Day of Reflection | March 10, 2014 - March 16, 2014

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Today:

Welcome to this week's instalment of /r/AskHistorians' Day of Reflection. Nobody can read everything that appears here each day, 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.

HallenbeckJoe

I enjoyed this week:

/u/vonadler in Why exactly did the Soviet Union go to war with Finland? Why were they so ill prepared?
/u/khosikulu in The "War of the Golden Stool" was a war that took place in 1900 between England and the Ashanti Empire in Ghana, that was apparently triggered by an actual golden stool. What was so important about the stool?
/u/Domini_canes in What are some of the happiest moments in history?
/u/American_Graffiti in What are some of the happiest moments in history?

Searocksandtrees

I flagged a couple of unusual but interesting ones this week:

/u/Pixie_Moondrip and /u/cheapwowgold4u in Why was it so popular to mix blaxploitation and kung fu in the 70's?. also thought it was incredibly disciplined of everyone to stay on topic in a thread that could've generated a lot of general discussion

/u/GeorgiusFlorentius in How did the merovingian franks establish their identity via myth?

caffarelli

Couple that no one else has listed:

/u/idjet on what sort of tortures you could get in the Inquisition
/u/GeorgiusFlorentius shares some original research on the sister of Clovis in this week's Tuesday Trivia.