She read everything else she could get her hands on, including an article ( she thinks it was in the Atlantic Monthly ) by Mark Twain on `` White Slavery ''.

Mark Twain was a prominent American author of the 19th century.

Carnegie also opposed the annexation of Cuba by the United States and in this, was successful with many other conservatives who founded an anti-imperialist league that included former presidents of the United States, Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison, and literary figures like Mark Twain.

Samuel Clemens ( Mark Twain ) is also known to have spread the story while lecturing, personalizing it by adding " I have a higher and greater standard of principle.

* 1910 – Mark Twain, American author and humorist ( b. 1835 )

Among his childhood favorites were Dickens, Smollett, Mark Twain, Booth Tarkington, and later, Robert Benchley and S. J. Perelman.

Capp has been compared, at various times, to Mark Twain, Dostoevski, Jonathan Swift, Lawrence Sterne and Rabelais.

It was strongly felt in San Francisco, causing major damage, and experienced by Samuel Clemens ( Mark Twain ).

It was especially noted that the birth and death of some notable persons coincided with separate appearances of the comet, such as with writers Mark Twain ( who correctly speculated that he'd " go out with the comet " in 1910 ) and Eudora Welty, to whose life Mary Chapin Carpenter dedicated the song Halley Came to Jackson.

Ward is also said to have inspired Mark Twain when Ward performed in Virginia City, Nevada.

Legend has it that, following Ward's stage performance, he, Mark Twain, and Dan De Quille were taking a drunken rooftop tour of Virginia City until a town constable threatened to blast all three of them with a shotgun loaded with rock salt.

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From the moment Mark Twain published his 1907 attack on Christian Science, the Church, and Mary Baker Eddy, herself, Christian Science has been subject to significant criticism and public controversy.

Executive producer Doug Berman said in 2012, " The guys are culturally right up there with Mark Twain and the Marx Brothers.

The six elementary schools are Bordewich-Bray Elementary School, Empire Elementary School, Fremont Elementary School, Fritsch Elementary School, Mark Twain Elementary School, and Al Seeliger Elementary School.

* Mark Twain, author ( lived with his brother Orion )

Her parents were friendly with the writer Mark Twain, and from this association young Crystal herself became acquainted with Twain.

Other writers admired by Orwell included: Ralph Waldo Emerson, G. K. Chesterton, George Gissing, Graham Greene, Herman Melville, Henry Miller, Tobias Smollett, Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and Yevgeny Zamyatin.

Some of the other famous guests who lived there include: Augustus St. Gaudens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Hart Crane, Walt Whitman, Anaïs Nin, Thomas Wolfe, Robert Lowell, Horton Foote, Salvador Dalí, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and many others.

* Samuel B. Sternwheeler: Gordie Tapp in a spoof of author Mark Twain giving off some homilies which undoubtedly made little or no sense whatsoever.

Her admirer, Mark Twain, had introduced her to Standard Oil magnate Henry Huttleston Rogers, who, with his wife Abbie, paid for her education.

Keller met every U. S. President from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon B. Johnson and was friends with many famous figures, including Alexander Graham Bell, Charlie Chaplin and Mark Twain.

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He studied the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain and developed a style emphasizing the use of irony.

Mark easily looked years older than himself, settled, his world comfortably categorized.

In the latter part of the 1990s Waugh himself, along with his twin brother Mark, scored heavily for Australia and fast bowlers Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillespie made a serious impact, especially the former.

St. Jerome records that the Christian School of Alexandria was founded by Saint Mark himself.

* Mark is the only gospel where Jesus himself is called a carpenter ().

The author drew on three primary sources, each representing a distinct community: a hypothetical collection, or several collections, of sayings ( called " Q ", and shared with Luke ); the Gospel of Mark ; and material unique to Matthew ( called " M ", some of which may have originated with Matthew himself ).

Richard S. " Kinky " Friedman ( born November 1, 1944 ) is an American Texas Country singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for Texas Monthly who styles himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain.

At one point Macbeth even compares himself to Antony, saying " under Banquo / My Genius is rebuk'd, as it is said / Mark Antony's was by Caesar.

Cameos by Wilson himself, along with Mark E. Smith of The Fall and former members of The Stone Roses and Inspiral Carpets, lent a degree of legitimacy to the proceedings.

In Matthew, Joseph was identified as " also a disciple of Jesus ;" in Mark he was identified as " a respected member of the council ( Sanhedrin ) who was also himself looking for the Kingdom of God ;" in Luke he was identified as " a member of the council, good and righteous, who did not consent to their purpose or deed, and who was looking for the Kingdom of God '" and in John he was identified as " a disciple of Jesus.

Shelley himself appeared on the programme in 2000, where host Mark Lamarr introduced Shelley by saying that without Buzzcocks " there'd be no Smiths or Radiohead, and this show would be called Never Mind Joan Armatrading!

At the time of his retirement, Gretzky was the second-to-last WHA player still active in professional hockey, Mark Messier, who himself attended the game along with other representatives of the Edmonton dynasty, being the last.

In 1898, he founded the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Luftschiffahrt ( Society for the promotion of airship flight ), contributing more than half of its 800, 000 Mark share capital himself.

Mark Antony presents Caesar with a royal diadem, urging him to take it and declare himself king.

Key prosecution witness Detective Mark Fuhrman, of the Los Angeles Police Department ( LAPD ) – who denied using racist language on duty – impeached himself with his prolific use of nigger in tape recordings about his police work.

However, in light of the texts Mark 2: 28 and Luke 6: 5 it is seen that Jesus himself ( as the Son of Man ) claimed to be the Lord of the Sabbath, and that day fell on the seventh day.

In the season seven episode " The Mark " ( 1993 ), Travis reprised the role of Wheeler, an aspiring country singer who wins the lottery and shortly thereafter finds himself framed for the murder of his cheating business partner.

Octavian himself resigned shortly after, allowing the appointment of a second pair of suffect consuls ( the original consuls for the year, Caesar's legate Aulus Hirtius and Gaius Vibius Pansa Caetronianus, had died fighting on the Senate's side of the first civil war to follow Caesar's death, that between the Senate and Mark Antony himself ).

Origen is reported by Eusebius to have castrated himself based on his reading of the Gospel of Matthew and other passages in Matthew and Mark that appear to endorse voluntary amputation to avoid sin, although there is some doubt concerning this story.

Babe Ruth is there, playing himself with fidelity and considerable humor ; so are Yankees Bill Dickey, Bob Meusel, Mark Koenig.

According to Mark Crispin Miller, Graceland became for Presley " the home of the organization that was himself, was tended by a large vague clan of Presleys and deputy Presleys, each squandering the vast gratuities which Elvis used to keep his whole world smiling.

In the Zoroastrian Avesta, the " Best Existence " Witnesses believe scriptures such as Matthew 12: 40 and 27: 63 and Mark 8: 31 and 9: 31 show that Jesus himself expected an interval of three days between his own death and resurrection, making impossible a reunion in Paradise on the same day as Jesus ' " you will be with me in Paradise " statement.

Original Knightmare actors Hugo Myatt and Mark Knight reprised their roles as Treguard and Lord Fear respectively, while several additional actors ( including Tim Child himself ) were introduced, playing new additions to the cast.

Though he moved to Richmond shortly before the Civil War, he paid homage to his Southside roots through his music and story-telling, in which he engaged himself professionally in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, sharing a stage on occasion with Mark Twain, and becoming the first known artist to record music with a mixed-race ensemble.