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Answer: Sixty years ago, Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel.​.​.​ Top Stories from Your Feed Your Quora Digest What is the most interesting historical fact you know off the top of your head? Abhinav Shahi, Just another Engineer from the herd o... 233 votes Sixty years ago, Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel On November 17th of 1952, following the death of Israel's first President, then-Prime Minister David Be... Read More » Why do the window seats of train or bus makes us think deeply about life? Indrajeet Kamat, Curious?! 44 votes Why does one contemplate big questions of life when at a window seat? ​ ... Read More » Why do software engineers make so much? Alex Komarov 131 votes Why do software engineers make so much? Good question! Referring to supply and demand is a lazy way to answer it however. I take this question as "Is it fair that software ... Read More » What ended the hippie era? Ernest W. Adams, Game Design Consultant, Author, and P... 2.7k votes The short answer is that the hippies won. It's hard for people to remember just how constrained and conformist 1950s America was. All white collar men had to wear a suit ... Read More » Why do organisms procreate? Adriana Heguy, Professor of Pathology at NYU Langone... 127 votes Organisms don't care about survival of their species; most organisms do not have the intelligence required to ponder about the value of ensuring the survical of one's speci... Read More » How do you get over depression? Mellissa O'Brien, Mindfulness Teacher www.mrsmindfulnes... 1k votes Harvard Study Shows That Depressed People Have Wandering Minds. Cultivating Mindfulness Is The Key To Beating Depression. Think back on a time when you were very unhappy. ... Read More » Why is it 0.9 miles, 0.8 miles, 0 miles, -1 miles but only 1 mile? Joshua Engel 51 votes In English, we use the singular for one, and the plural form for everything else. There's no particular rationale to that: other languages do it differently, and there's ev... Read More » How do I start a business from scratch with no money, no credit and no expert friends to help? M.W. Bloom, two-time, non-technical start-up foun... 263 votes This is an interesting delima that stops countless entrepreneurs. So let me tell you how I overcame this obstacle. First, let me paint the picture. I was a new single fath... Read More » What is an/are excellent thing/things to buy to improve anyone's intelligence? Josh Manson, Life Coach, like Danny Bonaduce 143 votes Books. Lots and lots of books. Then read those books. Even fiction will increase your intelligence. Read everything you see. Read textbooks. Read ingredient labels. Read ev... Read More » Seventy plus years after the end of WWII, How much material from WW2 is still classified and buried in archives? Jon Mixon, Studied military actions from the Pun... 319 votes Staggering amounts of it. Some examples: Most of the Soviet era archives are still classified or simply cannot be accessed....  Read More »   Read More in Your Feed This email was sent by Quora (650 Castro Street #450, Mountain View, CA 94041). Quora is the best answer to any question. Unsubscribe from this email.