I haven't written that many in-depth answers lately, but this week I wrote three, and so I just wanted to toot my own horn, if you'll indulge me.

• Why are the Balkans a home for so many different ethnic groups? was already highlighted, but I also spent a long time on

• whether women are more liable to be "possessed" historically, as we see in movies (this looks at Salem and the New Testament quantitatively) and

• the U.S. Constitution and "separation of church and state" (this looks at the evolution of Supreme Court rulings on religion)

It's funny how karma is not commensurate with effort. The most upvted answer I had this week was a throw away one about Pauley Shore, while I think three people saw my church and state one.

A question enquiring why the successors of Hatshepsut, the female pharaoh, destroyed her images and removed her name from memorials after her death hung around the upper reaches of the front page for quite a while last week, so by the time I finally got my act together to answer it, it was already plummeting downwards. As a result, it became an overlooked post, but I thought the issues involved were interesting enough, and nuanced enough, to be worth a recap here. With apologies for self-promotion, here it is again.

Rundown:

• /u/trb1783 answered "I'm a farmer in North America in the late 18th century. How is my life affected by the American Revolutionary War?"

• /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov on "Firing firearms during WWII"

• /u/commustar answered "How did hunting wild animals in Africa change after the introduction of firearms?"

Hello there, civilians of the great AskHistorians Empire! I hope each and all of you is having a great Easter weekend. As a treat, here are some of the popular and/or interesting questions from last week, which did not receive an answer yet.

/u/kaisermatias would like to know more about the game of football being banned in England in 1363

/u/Shashank1000 asked about the opinion of Lenin and the Bolshevik regime in regards to Western Capitalists who invested in the USSR

/u/DronosMan pondered the life of a medieval blacksmith apprentice

Let’s look back at the theme of the week! What did we learn about the Balkans?

First off, our as of yet unflaired user /u/Chamboz provided several wonderful answers about the Ottomans:

Here they talk about the law of fratricide

Here they talk about Ottoman religious reformations and

Here about the life of Sultan’s concubines

And here /u/Chamboz and /u/LBo87 provide some tips in regards to literature about Ottomans.

Great work!

Let us all bow down and give praise unto /u/sunagainstgold for this great post on the history of racism.

/u/deVerence wrote some great stuff on the British blockade of Germany in WWI, and how they put pressure on neutral nations here.