Here's a post from me that came a bit late, disussing the conflicting nature of familial ethnicity and state-promoted culture in the Tiwanaku state.

• /u/Stone_tigris wins an antikythera machine for two things: one, an excellent look at Henry VIII's armor in the context of 16th century culture and...bacterial culture; and two, citing an article called "The Renaissance Codpiece"

• Also in Fashion with a Cause, /u/colevintage offers a lavishly-illustrated look at men's penchant for wigs in the late 1700s (with deeper historical background wonderfully summarized by /u/Zither13!) AND follows it up by talking about 18th century tighty-whiteys.

/u/agentdcf takes on Was Britain's abolition of the slave trade a selfless act of virtue or were there any ulterior motives behind the decision?

Weekly rundown:

• /u/mythoplokos on "Tacitus mentions Augustus giving fourth three million five hundred thousand sesterces away to the "people" in his will. How much is that in today's US dollars?"

• /u/the_alaskan on "Why were General McClellan's estimates of confederate forces always overestimated?"

• /u/jordan42 answered "In 'Django Unchained', the title character says that every slave has heard of Candyland, the plantation owned by the villain of the story. Would slaves know individual plantations through reputation? How efficient were their means of inter-plantation communication?"

/u/Jordan42 explains the complexities of slave-to-slave communication in In 'Django Unchained', the title character says that every slave has heard of Candyland, the plantation owned by the villain of the story. Would slaves know individual plantations through reputation? How efficient were their means of inter-plantation communication?.