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Come share the cool stuff you love about the past! Please don’t just write a phrase or a sentence—explain the thing, get us interested in it! Include sources especially if you think other people might be interested in them.

AskHistorians requires that answers be supported by published research. We do not allow posts based on personal or relatives' anecdotes. All other rules also apply—no bigotry, current events, and so forth.

For this round, let’s look at: Royalty! Tell me stories of princesses and power, of sultans and harem intrigue!

Next time: MURDER MOST FOUL

Welcome to Tuesday Trivia!

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Come share the cool stuff you love about the past! Please don’t just write a phrase or a sentence—explain the thing, get us interested in it! Include sources especially if you think other people might be interested in them.

AskHistorians requires that answers be supported by published research. We do not allow posts based on personal or relatives' anecdotes.

All other rules also apply—no bigotry, current events, and so forth.

For this round, let’s look at A Day In The Life! What was an ordinary day like for a person in your era? Pick a peasant, pick a priestess, pick Eleanor of Aquitaine—whoever it is, walk us through their day to day life!

Next time: History that passes the Bechdel Test

Welcome to Tuesday Trivia!

If you are:

• a long-time reader, lurker, or inquirer who has always felt too nervous to contribute an answer
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Come share the cool stuff you love about the past!

We do not allow posts based on personal or relatives' anecdotes. Brief and short answers are allowed but MUST be properly sourced to respectable literature. All other rules also apply—no bigotry, current events, and so forth.

For this round, let’s look at: Decolonization! What does it mean to remake that which has been broken? To restore which was stolen? To reclaim land, power, and culture that was taken by force? This week is about exploring the concept decolonization - the thinkers behind the concept, evidence of it in practice, and anything else you'd like to teach us.

Previous weeks' Tuesday Trivias and the complete upcoming schedule.

Today’s trivia theme comes to us from /u/CanadianHistorian! And that crazy guy sent me a whole pile of these (with amusing titles ready to go even!) so get ready to see his username a lot.

The theme today is all those pesky pithy little misattributed or just straight made-up quotes that historians spend all their time debunking, like “Let them eat cake” and “Elementary, dear Watson.” What’s a famous quote from your studies that’s totally fake? How did it come to be, and how do we know it’s a fudge?

Next week on Tuesday Trivia: In honor of my post-Christmas wallet, we’ll be celebrating history’s illustrious figures who were frugal, thrifty, or just plain cheap.

Welcome to Tuesday Trivia!

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Come share the cool stuff you love about the past!

We do not allow posts based on personal or relatives' anecdotes. Brief and short answers are allowed but MUST be properly sourced to respectable literature. All other rules also apply—no bigotry, current events, and so forth.

For this round, let’s look at: Clothing & Costumes! No one tell the emperor, but this week is about clothing & costumes. Got a favorite outfit you want to talk about it detail that would be too much for anyone other subreddit? Bring it here so we can celebrate it! Share what you know about the process of making stuff to protect our bits, people who've designed or created the stuff to protect our bits, or anything related to the layers we put on top of our skin!

Welcome to Tuesday Trivia!

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We do not allow posts based on personal or relatives' anecdotes. Brief and short answers are allowed but MUST be properly sourced to respectable literature. All other rules also apply—no bigotry, current events, and so forth.

For this round, let’s look at: Whaling, Fishing & The Sea! Call me Tuesday Trivia! This week is about whaling, fishing & the sea. Let those sea shanties fly, tell us all about hoisting the main, the histories of collecting large and small quantities of animals from the sea, how humans built collection tools, or other tales about human’s relationship with getting good and resources from the big pools of water.

Welcome to Tuesday Trivia!

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For this round, let’s look at: ​Ecology & Ecological destruction! We may all be hurtling through space on a blue marble amid an ocean of stars, but on our journey, we’ve left our mark in ways good and bad. This week is dedicated to Ecology/Ecological destruction. Use this week to tell the stories of the harm we’ve caused, the harm we’ve presented, and the people and histories around the people who knew or have learned that this is the only marble we’ve got.

Welcome to Tuesday Trivia!

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For this round, let’s look at: Latin America! Trivia this week is dedicated to Latin America! ¡La trivia de esta semana está dedicada a América Latina! As curiosidades desta semana são dedicadas à América Latina! Les histoires de cette semaine sont toutes sur l'Amérique latine! Share everything you know about the histories of the lands around and below the Equator on the left side of the globe.

