The news sparked angry reactions from people hearing that the kind of fictional mistakes common to TV had intruded on real life.

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Famine, plague and arbitrary taxes made life hard enough for common people in the English kingdom of France.

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The people who have the best chance of getting a new life in America are those who have made common cause with America against a foreign foe, and are suffering for it.

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