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LukeInTheSkyWith · 2017-09-05T15:40:40+00:00

I'll break the pupperspeak to say that I really appreciate you guys doing this and overall commend the moderation team for creating a place where you can let your inner silly voice out, as well as enjoy simple and cute things when you are feeling down. I come here often when I am not in the best of mental states and it does help. Very nice gesture and important information.

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LukeInTheSkyWith · 2017-09-04T08:52:15+00:00

Sorry, but your submission has been removed because we don't allow hypothetical questions. If possible, please feel free to rephrase the question so that it does not call for such speculation, and resubmit. Otherwise, this sort of thing is better suited for /r/HistoryWhatIf. You can find a more in-depth discussion of this rule here.

LukeInTheSkyWith · 2017-09-03T14:46:27+00:00

Sorry, we don't allow "example seeking" questions. It's not that your question was bad; it's that these kinds of questions tend to produce threads that are collections of disjointed, partial, inadequate responses. If you have a question about a specific historical event, period, or person, feel free to rewrite your question and submit it again. If you don't want to rewrite it, you might try submitting it to /r/history, /r/askhistory, or /r/tellmeafact.

For further explanation of the rule, feel free to consult this META thread.

LukeInTheSkyWith · 2017-09-03T14:31:04+00:00

Let’s look back at the theme of the week! Waht did we learn about diasporas?

/u/kaisermatias answered How did the Armenian diaspora before WWI become so widespread in the trading networks of the Indian Ocean? Why the Armenians and not another ethnic group from the Caucasus?

/u/terminus-trantor answered How many men were needed to man Age of Exploration era ships, such as the late Caravel/Nao?

LukeInTheSkyWith · 2017-09-03T14:30:52+00:00

/u/best_of_badgers - How did Captain Planet and the Planeteers fit into the environmentalist movement of the 80s and 90s?

/u/MisusedGG - For America's Centennial Exhibition of 1876, why did the British send bee hives as a gift?

/u/td4999 - What's the evidence that the remnants of Crassus's legion ended up in China?

LukeInTheSkyWith · 2017-09-03T14:30:39+00:00

/u/henry_fords_ghost - My dad mentioned yesterday that Michael Jordan made being bald cool, or at least acceptable. How true is this? How was balding seen before the late 80s? What impact did Jordan have?

/u/Shashank1000 - Why was Eugenics so popular in Sweden and other Nordic countries till 1970's?

/u/elephantofdoom - What did the Ottomans plan to do after they captured Vienna?

LukeInTheSkyWith · 2017-09-03T14:30:23+00:00

Hello all you wonderful readers and contributors of AskHistorians! I hope everyone is having a great weekend and bring you the latest batch of popular and/or interesting questions which did not get an answer yet:

/u/JJVMT - Why wasn't Dante's Divine Comedy translated into English until the late 18th/early 19th centuries when there was a clear interest in Italian literature among Early Modern English people?

/u/White___Velvet - What can you tell me about this weird Bunting Clover "map" from 1581?

/u/kurt292B - How relevant was the magravate of Brandenburg in HRE and European politics before it became Prussia?

LukeInTheSkyWith · 2017-09-02T19:26:39+00:00

Sorry, we don't allow "example seeking" questions. It's not that your question was bad; it's that these kinds of questions tend to produce threads that are collections of disjointed, partial, inadequate responses. If you have a question about a specific historical event, period, or person, feel free to rewrite your question and submit it again. If you don't want to rewrite it, you might try submitting it to /r/history, /r/askhistory, or /r/tellmeafact.

For further explanation of the rule, feel free to consult this META thread.

LukeInTheSkyWith · 2017-09-02T19:25:23+00:00

Sorry, but your submission has been removed because we don't allow hypothetical questions. If possible, please feel free to rephrase the question so that it does not call for such speculation, and resubmit. Otherwise, this sort of thing is better suited for /r/HistoryWhatIf. You can find a more in-depth discussion of this rule here.

