Howdy badhistory! It's time for another edition of Modmail Madness. Every time someone mentions the sub, we get a notification. We compile the best notifications of the month for your amusement (or bafflement. Sometimes the notifications just make us go "what on earth...") In this edition, we pretend everything is better since it isn't 2020 anymore. Better, right? Everything's fine? No? Well, at least we can offer you this distraction in the meantime.

According to this article, Chile is called Chile because it was colonized by the Ancient Greeks. Though we don't actually know the origin of Chile's name, all of the leading theories involve Indigenous names and words, not some crazy world traversing Greeks.

Have you ever wanted a reference for every bit of bad Church history, all in one handy place? Look no further than this thread! We've got all the classics, and a few of the lesser known B-sides too.

Hey Siri, define communist for me. I'm pretty sure right-wing populist premier Doug Ford doesn't count as one. Could be wrong though, since this one guy on Reddit disagrees.

Where's that gif that says how many times do we have to tell you old man? The Nazis weren't socialists. I promise. Bonus points for using one of TIK's videos to argue that yes, they were. EDIT: later in the thread, they do accept that they were wrong. Always nice to see someone change their ideas with evidence.

This guy proposes a novel idea: in order to fix America, we just need Caesar. Like, the Roman dictator. Under Caesar, there was no corruption ever and no one could be bribed. And no one was exploited. Wow, sounds great! And also quite unlike the actual, historical Caesar.

Finally, this guy argues that no one outside of the actual country of Skyrim would care about what's happening in Skyrim because no one cared about the collapse of the Byzantine Empire, Richard the Lionheart being taken prisoner, or the American Civil War, which is an interesting take on those three events to say the least.

In thread mentions this month, drumroll please... the Mother Theresa thread was second. Yes, that's right. Despite being mentioned in 12 unique threads, Mother Theresa was linked less than criticisms about Mark Felton, who had 13 mentions. I don't know what that says about Mark Felton last month, but I'm sure it's something. In third place, for some reason, we got 6 different mentions about African presidents being assassinated by France. Overall, there were 28 unique threads mentioned across Reddit last month.

That's all for January. Tune in next time for February. Until then, stay warm (if you're in the northern hemisphere) or cool (if you're in the southern hemisphere) and most of all, stay healthy. See you next month!

Edited for spelling, and to add a slight correction.