In celebration let me just say

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As per the twenty year rule i assume we are not allowed to discuss it?

In celebration, allow me to reshare my collection of AH memes I've made over the years! (some are albums, some are individual images)

• https://imgur.com/a/9JbJH2e
• https://i.imgur.com/igDA4rt.jpg
• https://imgur.com/a/fWU6w2D
• https://imgur.com/a/G1NFpe7

Hey, you've been around eleven years, and what you're doing clearly isn't working at all (for me). Have you considered completely changing the purpose of the subreddit and throwing out all of the moderation rules I don't like? I want to post my uninformed opinions.

Terrifying to imagine that AskHistorians is now a tween!

you may be jocular and/or slightly cheeky

Well now I just feel pressured. Not only do we have to choose joke opportunities wisely, but we're limited to slightly cheeky and I'm not sure I can risk it for fear of crossing the line into unqualified cheek.

AskHistorians heals the damage to my brain and soul that default subreddit comments inflict.

Thanks to all the mods, historians, and history nerds, for believing that open-ended social media can be more than endless screeching AND for being the 0.001% of people online who answer questions they are actually qualified to answer.

GZ ladies, gents all that in-between, cats, ducks, chickens. 🥂

I've always wanted to ask this group, do you guys get tired of Nazi related questions because its most of what I see posted here.

But also, what are some thing you guys could recommend me to read, id like some early american history.

Edit:I can't thank you people enough for the answers. It's a binge read kinda day.

ROMANS DID NOT SHARE POOP-SCRAPING SPONGE-STICKS.

Can we make this persistent myth a class 2 felony in participating states?

^(if this becomes my most-updooted comment for the year i'm turning off the whole internet, people)

989 years into the future, when beer loving robots and lobster doctors roam the streets, AskHistorians will be celebrating its 1000th birthday. And the most upvoted question on that day will read as follows: " Since the waters were so polluted in the 21st century that everybody drank soda instead, was the rate of Fetal Soda Syndrome high?"

Thanks to all the mods and contributors that make this a great place. I don't have the expertise to contribute often, but when something falls into my specific technical niches I really appreciate the response that a layman receives here as long as we do our homework.

It might seem silly, but I actually try to emulate the level of professionalism and rigor elsewhere in my online life ("Would this fly on /r/askhistorians? Ok, need to make it better"). I can't always step up as high as I'd like, but I find that trying really improves the feedback I get and discussions I have. It also has improved my work emails and discussions, so there's that too.

So, thanks again not just for a great place on the web, but for improving my experience elsewhere too.

Edit: Typo

11 years later, the first question asked on this sub finally made it through peer review and has been answered with a definitive maybe from all available primary sources

Always love lurking here, never had a reason or chance to post though!

Glad to catch this post so early, and be a part of the party!

I am being both jocular and slightly cheeky.

Can an /r/AskHistorians mod become Speaker of the House of Commons, and shut down Ministers when they try to palm us off with unreferenced crap?

I know it's not well seen by historians, but I have always been interested in "ancient aliens" theories, there are so many marvels of the past that we just can't explain, we have no idea how they were built or why, and leave modern historians stumped

for example, look at the Eiffel Tower. Why was it built? What was its purpose, and how did they manage to erect it with such primitive technology?

We may never know.

I have a question: if someone (not me) were to post a question that didn't get any answers, but that someone (again, not me) thought it was a brilliant question, is it worth posting it again some months later or should I that someone take the hint?

Hey guys can anyone explain what if hitler won world war 2? I’ve posted that question on a daily basis since the sub’s birth but the only person that responds is this useless guy named Otto Mod or something

Let me quote the favourite source of most people that get removed from mods

A birthday is the anniversary of the birth of a person, or figuratively of an institution. Birthdays of people are celebrated in numerous cultures, often with birthday gifts, birthday cards, a birthday party, or a rite of passage.

This is probably the only time in my life I'll be able to post a top level comment in this sub because I don't know shit about shit. So, hi guys.

