On the "overlooked" side of things, I wrote about a (relatively) neglected sidelight of Japanese history: How much did the Hidden Christians of the Tokugawa period know about Christian doctrine and theology?

• /u/TPWKY answered "The 1918 Spanish flu appears to have originated in an Army base in Kansas, where it spread to troops deploying overseas, perhaps killing as many as died in either world war. Have any other pandemics started in the w hemisphere? Germ theory was understood; why did it strike so hard?"

• /u/mikedash on "Over time, Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall have come to symbolize the excesses of the Gilded Age and of machine politics at its most corrupt. What are the good things they accomplished?"

• /u/annalspornographie on "Was the Marquis de Sade renown in his lifetime? What led to his detention at the Bastille until shortly before it was liberated? Was the presence of a figure of his rank there in itself extraordinary, and who did the jailing (I assume this predates any sort of modern policing)?"

u/kieslowskifan did a great job of explaining all the various ethnic conflicts portrayed in a satirical 1906 map of Austria as well as pointing up the antisemitic, pro-Germanic bias of the artist.

/u/thefourthmaninaboat wrote about RN crews in As a sailor, what were naval battles like in WW2 Any interesting factoids to share?.