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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.
Welcome history fans to another glorious edition of the Sunday Digest! Pull up a chair and stay awhile, because we have a mountain of material for you to enjoy!
Don’t forget to say thanks to those wonderful authors, leave some upvotes and check out the weekly features!
Last week was the last New Snoo Sunday: Introducing Sālote Tupsnoo III, Empress Snooditu, and Señor de Snoopán. There’s links to all the previous weeks as well, so check em out!
AMA: We are the Staff from Menokin (a National Historic Landmark). AMA! with /u/MenokinDevelopment.
Get some book ideas in the Thursday Reading and Rec!
There was some excellent discussion and celebrations in the Friday Free for all!
That wraps us up for another week and leaves us with one heck of a list. Keep it classy out there folks and I’ll see you again next weekend!
Sunday is also a chance to shout out those interesting yet overlooked questions that caught our eye. Perhaps they’ll attract a wandering expert, or inspire more question asking themselves. Feel free to add your own or post up any others you found interesting!
/u/Tatem1961 asked Why were the territories claimed in the Megali Idea only in the Eastern Mediterranean, when ancient Greeks had colonies and settlements all over the Mediterranean?
I’m very sad /u/crrpit didn’t get an answer to How thirsty were the ancient Greek Olympics?
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.