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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 to the first Digest of July 2022! We’ve got a fantastic line up for you, full of bangers and brilliant history answers! Grab some snacks, settle on down, and explore some history with the askhistorians crew!
Don’t forget to check out the usual weekly features, shower the hard working contributors with thanks and upvotes, and have some fun!
Go vote in the Best of June 2022 Voting Thread!
Tuesday Trivia: Linguistics! This thread has relaxed standards—we invite everyone to participate!
The Thursday Reading and Rec thread is still looking for some good reading suggestions on the Vietnam War!
And then finish off the weekly fare with a somewhat quiet Friday Free for All!
META When is an anecdote not an anecdote but a primary source?
That wraps me up for yet another week. Keep it classy out there history fans, and I’ll see you next Sunday!
Don’t pass up on the chance to share some of those fascinating, yet overlooked questions that caught your eye this week! Feel free to share your own, or those you came across, and maybe we’ll get lucky with a wandering expert or two!
/u/Ca1amity asked Canadian Governments have a unique tool at their disposal: The Crown Corporation. Are there texts/sources discussing their history, use, limits etc.?
/u/ArmandoAlvarezWF asked How far up the Nile did the Ancient Egyptians (through the Roman period) have contact? Did they know about the Great Lakes region? Did they have regular commerce?
/u/BetterLifeForMe2 asked Would A 14th/15th Century General Use A Map For Operations?
It's the first Digest of the month, which means it's 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 last month - questions with a link to an older response are marked with ‡. Let me know what you think were the realest questions you saw this month, and be sure to check out my full list of Real Questions.