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How did Jewish lenders in medieval Europe enforce their debts? Didn't they have little to no power?

1270 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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What causes 'clumsiness' in people?

26 upvotes • r/askscience

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Do cigarette filters filter out both nicotine, tar, and fine particles uniformly?

23 upvotes • r/askscience

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I've read that Columbus instituted a tribute system on Tainos and cut off hands as punishment. I couldn'rlt find a source for this- is it true? Has the narrative swung to be overly critical of him? Is Bartolome de las Casas an unbiased source?

18 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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How did we know what note to tune our instruments to before we understood the physics of sound?

10 upvotes • r/askscience

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[Physics] I have some questions abour light. How can polarizatiom, bifrigence, and transmission be explained considering the quantum nature of light?

8 upvotes • r/askscience

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Why can't we use a number string generated from the nth digit of a non-terminating normal number x in a one time pad?

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What (if any) were the alternatives to Israel for jews fleeing european pogroms 1880-1948?

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Question about microscopic photos of living organisms

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How does electricity jump between two conductors through air? How does it 'know' that there is a conductor further away from it through the non conducting air?

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Title	Upvotes	Subreddit	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
How did Jewish lenders in medieval Europe enforce their debts? Didn't they have little to no power?	1270	AskHistorians
What causes 'clumsiness' in people?	26	askscience
Do cigarette filters filter out both nicotine, tar, and fine particles uniformly?	23	askscience
I've read that Columbus instituted a tribute system on Tainos and cut off hands as punishment. I couldn'rlt find a source for this- is it true? Has the narrative swung to be overly critical of him? Is Bartolome de las Casas an unbiased source?	18	AskHistorians
How did we know what note to tune our instruments to before we understood the physics of sound?	10	askscience
[Physics] I have some questions abour light. How can polarizatiom, bifrigence, and transmission be explained considering the quantum nature of light?	8	askscience
Why can't we use a number string generated from the nth digit of a non-terminating normal number x in a one time pad?	1	askscience
What (if any) were the alternatives to Israel for jews fleeing european pogroms 1880-1948?	1	AskHistorians
Question about microscopic photos of living organisms	1	askscience
How does electricity jump between two conductors through air? How does it 'know' that there is a conductor further away from it through the non conducting air?	1	askscience