I know what to say here because my brother’s boss’s cousin’s ex’s barber went through this. Happy birthday 🎉.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ASKHISTORIANS! My favorite place on the net, and that much closer to hitting that time when we can finally ask questions about you (yes YOU!) on the sub itself!

When will we be able to ask her storians? There’s two sides.

Thank you for your diligence and stern-but-fair moderating.

Happy Birthday to this amazing community!

To honor the day... In the past eleven years what is the most memorable instance of AskHistorians blowing your freaking mind?

I really appreciate this community. I'm a high school drop out, who's still really passionate about history, and it's awesome there's something like this available. Thank you, to all the historians who contribute and to all the curious people unafraid to ask questions.

Citation needed

If history is so important, then why haven’t they made a sequel yet?

Yay I can post!!! 😂

This sub rules. Best moderated sub by far. You guys do a great job and the users here are fantastic

We have the cake, the hats, the posters, the welcome guests. Now we all need is the music. What is appropriate music for a public history forums birthday?

Happy Birthday AH, may it reign many more years.

A Statement of Fact.

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If you need guidance to better understand what we are looking for in our requirements, please consult this Rules Roundtable which discusses how we evaluate answers on the subreddit, or else reach out to us via modmail. Thank you for your understanding.

Do you think we'll ever learn the secret to making True Damascus Steel?

Excuse me... No content less than 20 years old.

This post is 9 years to early.

More than 8 years ago, I joined Reddit solely to follow Askhistorians... I don't wanna say you ruined my life, but you had to know better than creating such a wonderful enclave among a horrible cesspit!

Anyway, here's an interesting observation. When I joined Askhistorians, I always found old answers (2-3 years ago) to be unsatisfactory by current standards. Now a lot of 8 years old answers doesn't look as good either!

That's about the only subreddit I know that not just managed to survive radical growth and to stay the same at the heart, but somehow became even better in the process. I can't stress it enough. Kudos to the team!

Well then...

Does this mean we're allowed to finally go public about having access to a time machine?

Happy birthday! May this sub endure to its eleventy-first birthday, and may its answers (and questions) always be in-depth and rigorous!

^that'sacutedog

It's also the 13th anniversary of me registering for a reddit account.

Coincidence? I mean, almost certainly, but still august.

Holy hell I share a birthday with the best sub on Reddit!

Sources: Appaluchaunderground Birth Certificate, [REDACTED] County et al. 1987

Meta Post, It Is AskHistorians' ELEVENTH BIRTHDAY!, Georgy_K_Zhukov 2022

I look forward to a parallel thread on r/history next week full of poorly informed revisionists arguing over r/askhistorians true age

Can I ask a historian, what was history's smallest international conflict?

Why is this sub full of questions but not a single answer?

Some answers to the past day of questions which would probably not survive our beloved mod team:

to what extent can i trust the writings of William Dalrymple?

About yay much *extends arms*

Napoleon entered Russia with an army of about 600k men, and only about 100k men made it out. What happened to the rest?

They fucking DIED!

What was the peak of Socialism's popularity globally?

2056, after the Second Robot Uprising

A post on DataIsBeautiful showed that many UK/English monarchs had pubs named after them, with a wide range of popularity, and Victoria being an overwhelming favorite. Does the frequency of pub names reflect the monarch’s modern and/or retrospective popularity?

No, the Court of Chancery assigns monarchs to pubs at random

How did the Germans spend so much on rearming from 1933?

They followed their dreams

Where can a passion for history take me?

Adjunct

When it turns 20 do we get to ask historians about the origin of AskHistorians?

Just making a comment because this is likely the only opportunity I'll ever have to do so on this sub.

Just 8 more years and we'll finally be able to start asking about the history of AskHistorians.

Mods of r/askhistorians, what has been your personal favorite threads over the years?

Also, do you remember your favorite comment you had to end up removing?

