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As I understand it, the mentally ill and people with intellectual developmental disabilities were handled by the same systems until recently in Western history. When did intellectual disabilities start to be treated as a separate condition from mental illness?	122
Catharism: was it a thing?	122
Reddit, teach me what school never did: Why did the Romans rise to power? What was their secret?	121
The Philippines and Hawaii were both American territories during WW2, however, we only make out the attack on Pearl Harbor to be significant and “important” enough for the US to go to war, even though the Philippines was literally occupied by Japan. Why is this?	121
What relatively unknown story in History do you always love telling people about? Ones that you think are very important but not focused on enough.	121
Japan, Italy, and Germany have the three "oldest" populations. Did World War 2 have anything to do with this or is it just a coincidence?	121
Who was the historical Joan of Arc, and how was she able to gain the trust of the French court and be successful in battle?	121
Back in the 1800's, how common was it for a homesteader or traveler attacked by Native Americans?	121
England was conquered by Normans in 1066, and as a result a flood of French vocabulary entered English, practically changing it into a new language. Ireland was conquered by Normans in 1169, and yet no such influx of French words into Irish occurred. Why not?	121
Did the average American in the 1930s speak more formal than the average modern American, or is it the language development that makes the parlance of early-1900-Americans sound so bureaucratic compared to Americans of today?	121

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