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Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called…
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culture · American author and humorist (1835–1910) · journalist · novelist · autobiographer · teacher · humorist · children's writer · travel writer · aphorist · science fiction writer · writer · also Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass, Twain
Born 30 November 1835 · Died 21 April 1910 · Q7245
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2026· 58 entries
WGEM: Countdown to Kickoff: Mark Twain Prepares to Face Highland on Friday
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The Economic Times: Thursday Motivation Quote by Mark Twain: 'If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read
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Diari de Tarragona: Mark Twain y la fortuna que no se podía gastar
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NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts: Mark Twain complex closing as tenants rush to find housing
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KSDK: Low-income tenants scramble to find new housing as Mark Twain Hotel closes Sept. 1
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Calaveras Enterprise: An Open Letter to the Mark Twain Health Care District Board of Directors
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Calaveras Enterprise: Mark Twain Medical Center holds 75th anniversary gala
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First Alert 4: With $150,000 Archdiocese donation, St. Patrick Center races to rehouse Mark Twain Hotel residents before Tuesday closure
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FOX 2: Nearly 160 residents being forced out of the Mark Twain Hotel
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First Alert 4: With $150,000 Archdiocese donation, St. Patrick Center races to rehouse Mark Twain Hotel residents b
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Dispatch Argus: Mark Twain Elementary School starts school year with bubbles and red carpet
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The Quad-City Times: Mark Twain Elementary School starts school year with bubbles and red carpet - The Quad-City Times
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ridingthewave.com: Adair County Band Mark Twain Event is this Weekend 8/29/26
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“In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot”
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“to produce a digital critical edition, fully annotated, of everything Mark Twain wrote.”
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“Faith is believing what you know ain”
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“So far as I am able to judge nothing has been left undone, either by man or Nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Where every prospect pleases, and only man is vile.”
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“s preaching of love are incompatible with the conduct of war. It was submitted to Harper”
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“never seen any place that was so satisfactorily situated, with its noble trees and stretch of country, and everything that went to make life delightful, and all within a biscuit”
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“The Private History of a Campaign That Failed”
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elcaribe.com.do: ¿El Huevo de Mark Twain o la gallina de Scott Fitzgerald?
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wgntv.com: Family seeks answers in deadly shooting of Mark Twain custodian
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ABC7 Chicago: Chicago shooting: Amalia Bautista-Perez, Theottis James Stigger killed in apparent murder-suicide at Mark Twain Elementary School
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Southwest Regional Publishing: Update: Mark Twain shooting victims identified
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TN: Mark Twain reflexionó hace más de 100 años sobre el futuro: “Dentro de 20 años vas a estar más decepcionado por las cosas que no hiciste que por las que sí hiciste”
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Fast Food Club: Campers Near Mark Twain Lake Have Sought Out This Rustic Log-Cabin Steakhouse in Missouri for Decades
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ABC7 Chicago: Chicago shooting: Theottis James Stigger ID'd as 1 of 2 killed in apparent murder-suicide at Mark Twain Elementary School, ME says
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washingtontimes.com: Mark Twain Prize
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newbostonpost.com: Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain Falls Far Short of His Best Work
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Muddy River Sports: 2026 Countdown to Kickoff: Building blocks in place for Mark Twain to generate success
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Snopes.com rated the claim “American author Mark Twain once said or wrote, "I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure."” Incorrect Attribution.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “American author Mark Twain once said or wrote, "God created war so that Americans would learn geography."” Incorrect Attribution.
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Snopes rated the claim “American author Mark Twain once said or wrote, "God created war so that Americans would learn geography."” Incorrect Attribution.
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2024· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “American author Mark Twain was born and died on the days that Halley’s Comet passed Earth.” Mixture.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “American author Mark Twain was born and died on the days that Halley’s Comet passed Earth.” Mixture.
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2023· 4 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “Author Mark Twain once said or wrote, "No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot."” Incorrect Attribution.
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Snopes rated the claim “Author Mark Twain once said or wrote, "No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot."” Incorrect Attribution.
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Snopes rated the claim “Mark Twain wrote: "In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."” Correct Attribution.
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Snopes rated the claim “Mark Twain said, "If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."” Incorrect Attribution.
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2022· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Mark Twain once said, "The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie."” Incorrect Attribution.
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Alt News rated the claim “Sudhir Chaudhary attributes a quote to Mark Twain in his new show Black-and-white on Aaj Tak” False.
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2021· 2 entries
fact checker rated the claim “The following quote came from Mark Twain: “Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.”” fake.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Author Mark Twain once said: "I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure."” Incorrect Attribution.