1. Best mods ever. Can't stress that enough.

2. Any movies/shows/novels out there that're remarkable for being historically accurate?

I just finished up Mike Duncan's fabulous History of Rome podcast, but it left me with one major lingering question. Which Roman emperor had the cutest butt?

Congratulations on 11 years and 10 whole responses to questions! Here's to another 2 to 3.

I will add my voice to the many others saying I love this sub just the way it is! So many of my preconceptions here have been challenged if not outright defeated in a way that wouldn't be possible in the ordinary Reddit style. I'm no historian though I still hope to one day see a question within my niche field which I can answer. But in the mean time, thank you contributers and mods and keep doing what you're doing, if it's not too much trouble!

Yay, I can finally say something here! I don't know anything about history, but I learn a lot reading from you guys!

I think I'm one of the few people who actually got a joke in on a thread and the moderators allowed it to stay up. It was years and years ago though, so I don't remember what I even said.

Thanks for 11 years of empty threads to cool questions

Happy birthday!

It might seem silly but discovering this subreddit while rethinking my studies helped me decide that I wanted to become a historian. I have a few podcasts downloaded that I listen to while going to uni, work (sometimes the historians have really beautiful and smooth voices and I doze off... this gives me the excuse to re-listen to them after) and I save answers to questions so I can read them when I have breaks. Granted, this sub is also the reason I had to get a job to cover the book expenses... but I don't regret it at all and I will be a recidivist thanks to the book suggestions on here.

I hope one day I have enough knowledge to answer questions on here too! I know I'm young and I have all the time to have my own research but the sharing of knowledge helped me a lot so I'd like to return the favour someday. I also want to make historians friends whether in my history field or not, partly because my friends are getting tired of my endless one-way questions haha... but mostly because I still don't know way too much and I'm interested in what others study. Thank you for giving me a much needed push in my studies :)

Just found my new yearly tradition. See you again in a year!

But seriously, keep up with the amazing work! This is one of the few reasons why I even bother browsing reddit at all.

I love this place! Congratulations to the mods and all contributors who have worked over the last 11 years to make this one of the best subreddits by far!

BUT...

Fuck all ya muthafuckin citations. It's all in my head bitches. All of human history. Deal with it and read your stupid books and papers if you can't up your game. Imma be right here smoking a cigar and keeping the truth about the Bronze Age Collapse to myself, nerds.

Also, is there an AskHistoriansCirclejerk? Might be fun.

Edit: Don't you dare delete this comment, mods. This comment is part of social history now. Do you want to obscure the historical record? Do you?

If this sub keeps getting older, this sub is gonge to turn into know-your-meme when inevitably people start asking about the origin of certain memes.

Time for a crowd favorite:

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Are there any good historical stories about someone trying really really hard in their discipline, but instead just ended up a fairly unknown failure?

Happy Birthday to us!

Can I suggest for next April fools we do AmAs with historical figures again. That was so fun

Happy birthday dear 雨宮天 I mean uhhh happy birthday dear AH!

This sub heavily carried me through the pandemic 2020. I had severe anxiety and history helps me to escape and feel better. I found this sub in early summer and it was one of the best things that happened this year. I appreciate all your work and thank you, the moderators and especially you historians for the effort and thought that you put into this. I learned so much.

Thanks for the hard work of keeping this sub clean.

Happy Birthday! It is truly incredible that the moderators of this subreddit have kept it at a high level for so long. Go mods!

Gonna brag about posting a comment in AH that wasn’t deleted.

Happy birthday to the most delightful community on the internet! If someone had told me five years ago that through my involvement in this fine subreddit I would one day meet some of my best friends in the world and, eventually, even my lovely partner, I would've laughed them out of the room and straight into the history books.

Ha, it's the first time i can write something without getting it removed!

I love this post. I wonder if there are any subreddits or opportunities here to ask more open-ended questions which let experts opine in a an educated way a bit more? For example, "What's something from your area of expertise which more people should know?" "What's been the most interesting development in your field this year?" "What's the funniest fact you've learned in your research?" I would love to hear educated, sourced answers on questions like these, and obviously places like /r/AskReddit aren't right for it... Thanks in advance for any feedback (or answers to my hypothetical questions, if you have any)!

