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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 Sunday means another fantastic day to spend some time with the AskHistorians Digest. Hundreds of the finest answers on all kinds of different history topics. There’s truly something for everyone in here! Feel free to call out any that you particularly enjoyed, and show the authors your thanks!
Let’s kick things off with the usual weekly features!
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A new podcast episode! AskHistorians Podcast Episode 170 - Fugitive Freedom in Colonial Mexico with Bill Taylor.
Get some reading ideas in the Thursday Reading and Rec thread!
Join the fun in the Friday Free For All!
/u/voyeur324 got transcribing, and joined /u/anthropology_nerd in the Saturday Showcase!
Once again we wrap up for another day and finish off our list. Enjoy the many awesome answers, and I’ll see you next week!
Time for another installment of "The Real Questions", where we take a look at the wilder side of r/AskHistorians! Here, I give a shout-out to people asking the more atypical questions on this sub: questions that investigate amusing, unique, bizarre, or less common aspects of history, as well as ones that take us through intriguing adventures of historiography/methodology or niche/overlooked topics and moments in history. It's always a wide (and perhaps confusing) assortment of topics, but at the end of the day, when I see them I think, "Finally, someone is asking the real questions!"
Below are my entries for the week - questions with a link to an older response are marked with ‡. Let me know what you think were the realest questions you saw this week, and be sure to check out my full list of Real Questions.
The Digest is also a chance to draw some attention to those interesting yet overlooked questions which still remain unanswered. Feel free to add your own, or call out any that caught your eye.
/u/RainAndTea77 asked Church tradition holds that St. Thomas the apostle went as far as India to evangelize. What evidence is there of this? How does modern scholarship deal width the non miraculous religious traditions?
/u/Difficult_Stomach_76 has a question about the Old Kingdom Egypt.
May I plug my unanswered post from earlier this week?
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