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.
Shoutout to my dude /u/Hergrim for talking about medieval farm sizes
I wrote a super belated answer to /u/DoubleTFan’s question about Falstaff’s “chimes at midnight” — though it errs more on the side of Shakespeare commentary rather than a straight discussion of late medieval night life.
I'd like to highlight /u/AlviseFalier's answer about the development of the European Union
I wrote an answer to /u/Paulie_Gatto 's week old question the French protectorate of Morocco here!
I would like an answer please on this post of mine:
/u/shadowsofutopia on "n episode #102 of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris says that some people consider Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge to have been made possible by 'Buddhist quietism' that 'incubated that kind of extremism'. Could someone explain this link to me?" and "One of the most prominent images associated with the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia in the West is a pile of skulls, often in a cave. Why and when did this image become prominent in Western imagery of Cambodia, and what were the reasons that people's remains were arranged in this way?"
/u/badgerfest on "Did the U.S. ever lose any battles to Germany in WW2?"
/u/kieslowskifan on "The Titanic sank in 1912, but the shipwreck wasn't found until 1985. Why?"
/u/gjfasd did yeoman's work finding sources to answer Who designed the 16 ray Rising Sun flag? While the actual guy who designed the flag is on the record, the question was more about where the imagery came from, and I was impressed at how /u/gjfasd handled a bunch of very speculative material.
I made an attempt to explain why Scotland retained its "separate civil legal system" after the Treaty Union (or more precisely, I tried to explain why the question appears to have been based on a misconception of Scots law).