Subject: What is the most passionate poem? - Quora
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 05:22:42 +0000 (UTC)

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Question: What is the most passionate poem?

Answer from Emily Altman

Warning:  Does have some adult content.

"Like This" by Rumi

If anyone asks you
how the perfect satisfaction
of all our sexual wanting
will look, lift your face
and say,

Li
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Question: What would happen if a rigid and non-malleable 50-mile pole were to lie flat on the Earth's surface?

Answer from Sean Lynch

I can give a story of an actual, but shorter, example of this. Not 50 miles long, but 2 miles long.

After WWII, when the US Navy was testing the hydrogen bomb on Bikini atoll
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Question: Is it true that satellites spotted N.Korea getting ready for a missile launch?

Answer from Eric Johnson

This is what a Pyongyang street looks like on Google Earth using a satellite photo and it’s widely believed that US spy satellites have much better resolution than this photo.
Read More: http://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-satellites-spotted-N-Korea-getting-ready-for-a-missile-launch#ans53619769
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Question: What happened to the 35,000 soldiers of Napoleon Bonaparte after he left them in Egypt?

Answer from John Dewar Gleissner

The troops Bonaparte left behind were supposed to be honorably evacuated under the terms of a treaty Kléber had negotiated with Smith in early 1800, but British Admiral Keith 
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Question: Which countries could benefit from a dictatorship?

Answer from Ken Man

The value of dictatorships in some countries is only apparent after the dictator is gone. Easy example that come to mind are:

 * Yugoslavia
 * Iraq
 * Libya
 * Syria
The thin
Read More: http://www.quora.com/Which-countries-could-benefit-from-a-dictatorship#ans43983830
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Question: If the earth is rotating around the sun, wouldn't night and day switch every six months, as the planet would be on the opposite side of the sun?

Answer from Andrew McCarthy

It seems quite a few people misunderstood this question, which is actually a very intelligent observation. Yes, if a day was EXACTLY 24 hours, this would be true. AM and PM wo
Read More: http://www.quora.com/If-the-earth-is-rotating-around-the-sun-wouldnt-night-and-day-switch-every-six-months-as-the-planet-would-be-on-the-opposite-side-of-the-sun#ans53063600
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Question: What methods of contraception was used hundreds of years ago?

Answer from Milorad Botić

Lemons were used.

I’m not joking.

Citric acid is said to have spermicidal properties, and women used to soak sponges in lemon juice before inserting them vaginally.

Sometim
Read More: http://www.quora.com/What-methods-of-contraception-was-used-hundreds-of-years-ago#ans53075296
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Question: Why is the U.S. government always possible to be shut down? How terrible is that?

Answer from Mike Kauffmann

If I recall correctly, 87% of government employees work in positions which are considered too important to be effected by a government shut down. In essence, this means that w
Read More: http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-U-S-government-always-possible-to-be-shut-down-How-terrible-is-that#ans43127720
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Question: Is there anything legal but immoral?

Answer from Andrew Raffety

In the U.S., at least:

 * Holding a fart in during an elevator ride, then farting as soon as you step out, so the people still in the elevator have to smell your fart and you
Read More: http://www.quora.com/Is-there-anything-legal-but-immoral#ans51563477
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Question: What are the biggest scandals in Olympic history?

Answer from Daniel Ma

Someone already pointed out the Roy Jones Jr fight, an extremely flagrant scandal with bribed judges.

The one that always gets me though is Ara Abrahamian [ en-wikipedia-org/
Read More: http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-biggest-scandals-in-Olympic-history#ans46246928
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