Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | January 26, 2025

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1iaf8a3/sunday_digest_interesting_overlooked_posts/

created by AutoModerator on 26/01/2025 at 14:00 UTC

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Welcome to this week's instalment of /r/AskHistorians[1]' 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.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians

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Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 15:54 UTC

7 upvotes, 92 direct replies

2025 is flying past, and its already the last Sunday of January. Time travel truly does exist as long as you want to go forward at a steady rate. But as always, we have plenty of material to keep you entertained along the way! Don’t forget to check out the usual weekly features, along with any special threads, upvote all your favorites and thank those hard working contributors.

Office Hours January 20, 2025: Questions and Discussion about Navigating Academia, School, and the Subreddit

Tuesday Trivia: Time & Timekeeping! This thread has relaxed standards—we invite everyone to participate!

A very empty looking Thursday Reading and Rec!

Stop by the Friday Free for All!

METAS! Our /r/AskHistorians 2024 Year in Review

My proposals and suggestions to the AskHistorians ModTeam to address recent events in the United States

And thus I come to a close once more. The thread is complete, my job is done, and I vanish back into the void for another week. Keep it classy out there history fans, stay safe, and I’ll see you on the FarSide!

Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 15:51 UTC

5 upvotes, 9 direct replies

We pause for a moment this beautiful Sunday to show some appreciation for those fascinating questions that caught our eyes and captured our curiosities, but sadly remain unanswered. Feel free to post your own, or those you’ve come across in your travels, and maybe we’ll get lucky with a wandering expert.

/u/anthropology_nerd asked TV clips of pop musicians in the 1950s often show audience members fainting or other extreme emotional outbursts. What do we know about the origin of this behavior?

/u/tjorben123 asked How was the Time-shift noticed when traveling to the new world? Or was it well known before passing the atlantic ocean? Did the people 15th century understand the fundamental principals of it?

/u/MaterialActive1794 asked How many puppet states did Napoleon create and control?