I've never done one of these before, so tell me if I'm doing it wrong here.

*While by no means overlooked, /u/pretty_meta was fascinating on slaves in heaven.

*/u/yodatsracist dropped a nice nugget of knowledge on polytheism.

*/u/thefourthmaninaboat and /u/jschooltiger developed a really fascinating discussion of the Gallipoli invasion.

I have two to offer this week:

• The first is /u/Dubstripsquads' post about the British Israelite movement, which I'd never even heard of before the question from /u/cordis_melum and Dubs' post.

• The second is an amazing series of posts from /u/sloam1234 who described what life was like in Sarajevo between 1992 and 1996.

A few days ago u/Hergrim asked a question about the reliability of modern theories on Greek hoplite combat, in which he referred to a blog post by expert Dr Paul Bardunias. u/PMBardunias himself promptly showed up to offer his insights. The discussion is still ongoing - come join the fun!

I love this sub.

Rundown:

• /u/cthulhushrugged answered "Since the Allies had a wide variety of slang terms for the Germans and Japanese, what were nicknames for Allied soldiers among the Axis?"

• /u/dubstripsquads on "What can AskHistorians tell me about British Israelism and how it became Christian Identity in the 1920s? Additionally, what is the background for the former group, and are there distinctive American elements in CI?"

• /u/drylaw on "Did the first European explorers (1492-1600ish) understand that the Southern Hemisphere experienced reversed seasons and why?"

*/u/Iphikrates did some awesome primary source work on Ancient Greek peltast tactics.

I'd like to add this answer from /u/Kugelfang52 from almost a week ago on After watching someone explaining why he thought nazis did not kill any Jews in gaschambers, how did they actually do that?