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That's confetti for you guys.
I just want to say: I love you, mods!
I absolutely love the strict moderation policies, your stance on holocaust deniers, and the creative and multifaceted ways you tell people to stop being nincompoops.
I think everyone is afraid to comment. It's like if a king allowed anyone to insult him for a day, but none of his subjects wanted to be the first to do it in case he was just lying and then beheaded them. Don't ban me I like this place
So you're saying that in 13 more years we can ask questions about this sub?
Perfect, here's my time to shine! Let me tell you about a part of history backed by all the best historians in the world but kept hidden by the government.
Did you know that Egypt was actually around during the Jurassic era? That's how we got lizard people. The dinos mated with the ancient Egyptians
Best sub on the site, hands down.
Thanks for all the work you guys do, and to all the contributors, flaired and non.
Seven years is a long time! On August 28th, 1962 (56 years ago), the Beatles performed at the Cavern Club in Liverpool (at night - they usually played lunch time shows at the Cavern); at this point they were signed to EMI but had yet to record the version of ‘Love Me Do’ that would be their first EMI single when released in October 1962.
Seven years later (minus a day or three), on August 25th, 1969 (49 years and 3 days ago), the Beatles signed off on the mixes for their Abbey Road album, the last album they recorded together.
Well done everyone! By far the most interesting none porn subreddit!
Just a quick question though, why did Hitler escape to Chile to kill JFK and how did that effect the planning of the FAKE moon landing?
28 August 2011
Sunday
Let's see what medieval Ireland has to say about this! (And by "medieval Ireland," we mean Dublin, Trinity College MS H. 3. 17, col. 850, 851)
Neach genes i nDomnach, bid suthain, bid sóinmech a betha, bid imda i ndomun dó , bid súairc la rígu & airchindchiu, bid mór a chumachta , a leas ina lámaib dó
They who are born on Sunday will be long-lived, their life will be happy, they will have wealth in the world, they will be in favour with kings and erenaghs, great will be their power, their profit in their own hands.
Thank you for providing scholarly, peer-reviewed, and scrutinized discussions for the public to see, hear, and be a part of! Too often is history viewed as either a quick wiki search or something boring people study in dusty libraries, without impact on the world.
This subreddit shows that historians have to work hard to create and provide the meaningful work that benefits humanity, and it can absolutely available to the common folk, and not reserved for academic circles or pricey bookstores. Historians who contribute to this subreddit are indeed doing free and selfless work, thus the stringent screening process is a testament to their efforts and a thanks for their integrity.
Keep up the great work, and may we continue to diligently study the victories and defeats of the past, the success and failures of times come an gone, so that our future is one we can all be proud of.
One thread to get out as many erreneous and controversial statements as possible? Uhh... Gavin Mendes is a legitimate scholar. Ancient Greek contributions to humanity are trivial. Portuguese is just a dialect of Spanish. Atlantis was real. King Leopold was a just ruler in his personal possessions. Periods should be followed by two spaces. APA citations are superior and footnotes are never beneficial.
Is this where I report this thread for being a historic event in the last 20 years and thus breaking the rules?
I kid, I love this place.
I've been on AH so long that in that amount of time, I've quit my previous career, finished a MA, and started a PhD.
I also remember back when you would let me get away with unsourced answers...
Thanks, mods! I offer this GIF as tribute -- super rare footage of /r/AskHistorians mods at work.
I’d like to take this opportunity to apologize for unwittingly precipitating the “why you should not get a PhD in history” essay, and probably crushing a thousands of people’s dreams, but at least it also included my own (I asked a mod about true job availability in the field, got an in-depth response about how it’s close to literally nothing, and the next day the author puts up this essay letting tons of people know how bad it is. So that big “don’t get a PhD” essay is kind of on me)
Edit: added links for those curious
Can we do a fictional Askhistorians day, like a few years ago on April fools?
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WHAT YOU MEAN I'VE SPENT SEVEN YEARS OF MY LIFE HERE AND HAVE RECEIVED NO SHILL MONEY?!
As a birthday gift to your loving fans, could you pick a day where the mods don't remove any comments. I'm dying to see some of the crap you guys have to deal with.
