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Why did the asylum system for mentally incapable people in the US shut down?

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In the movies, riders would just leave their horses at the hitchin' post when they did things around town. How true is this? How often were horses stolen?

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What kind of major consequences have there been due to the slowness of long-distance communication pre-electricity?

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How do latin americans feel about Spaniards? Do they just sort of indifferently accept that roughly half of their ancestors completely shat on roughly half of their other ancestors?

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Why did the asylum system for mentally incapable people in the US shut down?	34
In the movies, riders would just leave their horses at the hitchin' post when they did things around town. How true is this? How often were horses stolen?	13
What kind of major consequences have there been due to the slowness of long-distance communication pre-electricity?	10
How do latin americans feel about Spaniards? Do they just sort of indifferently accept that roughly half of their ancestors completely shat on roughly half of their other ancestors?	5