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When the Qing dynasty was replaced by the Republic of China and then the People’s Republic of China, were the contracts of Kowloon (Hong Kong) being leased for 99 years to the British ever considered in a grey area, since it was technically the Qing emperor who owned the leases?

230 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Chinese schools teach "the century of humiliation" to be really humiliating for China but did the rest of the world see it the same way?

18 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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When people get the same vaccine do their bodies produce roughly the same set of antibodies? Or will the antibodies be very different because they are tailored to the precise environment of each person's body?

6 upvotes • r/askscience

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If a healthy human is subjected to high doses of a single virus and the human already as antibodies, is it possible for the virus to still win simply because of a high number of viruses and the antibodies not being able to work fast enough?

1 upvotes • r/askscience

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When I get a runny nose and after a few days it stops, have I eradicated the thing from my system or does it just hibernate until sometime in the future when I am weak again?

1 upvotes • r/askscience

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Can a solar-powered spaceship produce laser beams with enough momentum to use as a steering and driving source?

1 upvotes • r/askscience

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In Sci-Fi films the captain might say to divert all power to the laser canons or to the shields. Is this scientifically possible or as surely all guns or shields would always be working at 100% efficiency anyways?

1 upvotes • r/askscience

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If rebar is exposed from the cement in the roof of an apartment building, how afraid should I be?

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Why do viruses need a live host to survive? Don’t they only need a live host to "replicate" and not necessarily to "survive" or do viruses actually need food to eat?

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When the Qing dynasty was replaced by the Republic of China and then the People’s Republic of China, were the contracts of Kowloon (Hong Kong) being leased for 99 years to the British ever considered in a grey area, since it was technically the Qing emperor who owned the leases?	230	AskHistorians
Chinese schools teach "the century of humiliation" to be really humiliating for China but did the rest of the world see it the same way?	18	AskHistorians
When people get the same vaccine do their bodies produce roughly the same set of antibodies? Or will the antibodies be very different because they are tailored to the precise environment of each person's body?	6	askscience
If a healthy human is subjected to high doses of a single virus and the human already as antibodies, is it possible for the virus to still win simply because of a high number of viruses and the antibodies not being able to work fast enough?	1	askscience
When I get a runny nose and after a few days it stops, have I eradicated the thing from my system or does it just hibernate until sometime in the future when I am weak again?	1	askscience
Can a solar-powered spaceship produce laser beams with enough momentum to use as a steering and driving source?	1	askscience
In Sci-Fi films the captain might say to divert all power to the laser canons or to the shields. Is this scientifically possible or as surely all guns or shields would always be working at 100% efficiency anyways?	1	askscience
If rebar is exposed from the cement in the roof of an apartment building, how afraid should I be?	1	askscience
Why do viruses need a live host to survive? Don’t they only need a live host to "replicate" and not necessarily to "survive" or do viruses actually need food to eat?	0	askscience