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.
Because it's downright criminal that more People didn't see this, here is /u/estherke describing what happens to pregnant women in Auschwitz, not for the faint of heart
And /u/idjet talking about why the four humors theory didn't persist into medieval times
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/25coim/why_did_the_four_humours_theory_persist_for/
Lets see. /u/tayaravaknin went kind of overboard in covering the origins of the Six Day War.
/u/Cenodoxus gave a very interesting look into the possibility that Kim Jong-Il killed his little brother as a kid.
/u/The1Man looked into the origins of the Novel in the English language.
I thought that this thread on the French nuclear program was pretty interesting: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/25r11r/france_has_detonated_over_210_nuclear_devices_to/
I also thought that the thread on paper sizes had an interesting discussion of where industrial standards come from: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/25g2l0/how_did_we_end_up_with_letter_size_paper/
I really liked:
I enjoyed /u/Ambarenya's comment in The Byzantine Empire had access to all the ancient Greek writings, and yet contributed very little to science. What are the proposed reasons for this? and /u/caffarelli's short, but interesting answer to When did Italians first begin to eat pasta?.
/u/erus had a nice week with some nice stuff on Western Music instruments that time forgot (be sure to check out the clavichord which is like the Baroque Casio Keyboard) and why violins are so ubiquitous in Baroque/Classical music.