Another month down, and thus time to recognize some of the best content of the past month (and due to a lot of travel and scheduling... also catch up on a month prior).
First up is the "Flairs Choice Award", with the award going to /u/kaiser_matias, and "Fighting has been an integral part of North American hockey. Has this been the the case in other countries? How was fighting treated in Soviet hockey?. For the February Award which we're only now getting around to answer, the Flair's were enthralled by /u/mikedash's post addressing ""In 1927 Chiang Kai-Shek boiled hundreds of Communists alive," claimed George Orwell. Is this actually true? If not, where could he have heard such a report from?".
Meanwhile, the "Users' Choice Award" for March suggests our readership is a bunch of lushes, gravitating to /u/Daztur's answer to "Has the taste of beer changed over the centuries?". Meanwhile for the belated February award, they were also quite attuned to relevant events, giving the nod to /u/Kochevnik81 and their response regarding "Vladimir Putin has just claimed that modern Ukraine was entirely created by communist Russia (specifically Lenin) and that Ukraine never had the tradition of having its own state. Is any of this accurate or true?".
For the "Dark Horse Award", with a non-flair winning outright in March, it is only February where we're recognizing the combined top-voted non-flair user's answer, with the honor going to with /u/LXT130J, who addressed "To what extent were the Dahomey a tribe of slavers, and to what extent did they fight against the institution of slavery? Were they slavers before Europeans 'showed up'? Is there room for nuance in the story of the Dahomey Amazons, or were the Dahomey the 'bad guys' of West Africa?".
For this month's 'Greatest Question', voted on by the mods, after getting over the first impulse to remove because it clearly can't be 20 years old, the second impulse to ban them for making us feel old, the mod collective conceded that the winner was clearly /u/jelvinjs7 for their question ""Sk8er Boi" (A. Lavigne 2002) argues that in high school dynamics, the so-called 'skaters' were low on the social pecking order. How accurately does this work represent turn-of-the-century teenage social order (at least in North American city/suburban schools)?". Doesn't hurt that /u/noelparisian and /u/NoBrakes58 both provided some excellent responses! Meanwhile for February, things took a slightly different tack with "Were medieval Ethiopians interested in learning about the rest of the Christian world?", asked by /u/Revolution_TV, and with a response by /u/larkvi.
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!
Very glad to know it! If there was such a thing as a shared award round here, u/gerardmenfin would deserve special notice for adding so substantially to the information I offered on the role played by the French novelist André Malreux in all this.
Yay! Happy to see people like my beer posts, have been plugging away at them for a while now. I rather liked my more specific post about 19th century IPAs: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/oywqaq/india_pale_ales_get_their_name_because_they_were/
It covers a lot of the same ground as the linked post but is more specific (scroll down for a shorter post about stouts).
Very pleased and concerned to receive this award. I also apologize to the mods, and all of twitter, for the distress my question caused.
Glad to see people enjoyed the answer. I certainly enjoyed getting to talk about it, and sharing some non-NHL hockey history to the world.
Congratulations to all!!!
A very well deserved congratz to all our glorious winners!
Glad people liked that answer. Always happy to see folks taking interest in medieval Ethiopian history.
Congratulations to two months of very worthy winners who have provided such interest and enlightenment. Glad both the questions got answers