I'm working on a project to allow old stereographic images to viewed on mobile VR (Google Cardboard). Who should I try to reach out to, who would be interested in this?
Have you considered running a sister sub r/askhistorianswhytheyremovedcommentsbynonhistoriansthatdidntcontributeandthenhavethatquestionremoved?
Actually that would just be a redirect here.
Love you guys - thanks for all the hard work to make us smarter.
I... I... I finally have a chance to post something in r/askhistorians that won't be deleted!
Hi everyone! I'm sure one day my medical student knowledge will totally be useful on a history-focused subreddit, but until then I will continue to enjoy reading through these excellent posts.
Thanks to all the historians and moderators who make this forum one of the few serious places on the internet. Anytime I see an interesting thread in this sub I know it’ll only be answered by someone who knows what they’re talking about. That’s a rare thing to find on the internet nowadays.
I would have made a post saying this long ago but it surely woulda been [removed]
This sub is now old enough to drink in Ancient Rome!
Probably. I'm not a historyer.
I work from a home office and often go out to lunch by myself. AskHistorians and AskScience are my go-tos for things to occupy myself while I'm eating lunch. I sincerely appreciate the scores of deleted replies, and the eventual in-depth replies. This is one of the best parts of my daily life. Thanks, y'all!
This sub is also great to read drunk.
"Hi!"
My favorite sub on this site, despite rarely ever commenting/posting. What have been your favorite threads and comments over the past 7 years?
I'm just posting to say that I've posted on this sub and it didn't get deleted.
Also, thank you!
Happy birthday, /r/AskHistorians! Thanks for not letting our dreams be memes.
Just want to send out a big thank you to all the historians who post amazing answers here. It's nice to actually feel like I'm learning something every once in a while between pictures of steaks and woodworking projects. You are all amazing for taking the time out of your day to help answer questions and teach us a thing or two.
Finally! Can someone tell me how the Viking Sea Peoples defeated ancient Egypt and renamed it to Istanbul? And then Rome? And also when did the Viking Sea People have the hundred years war against China? Was it Genghis the Hun's fault? And then when they founded the Spartans and the 300 beat up all of the Peloponnese armies by piling up their bodies and squashing them, how did they climb over? Did they all get in that big wooden horse and drive over it? And then where did they go after that? I read that they invented space flight using airscrews and black powder. Is there any truth in that claim? Anyway basically tl;dr my question is, did Hitler think that Stalin was gay? Like, inside his head. What did he think inside his head that he never told anyone or wrote down?
Can I ask historians about the history of r/AskHistorians?
Hello everyone,
If you are a first time visitor, welcome! This thread is trending high right now and getting a lot of attention, but it is important to remember those upvotes represent interest in the question itself, and it can often take time for a good answer to be written. The mission of /r/AskHistorians is to provide users with in-depth and comprehensive responses, and our rules are intended to facilitate that purpose. We remove comments which don't follow them for reasons including unfounded speculation, shallowness, and of course, inaccuracy. Making comments asking about the removed comments simply compounds this issue. So please, before you try your hand at posting, check out the rules, as we don't want to have to warn you further.
Of course, we know that it can be frustrating to come in here from your frontpage or /r/all and see only [removed], but we ask for your patience and understanding. Great content is produced on this subreddit every day though, and we hope that while you wait, you will check out places they are featured, including Twitter, the Sunday Digest, the Monthly "Best Of" feature, and now, Facebook. It is very rare that a decent answer doesn't result in due time, so please do come check back on this thread in a few hours. If you think you might forget, send a Private Message to the Remind-Me bot, and it will ensure you don't!
Finally, while we always appreciate feedback, it is unfair to the OP to further derail this thread with META conversation, so if anyone has further questions or concerns, I would ask that they be directed to modmail, or a META thread. Thank you!
^Sorry, ^I ^had ^to
Just want to say the 'great question!' tag is awesome
I've always wondered why you guys don't sticky a comment at the bottom of posts for subpar discussion like what /r/WritingPrompts and /r/photoshopbattles does.
I absolutely love this subreddit! I often share the information here with my kids, when appropriate. It's made a neat way to learn more obscure information and fill in the numerous gaps in my own education. So thank you! For teaching, asking and moderating! Happy birthday!