Welcome to Tuesday Trivia!

If you are:

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Come share the cool stuff you love about the past!

We do not allow posts based on personal or relatives' anecdotes. Brief and short answers are allowed but MUST be properly sourced to respectable literature. All other rules also apply—no bigotry, current events, and so forth.

For this round, let’s look at: Terrorism! This week's theme is terrorism. Know the history of a terrorist who was later immortalized as a freedom fighter? A freedom fighter who is now described as a terrorist? This week is a space to explore how people have used fear to change their lives or how living in fear has changed their lives. Let’s take a hard look at the history of people choosing to use violence and fear to get people’s attention.

Welcome to Tuesday Trivia!

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Come share the cool stuff you love about the past!

We do not allow posts based on personal or relatives' anecdotes. Brief and short answers are allowed but MUST be properly sourced to respectable literature. All other rules also apply—no bigotry, current events, and so forth.

For this round, let’s look at: Judaism! G'mar chatima tova - Yom Kippur is this week and as such, this week's theme is Judaism. Want to share the story of a member of the faith whose name you think should be better known? Or something about the religion, traditions, people, or land associated with Judaism that you want to share with the AH community? We've saved a space for you to do so!

A few weeks ago I asked a much more downcast counterpart to this question; it generated a lot of replies! This week, I figured we might as well take a look at the other side of the coin.

We've adequately covered the questions you're really tired of hearing -- but what question do you always hope someone will ask?

As is usual in the daily project posts, moderation will be considerably lighter here than is otherwise the norm in /r/AskHistorians. Jokes, digressions and the like are permitted here -- but please still try to ensure that your answers are reasonable and informed, and please be willing to expand on them if asked!

Previously:

• Most Unusual Deaths
• Famous adventurers and explorers
• Great non-military heroes
• History's great underdogs
• Interesting historical documents

Today:

I think you know the drill by now: in this moderation-relaxed thread, anyone can post whatever anecdotes, questions, or speculations they like (provided a modicum of serious and useful intent is still maintained), so long as it has something to do with the subject being proposed. We get a lot of these "best/most interesting X" threads in /r/askhistorians, and having a formal one each week both reduces the clutter and gives everyone an outlet for the format that's apparently so popular.

In light of certain recent events, let's talk about the things people believe about your field of interest that make you just want to throw up with rage when you encounter them. These should be somewhat more than just common misconceptions that could be innocently held, to be clear -- we're looking for those ideas that are seemingly always attended by some sort of obnoxious idiocy, and which make you want to set yourself on fire and explode, killing twelve.

Are you a medievalist dealing with the Phantom Time hypothesis? A scholar of Renaissance-era exploration dealing with Flat-Earth theories? A specialist in World War II dealing with... something?

Air your grievances, everyone. Make them pay for what they've done ಠ_ಠ

Previous weeks’ Tuesday Trivias.

Are you sick of the “Great Men of History” view of things? Tired of the same old boring powerful people tromping through this subreddit with their big well-studied footsteps? Well, me too, so tell us about somebody from history where (essentially) no one has ever heard of them, but they’re still historical. As was announced in the last TT post, you get AskHistorians Bonus Points (unfortunately redeemable only for AskHistorians Street Cred) if you can tell us about an interesting figure from history so obscure they’re not even on Wikipedia.

Next week on Tuesday Trivia: Random moments in history! And not the usual definition, I’m talking really random -- historic decisions that were made deliberately with chance: a coin toss and a shrug is the level of leadership we are looking for here. So if you’ve got any good examples of that round them up!

Welcome to Tuesday Trivia!

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For this round, let’s look at: Christianity! From lesser known figures to how it spread around the world, this week's post is your place to share all things related to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

Previously:

• Click here for the last Trivia entry for 2012, and a list of all previous ones.

Today:

For this first installment of Tuesday Trivia for 2013 (took last week off, alas -- I'm only human!), I'm interested in hearing about those issues that hotly divided the historical world in days gone by. To be clear, I mean, specifically, intense debates about history itself, in some fashion: things like the Piltdown Man or the Hitler Diaries come to mind (note: respondents are welcome to write about either of those, if they like).

We talk a lot about what's in contention today, but after a comment from someone last Friday about the different kinds of revisionism that exist, I got to thinking about the way in which disputes of this sort become a matter of history themselves. I'd like to hear more about them here.

