Strap in folks for another super Sunday showtime in the Digest! We’ve got ourselves an awesome variety of threads, and as usual it spans a truly incredible number of topics. There’s also some great special feature posts this week you should make sure to check out!

Don’t forget to thank and upvote those great authors and show them some well deserved appreciation!

• Transmitting new AskHistorians Communique on Addition of New Moderators.

• The new AskHistorians Podcast Episode 155 - The SS-Officer's Armchair

• Then a thread particularly close to my heart, Rules Roundtable XXVI: Be Kind, Remind... Revisited. I know its tough waiting for those great answers to come, and it takes time to craft quality like these, so this thread has a number of ways to help you find those answers!

• TUESDAY TRIVIA: “The phrase 'someone ought to do something' was not, by itself, a helpful one. People who used it never added the rider 'and that someone is me" (Terry Pratchett)- let's talk about when something WAS done- and THE MOMENT IT ALL CHANGED!

• Super exciting post! AskHistorians Digital Conference: Announcing the Panels, Papers and Speakers!

• There were some really fascinating responses to The mods on AskHistorians need to be a less fanatic about removing posts. Is it bad for history education on Reddit to have mods act like this?

• There’s lots of good suggestions in the Thursday Reading and Recommendations thread!

• Memes, stories, summaries and more! Check out the Friday Free For All!

• And finish off with /u/justcoffeeok in the Saturday Showcase!

And thus we come to a close for another week. Keep it classy out there you fabulous people and I’ll see you next Sunday!

Spare thy eye for a look at some interesting yet overlooked questions that still hope for the attention of the answer. Cast an upvote their way, and get some inspiration for your own questions!

• /u/Bede_the_Venerable asked Why is Mary Ann Evans, the Victorian novelist, still predominantly referred to using her male pen-name George Eliot, particularly when other female novelists in a similar position (e.g. the Brontë sisters) are almost always referred to using their actual names?

• /u/Tough_Guys_Wear_Pink asked I’m a citizen of an ancient Greek city-state and I have, ironically, injured my Achilles tendon during army training. Are there any specialists for treating such injuries? Do I have any hope of recovery?

• /u/PotatoPancakeKing asked Why is Italy seen as one of the “Big Three” Axis Powers? In reality their military wasn’t very effective and had to rely on Germany for a lot of things, especially regarding armor and aircraft.

Welcome back to my series on "The Real Questions" of /r/AskHistorians! Here, we honor the more atypical questions that get asked here: the bizarre, abnormal, strangely niche or oddly specific, interestingly worded or built on uncommon premises, or otherwise amusing questions that make me say, "Finally, someone is asking the real questions." We look at little-known customs, unexpected historical anecdotes, unusual cultural traits, and other more unique questions that go beyond the regular brand of sociopolitical history that this subreddit so fabulously covers.

Below are my entries for this week! What do you think were the realest questions?