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Why did Ronald Reagan start the tradition of saluting military members and is it technically incorrect for a president to do so?

148 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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By what mechanism can Magnetars have fields up to 10^11 teslas? Is there a theoretical limit to how powerful a magnetic field can get?

134 upvotes • r/askscience

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What property of our universe makes physical laws pervasive and persistent? Are all physical laws of nature constant through both space and time? Why are the fundamental properties of the universe immutable?

128 upvotes • r/askscience

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How did the burning of Alexandria Library affect the academic world? Did it really set back progress to any quantifiable degree?

126 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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What relationship did Praetorian Guards have with military officers? Were they still in the military or more like our secret service today? Did they hold as must esteem as Roman generals?

118 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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What is the origin of smashing a bottle of booze against a new ship? Did other cultures do something different when new ships were launched?

61 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Have museums always been a part of every major culture? Did the Romans have museums? Did they serve the same purpose as our museums do today?

60 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Is there a relationship between the size of a possible meteor that is on an intercept trajectory with Earth and the probability that we haven't found it yet?

58 upvotes • r/askscience

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Why do some some grand unification theories, such as the SU(5) Georgi–Glashow model and SO(10), require proton decay to be true?

58 upvotes • r/askscience

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If humans have been around for approximately 200,000 years, why was the first civilization (Mesopotamia) relatively recent (~5000 B.C.)?

56 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Why did Ronald Reagan start the tradition of saluting military members and is it technically incorrect for a president to do so?	148	AskHistorians
By what mechanism can Magnetars have fields up to 10^11 teslas? Is there a theoretical limit to how powerful a magnetic field can get?	134	askscience
What property of our universe makes physical laws pervasive and persistent? Are all physical laws of nature constant through both space and time? Why are the fundamental properties of the universe immutable?	128	askscience
How did the burning of Alexandria Library affect the academic world? Did it really set back progress to any quantifiable degree?	126	AskHistorians
What relationship did Praetorian Guards have with military officers? Were they still in the military or more like our secret service today? Did they hold as must esteem as Roman generals?	118	AskHistorians
What is the origin of smashing a bottle of booze against a new ship? Did other cultures do something different when new ships were launched?	61	AskHistorians
Have museums always been a part of every major culture? Did the Romans have museums? Did they serve the same purpose as our museums do today?	60	AskHistorians
Is there a relationship between the size of a possible meteor that is on an intercept trajectory with Earth and the probability that we haven't found it yet?	58	askscience
Why do some some grand unification theories, such as the SU(5) Georgi–Glashow model and SO(10), require proton decay to be true?	58	askscience
If humans have been around for approximately 200,000 years, why was the first civilization (Mesopotamia) relatively recent (~5000 B.C.)?	56	AskHistorians