Time for another super fun, incredibly awesome AskHistorians Sunday Digest! Its tough to follow up last weeks Conference, but we’ve got some great features and answer threads just waiting to keep you entertained. Have a look, upvote those answers, and don’t forget to thank the brilliant writers who put in so much work!

• Start off with the important stuff: One last AskHistorians Digital Conference message, and a request…

• There’s a new AskHistorians Podcast Episode 157 - The Lives and Value of Replicas with the great u/Dr_Sally_Foster!

• /u/issiwo_1 joined us for AMA with Dr. Adrastos Omissi on memory, propaganda, and monuments in Ancient Rome

• There was also a massive panel AMA! Crusader Kings III/Medieval Period Flair Panel AMA: Come Ask Your Questions on Incest, Heresies and Video Game History!

• TUESDAY TRIVIA: "I have to write because if I don't get something down, then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off" (Terry Pratchett)- are you similarly compelled to write about the history of WORKS OF LITERATURE?

• Lots of goof stuff in the Thursday Reading and Rec thread.

• Plenty of fun to be had in the Friday Free For All!

Once again the Digest comes to a close, and I can once more return to my ever watchful lurk. Enjoy the threads, have yourselves a great week, and I’ll see you next Sunday!

Every week I like to identify some of "The Real Questions" of /r/AskHistorians! Here, we honor the more atypical questions that get asked here: the bizarre, abnormal, strangely niche or oddly specific, interestingly worded or built on uncommon premises, or otherwise amusing questions that make me say, "Finally, someone is asking the real questions!" We look at little-known customs, unexpected historical anecdotes, unusual cultural traits, and other more unique questions that go beyond the regular brand of sociopolitical history that this subreddit so fabulously covers.

Below are my entries for this week! What do you think were the realest questions?

Spare a moment to check out some of the interesting, yet overlooked questions that still cry out for the attention of an expert. Feel free to post your own, or shout out any that caught your eye!

• /u/TelloTaglia21 asked Why did the USSR and China last so long compared to Fascist Spain and Portgual, despite all of them having a one-party authoritarian government?

• /u/katniss_everscream asked I know in some ancient civilizations, floods and other natural disasters were thought to be controlled by the gods. What was the connection between natural disasters and gods in the Indus River Valley civilizations?

• /u/Zeuvembie asked During Prohibition in the United States, Did Canada Have A Prohibition Movement?