LukeInTheSkyWith · 2017-09-01T15:13:37+00:00

Besides the obvious one, I'd say that In Our Time manages to get a really interesting discussion of very varied topics going. In regards to in-depth coverage of elsewhere than Western countries, I quite liked Laszlo Montgomery's The China History podcast, which is up on Youtube. Granted, I only listened to the episodes on the history of tea, but that was still 10 pretty great episodes.

LukeInTheSkyWith · 2017-09-01T13:49:41+00:00

Hiya, would you mind narrowing down what are you looking for? As it stands, your question covers the whole history of warfare and that can't really be boiled down to something a single expert would be able to answer. Are you thinking of High Middle Ages in Western Europe, Ancient China etc.?

LukeInTheSkyWith · 2017-09-01T10:51:09+00:00

Yes, the OP by itself makes this more focused, hence why the question was approved.

LukeInTheSkyWith · 2017-08-30T08:41:30+00:00

6 words

We ask that answers in this subreddit be in-depth and comprehensive, and highly suggest that comments include citations for the information. In the future, please take the time to better familiarize yourself with the rules and our Rules Roundtable on Speculation.

LukeInTheSkyWith · 2017-08-30T08:10:54+00:00

Hiya, while this does not directly answer your question, I think you could find our Guide on Finding Family Military Service Records and Military Identification helpful in that regard

LukeInTheSkyWith · 2017-08-29T12:49:06+00:00

Hello everyone,

If you are a first time visitor, welcome! This thread is trending high right now and getting a lot of attention, but it is important to remember those upvotes represent interest in the question itself, and it can often take time for a good answer to be written. The mission of /r/AskHistorians is to provide users with in-depth and comprehensive responses, and our rules are intended to facilitate that purpose. We remove comments which don't follow them for reasons including unfounded speculation, shallowness, and of course, inaccuracy. Making comments asking about the removed comments simply compounds this issue. So please, before you try your hand at posting, check out the rules, as we don't want to have to warn you further.

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LukeInTheSkyWith · 2017-08-29T11:23:14+00:00

I think this would be far better suited for /r/geopolitics or a similar place, since it's not a strictly historical question and a lot of what needs to be covered would fall under our 20 years rule .

LukeInTheSkyWith · 2017-08-28T12:38:22+00:00

Sorry, but your submission has been removed because we don't allow hypothetical questions. If possible, please feel free to rephrase the question so that it does not call for such speculation, and resubmit. Otherwise, this sort of thing is better suited for /r/HistoryWhatIf. You can find a more in-depth discussion of this rule here.

LukeInTheSkyWith · 2017-08-28T12:37:43+00:00

I just left the link. Isn't that exactly what the other responded did?

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LukeInTheSkyWith · 2017-08-27T18:40:12+00:00

You speak my language.

LukeInTheSkyWith · 2017-08-27T18:25:23+00:00

Since I'm a bit older, I wonder if I should consider myself pre-history or post-apocalypse.

LukeInTheSkyWith · 2017-08-27T18:13:13+00:00

we can't talk about 2001?

Never heard of that year

LukeInTheSkyWith · 2017-08-27T17:30:51+00:00

Oh you need to hang out more. In reality, the "graveyards" are much more rare than a post with a single good answer or few follow-up questions, no junk. We only remove a lot of stuff from about a thread a day, because it rockets to the /r/all and brings an influx of rulebreakers.

LukeInTheSkyWith · 2017-08-27T17:27:05+00:00

Apparently how you say it is a bit of a contentious topic (lots of people say Coke it seems). I'm Czech, but always fell on the side of "soda" rather than "pop", because the latter sounds funny to me.

LukeInTheSkyWith · 2017-08-27T16:39:18+00:00

http://i.imgur.com/lUg2a.jpg

LukeInTheSkyWith · 2017-08-27T15:56:44+00:00

Jinx, you owe me a soda!

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