Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | November 30, 2015–December 06, 2015

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Today:

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.

Valkine

I really enjoyed /u/Tiako's answers to How do historians feel about Graham Hancock? I just discovered his books and they seem interesting, is he a kook or does his theories hold weight?

Georgy_K_Zhukov

This Week's Rundown:

/u/skadefryd on "Was Ghengis Khan unique among people living in the 12th century in the number of children he fathered? Is there anyone else whose descendants are more numerous than his?"
/u/elos_ on "How certain are historians the Jesus Christ was a real person?"
/u/alriclofgar on "Why was there never an ethnic German state in the Balkans?"

XWZUBU

I just wanted to make sure /u/Elm11 and his answer here https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3uz6eo/what_was_the_goal_of_the_soviets_in_the_winter_war/ was mentioned but now I see it was!