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2019· 2 entries
FactCheck.org rated the claim “A meme claims Mark Twain said: "If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it."” False.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Quotes Mark Twain as saying of journalists that it is "far better" to "fear the media for they will steal your honor" and describes them as "a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons…"” Half True.
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2018· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Mark Twain said, "Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR."” False.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Mark Twain said, "Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR."” False.
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2016· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Mark Twain once said that "If voting made a difference, they wouldn't let us do it. "” Incorrect Attribution.
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2010· 1 entry
Twain's frankest views on religion appeared in his final work Autobiography of Mark Twain, the publication of which started in November 2010, 100 years after his death.
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2002· 1 entry
Snopes.com rated the claim “Mark Twain once asserted "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."” False.
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded member of the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame (1998).
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1972· 1 entry
Little Bessie, a story ridiculing Christianity, was first published in the 1972 collection Mark Twain's Fables of Man.
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1962· 2 entries
After his death, Twain's family suppressed some of his work that was especially irreverent toward conventional religion, including Letters from the Earth, which was not published until his daughter Clara reversed her position in 1962 in response to Soviet propaganda about the withholding.
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In response to Soviet propaganda about the withholding
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1924· 2 entries
Was in response to the Moro Crater Massacre, in which 600 Moros were killed
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“In what way was it a battle? It has no resemblance to a battle...We cleaned up our four days”
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1923· 2 entries
“Bible Teaching and Religious Practice”
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“Die Entdeckung von Amerika war schon sehr wunderbar, aber noch viel wunderbarer wäre es gewesen, wenn man es nicht entdeckt hätte." - Querkopf Wilson. Deutsch von Margarete Jacobi (1923) Kapitel 5, letzter Satz (Proben aus Querkopf Wilsons Kalender). http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/querkopf-wilson-6001/6”
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1910· 9 entries
Died 1910-04-21.
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In Stormfield, one day after the comet was at its closest to the Sun and a month before the comet passed the Earth
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Coming out strongly against the Philippine–American War and American colonialism
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“When in doubt, tell the truth.”
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“Czasem sen zmęczy gorzej od prawdy.”
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Twain was vice-president of the American Anti-Imperialist League, which opposed the annexation of the Philippines by the United States and had "tens of thousands of members"
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“It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.”
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“Os piores problemas que tive em minha vida foram aqueles que nunca aconteceram.”
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“Po wieczerzy wdowa wydobywała księgę i uczyła mnie o Mojżeszu i sitowiu. Aż poty na mnie biły, tak pragnąłem dowiedzieć się wszystkiego o Mojżeszu, ale gdy okazało się, że on już od dawna nie żyje, przestałem dbać o niego, bo co mnie tam obchodzą umarli.”
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1909· 2 entries
His close friend Henry Rogers died suddenly
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Thomas Edison visited Twain at Stormfield, his home in Redding, Connecticut, and filmed him
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1908· 1 entry
That the club was his "life's chief delight"
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1907· 1 entry
Met Dorothy Quick (then age 11) on a transatlantic crossing, beginning "a friendship that was to last until the very day of his death"
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1906· 2 entries
Testified in front of a Congressional joint committee in favor of a bill that would extend the length of protection for a copyright to lifetime of the author plus 50 years, stating "I think that will satisfy any reaso
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Twain formed the Angel Fish and Aquarium Club, for girls whom he viewed as surrogate granddaughters
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1905· 3 entries
The magazine rejected the story as "not quite suited to a woman's magazine"
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About Belgian atrocities in the Congo Free State
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The Brooklyn Public Library banned both The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer from the children's department because of their language
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1904· 2 entries
While the couple were staying at the Villa di Quarto in Florence
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And Jean's on December 24, 1909, deepened Twain's gloom
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1902· 1 entry
And Oxford University awarded him in 1907
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1901· 5 entries
In 1901, Twain criticized the actions of the missionary Dr.
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Twain was invited to speak at Princeton University's Cliosophic Literary Society, where he was made an honorary member
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“the Boxer is a patriot. He loves his country better than he does the countries of other people. I wish him success.”
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Twain criticized the actions of the missionary Dr
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Twain's response to hearing of Ament's methods was published in the North American Review in February 1901: To the Person Sitting in Darkness, and deals with examples of imperialism in China, South Africa, and with the U.S. occupation of the Philippines.
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1900· 2 entries
In 1900 and again in 1908, Twain stated, "I like Joan of Arc best of all my books, it is the best".