Huzzah! Well done and thank you for being intentional about fostering a community that encourages genuine conversations about history.
Ooooh, I can sneak a nonsense hypothetical.....What would have happened if a time traveler made baby Hitler enroll in a Montessori program?
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Are we allowed to ask questions about the founding of the sub?
After all, it breaks the 20 year rule.
History is written by the [deleted]
Hey guys, not sure if this has been asked before but I just saw a news story about a hurricane and how did the monolithic NATIVE AMERICAN tribe deal with hurricanes?
Also, can you tell me anything about Pakistani belt buckle trends, summer of 1843 through fall 1845?
I'm not sure what to comment since I've never ever had the chance to, but... hi!
Happy birthday AskHistorians! Love the content, and big thank you to all the answerers and mods for their hard work :)
Since most of the posts here seem to be about the deletion policy, I just wanted to share my strategy for finding answers to interesting questions on here and avoiding frustration.
Google search "site:reddit.com/r/AskHistorians <keywords>"
[Presumably other search engines have site-specific search that also work but I'm not familiar with their syntax.]
Since this sub is pretty old now (see: thread topic!) chances are that the question has been asked before, or a very similar one has. Sometimes even the old posts haven't been answered, but I'd say 90% of the time it pulls up old answers that address my questions.
I won't feel comfortable posting answers here until I finish my history degree (end of next year hopefully?) but by then I'll have lost my institutional academic journal access 😭
Great sub Happy bday
Be still my heart...aaahhhh I'm veering into giddiness. I'm here! I'm here and typing something that won't be instantly deleted. On any other day I certainly should be by the way.
Happy birthday! And thank you to the mods for your work maintaining this amazing place.
Also yes my one viable comment here
Wow, 7 years is a long time in terms of innernette lifetime. The political climate for those seven years has been hell, several sub reddits I have enjoyed for a long time have regressed into political circle jerks but I haven't seen that here at all.
Props to the mods for keeping this sub politically neutral and most importantly civil for seven years! 😀
It's been six years since i made a joke here that didn't get deleted.
Happy [removed]!
Tanks for all of the mods for being so neurotic careful, it truly makes this subreddit one of the few places for serious historical debate around.
Hey! I just wanted to thank the mods for enforcing the rules which while strict are fair. Also I want to apologize for the first time I commented, I didn’t read the rules and my comment got removed but I understand why. Thanks to this awesome community of smart historians and people with interesting Questions. I really enjoy both and hopefully someday I have the knowledge to answer questions in this sub. Also thanks for the pupper picks! Have a great day!
10/10 sub would lurk again.
I want to say thank you, this subreddit has in my opinion the best moderation policy resulting in a high quality academic forum. The point will be expanded when I'm not on mobile.
aww, happy birthday to the best sub!
Best discussion sub on Reddit. Shoutout to the knowledgeable historians who take the time to give great answers.
Oh man one of my fave subs.
Reddit feels clogged with sciency people, so this sub feels very homely to someone 1/3 of the way through History at Uni :)
All hail the birthday puppers!
And the fabulous mods who keep this place just so awesome. Now for my personally most wanted question that I'm not brave enough to post.
"If AskHistorians was Game of Thrones, which Moderator would you hail as the one true ruler?
And what does Hitler think of them?"
I just want to say that I read this sub every day and I have always enjoyed it. So, thank you to the mods, the curious individuals with the questions and all the readers.
Also, today (28AUG) is also my birthday. So happy birthday to all :)
I'm curious what the few removed top level comments to this post are.
Happy 7th Birthday
Great sub!
Thanks for running and contributing to the best damn subreddit on this website (aside from /r/moldspores)! I love [deleted] because I know it means I'm getting the good stuff.
History! It's just one thing after another! This happened, then that happened, then than happened, and woooooo!
WooooOOOOOooooOOOOOoooo Hahaha look at me I'm making a joke comment on r/askhistorians. Suck it Trebeck!
Here's to another 7! 🍻
This place is legitimately amazing. Probably the most effective public engagement that academic history has. The answers are in-depth, often make connections that I am not even aware I am not aware of, and are written in a really accessible style.
