/u/Iphikrates gave an excellent response on [the Assyrian ruins described by Xenophon] (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5g326k/xenephon_writes_about_huge_abandoned_cities_in/). Well-written and informative!

For overlooked posts, I found the question

Benjamin Disraeli persuaded Queen Victoria to not use the title "Empress of Great Britain, Ireland and India" and use the title "Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India" to avoid controversy. What controversy it would have caused? Was it avoided?

to be quite intriguing, and thought it would get a quality answer in short order. That doesn't quite seem to have happened yet.

Step right up and get your popular and/or interesting questions that did not receive an answer yet! Perhaps you’d like to answer one or perhaps your lovely companion would appreciate it?

/u/Lithide asked about the reason why the original Aladdin story is set in China

/u/Rittermeister wants to know more about free peasants and minor landowners in 11th-12th century western Europe

The royal we wonders about the gender politics of the early church in the Anglo-Saxon period

Rundown:

• /u/PM_ME_YOUR_DALEKS on "Did Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip really have such a rocky marriage in the early years of her reign?"

• /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov on "Dr. Karl Köller (credited with discovering anesthetic effects of cocaine), was challenged to a duel after having to suffer through an anti-semitic attack on his person, in 1885, Vienna. Were Jewish men of the time at higher risk for ending up in a duel, thanks to anti-semitic moods in the society?"

• /u/paxottomanica on "Is it true that the Islamic world underwent a decline in science after the 'Golden Age'? Or were the Ottomans or Safavids just as scientifically innovating as the Abbasids or Samanids?"

/u/sunagainstgold, as usual, has an excellent discussion of what medieval peasants did in the wintertime

also in that thread, I want to recognize /u/mikedash and /u/best_of_badgers for their discussion of tallow vs was candles, and the role of religious practices in the choice of light sources.

/u/Bernardito gave a nice answer to my question on the Phoenix Program in the Vietnam War.