Best of August Voting Thread

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Time to weigh in on what you loved best this past month! Vote for what you think deserves the prize. Submit ones you liked but don't see here (yet).

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/u/kieslowskifan answered "How accurate is Goodbye Lenin?"

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/u/robert_e_lee_says answered "Did Robert E. Lee ever say, about the Civil War, that he wished he owned every slave so that he could free them and avoid war?"

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/u/iphikrates answered "Is the Military "Worship" of the Spartans Really Justified?"

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/u/lordzarasophos answered "Why is the Chinese front during WW2 rarely ever acknowledged or talked about?"

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/u/barton_foley answered "How did banks work in the Soviet Union? Were people allowed to save money and accumulate wealth? Was there personal lending? How did this all work in the soviet communist system?"

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/u/Georgy_K_Zhukov answered "When perusing Wikipedia's list of Confederate monuments, I notice that an overwhelming number were constructed in the period of 1900-1920. Why is this?"

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/u/gaimar answered "Is it true that the Pope was planning something like the First Crusade before Alexios Komnenos made his call for aid?"

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/u/lord_mayor_of_reddit answered "In the USA before soft drinks were invented, what were the recreational drink of choice for non-alcohol drinkers?"

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/u/the_alaskan answered "Why were Confederate monuments raised in Union and border states?"

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/u/nientedenada answered "In James Clavell's Shogun, there is a scene where a 'woman of pleasure' shows the protagonist sex toys including cock rings, dildoes and anal beads. In reality, were sex toys prevalent in seventeenth-century Japan?"

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/u/skiosmagus answered "Historians use facts and evidence to construct narratives, but how strong is that narrative?"

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/u/sirventricle answered "I see more and more internet historians claiming ancient peoples were nearly as rational, irreligious and pragmatic as modern Westerners. How accurate is this?"

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/u/rimeroyal answered "We're marginal illustrations in medieval manuscripts frowned upon? Were there supervising monks trying to keep copyists from drawing weird stuff?"