Raise a glass and toast those awesome answers that got produced this week! We’re into the New Year, but there’s no stopping the fantastic deluge of posts. Have a look through my list below, but don’t forget to upvote and thank the amazing authors who put so much work into everything.

Start off with floating feature time! Fly on in and share the history of 1599 to 1706! It's Volume IX of 'The Story of Humankind'!

A new podcast is out! Have a listen! AskHistorians Episode 145 - AskHistorians at AHA.

There’s a great AMA! Guy Black, Restorer and Collector of ex-military aircraft from the 1st World War to the 2nd World War. Thanks to /u/AircraftRestorer!

The Thursday R&R is pretty short this week, but I did like the comment from /u/Jon_Beveryman.

Drop by the Friday Free For All!

The Saturday Showcase once again features the amazing /u/Klesk_vs_Xaero!

There’s also another rendition of a frequent META question in Why do all of the comments here get deleted?

And that’s it for this week! It was a pretty big one after a few weeks of fairly slow going. Apparently everyone’s getting going again after celebrating, and getting ready for a new year of history writing!

Enjoy the threads, shout out any I missed or lend your voice to tell me how much you liked them! I’ll see you next week.

Spare a thought for those poor, lonely overlooked questions that still spark your imagination or catch your interest. These are merely a portion of the ones I thought looked good, but didn’t receive an answer. Feel free to share your own as well!

/u/sagathain is asking the real questions in Are there any surviving incantations to summon snow?

/u/gmip hits up banana republic for Bananas VS Coffee: Why did the United Fruit Company dominate Guatemala instead of coffee exporters?

/u/jenniferfarlam asked Eating books to keep out of enemy hands.