In Missouri ( which we are including in our general Midwest region ) you can glance into Mark Twain's birthplace at Hannibal, see the landmarks of his life and writings and visualize where Huck Finn hatched his boyish mischief.

* Christian Science Mark Twain's famous, vitriolic 1907 polemic mocking Mary Baker Eddy, her writings, and the church's financial arrangements.

* 1884 – Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.

The common title of the cycle echoes Mark Twain's description of Sullivan as a " miracle worker.

Millet is the main protagonist of Mark Twain's play Is He Dead?

The revived Arthurian romance also proved influential in the United States, with such books as Sidney Lanier's The Boy's King Arthur ( 1880 ) reaching wide audiences and providing inspiration for Mark Twain's satiric A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ( 1889 ).

Mark Twain's humorous short story " Nevada Funeral " similarly has a character saying a series of euphemisms for death.

* 1865 – Mark Twain's short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.

The first major time travel novel was Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

* Mark Twain's " Adventures of Huckleberry Finn "

A typical shaggy dog story occurs in Mark Twain's book about his travels west, Roughing It.

" The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County " was the title story of Mark Twain's first book one year later.

Before his emigration in autumn 1934, Adorno began work on a Singspiel based on Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer entitled The Treasure of Indian Joe, which he would, however, never complete ; by the time he fled Hitler's Germany Adorno had already written over a hundred opera or concert reviews and an additional fifty critiques of music composition.

* 1889 – Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

1885 illustration from Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, captioned " Misto ' Bradish's nigger "

Mark Twain's novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has long been the subject of controversy for its racial content, including its use of the word " nigger " as applied to the escaped slave character Jim.

One of Mark Twain's novels, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, popularized the word as a nickname for residents of Connecticut.

Thus, his response to Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court was to write a similar time travel novel ( Lest Darkness Fall ) in which the method of time travel was rationalized and the hero's technical expertise both set at a believable level and constrained by the technological limitations of the age.

It owes much to Mark Twain's Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven.

* In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer's Aunt's resolve becomes " adamantine in its firmness ".

Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( 1884 ) was consciously written as a picaresque novel

First-person narratives can appear in several forms: interior monologue, as in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground ; dramatic monologue, as in Albert Camus ' The Fall ; or explicitly, as in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Another influence might be Mark Twain's short story Luck, about an illustrious British general who was actually a blundering fool, but whose mistakes in the Crimean War always ended in success.

Mark Twain's memoir Life on the Mississippi ( 1883 ), notable mainly for its account of the author's time on the river, also recounts parts of his later life, and includes tall tales and stories allegedly told to him.

An earlier similar phrase appears in Mark Twain's Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses, where he lists rule fourteen of good writing as " eschew surplusage ".

Following discussion of the initial draft the Cabinet Secretary, Mark Sykes, met with the Zionist negotiators to clarify their aims.

Following the split, Mark Mothersbaugh started Mutato Muzika, a commercial music production studio, taking with him Bob Mothersbaugh and Bob Casale.

Following the retirement of Tim Watson and Simon Madden in the early 1990s, the team was built on new players such as Gavin Wanganeen, Joe Misiti, Mark Mercuri, Michael Long, Dustin Fletcher ( son of Ken ) and James Hird, who was taken at # 79 in the 1992 draft.

Following the release of Sonic The Hedgehog, Yuji Naka grew dissatisfied with Sega Japan's policies and so moved to Sega of America to work in the offices of the newly established Sega Technical Institute, headed by Mark Cerny.

* The 19th century American writer Mark Twain discusses the Thuggee fairly extensively in chapters 9 and 10 of " Following the Equator: Volume II ", 1897, THE ECCO PRESS, ISBN 0-88001-519-5.

" Following months of speculation Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and Robbie Williams confirmed they have been recording a new studio album as a five-piece, which they will release in November.

Following this the Ascension is described in Mark 16: 19 as follows:

Following his successful defense of his 1997 U. S. Open title by defeating Mark Philippoussis in the 1998 final, when asked about Sampras ' earlier comments about having to win another Grand Slam in order to be considered great, Rafter replied: " Maybe you can ask him that question, if he thinks that now.

Following the decision to close the Radiophonic Workshop, Mark Ayres and Brian Hodgson were commissioned to catalogue its extensive library of recordings.

Following the storm, U. S Senator Mark Pryor had criticized FEMA's response to the recovery and cleanup efforts.

Following the conversion of the Keston Mark to residential accommodation, Keston has three pubs.

Following the storm, U. S. Senator Mark Pryor had criticized the Federal Emergency Management Agency's response to the recovery and cleanup efforts.

Following philosophy studies at Pullach, he worked for 3 years as a prefect and sports teacher at Stella Matutina Kolleg in Feldkirch, Austria, where in 1933, he first experienced the Nazi regime, which forced an exodus of virtually all German students from Austria and thus the Stella Matutina with a controversial 1000 Mark law, to be paid by everybody before entering into Austria.

Most Church of God with Signs Following churches are non-denominational, believing that denominations are ' man made ' and carry the Mark of the Beast.

Following The October Game's first concert at Dalhousie University opening for Moev, McLachlan was offered a recording contract with Vancouver-based independent record label Nettwerk by Moev's Mark Jowett.

Following the breakup, Farner began a solo career and signed with Atlantic Records which resulted in two albums: Mark Farner ( 1977 ) and No Frills ( 1978 ).

Following the breakup of the championship Bulls in 1998, Chicago did a sign-and-trade deal with Longley, sending him to the Phoenix Suns for Mark Bryant, Martin Müürsepp, Bubba Wells, and a conditional first-round draft pick.

Following a crossover with the Teen Titans in Teen Titans # 16 and the Teen Titans / Legion Special, a new series was launched ; written by Mark Waid ( who had previously rebooted the title following the events of Zero Hour ) and penciled by Barry Kitson.

* Following World War I, Rear Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol served as United States High Commissioner for Turkey from 1919 to 1927.

* Mark Twain, 1897, " Following the Equator, A Journey Around the World ", chapters V and VI.

Following Caesar's death, III Gallica was integrated in the army of Mark Antony, a member of the second triumvirate, for his campaigns against the Parthians.

Following its run, Crawford and his character " Mark Jackson " moved on to This Hour Has 22 Minutes in 2003.

Following the release of the FG Falcon model in 2008, the BF wagon was revised and re-released in Mark III guise.

Following Egil Østenstad resignation as director of football in Viking, Viking announced in September 2011 that Hareide would be manager of Viking, and that Josep Clotet Ruiz would be hired as coach from the 2012-season onwards, similar to the organization English clubs and Molde have, with Ole Gunnar Solskjær as manager and Mark Dempsey as coach.

Following a breakdown in relations between Spacemen 3 co-frontmen Peter Kember and Jason Pierce, the group's bassist Will Carruthers, drummer Jonny Mattock, and guitarist Mark Refoy were asked by Pierce to form a new group alongside local friend Steve Evans, subsequently calling themselves Spiritualized.