A month ago I made a post about the cancelled Valkyrie bomber project on a Trivia Tuesday post. Well, just a couple days ago /u/eidetic elaborated on my post to show what came out of the failure of the Valkyrie and I really enjoyed it. His post demonstrates the back and forth of arms development, the difficulties therein, and how misjudgments in intelligence can lead down some interesting paths.

/u/textandtrowel answered my question on seidr in Viking times here! Thank you so much for the amazing answer!

/u/CommodoreCoCo and /u/Qhapaqocha did a great job tag-teaming a question about the Inca as a cultural group.

Better late than never, the weekly rundown:

/u/caffarelli on "Was the music by the famous 19th century composers enjoyed by all classes of society during their time, or just by the rich elites?"

/u/itsallfolklore on "Is it true that the Grimm brothers collected Germanic folktales as a way to strengthen the German nation/identity? Why?"

/u/Jooseman on "What caused Arabic Numerals to be accepted world wide, but alphabets developed such a wide variety?"

I answered (I think anyways) /u/OPGreenback's question on When were the first psychiatric asylums instituted? What did ancient psychiatry look like?

I liked /u/shlin28 's post over at badhistory on "Bad History in r/badhistory: Late Antiquity and the Making of the Islamic World. essentially its a bit of a historiagraphy piece that pushes towards a more nuanced view of early islam with a healthy dose of skepticism about what we actually know.

It's been another productive week for /u/kieslowskifan: I quite enjoyed his comment on Napoleon's 'Corsican phase' and his delicious demolition job on Paul Johnson.