I was watching a Forgotten Weapons episode and gun Jesus mentioned this happening around the five minute mark. I was wondering if anyone could elaborate.

Episode 100 is up!

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This Episode:

Today as it is our 100th episode (and we are fast approaching 700,000 subscribers) we have decided to do something a little different! We have a panel of AskHistorians Moderators to talk about AskHistorians Under the Hood--what it is like to moderate and run the worlds largest academic history forum. AskHistorians has grown a lot in its six, nearly 7 years of existence, spawning several articles, helping several careers, several academic panels (which you can hear on earlier episodes) and this podcast! So if you have no interest in AskHistorians as a reddit community, this podcast might be of less interest to you. But regardless we have a great lineup today. The format today will be brief discussions of individual moderators about different aspects of AskHistorians followed by period of comment by the whole panel!

Today we are joined by

1. /u/bernardito, better known as Stefan, flaired in Modern Guerrilla and Counterinsurgency, to talk about the development of the subreddit and his own development. You can also catch him on episodes 39 and 40 talking about Algeria and Counter-Insurgency.

2. /u/commiespaceinvader, also known as Joe, flaired in to Holocaust  Nazi Germany and Wehrmacht War Crimes, to talk about holocaust denialism, the academic theories underpinning academia and AskHistorians, and the emotional labor of working on a very difficult topic. You can also catch him on episodes 91 and 57 talking about fascism and Intentionalism and Functionalism in the Holocaust

3. /u/snapshot52, known as Kyle, flaired in Native American Studies | Colonialism, to talk about theory in a non-western and subaltern points of view, and the difficulties and pleasures of this. You can also catch him on episodes 75 and 80 talking about Indian Policy and Indian Sovereignty and Cultural Genocide against American Indians

4. /u/chocolatepot, known to her friends and family as Cassidy Percoco, flaired in the History of Western Fashion, to discuss what it is like having interests that are contrarian to the reddit hivemind and culture, and what it is like to bring women's history to life. Catch her on episode 45 talking about Regency Era Fashion

5. /u/Iphikrates, known as Roel, flaired in Greek Warfare, to talk about being an expert in a field where the academic view is diametrically opposed to the public one, and how AH is a perfect opportunity to do something about it because the questions come from the public. Catch him also on episode 81 discussing Iphikrates and His Reforms

Finally we will have

6. /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov, flaired in Post-Napoleonic Warfare & Small Arms | Dueling, to talk numbers and statistics and the state of the sub as a whole.

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there is a scene in the movie empire of the sun where the kamikaze pilots sing a japanese song during their ceremony. it is also heard in the beginning of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-THeBQyYZA

Now and then, we like to host 'Floating Features', periodic threads intended to allow for more open discussion that allows a multitude of possible answers from people of all sorts of backgrounds and levels of expertise.

Today's topic is 'Buy The Mods A Friend A Gift'. As holidays approach, we have seen an uptick in questions relating to book recommendations, and while those are generally fine here, we thought we'd collect them in one place. In this thread, we invite users to share what fun historical books they've run across recently, and hopefully give us some context as to why they are good!

We are open to recommendations of both books of Actual History and historical fiction books. To make sure these are useful to readers, please follow these basic guidelines:

• If you're recommending a book, please write a couple sentences about why you found it interesting/useful/worth reading. It's fine to link to reviews, but be aware that links to commercial sites (e.g. Amazon) sometimes trip the Reddit spam filter; if you don't see your post show up, message us in mod-mail and we'll check on it.

• If you're asking whether a book is good, make sure to provide enough context that it can be answered: "Is Eric Foner's book good" gives us 25 to choose from; "is Eric Foner's Reconstruction good" is much more answerable. (n.b. it is.) A good place to start if you want to ask about books is our Books and Resources List.

As is the case with previous Floating Features, there is relaxed moderation here to allow more scope for speculation and general chat then there would be in a usual thread! But with that in mind, we of course expect that anyone who wishes to contribute will do so politely and in good faith.