/u/commiespaceinvader was yet again a god among mortals with a detailed answer to what turned out to be the surprisingly complex question of what the Nazis had in mind for Western Europe.

Also, while I had a blast answering the initial question about early Tolkien criticism and scholarship, you MUST click through to the follow-ups to see /u/AncientHistory's take on grimdark in spec fiction.

u/butterflyandthebee asked Where did the concept of 'energy' as believed in by many modern occultists come from?

u/NRod1998 asked H.P. Lovecraft's classic horror short story series, The Call of Cthulhu never actually described the iconic monster's appearance. Where did the popular look he has come from? Did other Lovecraft monsters begin without a physical description? Where did their appearances come from?

I went into what is probably more detail than necessary on the accuracy of Cleopatra and Egypt's portrayal in HBO's Rome series.

• /u/zaedert answered "What was Mithraism? Why was it so popular in the Roman Empire? and What are its connections to the Zoroastrian yazata?"

• /u/tlumacz on "1962 Bombers and Escort Fighters"

• /u/lord_mayor_of_reddit answered "How did Hollywood emerge as the movie making capital of the World?"

Let’s look at the theme of the week! It seems that most of what could have been said remains classified when it comes to espionage, but we’ve had a great thread, where /u/k1990, /u/Slide_Jeremy and /u/kieslowskifan talked about the continuity of Russian espionage services

/u/Fijure96 talked about Mongolian spies in Europe

and

/u/Sunagainstgold linked her article about spying and spies in the high medieval Islamic world

u/WARitter answered How many people would you have working in a renaissance armoury?

u/Itsalrightwithme answered questions about Gustavus II Adolphus and The decline of Spanish military power

u/Guckfuchs answered The Seleucids and the Ptolemies relied upon military colonies made up of Greeks to form the core of their armies. How did the Greco-Bactrian kingdom handle this manpower issue when they were incredibly far from Greece proper?

Was Gustavus II Adolphus truly the father of modern warfare?

Ave, AskHistorianstores! I hope everyone is having a great weekend and I bring you the latest batch of few popular and/or interesting questions from last week, which did not get an answer yet.

/u/trentsteelfan2 would like to know more about Hawaiian fisherman named Kaleleiki, who clubbed to death Kamehameha I of Hawaii, while raiding Puna

/u/Dogetron wants to know how did the vessel named The Queen Anne's Revenge become such an iconic symbol of Blackbeard

/u/Xtacles asked what rules governed domestic travel in Japan during the Edo period