So:

What was a major subject of historical debate from within your own period of expertise? How (if at all) was it resolved?

Feel free to take a broad interpretation of this question when answering -- if your example feels more cultural or literary or scientific, go for it anyway... just so long as the debate arguably did have some impact on historical understanding.

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For this round, let’s look at: LGBTQ History! Happy pride, AskHistorians! This week, we celebrate all things related to LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer - including asexual, intersexual, and more!) History! Whatever form that takes for you, use this week the fly the flag!

Previously:

• Questions you want to be asked

• Suggestion thread

• Greatest criminals

• Strangest inventions

• Natural disasters

• (In)famous non-military attacks

• Stupidest theories/beliefs about your field of interest

• Most unusual deaths

• Famous adventurers and explorers

• Great non-military heroes

• History's great underdogs

• Interesting historical documents

• Books To Read

• Strange Public Rituals/Holidays

It's time for another edition of Tuesday Trivia. This week: history's unlikeliest success stories. Who in your field of study became a success (however you choose to define success!) despite seemingly insurmountable odds? Whether their success was accidental or the result of years of hard work, please tell us any tales of against-the-odd successes that you can think of!

Welcome to Tuesday Trivia!

If you are:

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For this round, let’s look at: War & Military! 'Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no.' – Or so says Falstaff in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1. This week, let's talk about war and the military!

Previously:

• Suggestion thread
• Greatest criminals
• Strangest inventions
• Natural disasters
• (In)famous non-military attacks
• Stupidest theories/beliefs about your field of interest
• Most unusual deaths
• Famous adventurers and explorers
• Great non-military heroes
• History's great underdogs
• Interesting historical documents

Today:

Several months ago I inquired in the opposite direction: what's the one question you dread? The answers that were coming up in that thread were amazing.

Today, I'd like to take things in a more positive direction (and in one that differs a bit from previous installments of this series). When new people find out that you're interested in a certain historical subject, what do you actually want them to ask you about? What question would basically make your day?

Go to it!

Welcome to Tuesday Trivia!

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For this round, let’s look at: Buddhism! 2500 years of history means lots of trivia and information to share! This week's theme is Buddhism. Let this week be the week you share the story about the people, the faith, the traditions, and the history of the Buddhist religion you've always wanted to share.

Welcome to Tuesday Trivia!

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For this round, let’s look at: Racism & Slavery!

Previous weeks' Tuesday Trivias and the complete upcoming schedule.

Today’s trivia theme was suggested by a question from /u/randomhistorian1 who asked "What are some of the most common myths about the Roman Empire, and what is wrong about them?"

We'll expand that to include the whole of Antiquity, from the earliest Egyptian kingdoms through to the Fall of Rome. So let's hear your tales of popular misconceptions that make you want to go "Hulk Smash!"

Next Week on Tuesday Trivia: Lost in Translation!

Previously:

• If I Were A Rich Man

• The Good Old Days

• Best Friends Forever!

• Notable Rivals and Enemies

• Famous Historical Controversies

• Click here for the last Trivia entry for 2012, and a list of all previous ones.

Today:

Let's get legal. Courts and law cases can influence history. Or not - sometimes they're just quirky.

What are the weirdest or most unusual - or most important - legal cases you can think of? Which court ruling makes you go "They said what?" or "So, that's where that came from!"? When did a court rule something totally outrageous? When did a judge change history from the bench?

Show us your briefs... umm... cases.

Previous weeks' Tuesday Trivias and the complete upcoming schedule.

Today’s trivia comes to us from /u/faintpremonition!

It’s lunch time in the AskHistorians school cafeteria, and we’re serving up historically accurate sample meals for any person in history! So, for example, you can share the Sunday dinner for a family in Revolutionary America, you can share the ration pack of a Japanese WWII soldier, you can share a great feast given by a Saxon king, etc. etc. Whatever you’d like.

Next week on Tuesday Trivia: A simple yet complicated them, we’ll be talking about historic experiences and attitudes towards death.

Welcome to Tuesday Trivia!

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For this round, let’s look at: Love & Romance! Big gestures of love, small moments of love, agápe, éros, philía, philautia, etc. etc. This week's thread is about all the trivia related to love and romance you want to share. Let your romantic flag fly!