And I'll just add to the chorus of liking the deletions. I use ceddit to see what gets deleted sometimes and I've never seen a good (or honestly even average) answer get deleted. It's mostly just useless spam. And the speed you all do it at is amazing.
I love this place.
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So... in 13 years will I be able to ask historians about r/AskHistorians ?
I'm only here because I'll never get to be here ever again! I'm commenting on AskHistorians!!
The recent Monday methods thread on grad school did more to convince me to not go to grad school than my own professors did. Kind of hurts to give up my dream of a history PhD. I appreciate this sub for all it does and what it does outside of the answers it provides and questions it asks.
Time to go be a high school teacher and make kids read this sub in my class.
I'm no expert in birthday celebrations, but in 1942 my grandfather had a birthday celebration while he was dodging the draft.
Happy birthday to one of my favorite subs!
Source: myself.
Happy birthday and a thousand thank you's to the mods and everyone who's asked questions about education history. I appreciate every opportunity to go full nerd!
Thank you for giving me a place to share and nerd about about the things i love! Happy 7 years :)
This subreddit has incredible value to anyone curious about history and I'm grateful the contributors and mods do such a wonderful job keeping it going. Thanks, everyone.
This is my favorite community on Reddit, I am constantly astounded by the knowledge and writing skill of those who answer questions. To all of you historians looking through this thread, thank you so much for the time and effort you put into your answers!
Long may it reign!
Sic Transit Gloria Mundis!
Bravo to a wonderful and informative subreddit. Although my one and only question was not answered, which has not made me salty at all. The money i made from all this salt selling is from a mine, i promise!
I feel like I’m dancing in that town from Footloose behind all the old people’s backs!
Happy birthday!!!
Long time lurker who really enjoys this sub. I find a lot of the posts and responses lead me down some truly fascinating rabbit holes Thanks for all the great content
Happy Birthday AH! I absolutely love this sub and I am in awe of how much time it must take to moderate this sub to maintain this level of content. Thanks for all ya'll do mods!
goes back to lurking
My favorite post was a theoretical question about what the European and Mediterranean Area would've looked like from a civilization perspective during the various Egyptian, Greek, roman, etc eras if the land masses and bodies of water would've flipped (i.e. Land become water, water becomes land). Would love to see more hypotheticals like that.
Hi everyone! I love this sub and the moderators do a great job! Hope everyone has a great day!
It's an honor
This sub rocks. Ty!
Hey, I often lurk here and upvote never post but thank you all for the quality replies and the quality moderators keeping this sub strong.
Happy Birthday! Thanks for all the hard work! Since today is such a special day I wanted to ask a would-be-deleted question; what’s your favorite movie about your area of study?
Hi!
(Every person on earth, 1700)
I don't know what to say now that I have the opportunity.
One day ...one day there will finally be a question I can answer because I own a copy of the indubitable Larousse Gastronomique. Until then, lurking here is nearly as much fun as lurking in HQG, but you should do more meta ;)
Finally I get to comment in this sub without the fear of getting removed! Thank you Mods for keeping this place high quality and interesting. Also thanks to all historians answering questions, you guys make my days.
Good work everyone.
I love this sub. Happy Birthday r/askhistorians, it’s always great seeing intriguing questions on here
Thanks for all the work that goes into this sub! I love history. Good boys
huh, that cool
[baleted]
Congrats! Thanks for your hard work.
This clearly breaks the 20 year rule :)
seriously though this sub remains one of my favourite to visit and really appreciate the effort that goes into the answers provided here.
I just want to tell I like that you have a facebook page too. I know it's less and less popular in the US but here everyone uses it to keep in touch with friends, relatives, etc.
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Happy birthday AskHistorians!
Now back to lurking.
Happy Birthday! Hope one day I can contribute and answer questions.
Nice.
Never thought I'll get t-
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It's lovely to speak in this subreddit without [removed]
Happy Birthday, /r/AskHistorians !
I'd like to use this occasion to post a top level comment without being deleted or banned, that I can cherish the rest of the year while I refrain from polluting the comment section.