I spend a lot of time reading this amazing sub. I wish reddit had a way to not show "XX comments" if they're deleted. I often nearly comment on peoples posts before they're removed but restrain myself knowing I'll just be adding to the problem

Can I ask a question and actually get an answer?!

It doesn’t have to be a correct answer.

If Germany had won WW2, would the Nazis be on Mars by now?

For historians who study real history, I’m curious: what do you make of people who obsess over, say questions of “historical” lore or questions of royal succession, etc., in fantasy worlds like Game Of Thrones? Or other invented worlds? Does if feel frustrating to see people get worked up over the fake stuff when the real thing is right there to explore?

Does this mean we can hear what /u/Georgey_K_Zhukov Stalin thinks Mao would do if he and Hitler were 14th century blacksmith apprentices out on the town?

I uh... [deleted]

Many have asked about todays pic. This is Ethelred the Ready during his coronation being offered a ceremonial cupcake.

Can I please get a primary source attesting to this being the 11th birthday?

Hell I’ll even settle for secondary

Nine more to go and I can finally get all those askhistorians specific history questions I have answered by [removed]!

Happy Birthday AH, and thanks to everyone from you lurkers and guests to the overlords wonderful mod team!

Once a year, I can actually leave a comment on this sub without having to dig up a citation. Heaven

A birthday is, in my own expert historical opinion, one of the best days of the year.

This is perhaps my only chance to leave a comment in this subreddit that won't get deleted.

I will take this opportunity to say that once I stopped procrastinating, I will return to writing my project that is a book of sci fi battles but presented as in-universe military history.

It will never be finished. I like procrastinating far too much. But if I ever do, god help you mods because I will cite it as an honest-to-the-force source for every answer I post.

So can I get that "Late Imperial Civil War Era-War of 1996" tag please?

Salute to all you Historians and Mods keeping this a premiere sub. All of you are amazing and do amazing work

Happy birthday! I do so enjoy this sub. Thank you to all contributors who make it what it is!

[META] Mods, why did you remove my question about Glorious Nippon Steel/Glorious German Engineering? Do you hate freedom? I'm definitely posting a good faith question and not trying to get someone else to justify my completely batshit world view.

(happy birthday AH! Thanks for being a beacon of objective reality in the sea of post-truth bullshit we sail)

Ceaser said "I came, I saw, I conquered."

What are your favorite catchphrases throughout history?

When can we ask questions about the history of AskHistorians? Have we appointed an AskHistorians Historian?

Happy 11th [deleted]

I am no expert on the subject, but Happy birth day!

This must be similar to the sense of accomplishment Julius Caesar felt when he defeated Marc Antony at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge and established himself as emporer of the Holy Roman Empire.

C'est l'anniversaire dans tous les recoins!

This is my favourite subreddit. I've been thinking about translating my preferred answers and building a collection, to then share it here and post it on my website.

As for this, this is a very jocular comment to be found by future cyberarchaeologists.

I can show mirth rn 😍

I’ve always wanted a top comment on this sub. I appreciate this community so much, the level of effort that goes into the answers here is incredible.

I'm too scare to post anything.

Penis

Is history even still a thing? I read a book once that said history ended when Nirvana got popular. Francis Futurama. Get with the times, subreddit!

Edit: just to be clear, I'm joking.

I just want to say happy birthday. This is my favorite sub; both mods, OP's, and experts that respond are the best in the world. I love binging this sub whenever I have sometime because it's so fun and illustrating.

Here's looking at the next 11 years! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Hey, good job keeping the subreddit a great source of information (even if sometimes it's slightly frustrating seeing all the [deleted])

So, like, were Phoenicians the coolest or what? Or to rephrase in a way where it makes sense to respond here: what do you think was cool about Phoenicians? :D

Thanks to everyone in the AH community. I've learned so much.

