I’d like to commend – and thank - /u/erissays for such great work on the question FOLKLORE I've heard the Disneyified versions of Grimm's Tales Americans are familiar with are highly sanitized (RRHood and Grandma are eaten by the wolf,Snow White is about necrophilia,it's Cinderella's family, not steps- tormenting her, that kind of thing).Is this true? Were children the target audience?. He/she provided a wonderful answer.

So, I have had quite a time with my personal favourite topic – the Taiping – in the last week.

Every two weeks for the past month and a half, my attention has been brought round to the problem of the Taiping civil service in a question asked by u/ThatGuyFawkes11. Well, after an evening scouring the Land System of the Heavenly Dynasty (1853) – both the Michael-Zhang translation and the horrifically-formatted Chinese text on Wikisource – and Vincent Shih's The Taiping Ideology (1967), replete with its impenetrable Wade-Giles,^A I think I have produced a pretty complete table of ranks along with what responsibilities their holders seem to have had, as far as I am able to tell at this point.

A couple of days before that, I had a look into the types of firearms used during the Taiping Rebellion thanks to a question from u/envatted_love, and for the next couple of days constantly came across more information, sometimes out of curiosity, sometimes incidentally. For example, when looking up references to Qin Rigang in Spence, I ran into a statement about the codewords used by gun-runners – 'Chinese snuff' for powder and 'umbrellas' for rifles.

But somewhat embarrassingly, when looking for HMS Hermes in Spence, I came across the entry 'homosexuality, prohibition of' in the index, which rather deflated a 5-month old answer I gave to a question about Taiping legislation regarding homosexuals by u/Seeking_Psychosis and necessitating major corrections.

Notes:

• ^A This is not even funny. In the case of the Chinese text I was combing through it for what Michael/Zhang calls a 'provost marshal', but all the lines are single spaced and there are no paragraph indents, so I had to copy-paste the terms for other ranks into the search box in order to work out the approximate position of the word in the text. Then in the case of Shih and his Wade-Giles, at one point he mentioned the Zéiqíng Huìzuǎn (賊情彙纂), which he rendered as 'Tse-ch'ing hui-tsuan'. I had to look up the term, then went to this paper (warning: big PDF), then to its bibliography, which had hand-written characters, then used the 'trackpad handwriting' option on my laptop to Google the document (thankfully, after the first 2 characters the whole thing came up in the search bar, as the 3rd was rendered utterly indistinctly on the paper).

I'd like to highlight two answers, one from this last week and one from a couple weeks prior that I don't think was mentioned in the last two Sunday round-ups!

/r/hillsonghoods answered my question on the topic: Public Enemy in "Fight the Power" described Elvis as a "racist" sucker "simple and plain" who "meant ****" to rapper Chuck D. What was the reception of Elvis to the African-American community from the 1950s onwards?

Also

/r/cthulhushrugged answered my topic (and follow-up questions) on: When the Southern Song Dynasty backed a national standard for paper money backed by silver and gold, how common was this paper currency in and out of China at the time? Did it inspire any other nearby people to try out paper banknotes?

I hope the formatting came out right and I highly appreciate both users for taking the time to answer my questions!

This answer about Persian ice houses by u/stylepointseso was fascinating:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/875qvo/how_did_persians_manage_to_make_frozen_desserts/

Not overlooked as it was a top thread but this about rum and the consumption of gunpowder by u/ragingrage was impressively interdisciplinary and a lot of fun to read: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/87ni2a/apparently_blackbeards_favourite_drink_was_rum/

Since I didn't finish this answer until 3+ days after the question and 2+ after u/commiespaceinvader gave his excellent answer, I will put a question that I gave an answer to here. You get both a German and American perspective on this one.

u/gregbesia asked During and right after WW2 people simply said Germany, or German soldiers when talking about the crimes they committed. Today it is always : Nazi, Nazis, SS, as if speaking about some other nation. How did get started?

I was browsing the archives and found the following unanswered or partially answered questions which over the past two weeks I have attempted to provide solid, comprehensive answers to:

• In 1971, DC introduced their first black superhero, the Green Lantern John Stewart. How did the fan reaction at the time compare to the modern fan reaction to black legacy characters? by /u/dr-doc-phd

• Were the tales collected by the brothers Grimm widely known before they compiled them? Did the more popular ones (Snow White, Cinderella, Red Riding Hood) match the ones more popular before they collected them? Were they immediately of academic interest? by /u/td4999

They truly were excellent questions that had somehow been overlooked and I felt deserved some sort of response; I hope I did them justice.

I answered a question about armour for children. Don't click if you hate adorable things.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/881ryw/why_are_there_not_many_recorded_ancient_lesbian/

can someone pls answer this.

I'd like to recommend /u/sowser with his answer on finances and a bit of economics on 18th century purchasing power. An extremely informative answer when confronting money of another century.

In the TV series 'Sharpe', British officers of the Napoleonic wars are portrayed as uniformly posh and utterly inept at their jobs, with only a scant minority being actually upstanding and competent officers. How true is this?

Posting this as I took 3 weeks to get round to writing my answer:

It's often said that Margaret Thatcher's chemistry degree meant her government was an early actor on the ozone hole and climate change. How true is it that her personal views were important to her government's policy on those topics? asked by u/nothingtoseehere____

My question, "Why were Quakers hated so much?" drew some fantastic answers from /u/bodombeachbod and /u/havedanson showing just how radical and disruptive the early Quakers could be. They were not the top-level comments on the post so I wanted to call them out here. Don't miss 'em!

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/85kdp3/why_were_quakers_hated_so_much/dvzptgd/?utm_content=permalink&utm_medium=front&utm_source=reddit&utm_name=AskHistorians https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/85kdp3/why_were_quakers_hated_so_much/dw02zrq/?utm_content=permalink&utm_medium=front&utm_source=reddit&utm_name=AskHistorians

/u/pangerandipanagara answered "What was the perspective of the colonized peoples of Southeast Asia on the colonization process?"

/u/xenophontheathenian on ""The oft-repeated assertion that Islam “preserved” classical knowledge and then graciously passed it on to Europe is baseless"--Accurate?"

/u/the_howling_cow on "In Catch-22, whenever the pilots of Yossarian's group approach the number of bombing missions required to be sent home, the number required is adjusted upwards. Did Joseph Heller base this scenario off of actual practices during the second World War?"

I saved this nice post about a dog doing Hitler's salute by /u/commiespaceinvader

/u/400-Rabbits gave a great in-depth answer to a follow-up question of mine on Did the Aztecs willingly go to their sacrificial deaths?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/88thvd/is_it_true_capoeira_was_such_a_threatening/

Help pls