Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | September 30, 2019–October 06, 2019

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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.

Gankom

History threads for the history gods! Answers for the answer throne! It’s another fantastic edition of the Sunday digest. Filled to the brim with everything that Askhistorians has to offer. From a multitude of authors and spanning a staggering array of topics.

As always check out our usual weekly threads, and don’t forget to upvote your favorites. Show the writers how much we appreciate their incredible work.

Start things off right with the Best of September Winners! Indigenous Australians, crazy medieval manuscripts, soviet paratroops, undead music bands and way more! It’s the best of the best.

Media Monday looked at Religion in Medieval Fantasy Games, led by /u/Steelcan909. Discussing Dragon Age and other games!

The Thursday Reading and Recommendations thread.

Then there’s the Friday Free For All! Remember, if you’re looking for discussion then this is the thread for you. Found an interesting factoid? Made an AskHistorians meme? (And I’m still waiting for some dank AH memes I can send to friends.) Post em up here! This week we wish good luck on /u/MancombQSeepgood, discuss Russia, and more!

The Saturday Showcase saw entries from two people this week! Check it out.

That’s it for this week. Enjoy the great reads and I’ll see you once again next Sunday!

Gankom

Lots of interesting feedback from last week on the overlooked questions! People like it, and thus we continue. These are just a handful of the interesting questions I saw this week that remain unanswered. Perhaps a brave, wandering expert will stop by and take sympathy on them.

/u/LaceBird360 and the voices in my head all want to know about Before the Invention of Radios, TV, and the FBI, what were paranoid schizophrenics afraid of? How do we foil the watchers?

/u/Yunsu1993 wants to map out a response to Cartographers in China (120 - 250AD)

/u/StreamOfThought would really value a response to Do we have any records of how large land/territory transactions between states were valued?