Congrats to the mods and the ad-hoc team that quickly put together some background to the Pope's statements about the use of contraception and the Zika virus. I think the crowd-sourcing approach to this worked really well, in large part because the mods did a great job acting as editors. Ten Thousand Years to our Glorious Mods! ( banners wave: choreographed soldiers march by..)

A bit late, but here it is:

• /u/cccvcccc on "Was there a BMX culture in Communist countries?"

• /u/kieslowskifan answered "How was the Holocaust taught and understood in East Germany vs West Germany?" and also on "Were nudes a thing before the invention of the Internet?"

• /u/400-rabbits answered "In his book 1491, Charles C. Mann talks about the beauty and sophistication of Mexica literature and philosophy, and claims that the corpus of Classical Nahuatl is greater than that of Classical Greek. Is this true? And if so, then why is it so obscure?"

A special thanks to all who contributed to the last Monday Methods on Bodies and Disabilities, all the answers made for a very engaging reading and its a topic that should receive more attention.

/u/l3eater gave a great response to my question about the Baltic Crusades.

Given that it was the first proper response (ever) to one of my AH questions, I want to give a shout-out to /u/restricteddata for his thoughts on what scientists/doctors have learnt about nuclear technology 'in the wild'.

/u/ParkSungJun answered Was German assistance to the Republic of China useful?

/u/sunagainstgold answered What did the queen's servants do in the English court?

/u/sowser answered It seems to me that there is only very limited historical documentation of LGBT people prior in preindustrial societies, is this because the concepts of sex and gender were viewed differently or that most who might have identified as such were closeted due to rampant societal discrimination?

Thanks to /u/Astrogator, I now know [how to ask for directions in Ancient Rome] (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/45h2a3/i_want_to_visit_a_relative_in_rome_during_the/).

/u/Iustinus_Maximus told a fascinating story about how a [former Byzantine ended up in America] (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/450bog/did_any_former_byzantines_end_up_in_america/)

I enjoyed reading about CZechs fighting (or not) for Nazi Germany: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/42y3ct/did_czechs_fight_in_the_german_army_or_waffen_ss/