Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | July 02, 2018–July 08, 2018

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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.

Tatem1961

/u/Elphinstone1842 gave a fantastic 9 part answer to my question about Racism among pirates in the Carribbean

mikedash

I answered an interesting, indicative but overlooked question in which I looked at the experiences of pilots of Caribbean and Indian origin fighting for the British in the First World War:

In WWI, the most recognized African American pilot was Eugene Bullard, but there aren’t many details about other African pilots flying in WWI. Would it have been common to see African pilots flying for other nations during the war, such as France, Great Britain, or Germany?

EnclavedMicrostate

Once again, please don't forget to check out /u/klesk_vs_xaero's WWI Italy series here and the second instalment of my own Opium War series here from yesterday's showcase!

Georgy_K_Zhukov
scarlet_sage

This question was certainly interesting: "US President Shot Cereal From Cannons?" My own theory is "dream memory".

As WD_Ts go, this is the most unusual other than in jokes: "Did Stalin like crossword puzzles?" . Exactly what it says on the tin: there was nothing more in the body.

Ser_SinAlot
thefourthmaninaboat

I'm not one to blow my own trumpet, but I'm pretty happy with my answer to an overlooked question on the relationship between the Royal Navy and the British Empire, and how that played into the establishment of the Australian and Canadian Navies.

crrpit

Not exactly overlooked, but there was a fun discussion of the Basque children who fled Spain in 1937, led by u/AlmightyB