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.
Please read /u/commiespaceinvader's replies in this thread on the inescapable fact that as historians, we are studying and talking about real people who lived, breathed, suffered, rejoiced, and died.
Please.
/u/gaimar on "Why did the medieval knights of the Teutonic Order wear helmets with very long horns? Was it a Christian thing?"
/u/caffarelli on "In preparing eunuchs, why did the Chinese cut off the twig and the berries, when in the Middle East/Byzantium they just removed the berries?"
/u/bees_in_my_face answered "Bigfoot, Twin Peaks, and sparkling vampires- where does the trope of supernatural or "weird" occurrences in the Pacific Northwest originate?"
u/qed1 wrote a cool answer on "Personal" and "Insider Histories."
(another user also wrote a pretty good follow up. Wink Wink.