I came to appreciate this sub’s standards after posting in a legal advice sub for my country. Seriously, it’s like people wanted me to either be in jail or face thousands in fines. It was just noise after a point.

Thank you for upholding quality standards, even if it means I will never get answers to certain subjects. Better that than misinformation.

I mean congrats I guess, but can anyone tell me what really caused the American Civil War? Asking for a friend… /s

So, I'm a medieval peasant in nazi germany. What am I thinking when I see a coca-cola bottle??

If I had to describe this subreddit in one word would be

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Cheers to one of very few places with genuinely good content on this godforsaken website! From a long time lurker.

Just getting my first and only post of the year on this subreddit in. I love reading and lurking here but Lord knows I'm not qualified to comment the other 364 days of the year. I'll see you all in exactly 1 year lol.

20 year rule?

I read a comment here years ago endorsing the Routledge source books on Rome and Greece, and now I read ancient Greek. This is your brain on askhistorians.

Wow this the most comments I've seen in a thread in this sub happy birthday 🎂

Along this merry times, let's not forget the tragic events that brought darkness now 2070 years ago. Never forgety.

I will spend an hour typing up a 3000 word treatise that wishes you a happy anniversary in a very verbose way. This will rise to the top.

Somebody saying "happy birthday" will languish in obscurity at the bottom.

I appreciate the moderators allowing us this momentary lapse in formal decorum. It is quite enjoyable.

Sincerely,

Raymond Holt.

About tenish years ago when I was a young redditor I made some kind of snarky comment to a post in this sub. At the time I didn't really know how Reddit in general or askhistorians in particular worked. I got an appropriately suitable smackdown. As I recall it was a lot more blunt and personal than most of the ... corrections... than you see these days. I was so embarrassed I deleted that whole account and started a new one.

So that was the earliest lesson I learned about reddit... Don't say stupid shit in askhistorians. And something about narwhals? and bacon. Never made the connection there, but whatever.

You guys are the best! I too have a degree in history, but am not knowledge enough to speak authoritatively. (Career planning took a hard left after graduation.)

Thanks for all you do, and here's to 11 more!

What a wonderful community this is. Long live AH !

Who here has been with us longest... perhaps Leonidas?

Happy birthday! r/AskHistorians is, along r/Polandball, the living proof the enlightened despotism is the best way.

Do the mods here ever feel ashamed for their part in covering up Atlantis, Annunaki, and the Nazi Moon Colony? How do you all sleep at night?

Quite.

Hey mods!

...

Thanks for making this place a place I can trust the responses. I wasn't much of a history nerd in school, but I'll be damned if the stuff I read here isn't both educational and fun.

So thank you mods for somehow maintaining the level of quality responses!

Also thank you contributers!! Your passion for history shines through your responses that allows people like me to enjoy while learning!

History must be written by the victors, so it baffles me that you don't have some kind of authentication for submitters here -- a picture of themselves holding a medal would suffice. I'd hate to think I was reading loser history.

Could i post a question which is basically asking what question the contributers would like to answer the most?

Or will this turn into a Droste effect and this sub will be sucked into a black hole?

General whoots and yahoos* for being a sane sanctuary while we live in our own “interesting times”.

*insert your own damn apostrophes idk!

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No

Congratulations AskHistorians!

Also how about [Removed by Moderator]

Aww, darn!

how possible is it tgat the minions helped kill the dinosaurs on earth? was there a possible human to rule them?

Luigi Cadorna was the best commander the Austro-Hungarians had, nobody killed more Italians then him.

Only another 9 before the subreddit becomes a historical figure!

Tell us a story (Jackanory) about your most favourite historical birthday.

Happy birthday, AskHistorians!

Happy birthday to one of my favorite subs!

Thank you to our mods who keep it high quality, and our posters who share their knowledge.

