Some fantastic questions and answers this week from a great number of people. Some particular favorites;

Did Ancient Civilizations Have Restaurants by /u/dhmontgomery talking about Restaurants in France in particular. There's also some great follow up by /u/rkiga, /u/lord_mayor_of_reddit and more!

/u/copperbrook answered "Charles Dickens describes a ceremony where jailers formally memorise the face of a new prisoner, similar in purpose to our modern “mugshots”. Did this really happen? How did jailers know prisoners before the advent of photography?"

/u/wotan_weevil on "The Ethopian Army during the First Italo-Ethiopian war had a large amount and variety of semi-modern and modern firearms. Where were they getting them? Did the colonial powers of Europe allow for the sale of such arms and munitions to an African Nation?"

/u/kieslowskifan answered "East Germany had a population 4x smaller than East Germany, and had 1.5x less athletes competing in the 1984 Winter Olympics, yet they dominated winning 50% more gold medals than second place (USSR) and 450% more than West Germany. What elements of the GDR's society could have led to such success?" and "What was the relationship between the IJA and the IJN? At times, they seem to have been overly independent, but the IJN also provided air support deep inland over China in the Second Sino-Japanese War."

A couple of older ones here, but I'm still hoping for answers to these questions:

Accuracy/up-to-dateness of Ken Burns' documentary

Why have quack medical treatments like homeopathy/TCM/chiropractic been able to survive despite actual medicine improving?