Exercise: Recognizing common knowledge 2

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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The original Luddites in nineteenth-century England destroyed textile machines that they feared would replace human workers.

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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.