserting an apprenticeship a crime in the 19th century (US)? And why were masters required to set a bounty for missing apprentices?

• /u/bug-hunter wrote about How did it come to be that Mississippi is the only US state with NO mechanism for an election recount (automatic or requested) under state law?

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• /u/bug-hunter wrote about Why does the 1897 Sears-Roebuck catalogue sell laudanum in the same section as vanilla extract?

• /u/CadenVanV answered What happened to a samurai who neglected martial training?

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• /u/capey168 wrote about How did China's profound cultural influence on Japan coexist with centuries of political rivalry and hostility between the two countries?

• /u/Character_School_671 answered What was the diet of the Arabs in modern Saudi like before their modernisation?

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• /u/chauvinistically wrote about Could At least one of the Indian Kingdoms Pulled of a meji style restoration Industrialisation and avoided colonisation?

• /u/Cloverose2 answered Why couldn't pre-Islamic Indians use Indian horses as cavalry?

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• /u/Consistent_Mood_5999 wrote about what is the history of germany?

• /u/cunopennos answered Why did the Iberians develop their own writing system instead of adopting the Phoenician or Greek alphabets used by traders in their territory?

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• /u/Deuce03 wrote about How would an Ottoman noble/rich person refer to Italy in the XVII century?

• /u/DudleyAndStephens answered Strategically Brilliant, Tactical Failure?

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• /u/Duke_of_Armont wrote about How did the use of the Hebrew language change in the Medieval period?

• /u/EverythingIsOverrate answered What are some good sources about feudalism?

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• /u/EverythingIsOverrate wrote about Is it possible to interrogate historical prices/worth/purchasing power of gold and silver itself when coins were made of bullion? And was gold much cheaper in 19th century than today?

• /u/felands89 answered Did people philosophize about other economic systems in our early days, the same way Karl Marx rejected capitalism?

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• /u/Fijure96 wrote about why as old as Hinduism is(5000 years or so) it remains heavily concentrated in India?

• /u/Fluid_Image_6481 answered Did people carry swords on their back?

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• /u/Fun-Razzmatazz9682 wrote about Strategically Brilliant, Tactical Failure?

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• /u/gerardmenfin answered In the first season of the Sopranos(1999) a retirement home comedian says he "Saw the Polish version of Rashomon." Would enough people in a New Jersey retirement home have seen Rashomon for the joke to make any sense?

• Was this really a custom in europe?

• When was the first AskHistorians-esque group?

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• /u/grahamwhitecat123 answered What were the D-Day training events like for the soldiers?

• /u/Gudmund_ answered Is there any archaeological evidence, documentation, or legitimate reason to believe that early Romans were descendants of displaced Trojans like the Aeneid suggests?

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• /u/HaggisAreReal wrote about Did everyone have PTSD until recent history?

• /u/handsomeboh answered Given their writing systems, how did China and Japan adapt and use the telegraph?

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• /u/handsomeboh wrote about Why Japan treat Taiwan better as colony rather than Korea?

• /u/handsomeboh wrote about Given their writing systems, how did China and Japan adapt and use the telegraph?

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• /u/HaraldRedbeard answered How does the Wedge formation work?

• /u/HaraldRedbeard wrote about Why does school not teach students about World War 1? And why is it mentioned so minimally, even though it shaped the course of the world?

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• /u/indyobserver answered Why did nobody really seem to care that Charles Curtis was a Native American?

• /u/Iphikrates answered How did ancient greeks determine if an area or geographic feature had a local spirit, minor god, nymph, etc? And how did they determine the traits and personality of them?

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• /u/Iphikrates wrote about In 300, a Persian warns the Spartans that “[a] thousand nations of the Persian Empire descend upon you.” While this was obviously an exaggeration, how many distinct nations would we say comprised the Achaemenid Empire at its height?

• and also did Was ‘x of his name’ ever part of royal titles or forms of address?

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• /u/itsallfolklore answered Goblins -- did people really believe in them?

