I want to thank /u/XenophonTheAthenian for telling me all about grain supply in the Roman Republic/Empire and what that meant for the common man's meal.

Hello there, people of AskHistorians! Hope everyone is in the midst of an incredible summer weekend. Here are some of the popular and/or interesting questions from last week, which did not get an answer yet:

/u/eag97a would like to know what does the Antikythera mechanism show us about the level of Greek science like astronomy and technology that we didn't know before

/u/thenewstampede asked if Dan Quayle's contemporaries in Washington generally believe he was unintelligent, or was it just his media portrayal and an uncharacteristically poor showing at a spelling bee

/u/585AM wants to know why Francisco Macías Nguema choose to have the song “Those were the days” by Mary Hopkins play, as he was having 150 of his political opponents executed

Let’s look back at theme of the week! What did we learn about the 1940s?:

There was a rather nice discussion about what should we be trying to learn directly from the people who lived through them while they’re still with us

/u/kieslowskifan talked about Germany after 1945 and the use of the money from the European Recovery Program

/u/achilles_m and /u/grantimatter talked about the late 1940s art

• /u/kayelar on "Why has Country Music remained so white? What cultural and industry forces kept the genre that so willingly borrowed from blues, gospel, norteño, and mariachi so completely dominated by white artists and tied to white identity?"

• /u/kieslowskifan on "Were there gangs in East Germany?" and " What were the cultural and overall differences in day-to-day life between East and West Berlin before the fall of the Wall?"

• /u/ancienthistory on "The Twin Peaks concept of the Black Lodge is apparently influenced by the occult group the Order of the Golden Dawn. How influential were they on our ideas of the occult, and how important are ideas like the Black Lodge to their thought?"