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4 days ago · The movie did much to define public understanding of the condition. The book Autism: Explaining the Enigma was released by Uta Frith in 1989. It explained to non-autistic people how autistic people thought. A second edition was published in 2003. The popular book Children with autism: a parents' guide was also released in 1989.
May 5, 2024 · Answer: adulate. The verb "adulate" is a back formation (first attested in 1777) from the noun "adulation", which entered English in the 15th century. The latter comes from the Latin verb "adulari", which originally meant "to fawn on" referring to a dog's affectionate behaviour, in particular its tail-wagging.
1 day ago · The term autism (from the Greek autos, meaning “self”) was coined in 1911 by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler, who used it to describe withdrawal into one’s inner world, a phenomenon he observed in individuals with schizophrenia.
1 day ago · Marriage is an institution that is historically filled with restrictions. From age, to race, to social status, to consanguinity, to gender, restrictions are placed on marriage by society for reasons of benefiting the children, passing on healthy genes, maintaining cultural values, or because of prejudice and fear.
4 days ago · The word and its derivates are used more than 250 times in Masoretic-derived versions of the Hebrew Bible, of which 10 uses are in the Torah (the first use being in Genesis 10, in the Generations of Noah), with undefined boundaries and no meaningful description, and almost 200 of the remaining references are in the later Book of Judges and the ...
May 5, 2024 · Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, near Hodgenville, Kentucky, U.S.—died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the 16th president of the United States (1861–65), who preserved the Union during the American Civil War and brought about the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. Lincoln and his cabinet.
2 days ago · The word changes meaning, it becomes a negative, a pejorative, a slur. To me, populism is not a dirty word. Since the 2008 crash and specifically the trillion-dollar Wall Street bailout, we are in ...
