I quite liked /u/itsallfolklore's anecdote about drinking 100-year-old port.

While it's not the usual wall-of-text answer pointed out on the Day of Reflection, I'd like to draw attention to /u/edXcitizen87539319's answer about how the Netherlands got its name. This is the sort of question that people often protest is too easy for AskHistorians or can be easily looked up, yet edXcitizen has shown it is entirely possible to still provide an interesting, informative and comprehensive response.

/u/davidAOP gave a great response to the question "What weapons did pirates use during the Golden Age of Piracy (1650-1730)?"

/u/elos_ wrote an amazing answer analyzing why the Germans surrendered in WW1.

I loved the answer /u/tjcase10 gave to my question about early U.S. Sailors captured by the Barbary States

/u/thewalrus5 with a very comprehensive look at Japanese military expansion prior to WWII.

I thought there were some particularly good posts about historical inevitability in the thread Why is William Shirer's "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" widely discredited by historians

/u/telkanuru's post is a really good argument about why historical inevitability is bad history, although I can't say I agree with all of his argument.

Likewise, I thought /u/tayaravaknin's post on the matter was also really good.

I can make no claim to whether my posts were good enough to warrant being in the Day of Reflection, but if anyone would like to read my own interpretation on historical inevitability in relation to the others made in the thread, it can be found here

The posts I read in that thread made me think that a Feature thread on something like "Structures, Human Agency, and Historical Inevitability" could be really interesting.

/u/ainrialai's answers What is the truth about Cuba?