A massive shoutout to newly-minted flair (!!!) and this week's VIP, /u/gothwalk, wrangling an immense amount of cultural, economic, and food history into explaining why certain cities become known for certain types of food...and going on to explain what was on Old Macdonald's farm, half a millennium ago.

It's only from last night, so I suppose there's still a lot of time for people to notice it, but I though /u/anthropology_nerd and /u/RioAbajo were great in answering this question about nonviolent resistance in Spanish missions.

/u/waritter had a great summary of the complications surrounding "good steel" in late medieval armor.

I enjoyed /u/ETFox's series of comments on pirate codes during the 18th century.

I hate to self-rec, but I wrote a rather lengthy post on the Flight to Varennes and I'm going to self-rec.

/u/eternalkerri and I tag-teamed the hell out of a post a few days ago.

Why the Spanish Empire did not start a kind of Commonwealth with it's former ex colonies, like the British Empire did, after they started to ask for Independence?.

whispers I am not above self-shilling. slithers away

A day late, but whatever!

• /u/shlin28 answered "What does modern academia make of Procopius' 'Secret History'?"

• /u/iphikrates answered "Why was the Greek phalanx so important and how has it influenced warfare today?"

• /u/nhmo on "What sort of work could an American/European woman composer do at the turn of the century?"

I really enjoyed /u/shlin28's answer to What does modern academia make of Procopius' 'Secret History'?

Bonus shout out to /u/bitparity for their follow up comment