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Connecticut is known for:
Yale, Wesleyan, Trinity
College prep schools: Choate Rosemary, Groton School, Kingswood Oxford, Miss Porters, Cheshire Academy
3rd smallest state, only bigger than Rhode Island and Delaware in area.
Connecticut Sun WNBA team
Origin of Supreme Court case Griswold v Connecticut
Home to ESPN, Stanley tools, Electric Boat, and Pratt & Whitney
UConn Huskies basketball champs
2nd state to legalize same-sex marriage
Insurance capitol of the World
Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun Casinos

Bold-faced names:
Birthplace of George HW Bush
Home of Martha Stewart, Paul Newman, Richard Belzer, Kevin Bacon, Glenn Close, Bette Davis, Seth MacFarlane, Christopher Walken, PT Barnum, Samuel Colt, JP MOrgan, Eli Whitney, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Anne Coulter, Joan Rivers, Benedict Arnold, Nathan Hale, 50 Cent, Marian Anderson, Meatloaf, Mark McGrath, Amy Saliers

Settings for:
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain
Anywhere Else but Here, by Bruce Clemments
Ice Storm (movie)
Mystic Pizza (movie)
Gilmore Girls (tv show)
Judging Amy (tv show)

Scandals:
William Kennedy Smith trial, impeachment of Governor John G Rowland, the Cheshire home invasion/Petit family murders

Landscape:
The Connecticut River, Long Island Sound, and The Last Green Valley (Swathe of green visible from space, uniquely unlit), Block Island

and, supposedly, Election Cake.

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