I did some pretty heavy Internet legwork to try and find out what u/juxtapositi0n's grandfather went through as a prisoner of war during WWII. You can read my answers and the results of my investigation here.

Hello there, members of the super secret Sunday Digest lodge, I hope you’re all having a great weekend! Here are some of the popular and/or interesting question from last week, which did not get an answer yet:

/u/Alpy94 would like to know what effect did Al-Andalus have on the music of Iberian Peninsula

/u/TBB51 asked if Britain ever entertained the idea of retaking the U.S. and if so, for how long did such sentiment endure

/u/WuhanWTF wonders why is it, that Handel's Rinaldo was never performed between the years 1731 and 1923/33

To toot my own horn again, I think I did a rather good job with the interesting question:

• Were all or most well known communist leaders in the early 20th century Jewish or are anti-Semitic people cherry picking communist leaders to perpetuate this narrative?

I would like to thank u/crumblesnatch, u/restricteddata, and u/NetworkLlama, for their answers to the following questions:

• How Accurate is this video about The Korean War by KnowledgeHub?

• How did the idea of Popular History start and how old is it?

• My high school Latin teacher once said that before Sputnik, American Academia cared a lot about Latin and the Classics, but after Sputnik, Americans forgot about the Classics and Latin in favor of Science and Math. How true is this?

• At r/TIL, there is a post trending with people in the comments section saying the FBI sent a letter telling Martin Luther King Jr. to kill himself and the FBI/CIA later killed him. Is this true

Also, though it is over a week old, I'll like to thank u/yonderpedant for the answer they provided to If a US president had a personal coat of arms, how important was it to him? because it didn't receive much attention.

Again, thank you!

Rundown:

• /u/iphikrates answered "Were the cultures of 5th century BC Athens and Sparta as different as they are portrayed in the popular mindset?" and "Why were Hoplites so common in the ancient world?"

• /u/miles_sine_castrum answered "Why is Medieval Ireland generally excluded from standard histories of the Middle Ages?"

• /u/TRB1783 answered "Everyone loves “Hamilton”. How can it be utilized to make people care more about history?"

As guilty as I feel self-plugging, I'm fairly happy with my answer to a question about French motivations for getting involved in the American Revolution a while after it had been posted.