I love this place. I lurk here all the time because I find I learn so much about things I didn't even know I was interested in (until somebody asked a question about them).
I never have anything useful to add as a comment to the usual post...so it's nice to be able to speak up and say how much I enjoy it here :)
I feel privileged to be typing in such a prestigious sub...happy birthday r/AskHistorians .
Only another 23 years until we can start posting questions about the early years of the sub. I hope it’s all been documented
I can finally comment! Yes!
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Best sub.
Also I have a question. When do the orcs actually drink the blood of Mannoroth? Because in WC3 they drink if after they meet the night elfs but in WoW it's shown that they drink it before as well. What is going on?
Happy Birthday 😃 love this sub!!!
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Happy Anniversary! Keep up the good work.
Long live the King!
Us plebs must take this one opening each year to make a top level post!
I love this sub. The way the mods keep threads clear; the way that every answer provided is clean, cited, and well organised.
You all do an awesome job, and I wanted to say that I appreciate it.
This will likely be my only ever comment in this sub :).
Happy 7th birthday!
You share a birthday with the Mount Washington Cog Railway, John Locke (the non-Lost version), Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ingrid Bergman, Richard Attenborough, John McCain, Elliot Gould, Michael Jackson, Neil Gorsuch, and Lea Michele! All are dead or over 20, per rules.
You were founded on the anniversary of the beginning of Shay’s Rebellion and the founding of Netflix, which I can mention since both are over 20 years old.
Your liturgical feast is the Beheading of John the Baptist, which I’m afraid I just gave an idea to the mods on how to deal with the use of APA citations.
We are all r/askhistorians on this blessed day.
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One of the best subreddits. No citations needed, I believe.
I just found this great documentary on the Iran-Contra Affair and I wanted to show you all. It’s in full on Youtube!
Dear Mods, I’ll stop after this.
I always wondered about this girl from band camp.
Forget her name.
I just wanted to be able to say something on an askhistorians thread.
And thank you mods, for putting such amazing effort into keeping this place top notch
Some of the comments I've read in this sub almost deserve their own novel. Scratch that, they do deserve it. A lot of people give the mods shit for the policies here, but it leads to fleshed out, eloquent answers that can't be rivaled anywhere else on the internet, as far as I'm concerned. I'm glad this subreddit exists. I'm glad /r/history and /r/askhistory exist, too (different places for different things)
As is tradition, we like to post a picture of cute puppers and allow all you lurkers a chance to put your heads up and say "Hi!"
So crack open a cold one and post all those jokes and anecdotes you've been fighting to hold back!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! THANKS FOR ALL YOU FLAIRED PEOPLE'S WORK!
i hope to join you one day :)
Thanks mods for having high standards and sticking to them. I get a lot of flack for being a Reddit user, and the fact that I can cite this sub as a shining example of quality content proves I am not irredeemable.
Lurker here just wanting to say thank you for curating this sub so well.
You mods are strict, but fair.
I'm nowhere near qualified enough to contribute but I must say that this is my favourite sub on reddit. Always manages to sate my history needs with some serious quality answers.
I finally get to post on r/askhistorians, Happy Birthday!
You guys are absolutely amazing! The significance of being able to simply ask a weird history question and getting amazing and in-depth answers is something that truly makes the internet great!
Dear mods, thank you so much for all the work you do, and for your stance on holocaust deniers.
Also, I don't know if it's an official stance or just a byproduct of the "needs good citations" rule, but I've never seen any hindutva or hindu nationalist politics on this sub and I super appreciate that.
Hi!
Reported for breaking the 20 year rule.
Thanks Mods for creating such an amazing subreddit!
I'm just commenting for the novelty of it.
I love this sub. I love how strict the rules are and how religiously they're enforced. The level of content here is so much richer for it. Thank you!
What is this unlimited freedom to top comment?!
Also thank you so much to all of you that do comment on the questions. I love this sub so much, and this may be the first time I’ve ever commented, and I knew i had to make sure a thank you goes out to all the historians. :)
Thank you all for your hard work and limitless knowledge! This sub is a joy to read. I hope there is a question about patents some day so that I can contribute!
