I’m back for another hard core edition of the Sunday Digest! Last week we topped one hundred comments in the thread! Sure, most of them are a Canadian Stand Off of me thanking people who are thanking me, but it still counts! That’s the largest the threads been in a long time! So strap in because, I have a good feeling about this one. Bigger and better, always!

So as per my usual call out, I highly encourage you to join me! Post up your favorite threads, thank some of the awesome writers and authors, and bring some attention to some poor forgotten threads. Don’t forget to upvote either! It’s the best way to help things get seen.

We’ve had another awesome week of special features. Let’s take shout them out.

Floating Feature: Cry ‘Havoc’ and let slip the stories from Military History was banging! We could say it really… blew up.

Followed up by the alWaves good one; Floating Feature: Head to a Land Down Under and Share the History of Oceania. Turns out Ocean themed threads make for some pretty pacific puns.

If you saw a feature you would have liked to participate in, never fear! There’s still ways to join in. Not only are there lots of upcoming opportunities, but you can also post up some great themed posts in the Saturday Showcase or future threads!

The next edition of Media Monday: Zulu (film) Questions and AMA. Tune in on Monday as the Crusader Kings 2 one begins!

Don’t forget the Thursday Reading and Recommendation thread for all your book needs.

Tune in for the Friday Free For All.

/u/Klesk_vs_Xaero continues the amazing Saturday Showcase. This ends my work for another week. Once more I can drift off into the void and stalk watch threads from the shadows. See all you fine folks next time, and have yourselves a super fantastic week.

Catching up on a few weeks.

/u/Abrytan answered "Lawful Political violence during Hitler’s rise to power" and on "How German were the Baltics prior to WW2?"

/u/alannafrances on "Did Cavalry Troops become emotionally attached to their mounts?"

/u/anthropology_nerd answered "Why are Plymouth Rock and the Mayflower such important images of American colonization when the Jamestown colony had already been established 15 years prior?" and "Is it true that Native American tribes purchase African slaves during the early days of colonialism to make up for the men who were dying en masse? What did this affect?"

Wanted to give a shoutout to /u/Djiti-djiti's great answer to my question How were the rights of aboriginal people controlled in colonial Australia? (How) did colonial policies influence their treatment after independence?, that definitely deserves more views.

The experiment continues! Here’s a list of some of the interesting, but overlooked questions I’ve been stockpiling throughout the week. Anecdotally, I thought this list would be three times bigger. But questions I put aside mostly attracted answers fairly soon after. Now, I do think this is primarily because I’m putting aside some of the more interesting questions I see, and I think those are the same kind that attract more answer writers.

So here we go! Perhaps some wandering writer will see this list and stop in to try and answer some. The Quest for Knowledge continues!

Did Islam spread any further East from the Philippines? was asked by /u/lelimaboy.

/u/Meia_Ponte wanted to know about Differences between Spanish and Portuguese colonial models (and maybe English too)

/u/gallifreyan_pleb asked about For how long after the Social War did Italic culture survive?