It’s that time again! Time for the Sunday Digest Super Sweet Show! Tune in and have a scroll through some of the best darn history threads to ever grace the net. I have a small libraries worth of reading for you this week. A quick scan of the folder says 162 threads! (But that likely includes some doubles and I’m way too lazy on a Sunday morning to actually count them.)

Edit: I broke down and counted them all anyway. 158 different threads, with a large portion of them having multiple answers. Not to mention how you’d count some of the discussions and sub questions and etc, etc.

So let’s check out some of the fantastic weekly threads, and then move on to the pure gold created by our flairs and unflaired writers!

Like, for example, the amazing AMA! East Asia Panel AMA: ask our flairs questions and be answered! Huge shout out to all the flairs working hard in there. They’re still answering all the questions!

One of my favorite threads is always the Tuesday Trivia. This week’s theme was traveling and vacations! Super great work from all the contributors!

The Thursday R&R thread

The Friday Free For All has some very interesting posts and discussion. Always worth a look!

And the fabulous Saturday Showcase Featuring /u/Klesk_vs_Xaero.

I probably don’t need to, but I also like to highlight most of the meta questions I see over the course of the week. You never know how many people might be thinking of asking it themselves, and I can show them the answer preemptively! So here’s What's with all these fictional first person questions? Can we put an end to them?

See all you fine folks next week. As they say, keep your stick on the ice folks!

I enjoyed this short but sweet post about the extinction of the Rocky Mountain Locust from /u/kochevnik81

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/bye09u/what_happened_to_the_swarms_of_locusts_that/eqh8lhv

Its fascinating to me when looking at the history of interaction between American plains farmers and locusts, we see extensive attempts at swarm reduction from bounties, fires, poisons, etc with really no success, yet there is evidence that farmers would later accidently cause their extinction by tilling the valleys the locusts lived in during down years.

Finally time to sit down and rattle through this...

/u/crrpit answered "How were the anarchist/syndicalist (or pro-Republican in general) areas of Spain governed before and during the civil war? Did the militias enforce or enact any laws? Did they police their respective communities?"

/u/TheGrahamCanyon on "In Rambo II, Rambo is originally on a mission in 1985 (based on his own words in the movie) in an attempt to save POWs post-Vietnam. How common was it for POWs to still be kept so long after the war and how common was it for there to still be rescue missions for that long post-war?"

/u/kochevnik81 answered "When the Soviet Union dissolved, how was the process handled in the UN? In particular, was there a period of time where no one was able to exercise the Soviet/Russian veto on the security council?" and "What did lawyers and Judges in the USSR do when the Soviet Union fell and the laws were all changed?"