Announcing the Best of November Award Winners!

by Georgy_K_Zhukov

November is in the books, and after some delays, its time to announce the November 'Best Of' awardees.

Winning this month's Users' Choice Award is /u/UncagedBeast, who provided some insight into "In traditional Hawaiian culture women would be put to death for eating pork, coconuts, taro, several types of fish, and 67 out of 70 varieties of bananas. What did Hawaiian women subsist off of? Why was there such a drastic limitation on what women could eat?".

And for the Flairs' Choice Award, /u/orangewombat stepped up to the plate with their answer to "The Order of the Dragon was a chivalric order founded in 1408 to defend Christianity and fight its enemies. But elsewhere in Christendom, and in The Bible itself, dragons are a symbol of Satan. What's going on here?",

No "Dark Horse Award" for the month, with a non-flair taking top honors outright for the third month in a row. Love to see it!

Finally, for this month's 'Greatest Question', voted on by the mods, we were intrigued by "How common was misattribution of craftsmanship of textile crafts like quilts during slavery in the American South?", asked by /u/Gradov, and with some good insight in the answer by /u/walpurgisnox.

As always, congrats to our very worthy winners, and thank you to everyone else who has contributed here, whether with thought-provoking questions or fascinating answers. And if this month you want to flag some stand-out posts that you read here for potential nomination, don't forget to post them in our Sunday Digest!

For a list of past winners, check them out here!

Gankom

Wooo! Big congratz to /u/UncagedBeast, /u/orangewombat, /u/Gradov

orangewombat

Thank you, fellow flairs! What a totally unexpected honor.

UncagedBeast

Wooo what a surprise. I literally started vacation and finally headed back with my family today to spend the vacations, two day trip including a 7 hour plane flight so I'm crushed, but now I can actually answer all the questions which I promised to do, which I will actually do tomorrow. Glad to see other people think South Pacific traditional foodways and agriculture is interesting too !

Dongzhou3kingdoms

Fantastic work everyone, delighted this was posted when it is snowy and cold, gives me a chance to re-read these and distract me from the freezing weather.