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.
As per the META thread suggestion I've gone through the posts from last week (well, most of them) and wanted to highlight some questions which did not get an answer and were popular and/or interesting:
/u/0ddStranger asked: Where did the custom of giving a "key to the city" originate?
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.
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.
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!
/u/duckofyork gave an interesting answer about why Roman tactics were no longer relevant in the medieval period.
And I answered a question on crusading in Scotland.
My own two threads that I was most interested in were
During WW2 Portugal remained neutral. How were they able to do that? and why?
and
Somaliland under British Rule?
However, I saw two from other users that were interesting.
/u/JapaneseStudentHaru asked What do North Koreans know about the time before WW2?
/u/Skaiony asked How was the overall population of the USSR, able to rise under Stalin's rule despite an estimated kill total of ~20 million?
All unanswered.
/u/agrippa911 gave a great answer What precisely were the Sullan Proscriptions
/u/Iphikrates If a Spartan soldier was wounded in battle, Lost a limb/became blind etc, how would he be treated upon his return home?