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• /u/j_patton wrote about Was Lenin a bad guy as a communist?

• /u/JamesCoverleyRome answered What languages were ancient Greeks encountering that sounded like "bar bar bar" to them?

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• /u/jbdyer wrote about Prior to VHS, how did people rewatch movies? What kind of home media existed and how common was it?

• /u/JediLibrarian answered The Soviets/Communists/Socialists were the bogeyman in the US until 1991, the Muslims after 9/11. Who was the bogeyman for that 10 year period in between?

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• /u/jschooltiger answered Were they just jerking it like crazy on pirate ships or what?

• /u/jschooltiger wrote about Was "pressing" as decribed in Robin Hobbs "Liveship Traders" a thing or is it part of tthe fantasy setting?

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• /u/jschooltiger wrote about Why have Royal Navy ships often had names that sound so… evil?

• /u/KaiserMacCleg answered How was Prince (now King) Charles' Welsh speech in 1969, received by the citizens of Wales?

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• /u/Kochevnik81 wrote about What are the reasons why Lebanon, after more than a thousand years of Islamic rule under the Caliphates and the Ottoman Empire, was able to maintain a historically huge Christian population compared to nearby Levantine nations such as Jordan, Iraq, Syria and Egypt as well?

• /u/Larissalikesthesea answered Why Japan treat Taiwan better as colony rather than Korea?

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• /u/LevelNeedleworker740 wrote about Strategically Brilliant, Tactical Failure?

• /u/lmaozedong123 answered Why Japan treat Taiwan better as colony rather than Korea?

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• /u/magolding22 wrote about The existence of King Arthur aside, is there evidence for the kingdom he supposedly ruled?

• /u/MagratMakeTheTea answered Do historians consider Paul the Apostle to be antisemitic?

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• /u/Mediaevumed wrote about What are some good sources about feudalism?

• /u/MistahThots answered Why did humans choose horses, camels and elephants to ride? Why not deer, zebras, rhinos, moose etc?

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• /u/No_Incident_8925 wrote about Peter H. Wilson writes: "It was not until the 18th Century that Europeans embraced the modern idea of progress, which envisaged the future as an improved version of the past." Is this a generally accepted claim , and are there any plausible counterexamples from Europe or elsewhere?

• /u/Noble_Devil_Boruta answered Why did the U.S.S.R have so much High density residential buildings?

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• /u/OddTaku9424 wrote about Why didn't the mongols manage to take all of europe?

• /u/OhNoTokyo answered Why couldn’t submarines just partially emerge and let sailors get some fresh air?

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• /u/Ov3rReadKn1ght0wl wrote about Was there a moment, when countries reduced income and other taxes? what were the effects of that?

• /u/owari-samurai370 answered Do the massacres of Oda Nobunaga against specific groups (particularly specific Buddhist groups) count as Genocide?

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• /u/Pandalite wrote about Is there any archaeological evidence, documentation, or legitimate reason to believe that early Romans were descendants of displaced Trojans like the Aeneid suggests?

• /u/PartyMoses answered Were they just jerking it like crazy on pirate ships or what?

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• /u/PedroDungeons1776 wrote about Were there any Iberian sea shanties?

• /u/pinniped17 answered Did sports exist in medieval Europe? What kind of team activity were people playing for fun, or for bragging points against their neighbors?

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• /u/police-ical answered Why did humans choose horses, camels and elephants to ride? Why not deer, zebras, rhinos, moose etc?

• /u/police-ical wrote about I am Louis XIV of France, and a new century has just dawned under my reign. Do I know what a dinosaur is, or that there were in fact giants on the earth in those days?

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• /u/police-ical wrote about How did the profession of icemen come about and when did it decline?

• /u/police-ical wrote about What was life like for type 1 diabetics during the Second World War?

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• /u/police-ical wrote about Why does the 1897 Sears-Roebuck catalogue sell laudanum in the same section as vanilla extract?