For a sub that usually has at most one comment, this post is (almost) historical. I've never enjoyed going through every comment on any reddit post before. Thank you community for keeping to the guidelines of being only slightly jocular and/or slightly cheeky. I saw a few accusations of moderate cheekiness, but it looks like everyone is in a festive mood and willing to cut us some slack.

Seriously though, a huge thank you to the moderators and the community here for being incredible. No question is banned for being too niche or vague, and the answers give me hope.

Here's to hoping that someday we leave the safety of our houses and this subreddit and get to say hi in person.

woah my one chance to top-level post on a sub I am way too unqualified for

Just a shout-out from a lurker here. I really appreciate the in depth work that is out in here for what is really, a group of complete strangers- all for the sake of knowledge and preserving history.

Also you are all huge nerds.

11 years old!!! Happy Birthday

Happy birthday!! Feels weird that I can comment, lol

A comment if mine made it through one time. This is a huge accomplishment.

Happy eleventh birthday! I remain hopeful and eager as ever to be able to answer a question about Philippine history... someday!

I'm very happy to be part of this cheeky yet impactful learner community, cheers fellow cheeks. I wouldn't have uncovered so many insights and discoveries with all of you, especially you Mods, so thank you very much!

Wait, I can comment something useless and stupid on this thread??!?! Whooohoooo! Let's celebrate. Love what you do r/askhistorians.

Oh shit, it’s been 11 years already?

Uhh, so what’s the deal with Lewis and Clark? Did they really have the main goal of informing tribes that we were moving in and “thanks”. Or was it exploratory?

I have come to be jocular and/or slightly cheeky, and I'm all outta bubble gum

Wow what a thrilling experience

Just thanks for the best sub on Reddit. Your efforts are appreciated more than you know oh Wise Ones

Do any of the mods hang out in r/ historymemes? Or is that too much silliness and inaccuracy?

Happy birthday!

See you in a year.

Citation needed. Source me. Prove it. Aye...cheers!

As is tradition, you may be jocular and/or slightly cheeky in this thread!

Why does this sound somewhat NSFW?

Happy birthday sub!

I just want to tell all the historians out there in this beautiful subreddit that the greatest conqueror in history wasn't Alexander or Gengis or Hannibal it was actually KevalJoshi8888.

Just wanted to help you guys and gals get to the real facts because I see lot of misinformation. Glad I could assist you.

So yes, greatest conqueror, not Napoleon, or Alexander, but KevalJoshi8888. Thank you and goodbye.

You all sure know a lot for being 11 years old!

Happy birthday! Sorry for going off topic all the time!

I am far too juvenile for this sub, I read jocular out loud and laughed. This sub is great, I always enjoy my time here.

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Happy birthday, joy and rapture to all involved parties. I am proud to say I have learned a thing or two about things I already knew general information about frequently. Thank you to all of our wonderful members who are, as Socrates once said, “bona fide smarty pantses” and know so many interesting facets of trivia and clusters of facts on so many blips of occurrences in our collective timeline. You’re all superb!

C do

There are so many times where I want to say something sarcastic or witty that's technically correct, but I know I can't because I don't actually have the knowledge to be able to make an essay that this sub rightfully requires.

Does anyone else reads “more can be said” and hears “more can be sad” inside their heads and doesn’t look for more info because that would be sad and I want to be happy?

No? Just me? Oh, ok.

There are those to believe the Flashman Papers are fiction. What is the best way to respond to such scoundrels?

Fun fact: corgis are almost as inbred as the royal family

It’s time for well-mannered frivolity.

I'm aware this is controversial question even today, but what is your stance on HAVVE?

How about two cheeks?

[You cannot rest here enemies are nearby]

When /r/askhistorians turns 20 I am going to ask about the history of /r/askhistorians.

Can you name me the god emperor of this subreddit

In my best Father Mulcahey:

"Jocularity, Jocularity"

This feels like a trap. Stack overflows beatings have taught me well

"Nazis and poop sticks" is gonna be my new swear.

