In each of the following items, decide whether the statement can be considered common knowledge. If it is common knowledge, click “Common knowledge.” If the statement would require a citation, click “Requires citation.”
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Lyme disease is named for Lyme, Connecticut, the center of the region where the disease was first identified.
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In 1982, Muppet creator Jim Henson sued a hog beauty contest called the Miss Piggy Pageant.
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The original Luddites in nineteenth-
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Auguste Escoffier, one of France’s greatest chefs, did not permit shouting in the kitchens of his restaurants.
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Approximately 10 percent of Mexico’s citizens live in the United States.
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Mary Rowlandson did not die shortly after the publication of her autobiography in 1682, as scholars have long thought; instead, she seems to have remarried after her husband’s death and survived until 1710.
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Woody Guthrie died of Huntington’s chorea, a hereditary disease of the central nervous system.
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Ella Grasso served as governor of Connecticut from 1975 to 1981.
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According to one biographer, Benjamin Franklin almost certainly did not fly a kite with a key attached to its string in the middle of an electrical storm.
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The phrase deus ex machina, Latin for “god from a machine,” describes the ancient practice of ending plays with the arrival of a deity who solved the characters’ problems, but it is commonly used now to describe any artificial plot device that neatly resolves complications.
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