Please use this thread for merriment
What an /r/askhistorians way to put it haha
History repeats itself first as tragedy then as a farce.
One of my happiest moments in the last year was when I commented here and it didn't get deleted!!!
Those are weird looking trebuchets.
In thirteen years I'm going to ask so many questions.
Only 13 years to go until questions about /r/askhistorians are acceptable topics on the sub!
Grats and well done to all the experts and especially the mod team.
Finally, a thread I’m qualified to comment on!
This is funny. My son is also having his 7th birthday today. This is a TIL I'll have to tell him once he cares about sites like this.
I don’t have anything constructive to add to the conversation. I just want to be able to say that I posted on this sub successfully without it having been deleted and removed. Happy birthday!
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Hi! Thank you mods, you do a great job to fight the fascist regurgitation of our times which thrives in misinformation and twisted, one-sentence, shallow, "facts" and disputation of established facts to promote mistrust and doubt in the general public. Well that was a convoluted sentence. \ TL;DR, Keep up the good fight, Mods!
I'm not qualified enough to actually contribute to this sub, but I visit often, and I appreciate all the great answers and information that you guys and gals provide. Cheers!
Big shoutout to the mods and contributors!
Thanks for all the work moderating the inadequate comments, and big thanks to those who put in the work writing up the amazing comments that meet the guidelines!
Yay! Happy Birthday to one of my favorite subs!!
Lurker here! Thank mods for your commitment to standards, and to all the contributors!
Happy birthday, AskHistorians! I feel revitalized every time I'm in another sub and someone whines about your moderation here. Keep up your great work, and now I'll go back to lurking until your next birthday!
I AM FINALLY TYPING A THING HERE
Ight everyone, break out your citations.
Right on.
Only been a redditor for a couple years, but I can safely this subreddit has led me to many dead legs on the toilet.
Never know what to expect to find on this sub, but always learning something new.
Thanks to all involved, specially those who work to keep the comments clean and factual.
Here's to many more years, Historians!
I love this subreddit. I admit that I am disappointed when I see an interesting question posted, but no one has answered yet. Disappointed because I know that the answers I will eventually find will be top-notch.
Thanks for upholding your standards!
Happy Birthday r/askhistorians. This is my favorite sub, even if I get yelled at regularly and threatened with banishment on a regular basis.
Thank you for all of your time, effort, and dedication in curating quality content.
This thread violates the "Nothing less than 20 years old" rule and should be deleted... ^(1)
WOOOOO SOMEONE ASK A QUESTION I'M GONNA LIVE THE DREAM AND GIVE A ONE SENTENCE ANSWER THAT CITES ONLY WIKIPEDIA
wow the only time I can say nonsense on this sub and not get deleted!! best sub in the game right here, keep it up y'all
Why use 💯 post when few 🎉 post do trick?
Finally, I can say something that’s wrong without my comment being deleted!
Hitler actually had 3 testicles ;)
Thank you, I like the quality here
Happy Birthday to my favorite sub I can't comment on.
Happy 7th Birthday
I love this place. It has brought me many hours of joy by reading and learning new stuff. Lets hope for another 1000 years of Askhistorians!
Great job everyone, I'm only really a lurker here, but really enjoy the cited answers on this sub since they give people who aren't history academics a place to read informed answers.
Woot! Happy 7th! Hopefully by your 8th or 9th I'll be flaired. It's quite a slow process getting all the sources I want handy so I'm not in any rush.
A big thanks to the mods. This is one of the very few subs left with high quality moderation, preventing people from going off topic or straight up making things up. Reddit would be a much better place if other subs took example on r/AskHistorians.
Happy... 7th?
I'm actually terrified of even asking questions on the sub, let alone answer anything (the latter with very good reason).
I've enjoyed the sub, and some of its sister subs, and I believe I've actually linked to the AH podcast (specifically, the one on fascism) to others when explaining fascism. Also, was the first place to hit when a certain Youtube historian tried to tackle a certain topic. (I maintain that he should have at least looked here first).
Also, has there been any event in history that has been attributed to a hamster, positively or otherwise? Outside of its discovery and introduction to the scientific world and the world at large, that is.
Thanks for the great work mods! We all appreciate it