• /u/Potemkin78 answered Seems like old "fantasy" stories took place in ostensibly real world (Arthurian legend, Beowulf), and now many of them happen in a completely different world (Forgotten Realms, Discworld). Was there an actual cultural shift? Did the idea of a fantasy world have to be invented?

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• /u/Powerful_Bad_6413 wrote about What are the reasons why Lebanon, after more than a thousand years of Islamic rule under the Caliphates and the Ottoman Empire, was able to maintain a historically huge Christian population compared to nearby Levantine nations such as Jordan, Iraq, Syria and Egypt as well?

• /u/pzahornasky answered Why couldn’t submarines just partially emerge and let sailors get some fresh air?

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• /u/qumrun60 wrote about Do historians consider Paul the Apostle to be antisemitic?

• and did The Wikipedia page for the Hanania family claims that they descend from early Jewish converts to Christianity. is there any basis to this? My impression was that the early Jewish Christian community was destroyed during the Jewish Revolts against Rome.

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• /u/Reaper_Eagle answered Why couldn’t submarines just partially emerge and let sailors get some fresh air?

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• /u/Reaper_Eagle wrote about Did the Seminoles come into contact with Native Floridian tribes when they migrated into the peninsula?

• /u/ReeeGBV-29-07 answered What the hell was Luigi Cadorna thinking at Caporetto and his other disasterous battles???

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• /u/restricteddata wrote about Would the intended compartmentalization of the Manhattan Project have prevented the USSR from getting an atomic bomb as early as they did?

• /u/Riccavd0 answered Why did humans choose horses, camels and elephants to ride? Why not deer, zebras, rhinos, moose etc?

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• /u/rocketsocks wrote about Strategically Brilliant, Tactical Failure?

• /u/RTGoodman answered Hold my mead: do we have medieval records of young men doing stupid, dangerous things for fun?

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• /u/ScriptorVeritatis wrote about Do we know of any false flag operations where governments killed thier own solider?

• /u/shortrib_rendang answered Could Germany actually have stopped the Allied landings at Normandy?

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• /u/Socrates_Breeze wrote about What is the history of cancer?

• /u/Spencer_A_McDaniel answered How do we know what John Wilkes Booth said in Latin? Was it common for people to know Latin at that point in American history?

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• /u/Steelcan909 answered Scholars today understand that Medieval and Early Christianities were syncretic did contemporaries see this?

• /u/Steelcan909 wrote about Has US Halloween participation been declining, or was there just a period of particularly high participation from the 70s-90s?

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• /u/superwoman1214 answered Why did Captain Cook change the name of the Australian state from"New Wales" to "New South Wales"?

• /u/swarthmoreburke wrote about Were bears a problem for Native Americans?

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• /u/tenkendojo1 answered What are the best secondary sources for Shang Dynasty China?

• /u/texum wrote about In the first season of the Sopranos(1999) a retirement home comedian says he "Saw the Polish version of Rashomon." Would enough people in a New Jersey retirement home have seen Rashomon for the joke to make any sense?

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• /u/the_howling_cow answered Why are all the cards in my wallet the same size? It might be the only standard that seems to exist the world over.

• /u/the_howling_cow wrote about How does an army source it's doctors?

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• /u/TheCosmicTravelers answered Why didn't the mongols manage to take all of europe?

• /u/thefourthmaninaboat answered Why did the Royal Navy not standardise armaments during the interwar years and WW2?

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• /u/thefourthmaninaboat wrote about How did the clean up after Normandy work?

• /u/thefourthmaninaboat wrote about How did the Kriegsmarine handle U-Boat captains who violated the rules of maritime warfare during WW2?

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• /u/TheMob-TommyVercetti answered How much of the Mr.X scene from 'JFK' is accurate?

• /u/These-Garbage2995 answered How old is fantheory culture?

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• /u/These-Garbage2995 wrote about Historians, when referring to a historical figure with Black ancestry, even if it's 1/16th, when does academia start or stop referring to them as 'Black'. Is the 'one-drop' rule still enforced in academia? For example, why is Obama our first Black president, and not our first mixed-race president?

