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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.
Another day, another dollar Digest! Welcome back to my favorite day of the week. We’ve got a pretty awesome line up this week. From AMA’s to Tuesday Trivia, and Europa Universalis to super popular meta threads. We’ve got something for everyone!
Let’s start off with the epic AMA! IAMA archaeologist who specialises in medieval castles but have a particular interest in women's lives (elite and ordinary). AMA about daily life at castles, what we know now that we didn't know before, did it matter where a medieval person sat in the hall? How different were toilets then to now? From /u/DrKarenDempsey.
And the very popular Floating Feature Is there any history or discovery that we are tantalizing close to bringing to light that makes you excited as a historian?
The weekly features always have some interesting discussion worth checking out.
Tuesday Trivia! which featured /u/eastw00d86 and /u/Iphikrates. This coming week is going to feature People Using Technology! Bring your favorite stories and examples from through history on this great theme. Did someone build a massive drop hammer? Romans turning an entire river into a stream of workshops? The freaking moon landings and space missions? Come tell us about it!
Friday Free For All always has some good discussion. Don’t forget, this is a good place for your more random questions and discussion, or perhaps a place to drop that fun little factoid your trying to polish into a full answer.
That’s it for this week’s digest. There’s over 150+ threads in here, and that means even more answers! Not to shabby for a nice, sunny summer week. (Winter for you southern hemisphere folks.) Don’t forget to post up any other ones I’ve missed, upvote the brilliant writers, and I’ll see you next week.
Edit: Another 50 post digest. Not to shabby for a place with numerous Removed comments saying nothing ever gets answered eh?
This is another great list of responses. Just a small note- there’s very little here in relation to African history, which is a little disappointing. I’m going to try to formulate a question to try and address the balance.
Hey, my first mention! Thank you. I had hoped my contextual explanation would be fine as an answer, looks like I gambled correctly!
In the floating thread this week about discoveries that make historians excited (paraphrase), I mentioned the digitization of newspapers and other primary sources helping make research so much faster and easier, and also that those digitizations would lead to new discoveries of items previously forgotten.
u/lightningbric asked about the slow death of local news and how it would impact future historians. I think it is worth examining the thread. The death of local news will have a tremendous impact on future historians.
I was wondering how the allies chose the names: Utah, Omaha, Juno, Sword and Gold? We’re these names chosen by random? Or was there any significance to the to the names chosen?