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 ".

In 1989, the first full season with night baseball at Wrigley Field, Don Zimmer's Cubs were led by a core group of veterans in Ryne Sandberg, Rick Sutcliffe and Andre Dawson, who were boosted by a crop of youngsters such as Mark Grace, Shawon Dunston, Greg Maddux, Rookie of the Year Jerome Walton, and Rookie of the Year Runner-Up Dwight Smith.

Bassist Nick Seymour ( ex-Plays with Marionettes, Bang, The Horla ) is the younger brother of singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Seymour of the now defunct Australian rock group Hunters & Collectors.

In January 2007, the group publicly announced their reformation and on 23 February, after 20 days of auditions, former Beck drummer Matt Sherrod joined Finn, Seymour and Mark Hart to complete the new line up.

The Cabaret Voltaire fell into disrepair until it was occupied from January to March, 2002, by a group proclaiming themselves Neo-Dadaists, led by Mark Divo.

" Author Mark Lynas said " The only reason why this became an issue is that there is a small but vociferous group of climate ' sceptics ' lobbying against taking action, so the BBC is behaving like a coward and refusing to take a more consistent stance.

* Mark Greenberg, group strategy director

In, the author names three women in sequence: “ Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children .” In the Gospel of Mark, the author lists a group of women three times, and each time, Mary Magdalene ’ s name appears first.

While working in Hartford, Falk joined a community theater group called the Mark Twain Masquers, where he performed in plays that included The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, The Crucible, and The Country Girl by Clifford Odets.

This second season featured additional plots such as a love story between Teresa ( Trelaina ) and Yamato crew member Daisuke Shima ( Mark Venture ), and an onboard antagonism between Kodai and Saito ( Knox ), leader of a group of space marines.

** Mark Lindsay, singer / songwriter of the group Paul Revere & The Raiders

In that season he was a member of what was referred to as the " Baby Bombers ", a group of young players ( most notably including Hird, Mark Mercuri, Gavin Wanganeen, Dustin Fletcher, Ricky Olarenshaw, David Calthorpe, Paul Hills and Joe Misiti ) that played a key role in the side winning the premiership that year.

The Kids in the Hall is a Canadian sketch comedy group formed in 1984, consisting of comedians Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson.

Before the troupe formed, Bruce McCulloch and Mark McKinney were working together doing Theatresports in Calgary, performing in a group named " The Audience ".

* Mark Rutte, Parliamentary group leader

Playwright Shaun Duggan's stage drama William, Alex Broun's one-man show Half a Person: My Life as Told by The Smiths, Douglas Coupland's 1998 novel Girlfriend in a Coma, Andrew Collins ' autobiography Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Mark Spitz's novel How Soon is Never ?, the pop band Shakespear's Sister, the defunct art-punk group Pretty Girls Make Graves, and the Polish filmmaker Przemyslaw Wojcieszek's short fictional film about two Polish fans of The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs, are all inspired by or named after songs or albums by The Smiths.

In the middle of 2008, a working group known as the " Car of the Future " project and led by former driver Mark Skaife was organised by V8 Supercars to investigate future directions for the sport.

Obi-Wan Kenobi is first introduced in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope ( 1977 ), where he is played by Alec Guinness and is first seen rescuing Luke Skywalker ( Mark Hamill ) from a group of Tusken Raiders.

Modern fiction has also used Glastonbury as a setting including The Age of Misrule series of books by Mark Chadbourn in which the Watchmen appear, a group selected from Anglican priests in and around Glastonbury to safeguard knowledge of a gate to the Otherworld on top of Glastonbury Tor.

" If the criteria had been different ," the cosmonaut trainer Mark Gallai noted in an interview, " certainly Komarov, who was very intelligent, would have been in the group.

However, as demonstrated by Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, it now seems possible for a group of relatively inexperienced people with limited capital to succeed on a large scale.

The song was written with Mark Mothersbaugh ( of the new wave group Devo ).

Two further Top 5 singles were released from the album, the first being a cover of the 1990 track by electro funk group Mantronix, " Got To Have Your Love " ( produced by UK Producer Rod Gammons ( Mark Morrison, Beverley Knight ).

The group had a hard time keeping a drummer, but found Mark Herndon at a club in Florence, South Carolina in 1978.