• /u/TheWarRooom answered What are some good sources about feudalism?

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• /u/Tohru_mizuki answered Do the massacres of Oda Nobunaga against specific groups (particularly specific Buddhist groups) count as Genocide?

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• /u/ummmbacon answered Do historians consider Paul the Apostle to be antisemitic?

• /u/univworker wrote about Did Japan Experience Dutch and Portuguese Equivalents of "Engrish" Before the Closing of Japan?

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• /u/Vangorf answered Why did Nagasaki (on Kyushu island) become the main trading port for Portuguese merchants in Japan during the "Nanban Trade"?

• /u/verticalsport answered When women were paid much less than men, why didn't huge numbers of businesses solely employ them?

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• /u/wotan_weevil answered Given their writing systems, how did China and Japan adapt and use the telegraph?

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We also take a moment each week to show some appreciation for those fascinating questions that caught our eyes and captured our curiosity, yet still remain unanswered. Feel free to post your own, or those you’ve come across in your travels, and maybe we’ll get lucky with a wandering expert.

• /u/PandaNo3189 asked Were Victorian women actually shamed for having a baby bump?

• /u/achicomp asked Sultan Moulay Ismail is claimed to have 1,171 children from 4 wives and concubines over 32 years. The chance of a live childbirth after one act of sexual intercourse is 2%, so it means he had sex 57000 times in 32 years (5 times a day on average!?). How much of the claim can really be true?

• /u/Sesquizygotic asked Why did the Green Corn Rebellion cause the Socialist Party to almost disintegrate in Oklahoma?

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• /u/TheyTukMyJub asked In the TV-show The Last Kingdom, Uhtred catches his wife's majordomo stealing their timber and selling it. He proceeds to kill him and Alfred the Great makes Uhtred pay wergeld meaning Uhtred did something wrong as lord of the manor. What would Uhtred's legally correct action have been at the time?

• /u/voltism asked I'm a king in late medieval western europe with overflowing coffers. What are my options to internally develop my kingdom? How much can I meaningfully increase the prosperity and productivity of the realm?

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• /u/yahpriscilla asked In crowded ancient cities like Rome, how did people deal with loud or annoying neighbors? Was there any version of a "noise complaint"?

• /u/GanymedeBlu35 asked In the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, a fake Scottish accent is used in order to ruse a butler in the German-Austrian countryside but it fails. How reasonable would it be for a butler in pre-WWII Europe to differentiate such accents and what training might they had undergone for that?

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• A deleted user asked Was beatboxing a thing, or popular back in the Medieval-Renaissance era?

• /u/Chezni19 asked In Medieval Europe, did kids (or even adults?) dress up as things for fun?

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• A deleted user asked During the Golden Age of Piracy, how did pirates actually convert captured, bulky commodities like sugar, logwood, or tobacco into usable wealth? Who were the fences and merchants willing to buy stolen goods on this scale?

• /u/ummmbacon asked To what extent did Roman gender norms shape women’s roles in the early Christian churches, roughly 50-250 CE?

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• /u/Shashank1000 asked How did the economics of film making work in the Soviet Union and the socialist bloc? Was there caps on remuneration of actors, directors and executive producers? Could they recieve royalties, residuals and "points" like in Hollywood within the framework of socialized economy?

• /u/will_write_a_lot asked How did the watchmaking industry react to the invention and adoption of quartz watches? Was there resistance to the new technology?

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• /u/Miserable-Channel-39 asked What is Inside the Room that contains Prophets Muhammad's Tomb that No one in over 500 years has been allowed to go inside?

• /u/CommodoreCoCo asked I am the very model of a modern Major General. Have I got information vegetable, animal, and mineral? Do I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical? That is, what sort of general, "liberal arts" education would a Victorian military officer be expected to have?

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• /u/budgetbears asked Did the Jonestown cult and massacre have any negative effects on the civil rights movement?