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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.
This essay on looting by American forces, I think, turned out to be one of the best things I've written on here in some time.
I wrote a post trying to sketch a bit of the difficult high-wire act that Sweden went through as a neutral power in WWII. Was reasonably happy with it but it didn't get any votes.
I’m somewhat proud of my multi-part answers to Any historians in here that can answer some questions on Mormonism?
It was a wide ranging series of questions covering polygamy, underaged brides, sexuality, organized violence, insurrection, the religious killing of sinners, and racism in Mormon history.
There aren't that many AH questions that require us to wonder what sort of ingredients might have been used to make up "Belgian grease", but this turned out to be one of them:
My question is, did Indians just go back to being complacent about it? I haven’t been able to find any additional resistance to the use of animal fat in cartridges.
The answer actually tells us a good deal not only about the grease manufacturing industry in mid-nineteenth century India, but about the ways in which rumours spread and problems could rapidly escalate in the society of the time.
OK, just been kinda busy so a week behind on these. A bunch to drop now...
/u/Georgy_K_Zhukov on "Real dueling and "staged" dueling"
/u/zooasaurus ona "How did the regular Ottoman Navy get along with the various irregular corsairs?"
/u/hellcatfighter ona "Was Sun Yat-sen a Han nationalist?"
OK, and now for this week.
/u/afro-tastic answered "What is the historical verdict on Clarence Thomas vs Anita Hill? Who was telling the truth?"
/u/bigglesworth_ on "How effective was ground-based artillery in shooting down incoming aircraft during WW2?"
/u/quickspore answered "Any historians in here that can answer some questions on Mormonism?"
Late to point this out, but /u/lcnielsen did a great job with this question. Thanks for taking this on and shedding light on Zoroaster.