Hey, I am new here and you guys are legit the business. Thanks for all the info I can now add to convos, making me seem smrt.

Happy birthday :)

so awesome! thanks to all the historians here who so readily answer everyone’s interesting questions!

A question I've always had on my mind: does @Georgy_K_Zhukov really cry into his pillow when compared to Montgomery?

Oooohhhhh mmmmyyyy ggggoooooodddddddddd I'm commenting in AskHistorians this is the best day of my life

I love this subreddit and I think the moderation does a great job. I feel deeply thankful to every historian who responds to us plebs in here. You're the best. And I'm dying over all the [deleted] jokes lmao

Jocularity, jocularity!

You aren't my supervisor.

I share a cake day with this subreddit! Very cool.

Does the 20-year rule refer to the years of the celestial body on which the relevant history occurred, or do you always use Earth years?

Happy birthday :)

I am glad that askhistorians consistently maintains the rules without compromise. Congratulations on the eleventh birthday!

If it please the crown

Happy Tenth Birthday to AH. You don't look a day over nine. ;-)

Just you wait til this sub turns 20..

Happy birthday to my favorite “Ask” sub. Here’s to another 11 years!

It is your birthday.

I have nothing to contribute with. Just want to post a comment to this amazing sub and for once not have it forcibly removed by the glorious, almighty mods.

Happy birthday, r/AskHistorians!

Eventually, we are all history. We love you brainy bastards! Happy cake day!!!

It’s still not 20 so we still can’t ask historians on r/askHistorians…

Free for all!

Wow, I can give a top level response! Sure hope I don't waste this opportunity to say something interesting…

Probably the day with the most posts each year, feels good to be able to say something here finally haha

Ok, Historians, from the perspective of your specialty, how would today's world/society be dystopian?!

Happy birthday, you bunch of knowledgable bas

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Happy Birthday!!

I found this subreddit just a two months ago and it has taught me so many hidden things. It's really special.

However the more I read the excellent answers of professionals on various topics, whatever the topic may be, it has given me a feeling that history always repeats itself, whether we learn from it or not, like it's just part of the human experience.

Not sure if I'm just mistaken or just taken the most negative aspects of history in general, but i take it with gratitude all that this subreddit has taught me.

Happy Birthday! Thanks for making an old goat feel young.

I wonder if the people who are qualified to speak on the behalf of us in history. If they like ancient history or modern.

When King Arthur was trying to find a lord of the manor the serfs they had a democratic system. How come was it to have a democratically elected government in Sumeria 787?

I tried to use the Remind me bot but it was considered too cheeky and removed by the Auto Mod.

You gave me an inch and I took a mile.

Happy Birthday!

It’s so nice to have a subreddit that appreciates my weird base of knowledge in psychosurgery without commenting “I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy”.

It’s even better to have a place where I can ask questions and real historians will give me trustworthy answers!

Happy Birthday!

I wanna ask about Al Gore inventing the internet

Happy birthday! This'll either be my only comment on this sub, or I'll ask a question in 20 years about this comment so I can reply semi-expertly.

Step 2, wikipedia page...

I actually have an opinion question for the ww2 historians about Fury, there's no way a road in 1945 NEEDED to be held overnight at that point in the war, right? I think, although I understand he's a flawed fictitious character, him insisting on staying (even alone, of course the crew would stay) was completely futile, selfish, and pointless as they could have run back to the flank of that division, and air cover based in france or w/e or artillery would have massacred the marching Germans. this is not even before pointing out a battalion is 1000 men vs a division being 10k+. It just ruins the stakes of the ending for me. His tank unit is at less than 20% of original fighting force, 80% casualties, and he chooses to sacrifice them at a terminal state of the war for no reason what-so-ever.

I would just like to ask, throughout history, what was like, the most totally rad thing to happen?

Also, what was Hitler's opinion on corndogs?

Ya know, the more i hear about this Hitler fellow, the less i care for him.

