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.
I really liked this excursus on italian fencing and dueling from /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov .
/u/holokyn-kolokyn was super awesome and got to my question on Finnish identity despite being well buried!
RUndown:
/u/The_Alaskan on "Were cannonballs considered "reusable" after being fired? or would they be deformed/ damaged after impacting a target." as well as on "I'm a Jewish man in 1946 recently liberated from a death camp. My home has been destroyed by the war, all my friends and family have been eradicated, I have no money or possessions and all records of me have been destroyed. What do I do and who can I turn to for help?".
/u/quickspore answered "How did a city in as remote a place as Las Vegas develop into, of all things, a center of gambling, luxury, and tourism? How did this come about?"
/u/sunagainstgold on "If the average human lifespan was 40, near ancient times, were women afflicted with menopause?"
Quite enjoyed /u/PapiriusCursor's thought experiment on "borders are a relatively new concept, first seen during Renaissance" - how valid is this statement?
/u/freedmenspatrol had not one but two great answers to the question "Why were Southern states so keen on expanding slavery Westward in the years leading up to the American Civil War?".