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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.
There's an FAQ answer about the origin of lawns in https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/dailylife#wiki_other . There are lots of other postings (like from earlier versions of the FAQ), but I found only similar articles, talking about 18th C England but little about 20th C suburbia.
/u/shayeraaa filled in the gap, and I think the reply is quite good.
Can I suggest here that their reply be added to that FAQ section?
[What is the history of the front lawn?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8pwkpq/what_is_the_history_of_the_front_lawn/e0f9y21/) by /u/shayeraaa
Or would that be better suggested in modmail?
We're so used to thinking that language has a strong relationship or identity with culture, political unit or subunit, religion, et cetera. /u/retarredroof blew that out of the water with regards to the US Pacific Northwest in 'European colonists often referred to Native Americans by grouping them into categories like "Cherokee" or "Choctaw" on an ethnolinguistic basis. How relevant were such distinctions to the indigenous groups themselves?'
(Please let me know if you think I'm spamming, or if I can improve the descriptions.)
Not a massive effort, but I wrote an answer to a question about ethnic Danish soldiers in the German Army during the Great War which got very little traction, and thus probably went under most peoples' radars.
I got a great answer (with follow-ups) from u/Georgy_K_Zhukov fact-checking an anecdote about unconventional Bolshevik diplomacy...
The question was "Why was Christianity able to convert the whole of Europe? What about it made it so successful compared to older, native, religions?". I was pleased by /u/talondearg 's answer, that started "But I'm going to explain why I wouldn't venture an answer to OP's question". They then explained about generalities versus particularities.
The points he makes are nothing new, I'm sure -- it's just that I'm not used to seeing the issues mentioned here. Though to be fair, I expect that a lot of such questions quickly get removed.