Announcing the Best of March Awards!

by Georgy_K_Zhukov

With March in the bag, another round of voting is wrapped up too!

The 'Flairs' Choice' award for March saw the crown going to /u/critbuild for their response to "Did x- rays reveal a hidden epidemic of child abuse?".

The 'Users' Choice' award was something of a nailbiter this time around, but at final tally, /u/kaiser_matias just nosed out the competition with "In Europa Universalis 4 exists a type of goverment called "Peasent's Republic", did such ever existed between 1444-1830? Or even before?"

No Dark Horse Award this month, with a non-flair taking top honors outright!

For this month's 'Greatest Question', voted on by the mods, "It seems to be generally taken for granted in pop discourse that Ramses II was the unnamed Pharaoh during Exodus, if it had happened. Where/when does this identification come from, and how did it become so normalized?", from /u/jelvinjs7, seems to have piqued our curiosity, with a response from /u/scipioasina to boot!

Finally, the Excellence in Flairdom Award for March goes to /u/KiwiHellenist! KiwiHellenist has been the octopus of the sub in the past month, reaching out across the sea of AskHistorians to bring answers to inquisitive redditors. You might have seen their tentacles in regular answers, in 'Short Answers to Simple Questions' threads, and even posting fresh insights unprompted in Saturday Showcase. Thanks for making AskHistorians an ocean metaphor-less better place, KiwiHellenist!

As always, congrats to our very worthy winners, and thank you to everyone else who has contributed here, whether with thought-provoking questions or fascinating answers. And if this month you want to flag some stand-out posts that you read here for potential nomination, don't forget to post them in our Sunday Digest!

For a list of past winners, check them out here!

KiwiHellenist

Goodness, that's a very pleasant surprise! I hadn't even registered that that award was even a thing. Thank you!

And to entertain you, here's a page snapshot from a 1989 article in the Journal of Biological Education on the history, ecology, and physiology of dragons. Note the useful citation of Yarro, Stookey, and Travers (1961).

jelvinjs7

Wait, what? Was not expecting this in the slightest, so that kinda threw me off.

I mean, it's a very pleasant surprise, so thank you!

kaiser_matias

Glad that people enjoyed my answer. It was certainly fun to write up on, even if it technically fell outside the timeframe requested.

critbuild

I'm just happy to have had the chance to contribute!

[deleted]

Congratulations to all winners! Thanks for your contributions

Gankom

Big congratz to /u/critbuild, /u/kaiser_matias, /u/jelvinjs7

Dongzhou3kingdoms

Congratulations to all the winners for their fully deserved awards and thank you for making this place that bit better with their contributions