Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | October 17, 2016–October 23, 2016

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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.

LukeInTheSkyWith
freedmenspatrol

I got a little busy with What horrible thing did a presidential candidate say in 1856? Now I feel like St. Sebastian, except far less fabulous.

_AGermanGuy_

Hey, I don't know if my questions are worth it being posted here, but here are my two questions that I think are interesting but haven't recieved any answers yet.

To what extent did AA guns exist in WW1?

After WW1, was there support for reforming the German Empire into a parliamentary monarchy like Britain or Sweden instead of abolishing it? If so, why didn't they succeed?

anthropology_nerd

Many thanks to /u/SnowblindAlbino for the answer about how the O'Shaughnessy Dam and the flooding of Hetch Hetchy Valley influenced later environmentalism efforts in the U.S.. Great stuff.

Also, a shout out to /u/sunagainstgold for the answer about humans in Montezuma's Zoo!

Georgy_K_Zhukov
Rhodis
Nomsheep