A couple interesting questions from the last week that haven't gotten answers yet:

• Was the British explanation for the impressment of American sailors - that many British deserters could be found manning American vessels - based in any historical fact?
• How was Sophie Scholl and the White Rose as a whole portrayed by German media at the time?
• What events brought about the tag on pillows, blankets, and beds?
• Were there really so few people who "Didn't Like Dance With Wolves?"
• Rape is mentioned in ancient religious texts, but what nation(s) had laws (codified or otherwise) about rape?
• As many as 250,000 non-enslaved free blacks lived in the American South when the Civil War began. What kind of life did these people lead and what if any civil liberties did they have?
• The medieval Beguines often lived and worked in women-only, semi-monastic communities without overarching structure. How exceptional and/or controversial were these female lay religious orders? Did they influence other religious movements?

/u/XenophonTheAthenian answered "The Roman revolution and its roving gangs"

/u/Klesk_vs_Klesk answered "Was Luigi Cadorna really so stupid as the head Italian general of WWI? Or were there good reasons for his launching of 12 Isonzo battles?"

/u/FlavivsAetivs answered "How did ancient Asian steppe warriors fight each other?" and "Did the visigoths have a navy?"

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/u/klesk_vs_xaero again on Mussolini and the Socialist Party during WWI

And my final part on the First Opium War

u/failosopher wrote a magnificent series of posts on the question of Jordanes' Getica and its author's origins and context, in response to a month old question no less.

... Yeah, this one was always going to be overlooked, but it deserves a lot more attention.

• Not exactly overlooked, but I enjoyed reading u/khosikulu 's answer to Since Decolonization, has there ever been any instances or serious discussion of borders being redrawn by African governments to better reflect cultural/linguistic/religious boundaries?, and how it dispelled some common misperceptions about African borders.

• I knew throat singing happens in other parts of the world outside of Tuva (e.g. Huun Huur Tu), but didn't know just in how many until reading u/DGBD's interesting take with videos on How did Scandinavia end up with throat singing? Something that was mainly only found in Central Asia, Tibet, and where modern Mongolia is.

I just wanted to commend /u/freedmenspatrol for this comment about terminology and how using different terminology for slavery either upholds the institution of white supremacy or calls out slavery for what it is.