I do want to say thank you to the mods for deleting crappy answers and chastising people for making them

Cheeky? Jocular? My word, they'll let anyone in here nowadays.

adjusts monacle

Finally, a topic on which I am qualified to post.

What do historians think of alt-history novels?

There are some I love, like PKD’s The Man in the High Castle, and some I didn’t, like Turtledove’s Guns of the South, which paints a favorable and ahistorical picture of General Lee.

Also, what about the ones with larger scope? There’s books spanning centuries (Robinson’s Years of Rice and Salt) and aeons (Stapledon’s Last and First Men).

What are some of your favourite historical conspiracy theories that you think likely to be true? No evidence required.

Happy birthday. Finally get to comment in this sub lol

Happy Birthday! The only comment I will ever make here that wouldnt be [deleted]

REPLY TO THIS COMMENT WITH YOUR FAVOURITE HISTORY YOUTUBERS... please.

I offer Toldinstone and History with Cy

Happy birthday! [1]

Happy birthday!

Also I didn’t know about the digest, so that’ll be nice and something to look forward too. Y’all keep up the good work!

So y'all started the day before I turned 30? Happy 11th and I hope you have many more!!

-Recently 41 year old me

Does any of you listen to the Dollop? Does Dave get his history right?

Jocularity!

This is mod-proof by the way. It’s over 20 years old.

ayo wtf its the wenomechainsama dog

Bottocks.

Congratulations, everyone! It feels really amazing to be part of this subreddit

So tell us about the an ancient astronaut visitors… ;)

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Hi!

Finally an askhistorians thread I can comment in!

So does this mean cultural anthropologists are allowed now?

That's OK. We are used to it by now

I can finally comment on a post in this subreddit bless

I made a joke about Toledo, Ohio, when the subject was about Toledo, Spain. I felt, in the context of the joke, that it was pretty solid. Don’t blame you guys for deleting it, though.

Bruh that dog scared as f

I'm sorry but your title is too short for me to understand. I need a detailed and comprehensive answer on what is a birthday why it is considered AskHistorians birthday today.

I Quebec during the quiet revolution how much wood would a woodchuck have chucked if a woodchuck could have chucked wood?

Sneaking in my first comment here

Hey, my one time to comment in AskHistorians without getting nuked by the mods 😃

Alright, we all know which redundant bad faith questions y’all are tired of getting asked. I’ve always wondered though, what questions and/or eras do you wish people asked about more? Where is there a deluge of experience on r/askhistorians that remains largely untapped?

Clap. Clap. Slight fart.

Going to hog this top of the thread with a reminder that we have a SUPER AWESOME bot which sends you a weekly round-up of the best content from the past week (Ironic that we have been delayed in getting this weeks' out though....). Although Automod reminds people of it, we know Automod is easy to just have your eyes glaze over on.

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Here is to 11 more years of me lurking in here o7

Yeyyyy

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Can we have a casual chat thread like this one every week or month?

Jocular and/or slightly cheeky, you say?

^penis

What was the most public special forces display? Like, some guy going one man army on criminals, recorded on T.V?

What if i want to be moderately cheeky?

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. I am going to put in a gibberish comment to mark this yearly 'lurker' uprising. Join us and celebrate!

Why is all content banned.

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Here's a question, If I have a question, and am so inclined to pay for an answer, how in the real world, would I go about getting the answer and what would that cost?

Does there exist some sort of system to hire historians to answer specific questions?

Happy 🍰 Day!

I don't have any references or sources to back me up, and basically zero research, but Happy Birthday r/AskHistorians!

Ahh, cheeky. To be full of cheek.

Did Hitler ever?

I really enjoy this sub and the community.

That said, let's pretend we had a single mod who identifies as politically conservative! How nice would that be! What lol's we'll have...

Because this sub isn't without obvious bias and it isn't without those of us who notice. It gets old. There's no real effort for balance here, and it's clear from me reading answers and then referring to the literature. You can do better. And no, I'm not a fascist.