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And again in 1908, Twain stated, "I like Joan of Arc best of all my books, it is the best"
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1899· 1 entry
“Why is it right that there is not a fairer division of the spoil all around? Because laws and constitutions have ordered otherwise. Then it follows that laws and constitutions should change around and say there shall be a more nearly equal division.”
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1897· 3 entries
“Der Bericht über meinen Tod war eine Übertreibung." - New York Journal, 2. Juni 1897”
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“What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us?”
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Twain spoke to the Concordia Press Club in Vienna as a special guest, following the diplomat Charlemagne Tower, Jr
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1896· 1 entry
When his daughter Susy died of meningitis
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1895· 1 entry
Twain was still ridiculing the author of Last of the Mohicans, saying in "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" that Cooper "[
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1887· 1 entry
Twain acknowledged that his views had changed and developed over his lifetime, referring to one of his favorite works:
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1886· 1 entry
“Bewahre deine Illusionen. Wenn sie verschwunden sind, wirst du weiter existieren, aber nicht weiter leben." - ''Mark Twain, a Biography volume II Part 2 1886-1900, Ostindische Reise, 5. Februar 1896”
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1884· 1 entry
Twain publicly broke with his party and joined the Mugwumps to support the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland, over the Republican nominee, James G
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1883· 1 entry
Twain paid a brief visit to Ottawa, and he visited Toronto twice in 1884 and 1885 on a reading tour with George Washington Cable, known as the "Twins of Genius" tour
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1882· 1 entry
Sent a photograph of himself in a white suit to 18-year-old Edward W
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1881· 1 entry
Twain was honored at a banquet in Montreal, Canada where he made reference to securing a copyright
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1875· 1 entry
Featuring his disillusionment with Romanticism
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1874· 1 entry
Susan had a study built, an octagonal gazebo set apart from the main house, as a surprise to Twain so that he would have a quiet place in which to write and enjoy his cigars
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1873· 1 entry
Twain moved his family to Hartford, Connecticut, where he arranged the building of a home next door to Stowe
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1872· 1 entry
Published his second piece of travel literature, Roughing It, as an account of his journey from Missouri to Nevada, his subsequent life in the American West, and his visit to Hawaii
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1871· 1 entry
I was a Girondin; every time I have read it since, I have read it differently – being influenced and changed, little by little, by life and environment
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1869· 2 entries
“Man's Place in the Animal World”
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“Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Farm”
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1867· 2 entries
Twain set sail on the pleasure cruiser Quaker City for five months, and this trip resulted in The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims' Progress
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“Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington", The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867), ed. John Paul”
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1866· 2 entries
“Einige verwechseln Aufgewecktheit mit Scharfsinn; der Unterschied zwischen Aufgewecktheit und Scharfsinn ist derselbe wie zwischen einem Glühwürmchen und dem Blitz." - Mark Twain, a Biography Part 2 1866-1875”
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Presented his lecture on the Sandwich Islands to a crowd in Washoe City, Nevada
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1865· 2 entries
In the New York weekly The Saturday Press, bringing him national attention
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“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
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1864· 2 entries
Twain raised money to build a Presbyterian Church in Nevada in 1864.
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Still as a journalist, and met writers such as Bret Harte and Artemus Ward
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1863· 3 entries
When he wrote a humorous travel account titled "Letter From Carson – re: Joe Goodman; party at Gov
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And as he could no longer need that signature, I laid violent hands upon it without asking permission of the proprietor's remains
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When he met lawyer Tom Fitch, editor of the competing newspaper Virginia Daily Union and known as the "silver-tongued orator of the Pacific"
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1862· 1 entry
“Samuel Langhorne Clemens collection of papers at New York Public Library Mark Twain Original Manuscripts from 1862–1909 Shapell Manuscript Foundation Finding aid to the Mark Twain papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Samuel Langhorne Clemens Collection. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Mark Twain”
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1861· 4 entries
Passed to the degree of Fellow Craft on June 12, and raised to the degree of Master Mason on July 10
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Twain was initiated an Entered Apprentice on May 22, 1861, passed to the degree of Fellow Craft on June 12, and raised to the degree of Master Mason on July 10.
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And Twain joined him when he moved west
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When traffic was curtailed along the Mississippi River
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1858· 1 entry
The steamboat's boiler exploded; Henry succumbed to his wounds eight days later
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1851· 1 entry
Began working as a typesetter, contributing articles and humorous sketches to the Hannibal Journal, a newspaper that Orion owned
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1835· 2 entries
Born 1835-11-30.
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“s celebrated illustrated edition. Twain”
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